Bridget Donahue Gallery

Ascending the steep stairs to this second-floor loft space feels like entering an artist's studio in the 1980s. Once you’re inside, you’ll find something akin to a laboratory, where multi-generational, interdisciplinary artists explore the rituals of everyday life.

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

We always feel a sense of wonder leaving this place, a little more inspired and a lot more connected to everything and everyone around us.

Bridget Donahue’s eponymous gallery, which she opened in 2015, reflects a deep, lived-in knowledge of the art world. Donahue, who trained as an anthropologist and textile artist, worked at major galleries (D’Amelio Terras, Barbara Gladstone, and Gavin Brown Enterprises) and, along with four other gallerists, she launched Cleopatra in Brooklyn in 2008, a non-commercial art space that focused on emerging art. Her Chinatown gallery builds on all that, rallying the community on her mission to unite older artists with a new generation of collectors and shine a light on younger artists.