Joe and the Pierogi Flat Files

The glamorous life of an art dealer
Joe Amrhein, artist/owner of Williamsburg's Pierogi Gallery, must be the hardest working man in the art business.  Last week, while other gallerists were planning how to spend their summer vacation, Joe was patching the roof of The Boiler, Pierogi's new satellite gallery on N 14th St. -- that's him on the left up there.

With his partner Susan Swenson (maybe the hardest working woman in the art business), Joe has made the Pierogi Flat Files a world famous repository of affordable art, one that's traveled widely and given hundreds of artists the chance to show and sell their work.  I can't think of anyone in the art world who's done more than Joe and Susan to help so many artists.

Joe had me put the Flat Files on the web a few months ago, and now they're open to the world.  The Flat Files include work by more than 900 artists, many of them well known; you can search by media, genre and price bracket, look up specific artists, or get a page full of random selections.

As someone with a cruel standard of excellence when it comes to art, I've been constantly surprised at the quality of work I've stumbled on in the Flat Files -- it's heartening to see that there's a multitude of quirky and accomplished artists working away out there.  Take a look when you have the chance.

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