Art of Art Collecting: Allison Zuckerman, Susie Kravets & Marc Wehby

The Arthur Ross Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania advances scholarship, collaboration, and outreach through direct engagement with original art and artifacts. Presenting art from a wide range of media, periods, cultures, and traditions, the Gallery serves as a rich educational and cultural resource for students, faculty, scholars, artists, and the local and regional communities.

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Our series on art collecting continues with this conversation about making and selling art in the current moment.

Join the artist Allison Zuckerman C’12 and gallerists Susie Kravets and Marc Wehby of New York’s Kravets Wehby Gallery for a conversation with the Arthur Ross Gallery’s faculty director, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, about making and selling art in the current moment. What are the challenges faced by emerging artists and how can gallerists dedicated to that area better support the artists whose work they nurture and promote? Refreshments provided. Please be advised that seating is limited. Preregistered attendees will be given first priority seating. There will be no standing room available. Should the event reach maximum capacity via registration, addititional attendees will be added to a waitlist. Learn More Susie Kravets and Marc Wehby met in 1995 while working in prestigious SoHo galleries; John Weber and Anina Nosei, respectively. Soon after they married and opened the Kravets Wehby Gallery in 1996 with the goal of exhibiting emerging artists from international backgrounds who are interested in examining the methodology and cultural lineage through their work. As the eighth gallery to open in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, they specialized in bold, narrative, figurative work, and have never shied away from difficult and poignant, subject matter, even in the face of ridicule. Their visionary aesthetic has championed the careers of once-emerging artists such as Kehinde Wiley, Nina Chanel Abney, Wangechi Mutu, and Mickalene Thomas. They have also worked with established artist estates such as Jeff Donaldson, Robert Colescott, and Ed Love. Artwork through the gallery’s program have been placed in prestigious collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Mississippi Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the Smithsonian. Allison Zuckerman is a Brooklyn-based contemporary artist known for her bold, vibrant works that merge traditional painting techniques with digital collage. Her art reimagines classical themes from art history while incorporating modern elements of pop culture and feminism. Zuckerman has held solo exhibitions at institutions including the Rubell Museum, the Akron Art Museum, the Pizzuti Collection, the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Arlington Museum of Art. In addition to her studio practice, she has collaborated with brands like Vogue Italia, TOD’s, and Veuve Clicquot, bridging the worlds of fine art and fashion. Zuckerman is also involved in curatorial projects and is the co-founder of Artists First Collective, advocating for artist empowerment. Born in 1990, she graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2012 and later earned an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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