Today’s podcast features a wide ranging conversation with gallerist Abigail Ogilvy about running a gallery, choosing art, and the fine differences between galleries and museums.  Abigail Ogilvy…

…opened a contemporary art gallery in her name in October 2015.

Winter Group Exhibition: The Salon Show, December 2016

Located in Boston’s SoWa Art & Design District…

Keenan Derby, Solo Exhibition: Secrets of the Sea, April 2017

Artworks pictured: Acrylic and sand on canvas

…Abigail Ogilvy Gallery features emerging and mid-career artists, with a focus on the long-term career development of each artist.

Artist: Marie Najera • Title: Stroll • Medium: Mixed Media on Panel

Size: 48 x 36 in. • Year: 2017

After graduating from Dartmouth College with a B.A. in Art History, and later continuing her arts studies at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York City, Ogilvy works to educate and activate Boston’s arts community.

Cassandra C. Jones & Alfred Steiner, Fuse, February 2017

Pictured: Watercolors paintings by Alfred Steiner, Wallpaper installation by Cassandra C. Jones

She has been recognized by Mayor Martin J. Walsh as an emerging leader in Boston under his SPARK council…

Artist: Julia S. Powell • Title: Tempest Redux • Medium: Oil on linen

Size: 36 x 36 in. • Year: 2017

…she also serves on the Board of Directors at Artists for Humanity…

Artist: Lavaughan Jenkins • Title: Untitled 01

Medium: Oil paint and modeling paste with wire and plaster armature

Size: 12 x 6 x 5 in. • Year: 2017

…and is currently on the Steering Committee at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Artist: Michael Gordon • Title: Tibetan Turquoise MQ4-53

Medium: Found Posters and Polymer Resin • Size: 48 x 34 in. • Year: 2017

Ogilvy got her start at contemporary art gallery, Galleria Tornabuoni, in Florence, Italy, and prior to opening Abigail Ogilvy Gallery she spent time at local technology start-ups Wayfair and Moontoast.

Artist: Ariel Basson Freiberg • Title: Unseen Limb • Medium: Oil on panel

Size: 14 x 11 in. • Year: 2017

You can find Abigail online at www.abigailogilvy.com and on twitter and instagram.

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