Dear friends and family,
I hope that this note finds you and your loved ones safe and in good health. It has been an honor to work with such an amazing group of artists and works of art these last years. Every day has been a lesson on looking, thinking, and being. I have been invited into studios that continue to take my breath away, seen works that will be with me always and have had the remarkable experience of bringing those works together into the gallery and of sharing them with you. It breaks my heart that I cannot bring you into the gallery right now. I hope that I can, however, bring the gallery to you even in this small way. There is nothing like being in front of a piece, but I hope that these images of our current exhibition will do some justice to these works:
It is a difficult time to make plans and the plans that we have laid are coming apart one by one. It seems that this time is better suited to reflection. I have been spending a great deal of time going back through our previous exhibitions and dreaming about the future of the gallery as well. We have only begun to touch the surface of a much deeper well and I hope to share those dreams with you in the future.
5. Gallery simply does not exist without you. Without artists, it is an empty room. Without our community of art lovers, writers, poets, and thinkers, there would be no one to carry these moments into the world. And without collectors and patrons of the arts we could not keep our lights on and our doors open. When we all come together this space becomes a temple.
Always always my best,
Max Baseman
5. Gallery
VISUAL LIMITS | Works from:
Stuart Arends
Wes Mills
Bruce of Los Angeles
Debbie Long
Allan Graham
Marc Baseman
Michael Diaz
Philadelphia Wireman
Dennis Oppenheim
Joel-Peter Witkin