FOR THE LOVE OF ART: A TRIBUTE TO GALLERIST NINA FREUDENHEIM

Exhibit:  July 2, 2019 – January 12, 2020
Reception:  September 19, 2019 — 5:00pm – 7:00pm

Overview
This exhibition surveys the forty-five year career of gallerist Nina Freudenheim, her working relationship with our founders Armand and Eleanor Castellani and her on-going relationship with the Castellani Art Museum. Featured in our central gallery are selected works by national and international artists acquired through the Nina Freudenheim Gallery.

Included are works purchased by Armand and Eleanor Castellani as well as works acquired through the pursuits of our museum directors and curators. Buffalo art collector Gerald Mead, who initially proposed this tribute exhibition, considers Freudenheim, “a personal inspiration and model arts professional whose inspired career has enriched the cultural landscape of Western New York in incalculable ways.”

For the Love of Art celebrates, in part, the important and ever evolving relationship between a public museum, commercial art dealers and private collectors. In a 2012 Buffalo Spree article, Bruce Adams called the Nina Freudenheim Gallery, “notable for its longevity and reputation as Buffalo’s most professional commercial venue.” Adams superbly underscored Freudenheim’s love and passion for the art and artists she works with, and in doing so, has inspired this exhibition’s title. For more than four decades,

Nina Freudenheim has been exhibiting regional, national and international artists; sharing a myriad of artistic trends, styles and aesthetics with Western New York audiences. We find ourselves better versed in the visual arts thanks to her dedication and perseverance.