Richard Goodall Gallery

Richard Goodall Gallery

The Richard Goodall Gallery is a contemporary fine art, photography and rock poster gallery based in Manchester, United Kingdom. They have been in existence since 2000. In 2007 a second location was added on High Street in Manchester focused on contemporary Art, with the original location on Thomas St, being renamed to Richard Goodall Gallery: Underground, and showing Rock Poster Art and Designer Urban Vinyl. Throughout the year each gallery will show 8-10 independent events, with the occasional one crossing over both galleries.

Main Areas of Focus

Lenticular Prints

Richard Goodall Gallery is notable in the creation of Fine Art Lenticular images as large scale art pieces with iconic imagery from the leading contemporary photographers. To date over 50 pieces have been created and the editions are all sold out or close to sold out. They comprise images from Gered Mankowitz, Terry O'Neill, Jay Blakesberg, Michael Spencer Jones and Paul Saltzman. These feature The Beatles, Elvis, Dylan, The Rolling Stones and Sinatra amongst others. They can be seen on permanent display at the Millenia Fine Art Gallery on the Mezzanine level of the Time Warner Building in Columbus Square, New York.

Photography

At its outset Richard Goodall Gallery brought contemporary photography to Manchester as the first large scale accessible gallery in the UK and the only Photography gallery outside of London. Starting with 33 Still Lives by Anton Corbijn [ http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Corbijn ] it has shown major exclusive photography exhibitions from Mark Seliger - Platinums [Manchester Evening News Mark Seliger [http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/entertainment/arts/s/163/163578_a_date_with_mark_seliger.html] ] and Graham Nash [The Guardian [http://arts.guardian.co.uk/pictures/0,,1192752,00.html] ]

Contemporary Art & Street Art

From photography they expanded into contemporary painting showing exhibitions of Eelco Brand, Detroit Based Low Brow Pop Culture Artist Niagara and Underground Graffiti Artist Dalek [Manchester Confidential [http://www.manchesterconfidential.com/index.asp?Sessionx=IpqiNw7oNwxrJaqiNwF6IHqi] ] , Kendra Binney, Yumiko, Sas Christian, Colin Christian, Kathie Olivas, Brandt Peters and others. This new focus is brining the best of the world wide street art and contemporary art to the UK public

The Rock Poster Explosion

With the success of the new shows Richard Goodall Gallery dedicated an entire floor of the gallery to the new genre of Rock Poster Art. This covered the new wave of the American based artists that were creating the next generation of music posters in the tradition of the sixties poster artists of San Francisco's Family Dog and Bill Graham Presents and Detroit. The likes of Wes Wilson, Moscoso, Mouse & Kelley, Garry Grimshaw and Dennis Loren.

This new art form started again with Frank Kozik and Coop in the late 90's and continues today with a whole new generation of artists. The Richard Goodall Gallery and now the new Richard Goodall Gallery: Underground is the only gallery in the UK exhibiting this work.

The new work was showcased in a number of exhibitions most notable in the Post Neo Explosionism show with Emek, Justin Hampton and Jermaine Rogers which featured an in-store appearance by Queens of The Stone Age, the subject of much of the work [Guardian [http://arts.guardian.co.uk/critic/feature/0,,1321804,00.html] ] [BBC [http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/going_out/culture/2003/04/02/gigposter.shtml] ]

It has also shown rock art exhibitions by Rob Jones which also launched the Orchestral White Stripes record Aluminiun [ [http://www.xlrecordings.com/aluminium/ XL: Aluminium ] ] . Two exhibitions from Jay Ryan Squirrels Taking Risks in 2004 and Mammals Making Lists in 2005.

Emek was back in 2007 for a stealth one day exhibition in 2007 which also featured an in-store surprise appearance by Get Cape Wear Cape Fly who was premiering songs from his new upcoming record.

Sculpture

The gallery has shown a number of new sculptors in the UK with works by Scott Radke, Colin Christian, Kathie Olivas, Jermaine Rogers, Lou amongst those seen in various solo and group exhibitions.

Designer Urban Vinyl

The Richard Goodall Gallery: Underground has an extensive collection of Designer Urban Vinyl from the leading producers around the globe. Encompassing work from Kidrobot, StrangeCo, Toy2R, Jamungo and Mindstyle.

