About Chappell Gallery
Over the past forty-five years, students have been introduced to the medium of glass in art schools worldwide, where previously it had not been a part of the curriculum. Increasingly many of these young artists have chosen to continue working in glass. With new talent and new ideas have come increasing breadth, exploration and refinement of glass as a provocative sculptural and artistic medium.
Chappell Gallery opened in Boston in 1997, and moved to New York in 2000. From the outset the galleryhas focused on artists working in glass or glass/mixed media and within that spectrum it focuses both on developing young/emerging artists and introducing the growing panorama of Asian glass to collectors. The gallery also strives to recognize renowned artists worldwide, who have not previously been introduced to US collectors.
Alice Chappell, who founded Chappell Gallery in 1997, became interested in the glass movement when she joined Steuben Glass twenty years earlier, in 1977. Her studies and work contemporary art galleries and museums made her receptive to the growing importance of developments in glass worldwide. In 1984 she began a collaboration with Hoya Inc. of Japan, a large producer of artistic crystal. Hoya Crystal USA was established in 1985, and she served as its President for ten years. During these years her frequent travels to Japan and work with the artists in residence at Hoya furthered her understanding of the stunning breadth of contemporary glass sculpture.
Chappell Gallery mounts several solo and group shows each year, including the first solo exhibitions in the United States of major international artists: Toshio Iezumi, Kazumi Ikemoto, Yoshihiko Takahashi, Naomi Shioya and Shinji Yonehara from Japan; Ben Sewell and Ruth Allen from Australia; David Murray from New Zealand; Gizela Šabóková, Anna Matoušková, Lada Semecka from the Czech Republic and Pipaluk Lake from Denmark. The Emerging Artist program was developed to foster the foster the development of promising young artists. Among those who have been part of this program are Takeshi and Youko Sano, Alex Gabriel Bernstein, and Ethan Stern.
Chappell Gallery also participates in a select number of art fairs throughout the year, namely SOFA (Sculptural Objects and Functional Art) in Chicago and New York, PalmBeach3 in Florida and Collectors' Weekend at the Wheaton Art Center in New Jersey. It has also published catalogues on the work of Toshio Iezumi, Alex Gabriel Bernstein, Kait Rhoads, Vladimira Klumpar, Etsuko Nishi/Kazumi Ikemoto and Anna Matoušková.
