Bridget Donahue Gallery

Ascending the steep stairs to this second-floor loft space, you'd be forgiven for thinking you're entering an artist's studio. Instead, you’ll find one of the city’s most quietly radical galleries with an open and genuine atmosphere.

The art here is quirky, unexpected, and woven from an anthropological point of view. Think sculptures made from LEGO, paintings sewn from dresses, and video installations that feel like movie sets.

The artists are multi-generational and interdisciplinary, some legendary and some new-to-the-scene.

The work here asks: where is the art in the everyday? Or, perhaps, the everyday in art? Meaning, what is this human experience we’re having anyway?

About the Founder

Bridget Donahue started her gallery in 2015 with a mission to connect older, established artists with younger audiences and younger experimental artists to everyone.

Idaho-born, she trained as an anthropologist, studied textiles in art school before falling into an archivist job at Gagosian. Next, she had stints at two of New York’s most high profile galleries (D’Amelio Terras and Gavin Brown Enterprises).

While working at galleries during the day, in her spare time she launched Cleopatra, a non-commercial art space with four other gallerists in Brooklyn in 2008.