Bowers Museum Galleria to Be Expansion Casualty
The four-year-old Bowers Museum Galleria, a shop stocked and run by Orange County artists as a collective, may disband after its next show, which closes June 26.
The Galleria receives rent-free space in the Bowers’ education wing in exchange for 30% of sales. But the museum’s new expansion plan (see accompanying story) involves “no formal commitment” to an education wing, museum spokeswoman Ria Marie Carlson said this week.
Carlson stressed the museum’s “very cooperative” relationship with the Galleria and said the issue has “absolutely nothing to do with the Galleria itself.”
Kay Sullivan, the Galleria’s publicity coordinator, said museum director Paul Piazza told her that he would like the 33-member group to stay put until demolition of the wing would begin. But, Sullivan noted, “there will be construction, and that’s not too good for business.”
Piazza subsequently suggested that the Galleria’s current space may be needed by the museum after all, as a packing area.
The group’s next scheduled show, optimistically titled “Intermission,” opens May 2.
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