After three years on 20th street in Chelsea, Claire Oliver Gallery moved to its present two-story ground floor location at 513 West 26th street in 2005.

The gallery’s program balances conceptual concern with a highly visual approach.  A commitment to physical process and an intensity of detail is common to all of the gallery artists.  This emphasis is seen clearly in the innovative stained glass work of Judith Schaechter, recent Guggenheim and USA Artist Fellowship recipient, as well as Kate Clark’s sculptures of human-animal hybrids.

The gallery is committed to showing new media works, which move the viewer through experimental time based and multi-sensory approaches, as seen in the projects of the Black Estate, whose work will be featured in the upcoming SITE Santa Fe biennale.

 
The gallery has introduced to the United States exceptional European talent. Three Gallery artists are included in the 53rd Venice Biennale. Spanish artist, Bernardi Roig, has been represented by the Gallery since 1999, Russian Federation artists AES+F since 2001; Gosha Ostretsov joined Claire Oliver Gallery in 2008, and at Solo Project in Basel, the Gallery presented a 260 square foot shanty house by Gosha Ostretsov.  

Claire Oliver Gallery also produces large-scale thematic projects. For the 2008 Miami Art Week, the Gallery produced The Green Project. Gallery artists Noah Fischer, Stephanie Lempert and Janet Biggs, created a 20,000 square foot interactive installation speaking about issues of global warming. Ms. Biggs’ work was acquired by the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Claire Oliver Gallery’s artists are represented in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Tate Modern, the Smithsonian Institution, and many other important Museums.