LewAllen Contemporary is a premier gallery of contemporary art with 11,000 square feet of museum-like exhibition space in the heart of Santa Fe, New Mexico, a small but culturally rich city that rivals New York and Los Angeles as one of the top three art markets in the country. The gallery has been in continuous operation on Palace Avenue near the New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts for more than 30 years. During that time, it has earned a reputation that is both national and international for representing some of the nation’s most renowned living painters and sculptors alongside some of the best talent on the leading edge. Founded in 1976 as the Horwitch Gallery by legendary Santa Fe and Scottsdale art dealer Elaine Horwitch, the gallery became the LewAllen Contemporary when artist and teacher Arlene LewAllen became its owner and made great strides in advancing the gallery’s reputation. The gallery was purchased by current owners Bob Gardner and Ken Marvel following Arlene LewAllen’s death in 2002. Striving to carry on the legacy of both prior owners for representing the best in contemporary art and providing personable service to collectors, Marvel and Gardner search for and represent both well-known and emerging artists whose work shows vision, originality, intelligence, beauty and technical prowess. The gallery’s stylistically diverse roster includes such noted artists as Judy Chicago, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Ben Aronson, Forrest Moses, Hiroshi Yamano, Janet Fish, Emily Mason, Robert Natkin, Meridel Rubenstein, Robert Brady, Beverly McIver, Katherine Chang Liu, Tom Palmore, Darren Vigil Gray, Ed Mieczkowski and Bill Barrett, among others. The gallery features work in a variety of media and its artists represent many schools of contemporary art, including Realist, Pop, Color Field, Minimalist, Op, Geometric Abstraction and Expressionist, both abstract and figurative. Though the gallery primarily handles painting and sculpture, it also represents artists working in glass, ceramics, tapestry, photography, jewelry and works on paper. Some 15 to 20 major solo and group exhibitions are staged in the gallery each year and often include informative lectures, artist talks, musical performances and other educational programs complementing the visual art on display. With collectors from around the world, the gallery utilizes state-of-the-art technology, the Internet and other forms of distance communication in helping clients build important collections. The gallery has a large following among corporations, public art spaces, leading museums and prominent private collectors in whose collections the work of its represented artists appear.