David Klein Gallery moves
David Klein Gallery, a fixture in Birmingham for over thirty years has announced it will close both its Birmingham and Detroit locations. The Detroit gallery was scheduled to close on Saturday, December 21. The Birmingham gallery will remain open until the Spring of 2025, allowing time for a new gallery to open in Ferndale. The new gallery, currently under renovation, is located at 678 Livernois in Ferndale and will provide a contemporary, airy, 3000 sq/ft space for exhibitions and events. “I am thrilled to announce the relocation of the David Klein Gallery to 678 Livernois in Ferndale,” David Klein said. “With Ferndale’s art district emerging, we know our presence there will help elevate the area. Since we already owned the building, and we didn’t own in Birmingham and Detroit, it makes sense to consolidate in this central location.” The David Klein Gallery team will continue at the Ferndale operation and includes staff members: Christine Schefman; David Klein, Gallery Director; Haley Roberts, Assistant Director; and Craig Hejka, Preparator. David Klein Gallery was established in Birmingham, Michigan in 1990 with an exhibition program focused on presenting national and regional contemporary artists. Since its founding, the gallery has maintained a strong interest in Post War American and European art, presenting historical surveys by significant 20th Century artists including Alexander Calder, Richard Diebenkorn, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Alex Katz, and Bob Thompson. In 2015, a second gallery was opened in downtown Detroit on historic Washington Boulevard. The scale of this architecturally significant space allowed for an expansion of the gallery’s contemporary program to include large-scale exhibitions of paintings, sculpture, photography, and installations by emerging, mid-career, and established contemporary artists.
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