The Piano Craft Gallery opened in 2012 in the Chelsea neighborhood in Manhattan. As of Summer 2013, the gallery has moved and is now partnering with Franklin Riehlamn Fine Art on Manhattan’s Upper East Side participating in several shows a year together. The gallery showcases visionary contemporary international art in a variety of media that specialize in technique based work. The gallery is dedicated in promoting ambitions contemporary artist at all levels of their career. The gallery’s goal is to offer an inviting forum where collectors, curators and critics can discover emerging talent.
Southern entrepreneur and Andrews Projects director, Joel Allen, has been curating exhibitions in New York since 2000. Originally launching her career in New York in Fall of 1998, Ms. Allen was recruited to work at kenleegallery. Soon thereafter, she completed a Masters in Business Administration with an emphasis in Visual Arts Management, where she also received a certificate in appraisals from NYU. Later she was then recruited to launch ART+AUCTION’s and worked at Sotheby’s in trust and estates. While working for ten years in art publishing, Michel was consulting and represented several artists, in which she works with today.