The Hamptons and American art have a long and storied history. We caught up with Andrea McCafferty and Kat O'Neill, founders of the White Room Gallery in the Hamptons to hear how the area has changed over the years and what’s next for their business:
The Hamptons and American art have a long and storied history.
Artists like Fairfield Porter refined a distinctive style of landscape painting influenced by the East End of Long Island back in the 1930s. In the decades that followed, Abstract Expressionists including Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock, Elaine de Kooning, and Willem de Kooning moved out of New York City to the area, immersing themselves in its bucolic beauty and setting up homes and studios.
This artistic heritage endures to this day with a surprising number of contemporary artists calling the Hamptons home, as do institutions like the Parrish Museum and Guild Hall. In the past years, too, the Hamptons have experienced an explosion of galleries.
We caught up with McCafferty and O’Neill to hear about how the area has changed over the years and what’s next for their business.The White Room Gallery opened in 2015. Andrea and Kat, you each possess over 20 years of experience in the art world. Why did you decide to open a gallery? Art is so integral to the Hamptons, and given the fact that we are both artists, the odds of our paths crossing was pretty high. And once they crossed, a friendship and a mutual respect was born. A gallery was the obvious choice to harness our collective business acumen and creativity.The art scene has steadily grown with more galleries and sophisticated collectors, but the real demarcation was Covid-19.
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