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MCCAIG WELLES GALLERY

McCaig-Welles focuses on mid-career, cutting edge artists that have emerged from the urban aesthetics that figured prominently in cities around the U.S. leading up to the millennium. The impact of these styles now feature prominently in media, pop culture and in museums and galleries worldwide. .McCaig-Welles Gallery is committed to showcasing impactful and innovative artists that effectively place a mirror in front of the viewer by creating works that touch on current events, present day trends and insightful introspection. 

Art Galleries

McCaig-Welles Gallery opened in March 2001 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and in 2007 a second location was added in San Francisco, CA.

In 2009, with a presense in NYC for over a decade, and a program devoted to our artists acheiving much success on both coasts, McCaig-Welles began collaborating on projects abroad and thus began our journies, taking our artists to art fairs and exhibitions in Europe, The Middle East and Asia.

In NYC McCaig Welles curated major projects including “The Future is Now” at The Highline Gallery, “Push It” at Joseph Gross Gallery in Chelsea and “Brooklyn Is The Borough” at Doyle Auction House.

Projects

Twenty years later, McCaig-Welles’ main headquarters are in back in NYC, where we continue our work with our roster of artists in unique spaces.

We continue to travel and and collaborate with other galleries and museums around the world with over 25 artists we’ve represented since opening our doors in Broooklyn and adding new talent along the way with artists from NYC and around the world.

Museums

McCaig-Welles and our artists began working together twenty years ago we’ve collaboratively and individually, created installations and artwork which have been placed in the permanent collections of museums including The Moma, The Metropolitan Museum, PS1, The Fundacion Cristina Masaveeu Peterson and more.

GALLERY SHOWS/ A SAMPLER

 

RECENT EXHIBITIONS

ARTIIST: QUEEN ANDREA

PROJECT: FUNDAĆION MARIA CRISTINA MASAVEU

The New York-based artist Andrea von Bujdoss, better known as Queen Andrea, is one of the most celebrated female graffiti artists in the United States. Queen Andrea trained in graphic design at the Parsons School of Design in New York, she has worked in this field for many magazines, as well as in advertising and fashion design. She currently combines her practice as a graffiti artist and muralist with her job as a designer, typesetter and fine artist in her studio.

Just like most of her murals, in this work, made in the building’s freight lift in 2021, Queen Andrea uses the slogan ‘Always Play’, an encouraging message based on one already displayed in a work by the artist that the Foundation acquired in 2020. Just like that previous work, this one comes in vibrant colours and encourages viewers to act and to enjoy the fun side of life.

 

 
VIDEO

QUEEN ANDREA

FUNDAĆION MARIA CRISTINA MASAVEU

“PLAY”

AN IMMERSIVE INSTALLATION

Featured Booth at Art Miami

Vicky Barranguet

Booth A25

ART MIAMI CONTEXT November 30- December 5

PROJECTS abroad

A FEW OF OUR FAVORITE THINGS…...

Tim Okamura, “Shaved Head”, Private Collection Beirut, Lebanon

A COLLABORATION BETWEEN CURATOR 1990, RASMUS EJAAS FISCHER, MATEO MIZE AND MCCAIG WELLES

URBAN DAWN II.

A COLLABORATION BETWEEN CURATOR 1990, RASMUS EJAAS FISCHER, MATEO MIZE AND MCCAIG WELLES

PLANNING WITH AYAD NASSAR

Loft Investments, Beirut, Lebanon

PAINTING BY ALEX SAXTOQUE

ATHENS, GREECE “Walls and Streets”

CURATED BY MCCAIG WELLES

SWOON

ATHENS, GREECE: ALIBI GALLERY

SHEPARD FAIREY

ATHENS, GREECE

LOGAN HICKS

WATHENS GREECE