Works Art Gallery to Close
The 5-year-old Works art gallery in the Crystal Court shopping mall will be closed by the start of next month, largely because of waning sales, gallery director Richard Iri said Wednesday.
Over the past two years, sales have dropped about 40%, Iri said, attributing the decline to general economic doldrums and not to the level in Orange County of art collectors’ sophistication. “I think the collectors down here are more sophisticated than they’re given credit for,” he said, “and certainly are hungry for seeing both new and established artists.”
For the record:
12:00 a.m. March 21, 1994 For the Record
Los Angeles Times Monday March 21, 1994 Orange County Edition Calendar Part F Page 2 Column 1 Entertainment Desk 1 inches; 20 words Type of Material: Correction
GALLERY--An art gallery in Santa Monica owned by Mark Moore is called the Mark Moore Gallery. It was misidentified in Thursday’s Calendar.
There are no plans to reopen the gallery elsewhere in the county, Iri said. Owner Mark Moore, who owns a Works Gallery in Santa Monica, has refused to discuss the closure.
An exhibit of work by graduate students from Southern California was to have opened in the Costa Mesa gallery next week. “Maybe a mall wasn’t the best place for the show anyway,” said April Ford, one of 17 students to have participated in the show. “But I’m sure it would have been good to have (the Works Gallery) down there” in Orange County.
The gallery has shown such well-known artists as Kim Abeles, Jay McCafferty, Jim Morphesis, Eric Orr, Larry Bell, Tony DeLap and Lita Albuquerque.
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