Just Arrived! Salvador Dali hand-signed Mirror Frame !
Now on view at White Space Gallery.

White Space Gallery marks 2 nd Anniversary

Celebrating the Final Editions of Salvador Dali

With an “Afternoon with Dali” Gala Event

New Haven , CT – White Space, a fine art gallery, located at 1020 Chapel Street 2 nd floor, celebrates it’s 2 nd anniversary and Salvador Dali’s birthday month from May 3 rd through June 3 rd, including a gala “Open House” on Saturday, May 13th from 10am to 6pm . The gala is free to the public and will include food, music and opportunity to spend an “Afternoon with Dali” with a special appearance by Salvador Dali impressionist Lewis Dube, a nationally renowned character actor who studied at the Yale School of Drama. View the impressive “Black Mirror Frame” hand-signed by master Dali which recently arrived at the gallery. There will be an opportunity to win a Plate-signed Salvador Dali lithograph. This event is a celebration commemorating 102 years of the Surrealist Master’s work and the second Anniversary of the gallery. The fiesta will highlight a unique collection of twelve magnificent Dali lithographs exclusive to White Space (including “Invisible Face” and “Surrealist Flower”.) This unique collection is the Final Edition of hand-signed limited edition lithographs and has been au the nticated by Dali archivist Albert Field. These extraordinary renderings will be featured along with newly acquired rare Dali lithographs, in addition to Rare Colt Commissioned Dali sculptures.

Recently, CNN’s Moneyline correspondent, Lou Dobbs was quoted as saying “Well, if you’re feeling a little battered by the stock market, perhaps even the real estate market, let’s turn to something you might appreciate: the art world. Benefiting from all of these problems many investors are looking for tangible places in which to put their money. Sales of top quality art is rising and pieces are holding their value.” Artprice.com lists the top 500 Selling Artists at Auction with Dali at number 20, ahead of other artists such as Gaugin, Rockwell Kadinsky, Toulouse-Lautrec and Van Gough. He is without a doubt one of the most highly sought after and most popular artists in the world.

White Space’s collection represents various periods in Dali’s career and reflects a variety of styles from work he created in a state that he called “paranoiac-critical activity” as exemplified by “The Persistence of Memory”, his famous painting with its melting watches inspired by Camembert cheese, to other pieces in his more molecular style.

Dali was a 20 th century artist from Spain who emerged as a central figure of Surrealism in the late 1920’s. His paintings of desolate landscapes and melting watches such as “Tear of Time” changed the course of modern art. Dali, like o the r Surrealists was enormously influenced by Freud, whose the ories were incorporated into his method of viewing the world. Dali celebrated the irrational and painted in a style of hyper-realism that made the world hauntingly vivid. His paintings were full of hidden images like “Surrealist Flower” and ambiguous dramas as in “The Don Quixote Trilogy,” all of which can be viewed at the commemorative event along with over 40 additional Dali works of art.

Dali’s versatility and commercial instinct ignited his popularity in the United States where he worked with Alfred Hitchcock and Walt Disney Studios; he also painted covers for Vogue and Town & Country magazines. His endeavors resulted in numerous artistic installations, a ballet, and even the design of haute couture and advertising images. In the late 1940’s, he displayed new interest in disintegration of matter as seen in “Disintegrating Mother and Child” and “Spectral Horse”, and revisited his lifelong passion of religious themes by creating images such as of “Wailing Wall” and “Christ of Gala” which will also be on display in the gallery.

White Space Gallery spotlights surrealist, contemporary and abstract fine art by hosting a diverse array of original art by emerging prominent international and local living artists and sculptors, as well as works by Resident Artist Denise Parri.

Located amidst Chapel Street 's fine retailers, and between two of New Haven 's cultural treasures, the Yale Art Gallery and the British Art Center , White Space Gallery has found the perfect home and New Haven has a gallery where fine art thrives.