The FLOMENHAFT Gallery History

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The Flomenhaft Gallery is part of Eleanor and Leonard Flomenhaft’s plan for a new chapter in their lives. Eleanor and Leonard are both stockbrokers. Eleanor is also an art historian. Their purpose is to divest themselves of a portion of their art collection and use the resources to display artists to the public who are well known to the museum community, but could benefit from the Flomenhafts’ enthusiasm and expertise.
The art was accumulated according to the interests of Eleanor Flomenhaft as a curator and director of a museum and her husband Leonard, who has a recognized fine eye. Eleanor curated many exhibits for The Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, the Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, the Montclair Art Museum and the Neuberger Purchase Art Museum. Currently she is curating an exhibit, “Women Only,” which will travel to seven museums. Exhibits she organized traveled throughout the United States, to the Saint Petersburg State Museum and The State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia, to the Netherlands and to several cities in Japan. She has juried many exhibits including the Central American Biennale and has been interviewed numerous times on the radio and television. She has written extensively on contemporary art and wrote the first book in the English language on CoBrA art, the abstract expressionist art of post World War II Europe. Works by Karel Appel, Pierre Alechinsky, Romare Bearden, Beverly Buchanan, Eugene Brands, Eric Bulatov, Alexander Calder, Jean Dubuffet, Henry Heerup, Carl Henning Pedersen, Faith Ringgold, Pat Steir and Carrie Mae Weems are just a few excellent work at the gallery.
Artists represented are: Emma Amos, Joan Barber, Paul Brach, Neil Folberg, Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin, Mira Lehr, Dina Recanati, Miriam Schapiro, Roger Shimomura, Jaune Quick to see Smith, Linda Stein and Flo Oy Wong. The Gallery is in a refurbished building in Chelsea and consists of two spaces, one for exhibiting current shows and the other which is called the “Flomenhaft Gallery Annex” for viewing works by artists when not on exhibit.