The work they show in the vinyl format crosses over with the art from the same artists in other mediums of prints and original paintings. They are also strong proponents of producing exclusive works and have had gallery exclusive pieces from Dalek and Frank Kozik in 20" Dunny's, Smorkin Labbits and Ice Bots. There have been a number of exhibition that have included vinyl pieces Dalek, Kathie Olivas and Brandt Peters, and special signings and openings for the French Dunny series and 3 Bears Dunnys with Jon Burgerman, I Love Dust and Tado.

They also show an extensive range of custom toys with Kathie Olivas having 20 custom vinyl pieces at her show, and Dalek producing a custom Munny for the show.

They are unique in that anyone purchasing a blank Munny from the gallery can have it displayed and sold in the gallery for free.

Often the gallery has a range of vinyl especially Dunny's that are long sold out, for show in the gallery and many times for sale.

Expansion: The New Locations

In June 2007 Richard Goodall Gallery opened its second 2500 square foot gallery at 103 High Street in Manchester, taking the Richard Goodall Gallery name, the original gallery is renamed Richard Goodall Gallery: Underground and is focused solely on Rock Poster Art, Urban Vinyl and Affordable Contemporary Art

Richard Goodall Gallery - 103 High Street

At 103 High Street, M4 1HQ in Manchester, England, the new location opened in June 2007 with a show of the Art of Leonard Cohen [ BBC Article [http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/content/articles/2007/07/12/120707_cohen_art_feature.shtml Leonard Cohen at Richard Goodall Gallery] ]

Upocoming Exhibitions

Niagara & Yumiko Kayukawa - The Good The Bad & The Beautiful - September 2008

Jamie Baldridge - New Photography: A UK Premiere Exhibition - November 2008

Nicoletta Ceccoli - New Works - December 2008

Previous Exhibitions

This Is Street Art featuring Eighty Two, Ben Allen, Jordin Isip, James Marshall, and Federico Gonzales - June 2008

Central Station - Fac Off - Pieces from the entire work of Central Station the creators of Madchester - May 2008

Lou. - More - New Paintings - January 2008

Ronnie Wood - Paintings and Prints - November 2007

Mark Seliger - In My Stairwell - October 2007

Ray Caesar - ipso facto - visitations 2002-2006 - September 2007

Leonard Cohen - A private gaze - July 2007

Richard Goodall Gallery - 59 Thomas St

Upcoming Exhibitions

Donald Topp - The Iconic Show - September 2008

Curtis Jobling - Biteneck Beatnicks - October 2008

Daniel Danger - New Paintings - November 2008

Previous Exhibitions

So This Is Street Art? - New works from International Artists - June 2008

Kathie Olivas, Brandt Peters, Sas Christian, Colin Christian - May 2008

Jon Burgerman, ILoveDust, Tado - 3 Bears Dunny Exhibition - June 2008

Kendra Binney - Frail: New Paintings - March 2008

Leia Bell - The Business of Ferrets - September 2007

Jay Ryan & Diana Sudyka - December 2007

Emek - One Day Stealth Show with Get Cape Wear Cape Fly In Store Appearance 2007

Dalek - Violent Pacification

Rob Jones - Aluminium

Emek, Jermaine Rogers, Justin Hampton - Ugly Americans

Jay Ryan - Mammals Making Lists December 2005

Jay Ryan - Squirrels Taking Rists December 2004

pecial Events

The Richard Goodall Gallery has become well known for its special events with some very special guests attending.

American Author, Singer, and Politician Kinky Friedman was at the gallery in May 2008 for a special intimate chat and signing session with fans at the release of the exclusive European Tour 2008 poster produced by the gallery.

The opening of the Leonard Cohen Art show saw Leonard Cohen in attendance and what turned out to be the last public appearance by Tony Wilson as his introducer.

The PNE show saw Queens of the Stone Age make a special appearance.

Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly. played a special solo acoustic show at the opening of the Emek exhibition.

At the opening of the Central Station exhibition, Shaun Ryder and Bez of The Happy Mondays and Black Grape, Mani of the Inspiral Carpets and Primal Scream, Jon Squire, and John Thompson were all in attendance.

Graham Nash and Fran Healey of Travis were at the opening of the Graham Nash exhibition, with Graham later joining Fran and Travis on stage at the concert at the Manchester Apollo for a performance of Graham's Another Sleep Song

Exhibited Artists

External links

* [http://www.richardgoodallgallery.com/ Official website]

References