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Mar 07, 2013
NeverChill features The Ride Gallery
Read more →The chorus of advocates touting The Ride Gallery's cool factor has risen by one more.... The super cool site NeverChill - which scavenges the internet looking for the best of interesting, stylish, relevant, funny, and practical stuff - featured The Ride Gallery in today's post. Check out their awesome site here, and learn why they're known as the "parent company of cool" - http://neverchill.com/19244/the-ride-gallery A big thank you to the NeverChill team for their support of The Ride Gallery and Ride Gallery artists. TRG
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Mar 07, 2013
New Surf Photography by Dalton Portella Now Featured At The Ride Gallery
Read more →The Ride Gallery is delighted to introduce 8 new limited-edition photographs by Montauk, NY-based artist, Dalton Portella. Ranging from atmospheric shots of his home break in Montauk to large format prints of epic surf in the Maldives, Portella's surf photography traffics in superb lighting, mood, and energy.
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Feb 09, 2013
Indoek - a Premier Surf Culture Site - Features The Ride Gallery
Read more →Indoek is a surf-centric blog celebrating a unique and independent flavor of wave-riding culture and the characters, stories, art, organizations and brands that swim in it. They also mix it up with a heavy dose of all things creative, inspiring and thought provoking. We at The Ride Gallery were delighted to be featured on Indoek's stellar site this week. Check out the great post here: http://www.indoek.com/archives/10645 Our many thanks go out to Matt and Drew at Indoek for their recognition of Ride Gallery artists. TRG
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Feb 07, 2013
Urban Daddy Delivers a Stellar Ride Gallery Feature
Read more →The Ride Gallery has been rocked with another wonderful press feature courtesy of UrbanDaddy.com. The tone and energy of the piece are pitch perfect, and they captured the essence of The Ride Gallery brilliantly. A few of the gems from this piece: "Attractive things to hang on your wall. That’s what we’re talking about here. Just an aesthetically magnificent mélange of water-centric snapshots taken by 10 international photographers with a knack for turning your living room into a conversation piece." "Toss one of those behind your home bar and watch the sparks fly at your next cocktail party. Or just...
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Feb 07, 2013
The Ride Gallery on Cool Hunting!
Read more →Courtesy of the keen eye and impeccable sense of style of journalist Graham Hiemstra, The Ride Gallery has officially been cool-hunted! CoolHunting.com posted a beautiful and gracious review of The Ride Gallery this week, and the public response has been simply terrific. Our sincere thanks go out to Graham, Josh Rubin and the great folks at Cool Hunting for being awesome and recognizing Ride Gallery artists for excellence. Check out the article here: http://www.coolhunting.com/culture/the-ride-gallery.php
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Jan 21, 2013
From Brooklyn to The Ride Gallery: Now Featuring Works by David Jacobs
Read more →Today, The Ride Gallery is very excited to debut 6 new works by Brooklyn-based photographer, David Jacobs. Self-taught, beginning in a high school friend's basement darkroom, he took a circuitous route to his profession, stopping along the way for a degree in political theory and an immersion in cinema. He then spent several years as Annie Leibovitz's in-house printer, where he learned not only to light, but also the importance of balancing commercial and personal work. Since 2006 he has been shooting for himself, mostly portraiture but also a few longer-term documentary projects – and...
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Jan 14, 2013
Explore the Surreal World of Aleix Abellanet, Now in The Ride Gallery
Read more →The Ride Gallery extends a hearty welcome to Spaniard Aleix Abellanet. Hailing from Barcelona - the ancestral home of Gaudi and Picasso! - Abellanet brings an equally unique and distinguished aesthetic vision to the gallery. Aleix is a prolific visual artist with a range of expertise in fields stretching from motion design and animation to graphic design, collage and formal illustration. Aleix is seemingly comfortable in any medium, and this lends an otherworldly quality to his work as it so easily blends and transcends individual genres. Aleix's artworks, films, and design projects have been featured across Spain and throughout greater...
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Jan 09, 2013
New Limited Edition Works by Remi Thornton
Read more →The Ride Gallery is delighted to feature a limted-edition series of 6 photographs by acclaimed Massachusetts-based artist, Remi Thornton. Thornton has become known in recent years for his epic collections of night photography, and this exclusive series is a continuation of this tradition. Captured using only existing light sources, Thornton's images present environments that are at once both familiar and surreal. Critics of Thornton's work have offered up the following: "Absolutely brilliant night shots..." Jon Petitt, Bostonist Editor and Gothamist Publisher "Remi Thornton's images remind me of that feeling one get's on the very first night of summer, right as the...
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Jan 02, 2013
Belgian Artist Kamargo Joins The Ride Gallery
Read more →The Ride Gallery is excited to introduce a new talent from the creative underground in Europe: Kamargo. Hailing from Belgium, Kamargo brings an formal European design aesthetic to the gallery. We are thrilled to feature two distinct series of Kamargo's work, one a series of formal illustrations executed as screenprints, and the other a series of digitally manipulated photographs. With his distinct imagery and architectural vision he aims to find the tensive point of contact between recognition and impossibility. By adding sublte twists to his compelling compositions, he captures a suspensive essence of modern life. Kamargo’s images generate a...
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Dec 19, 2012
The Ride Gallery Welcomes Artist Dalton Portella
Read more →The Ride Gallery is thrilled to introduce a limited edition series of watercolor prints by acclaimed photographer and painter Dalton Portella. This set of prints chronicles a series of seminal moments in the US east coast hurricane season as experienced at Montauk Point, New York. The series ends with dramatic trio of prints that capture the massive surf generated by Hurricane Sandy upon its landfall on October 29th, 2012. For a closer look at Dalton's work, check out the excellent profile from earlier this year on The Inertia: www.theinertia.com/music-art/portfolio-dalton-portella/