{{Short description|Art gallery in Manhattan, New York}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox museum | name = Woodward Gallery | native_name = | native_name_lang = | logo = | logo_upright = | logo_alt = | logo_caption = | image = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | map_type = | map_relief = | map_size = | map_caption = | coordinates = {{coord|40|43|8.19|N|73|59|30.17|W|region:US-NY|display=inline,title}} | former_name = | established = April 1994 | dissolved = <!-- {{End date|YYYY|MM|DD|df=y}} --> | location = Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States | type = Art gallery | accreditation = | key_holdings = | collections = | collection_size = | visitors = | founder = | director = | president = | ceo = | chairperson = | curator = | architect = | historian = | owner = | public_transit = | parking = | network = | website = {{URL|woodwardgallery.net}} | embedded = }}
The '''Woodward Gallery''' is a contemporary fine art gallery that opened in April 1994 under the incorporation G.O.L.A, Inc. (Gallery of Living Artists). The inaugural exhibition was held in Times Square at the Roundabout Theatre Company. It is owned by John Woodward and Kristine Woodward.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20200323210649/https://www.thenativesociety.com/nativeadmission/tag/kristine%2Bwoodward "KRISTINE WOODWARD: FOUNDER & OWNER WOODWARD GALLERY"]}}, ''The Native Society'', 29 August 2019. Retrieved on 23 March 2020.</ref>
==History== The gallery space started in New York City at 419 Lafayette Street and moved to SoHo at 476 Broome Street. Woodward Gallery moved to the private building at 133 Eldridge Street in May 2007 on the Lower East Side of New York City.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nysun.com/arts/following-the-new-museum/54634/|title=Following the New Museum|work=New York Sun}}</ref> Woodward Gallery relocated to their current ground floor space ten years later at 132A Eldridge Street between Broome and Delancey.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}
Woodward Gallery features emerging and established artists and shows Surrealism, abstract expressionism, pop art, color field painting, minimalism, conceptual art, neo-expressionism, and street art among other movements. Margaret Morrison, for example, has been exhibiting her work at the gallery since 1994 when she was discovered by John Woodward.<ref>Kordic, Angie. [https://www.widewalls.ch/artist-margaret-morrison-interview/ "Painting the Luster - Margaret Morrison in an Interview"], ''Widewalls'', 6 September 2016. Retrieved on 23 March 2020.</ref>
The Woodward Project Space on Eldridge Street has supported urban art murals from 2008 to 2016. The Gallery’s public exhibition space featured up to 6 shows a year for 23 years.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}
Woodward Gallery and CARSI labs, Hunter College, CUNY with the cooperation of the City of New York, developed a scientific art exhibition of 9/11 that traveled the country since 2002. A decade later Woodward Gallery brought the show back to New York City before donating it to the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}
Woodward Gallery has been an advocate for art in New York Public Schools with charitable donations and class tours.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blackboardawards.com/honorees_2009/schools_clinton.php|title=The Art of Education|publisher=The Blackboard Awards}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thevillager.com/villager_204/marchauctionmadness.html|title=March auction madness descends again on P.S. 41|work=The Villager|date=28 March 2007|last=Stern|first=Jill}}</ref>
==Richard Hambleton==
Richard Hambleton, a Canadian painter who had moved to New York City in the mid 1970s would go on to achieve global recognition for his conceptual artwork after suffering through years of addiction and obscurity.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/the-street-art-of-richard-hambleton-2141076.html|title=The street art of Richard Hambleton|work=The Independent|date=23 November 2010|last=Jones|first=Alice}}</ref> Thanks to the perseverance by the Director of Woodward Gallery, John Woodward, Richard Hambleton’s artwork is now highly sought after. John had been following Richard Hambleton’s Shadowman paintings on the streets of NYC since the 1980s. A destitute artist, Hambleton was championed by John and Kristine Woodward, who provided him with a range of support from medical assistance, shelter and studio space, all the while stirring renewed interest in this overlooked, but hugely talented artist.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYxy7pNof_w&t=1s|title=CBC News-feature on The Life and Art of The Artist Richard Hambleton |work=The National|date=18 December 2018|last=D’Souza|first=Steven}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/03/obituaries/richard-hambleton-dead-shadowman-of-the-80s-art-scene.html |title=Richard Hambleton Dead-Shadowman of the 80s Art Scene |work=The New York Times|date=3 November 2017|last=Sandomir|first=Richard}}</ref>
Over the course of three decades, John Woodward was able to develop, vet and establish Richard Hambleton’s resume, exhibition history and create an archive of Artwork by the Artist that continues to be updated today. Woodward Gallery published a limited print edition in 2005, The Gang of Four, and in 2006 another series, titled The Cat Stack directly with the Artist. Woodward Gallery’s Richard Hambleton: The Beautiful Paintings 2007 Exhibition at their 133 Eldridge Street, New York City space was the artist’s first solo exhibition in a decade.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.artnet.com/artists/richard-hambleton/biography |title=Richard Hambleton Biography |date=2022|publisher=Artnet Worldwide Corporation}}</ref> This exhibition was the flashpoint which resurrected the Artist’s career.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.oscarvangelderen.nl/post/Shadow-Man--on-street-art-pioneer-Richard-Hambleton-N47.html |title=SHADOW MAN: ON STREET ART PIONEER RICHARD HAMBLETON|date=19 July 2015|last=Vangelderen|first=Oscar}}</ref>
Over the years the Woodward’s developed a very close relationship with the artist. As his health continued to deteriorate, they embraced a larger role in his care.<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYxy7pNof_w&t=1s|title=CBC News-feature on The Life and Art of The Artist Richard Hambleton |work=The National|date=18 December 2018|last=D’Souza|first=Steven}}</ref> Filmed over the span of approximately eight years, John Woodward was the Art Consultant and a narrator on the documentary film, Shadowman by Oren Jacoby.<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6153962/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm|title=IMDb Shadowman Full Cast and Credits |work=IMDb|date=21 April 2017}}</ref> He is widely considered the foremost authority on Richard Hambleton’s art.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/woodward-gallery-new-york-interview |title=When Art Worlds Collide - An Interview with Woodward Gallery Founders|date=16 July 2016|last=Lin|first=Amy}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[https://woodwardgallery.net Woodward Gallery Official website] *[https://www.nyc-arts.org/organizations/92081/woodward-gallery Woodward Gallery at NYC-ARTS.org]
Category:Art museums and galleries in Manhattan Category:1994 establishments in New York City Category:Art museums and galleries established in 1994