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Gallery 138 is pleased to announce the opening of a second exhibition space on Wednesday, May 28. Gallery 138 Uptown at Casa Vero, located at 138 West 124th Street in Harlem, is the creation of Vie Wilson and Brookie Maxwell. Their unique combination of talents is immediately evident in this new, collaborative space.

Vie Wilson is a Senior Vice President and Associate Broker for the Corcoran Group, the largest residential real estate firm in New York. Building on more than two decades of experience in real estate, she is adept at creating and marketing living spaces with style, grace, and an eye for detail. Wilson enjoys travel, photography, collecting art, entertaining, and cooking—she is in the process of completing her first cookbook.

Brookie Maxwell is a gallerist, artist, dancer, and writer. Director and owner of Gallery 138, a contemporary art gallery in Chelsea, Maxwell represents emerging and mid-career artists from a broad range of disciplines, bringing intriguing, socially relevant exhibitions into the public realm. Gallery 138 artists have been featured in venues throughout the U.S. and abroad, including The Museum of Modern Art, The Tate Liverpool, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and The Venice Biennale. Prior to opening the gallery in 2002, she served as the founder and Artistic Director of Creative Arts Workshops, a non-profit located in East Harlem.

Gallery 138 Uptown’s inaugural show will be Hope at the Door, an exhibition of drawings and mixed-media by Brookie Maxwell. The show, which opens May 28, will feature two bodies of work: Taxi! and Annunciation. Taxi! is a series of storyboard-like drawings documenting the experience of black males who still find it easier to get arrested in New York than to hail a cab; in Annunciation, the artist’s large-scale drawings and video installation mine biblical themes as cultural reference points, addressing contemporary American issues of civil and reproductive rights.

Maxwell’s work has been exhibited in solo and group shows at galleries and museums throughout the U.S., including A.I.R. Gallery, DFN Gallery, Exit Art, the Henry Street Settlement, the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, LaGuardia Community College, and The Ogunquit Museum of American Art. Hope at the Door will be on exhibit through July 13.

Gallery 138 Uptown at Casa Vero is located at 138 West 124th Street, Studio 1B, New York, NY 10027, one block from the Studio Museum, between Lenox and Adam Clayton Powell. Hours by appointment.

Gallery 138 is located at 138 West 17th Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10011. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm. Closed for Holidays. For more information, please call Brookie Maxwell, (212) 633-0324, or email contact@gallery138.com.

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138 West 17th Street, Fifth Floor
New York, NY 10011

contact@gallery138.com
212 633 0324