The Mary Martin Gallery of Fine Art extends a warm welcome to you and invites you to enjoy the works of highly accomplished artists who are nationally recognized for excellence in oils, acrylics, mixed media, glass, wood, clay, and bronze. Mary Martin Gallery is located on the south side of Broad Street which is the "Gallery Row" for Charleston.
Our gallery features a wonderful collection of original art from notable and acclaimed award winning contemporary American and international artists Dedicated to bringing excellent art from America and around the world, the artists are chosen with great care. Many comment that they make a special point of visiting every time they are in Charleston.
Mary Martin, A Gallery of Fine Art is housed in a stone building with a long history of it's own. Built by Otto Witte, the building served as a bank for many decades. The building retains the original bank vault and safe. From an important banking center in America to an exciting gallery row, Broad Street has a unique history you will hear while on either a walking tour or a carriage tour in Charleston. Hidden in recesses known only to a few is a hidden teller cage with the bookkeepers handwriting on the wall from the 1890's.
Mary Martin Gallery located at 39 Broad Street is in the heart of historic Charleston. The Gallery is within easy walking distance to virtually all of the history this beautiful city has to offer. Specifically, the Mary Martin Gallery is between Church and State streets; more generally between King and East Bay streets.
Charleston is fast becoming a destination art market and well worth trips to Charleston for the art alone not to mention the general ambience of this historic city, the recreation, the restaurants, and the romantic flavor. Charleston has risen to number 3 in desirable art destination cities of mid size in the United States. And best of all, the gallery is walkable from any of many hotels, Inns, and B & B's. While this is a great family town, it is also a wonderful couple's town.
The Gallery is open every day of the week and by appointment except for certain major holidays. We hope that by visiting our gallery, your time in historic Charleston will be greatly enhanced. Welcome. We look forward to meeting you and having you be part of our collector family.
Mary and the Staff at Mary Martin Gallery of Fine Art.
For over thirty years, Mary Martin has travelled across the globe exploring her lifelong passion for fine art and artistic expressions. During those years, Mary cultivated many lifelong personal friendships with internationally recognized Master Artists that have filled her personal collection with works of unique and stunning beauty. After returning from her travels, the haunting images of the Spanish moss that swayed in the sultry breezes of the historic centurion oaks of Mary’s beloved Charleston called her home to the historic city that ignited her passion for art during her youth. After settling into her new community, Mary soon realized, that while Charleston offered many incredible galleries that offered a wide spectrum of works from many accomplished local artists, there was still something missing that could help the Charleston Art Community grow to a prominent national destination for those with a serious passion for art. Within a month, Mary found a beautiful downtown location that was the perfect site for a fine art gallery with an international flare. Located in the heart of Charleston’s historic French quarter, on 39 Broad Street in a historic stone building that still contains the original vault that echoes of the thriving eighteenth century banking industry of the antebellum era, the Mary Martin Gallery of Fine Art has truly become a “Destination” gallery for art collectors both locally and nationally. With over thirty Master artists, hand selected by Mary for their national recognition, unique talent, and the consistent and ever increasing value of their pieces, the Mary Martin Gallery offers an exceptional experience that equals that of the internationally known galleries from New Yorkto Los Angeles and beyond. To view the works currently available at the gallery, to learn more or to schedule a private tour, call us at 843-723-0303 or visit at the historic 39 Broad Street in Gallery Row. View artists’ work at www.marymartinart.com. Email Mary at marymartin@marymartinart.com.
Their offerings range from realistic to abstract, from linear expressionism to intuitive. In addition, they have sculpture of all types, water fountains, glass, wood, and jewelry - wearable art. This is a collection of art the likes of which you will have not seen anywhere else.
by Joseph Miller
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Mary Martin Gallery, 39 Broad Street, Charleston, SC 29401843-723-0303www.MaryMartinART.com
October 1, 2010French Quarter Gallery Association art walk, Gallery Row First Fridays5:00-8:00pm
Jean Claude Gaugy will be exhibiting a body of work, Textured Drawings, showing a new technique of painting that is a variation of original drawings executed directly on a texture applied to board and painted in the linear expressionistic style.Gaugy will show works with this new technique that allows the artist to be more spontaneous and fresh. Some of them will be in a small series of 6. Others will simply be single originals. This technique and the smaller sizes allow his work to be acquired by a greater number of people than the painted wood carvings he known for in his career.
In Gaugy's acclaimed carved paintings, expressions of the human soul find articulation in textured line and color, and in images that reflect the essence of who we are. Gaugy continues a tradition of synthesis, fusing well-mastered skills of sculpture and painting in a signature style that has become known as Linear Expressionism. He carves rhythmic yet decisive lines into wood, and then complements that powerful sense of movement with the rich complexities of color.
Surrealist Salvador Dali discovered Gaugy in a dining club where Jean- Claude was painting for customers. Dali was so taken with what he saw that he arranged for a one-man exhibition of Gaugy's paintings at the Galerie de Seine in Paris. Soon Gaugy's work was being shown in Brussels and Germany. The Russian government purchased three of his large paintings at a group show at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, and the young artist was flown by consular jet to Moscow for museum installation of the works. As his art evolved and matured, Gaugy found himself commissioned to create many murals, some as large as 50 feet. Among his clients were the Rockefeller Foundation, New York's Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, and the National Foundation for Depressive Illnesses, which in 1991 unveiled Gaugy's 30-foot work at the National Building Museum in Washington D.C. In 1994, a major exhibition of Gaugy's carved paintings was sponsored by the government of Luxembourg.
With international recognition and a lifetime of accolades, Jean-Claude Gaugy continues to rise at 4:30 each morning with a singular focus. He brings to his studio all the intensity of an artist whose passion is communication through his art. Wanting to convey a message of spiritual unity to his collectors, his intent is to touch that same pure place he experiences when creating his art in those who will live with it.
He is represented in Charleston by the Mary Martin Gallery at 39 Broad Street.
Mary Martin - Agent for the art you want. 719-338-9000
