Bellwether Gallery was a New York City

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 art gallery

Art gallery

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 based in Chelsea

Chelsea, Manhattan

Chelsea is a neighborhood on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The district's boundaries are roughly 14th Street to the south, 30th Street to the north, the western boundary of the Ladies' Mile Historic District – which lies between the Avenue of the Americas and...

. Director and owner Becky Smith was recognized as an important promoter of emerging artists since the gallery's 1999 opening in the Greenpoint

Greenpoint, Brooklyn

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 neighborhood of Brooklyn

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. The gallery moved to Chelsea in 2005 and closed in 2009.

Some of the artists represented by Bellwether:

• John Bauer
• Tanyth Berkeley
  Tanyth Berkeley
  Tanyth Berkeley is an artist based in Brooklyn, NYBerkeley was born in Hollywood, CA. She is best known for her portraits. Her subjects have included transgendered women, buskers, albinistic people, and people she met on the subway in New York...
  
  
• Ion Birch
  Ion Birch
  Ion Birch is a contemporary American artist. Birch graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1994.-Work:Birch has worked in the mediums of drawing and painting...
  
  
• Clayton Brothers
  Clayton Brothers
  Rob Clayton and Christian Clayton are painters based in California.Both Rob and Christian Clayton hold BFA degrees from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California .Their work has been exhibited widely throughout America and Europe, and has been featured in several important shows...
  
  
• Adam Cvijanovic
  Adam Cvijanovic
  Adam Cvijanovic is a painter based in New York City. He paints large-scale views of city suburbs and landscapes onto Tyvek sheeting, which can be easily transported from place to place...
  
  
• Gregory Edwards
  Gregory Edwards
  Gregory Edwards is a contemporary artist who lived in New York City and Frankfurt, Germany.- Education :After graduating from the School of Visual Arts in New York City he moved his studio to Brooklyn New York until April 2007 when he relocated to Frankfurt Germany...
  
  
• Daphne Fitzpatrick
  Daphne Fitzpatrick
  Daphne Fitzpatrick is an artist based in New Haven, Connecticut.Fitzpatrick was born in Long Island. Her work encompasses sculpture, video, photography and a variety of found objects and images. She references the idea of a modern flaneur in her work, and makes visual puns on...
  
  
• Dana Frankfort
  Dana Frankfort
  Dana Frankfort is an artist based in New York and a painting professor at Boston University College of Fine Arts.Frankfort received her MFA in 1997 from Yale School of Art, New Haven. She also attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1997. Frankfort was a Core Fellow at the Glassell...
  
  

• Anne Hardy
  Anne Hardy
  Anne Hardy is a British artist best known for her large-scale photographic work of unusual interior spaces. She completed an MA in photography at the Royal College of Art in 2000, having graduated from Cheltenham School of Art in 1993 with a degree in painting...
  
  
• Nathan Mabry
  Nathan Mabry
  Nathan Mabry is an artist based in Los Angeles.Mabry was born in Colorado. His work is a mixture of primitive sculpture and Minimalist-style art...
  
  
• Trevor Paglen
  Trevor Paglen
  Trevor Paglen is an American artist, geographer, and author.He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a PhD in geography from the University of California at Berkeley, where he currently works as a researcher.Paglen is the author of three books...
  
  
• Ruth Root
  Ruth Root
  Ruth Root is an artist based in New York. She graduated from Brown University, Rhode Island, in 1990, and completed her MFA at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1993. She attended a residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1994...
  
  
• Amanda Ross-Ho
  Amanda Ross-Ho
  Amanda Ross-Ho is an artist based in Los Angeles.Ross-Ho was born in Chicago. She works in painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, photography and uses found objects...
  
  
• Allison Smith
  Allison Smith (artist)
  Allison Smith is an artist based in New York.Smith was born in Manassas. Her art consists of interactive public events and more traditional object-based gallery shows...
  
  
• Marc Swanson
  Marc Swanson
  Marc Swanson is an artist based in Brooklyn.-Life and work:Marc Swanson received his MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, in 2004, and also studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, in Skowhegan, Maine, in 2000.He is...
  
  

• Ellen Altfest
  Ellen Altfest
  Ellen Altfest is a realist painter based in New York. She paints still lifes and male figures from life in painstaking detail. Her work is noted for its precision and trompe l'oeil accuracy...