William Booth Grey & Peter Dayton : Paper Mosaics & Dear Mr.Grey

Emily Goldstein, former curator of exhibitions for the gallery at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller in East Hampton, and Victoria Munroe, owner of Victoria Munroe Fine Art in Boston, are pleased to announce the opening of their new gallery in East Hampton this summer. The gallery, called The Drawing Room, is located at 16R Newtown Lane in the center of East Hampton. The first exhibition will open to the public on June 26th with an inaugural reception on Saturday July 3rd, from 4 to 7 pm. Gallery hours will be Thursday through Monday, from 11 to 5, and also by appointment.

The Drawing Room will present exhibitions with a curatorial bias toward the integration of contemporary art with historical works on paper. In addition, the gallery will feature artists for whom the wall in its entirety defines the space of creative action. Goldstein and Munroe seek to provoke a dialogue about the meaning and function of studies, drawings and other forms of works of paper– in the case of their first show–botanical collages, and to call attention to the artist’s investigative process. The history and chronology of technique is of particular interest and the dynamic inspiration that artists draw from historical precedents will be a recurring theme in the exhibition program which will span from the 18th century to the present.

See below for full press release and selected works.