30 YEARS OF NIA: Anniversary Exhibition

Feb 22, 2024 - March 30, 2024

There is only one New Image Art Gallery. The origin of this enigmatic anomaly is one of grit and an unwavering belief that a gallery functions best as an artist-run space.
The genesis of this DIY launching platform strives to be the antithesis of the commercial art industrial complex and a supportive incubator for the youth, striving without any funding.

Cultivated for the past thirty years by the unicorn, Marsea Goldberg, along with generations of visionaries including the staff, artists, interns, curators, collectors, and friends alike, this prophetic space has found success from following intuition rather than the trends of archaic hegemonic systems.

Marsea Goldberg and NIA are a testament to resilience, wabi-sabi ethos, and grassroots principles of representing and pushing artists of all shades, creeds, and classes to the forefront of culture – forging the future by advocating for the other.

Founded in 1994, when studio rent was still only $150, New Image Art was born out of a 10 x 10 ft. space with a sprinkle of Hollywood magic and the whims of two Los Angeles-based artists, Stanley Somers and Marsea Goldberg.

The gallery has functioned as a portal for cultural waves a la the Queer Performance Art, Mission School, graffiti, millennium figurative movement, and millennium ceramic movement long before the contemporary art landscape would adopt them as mainstream canon. Three decades since its origin, at this anniversary milestone, we celebrate the timeline of an eccentric institution and pioneer of inimitable legacy.

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