The End of Season Exhibition and SALE

ArtHouse429 is pleased to celebrate the end of the gallery’s inaugural season with a spring group exhibition and sale, opening on Thursday, April 25. The show features current artists and exciting new talents that have been added to the gallery's stable. ArtHouse429 continues to support its new neighbor, the Center for Creative Education (CCE), by donating a percentage of net sales from artworks and from opening receptions through a suggested donation at the door. Attendees at the reception won door prizes, including a limited edition print by curator Bruce Helander, originally created for The New Yorker magazine, which has a value of $3,400.

Among the new artists on exhibits are Margaret Elliot, Melinda Trucks, Carl Paoli, Troy Simmons, Jacqueline Ellis, Mark Forman, Sara Mushegian, Debbie Mostel, Jackie Gorissen, Clark Hipolito, and many others!

The adjoining sculpture garden, now in full bloom, has become a favorite spot in Palm Beach County to view a variety of contemporary three-dimensional sculpture. 

Welcome to the ArtHouse 429

Welcome to the ArtHouse 429 website presenting our new stable of artists, upcoming events and openings, and news of interest to the art community. This groundbreaking gallery opened its doors in mid-January, 2013. This new venture founded by designer and sculptor William Halliday and investor Scott Blust has taken up residence in the heart of the Northwood Village business district. This rejuvenated neighborhood has become a pioneering area for young artists, entrepreneurs, designers and architects who enjoy the dramatic spirit of a recently developed area that offers the excitement of innovation and renovation, giving vintage spaces a fresh life and sparkle.

The Studio of William Halliday

Connected to the ground floor exhibition area is the working studio of William Halliday, where the dealer/artist fabricates and assembles his intriguing and original metal sculptural forms that will be included the inaugural group show. Halliday has a flair for hands-on projects, such as designing and building motorcycles, boats and furniture. He has taken the best of his experiences and poured them into sculptural objects, producing polished, surrealist aluminum forms that allow the viewer to enjoy a 360 degree inspection. Click here to see video of William Halliday taken in 2011 at his North Carolina studio.

Our Guest Curator

The guest curator for the inaugural season is Bruce Helander, a well-known and respected artist and art critic, who has curated numerous shows for galleries and museums, including most recently a survey of works by the celebrated painter Hunt Slonem at the Coral Springs Museum of Art. He is a former White House Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts and former Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design. His work was included recently in the Christie’s auction of the Dennis Hopper estate. He also is a frequent contributor of art reviews for The Huffington Post and is the editor-in-chief of The Art Economist. Helander was the director of exhibits at the Armory Art Center and founded the Northwood Temporary Contemporary Museum of Art, whose first show was of Andy Warhol’s painted portraits. For ArtHouse 429, he was able to assemble an interesting and professional group of dedicated artists with a variety of styles and working methods. The artists that he has selected from the local community offer a rich palette of ideas and images.

“This new and modern gallery is a very positive sign for the continued creative energy and business growth that is exploding the Northwood historic neighborhood,” he said. “I am proud to be a part of it!”

The Inaugural Exhibition

The inaugural exhibition offered a dozen or more provocative and professional artists, many who are recognized nationally and have been included in museum shows at such venues as the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Norton Museum of Art and the Coral Springs Museum of Art, as well as numerous others.

These artists included Robert R. Zakanitch, considered the founder of the pattern and decoration movement; multi-media artist Cameron Gray from Los Angeles; and painter Sergey Fedotov from Moscow, as well as local mid-career talents like Donna Long, New York City painter Raul Vega, and young art star Asif Hoque. In addition, John Martini will be displaying large-scale, figure-inspired welded steel sculptures that he creates in his massive converted theater in Key West, and Curtis Kelly will be showing her architecturally-inspired abstract works that have received critical acclaim.