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The Bridgette Mayer Gallery is located in the heart of Washington Square at 709 Walnut Street, 1st Floor. The gallery specializes in unique contemporary paintings and works on paper by emerging and established artists. Yearly solo exhibitions of the represented gallery artists feature works from abstract and landscape to figurative. Owner and director Bridgette Mayer founded the gallery in May of 2001 with ten years experience in gallery and arts management in New York, San Francisco, Taiwan and Philadelphia. The gallery's mission is to support emerging artists and to give their work and careers a critical voice within the art community. The gallery specializes in working with first-time art buyers as well as seasoned collectors interested in enhancing their art collection through the acquisition of market-proven artists. Bridgette Mayer and the gallery artists have been covered and reviewed in the press including: New York Time Magazine, Bucks Magazine, CNN Anderson Cooper 360 "On the Rise", KYW-3 Newsradio, The Philadelphia Inquirer, New American Paintings, Philadelphia Style Magazine, Pew Publications, Mainline Times, Philadelphia Metro, aroundphilly.com, Citypaper, Philadelphia Weekly, Artmatters, Patriot News, Digital City Philadelphia, University City Review, The Philadelphia Weekly Press and the Avon Sun Grove. Gallery artists have won prestigious grants and residencies including: Pew Fellowship in the Arts, Leeway Foundation Window of Opportunity Awards, 2007 Miami University Young Painters Competition, the Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Grant, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Fulbright Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center Summer Scholarships, Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarships and the Wayne Art Center Newman Award.
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