A Second White Gallery Opens

A second White Gallery, the first being smack in the middle of Lakeville, is opening Friday, on Route 7 in Great Barrington. The clapboard building, with white walls, bared beams and an old brick oven, was once a home. Now it’s a place to show art. The featured painter for this first show is one of gallery directors Susan and Tino Galluzzo’s favorites, David Dunlop. “He’s a good friend and a phenomenal artist and educator,” Tino Galluzzo told me during a tour of the new showplace. Dunlop, known as much for his artspiel as his art work (check out his Emmy-award-winning PBS series on art history, technique and theory) is a big, flamboyant fellow who makes saturated, glowy landscapes, some of which were leaning against the walls of the new gallery last week, placed for hanging. Alongside these signature pieces were more recent and much more abstract, and certainly striking urban pieces, accounting for the name of the show: “Metamorphosis.” The Galluzzos, Susan a lawyer, Tino a onetime banker, “back when it was OK to be a banker,” he tells me, are longtime art collectors. One day, Susan told Tino “We could have this little art gallery.” That was 2003. They decided to show art they loved, art they would own. And now, though Tino Galluzzo routinely complains about a tepid art market, the couple is opening this second gallery, making clear this is not a move, but a way of garnering new buyers. “We do OK,” Galluzzo says. “We’re still here.” Paintings by David Dunlop and glass art by Adam Waimon will be exhibited at the White Gallery through June 18. An opening reception for the artists and benefit for Berkshire Taconic Foundation’s Neighbor-to-Neighbor fund is scheduled April 30, 5 to 7 p.m. The gallery is at 924 Main St., in Great Barrington. For information, call 413-528-3631.