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Alex, Kurt, and Samantha at the UGallery SF office before the Summer Show opening.
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about ugallery
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Here at UGallery, we love being surrounded by art. We think you will too.
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Stephen, Greg, and I are entrepreneurs who live for art. We met while studying business and art history at the University of Arizona. For a class project, we ventured to solve a fundamental problem in the art world - how can promising artists connect with people looking to buy reasonably priced, original artwork? Our solution was UGallery.com, an online gallery that does that and more. Upon graduation in 2006, we decided to take the leap and turn UGallery into a reality.
In the six years UGallery has been in business, we have sold art to nearly every state and 30 countries. We've been featured in articles by The Wall Street Journal and Art in America, and exhibited at some of the nation's
biggest art fairs. Our team continues to grow, and we now represent both new and established artists. Most important, we go to work everyday with smiles on our faces.
As we look forward to our seventh year in the online art space, we invite you to join us in the joy of living with original art.
Artfully Yours,
Alex Farkas
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our history
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UGallery hits a social media milstone, 1,000,000 followers on Pinterest.
SEPTEMBER 2012
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Sunset magazine selects UGallery to decorate their annual eco-friendly, design-conscious “Smart Homes” exhibit in Palo Alto, California.
OCTOBER 2011
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TechCrunch invites UGallery to decorate the walls of its annual TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York “with cool and edgy NYC-themed canvases.”
MAY 2010
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UGallery artwork decorates the set of the movie It's Complicated, starring Meryl Streep, Steve Martin, and Alec Baldwin, and the new Hotel Palomar Philadelphia uses UGallery artwork to furnish its lobby.
DECEMBER 2009
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UGallery opens its doors to all emerging artists and launches a new version of the website, featuring a new logo to reflect the gallery's growth.
OCTOBER 2009
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UGallery makes its art fair debut in New York at the Armory Show satellite fair ArtNow. For its efforts, UGallery is written up in Art in America.
MARCH 2008
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The Wall Street Journal features UGallery in an article. The gallery is mentioned in the Journal again in October.
JULY 2007
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Alex, Greg, and Stephen graduate from the University of Arizona. After winning two major North American business plan competitions, the boys decide to pool their competition winnings and every last dime in their bank accounts to launch UGallery. Website construction begins.
MAy 2006
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UGallery moves its headquarters to a new office and gallery space in the Mission District in San Francisco and begins hosting regular exhibitions. Show highlights from 2012 include the photography of Instagram engineer Gregor Hochmuth and a group show in conjunction with ArtSpan’s Open Studios featuring four rising Bay Area artists.
JANUARY 2012
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UGallery begins offering limited edition prints from the gallery’s most sought after artists. All prints are created using archival pigment inks on bamboo paper, the world's first eco-friendly fine art paper.
JUNE 2010
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Alex opens UGallery's second office in the artsy Mission District of San Francisco.
MARCH 2010
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Russell Simmons' Rush Foundation partners with UGallery to create a limited edition art tee to raise money for public school art programs. Celebrities such as Joe Jonas are seen sporting the shirt.
OCTOBER 2009
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UGallery exhibits at the Affordable Art Fair New York City, the beginning of a beautiful partnership. UGallery now exhibits at the fair every year.
JUNE 2008
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Stephen and Greg open UGallery's first satellite office in New York City.
AUGUST 2007
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UGallery.com officially launches with five artists and 25 pieces of art. The website starts out representing only collegiate artists and recent graduates. The first sale is made in three days.
OCTOBER 2006
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our team
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ALEX FARKAS gallery director
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Alex brings a unique and slightly off-center aesthetic to the gallery. His love
of art traces back to his hometown Jerome, a tiny arts community in northern Arizona.
Alex grew up creating sculpture in his uncle's woodworking studio and learning about
the art business in his mother's gallery. In college, he trained his eye by travelling
the world to experience first-hand the art he studied. Alex is passionate about
working with artists to navigate the gallery world and connect with patrons. He
holds degrees in Art History and Entrepreneurship from the University of Arizona,
and currently lives in San Francisco.
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STEPHEN TANENBAUM operations
director
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Stephen has a passion for the art of the start up. He founded his first company,
Bunkpal, at the age of 18 and pursued his love of business at the University of
Arizona, where he earned a degree in Finance and Entrepreneurship. Stephen keeps
Ugallery on the cutting edge by overseeing the gallery's online presence and running
business behind the scenes. Originally from Atlanta, Stephen now lives in New York
City. When he's not working, you might spot him strolling MoMA - he's got a soft
spot for Takashi Murakami - or playing softball in Central Park.
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SAMANTHA SCHLISSERMAN gallery
manager
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Samantha grew up in Menlo Park, California, just south of San Francisco. She remembers
loving art from a young age, but it wasn't until a high school art history project
that she realized it was what she wanted to pursue. After studying Art History with
a focus in Greek Antiquities at Boston University, Samantha went on to get her Masters
in Art Business at Sotheby's in London. She has since moved back to the Bay Area
and loves exploring the city's exciting art scene. Samantha could not be more excited
to be part of the Ugallery team, where she gets to interact with artists and buyers
(and look at art all day)!
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KURT YALCIN community manager
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Kurt grew up in the charming suburbs of Baltimore. With two real estate agents as parents, he was raised under a roof where "location, location, location" was a way of life. He dreamed of the big city and pursued a double major in Journalism and Architecture Studies at New York University. After House Beautiful and Dwell ceased to satiate his design appetite, he moved to San Francisco for a taste of its Edwardian elegance. Kurt made the coastal shift smoothly with a copywriting position at bloomspot.com only to settle down at Ugallery's hip Mission location.
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CHARLOTTE NICHOLS director of marketing
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Charlotte brings a love of branding and marketing to the UGallery team. She recognized her passion at an early age, always finding herself more drawn to the half time commercials than the Super Bowl games. She studied marketing at Georgetown University and Stanford Graduate School of Business, after which she moved to the Midwest to work in brand management at General Mills. With a few fun brands under her belt (Trix and Count Chocula cereals!), she decided to trade in the Silly Rabbit and head back to San Francisco. She joins the team with a passion for interior design, and loves exploring how art and design come together to create a home aesthetic.
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GREG ROSBOROUGH creative director
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Greg was born in lowa City, but grew up on the sun-drenched basketball courts of
Tucson, Arizona (he's 6'5"!). After earning a degree in Marketing and Entrepreneurship
at the University of Arizona and launching Ugallery, Greg moved to New York to study
Menswear Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology. He now works as both a designer
at Ralph Lauren in New York City and as the Creative Director at Ugallery, driving
the site's simple, crisp aesthetic.
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