Gallery 98 is the online store for the website 98bowery.com. Paralleling the website, the gallery traces a similar path through the art world of the 1970s and 1980s. The gallery is distinct, however, in that it is a place for people who actually want to own a piece of the past that the website documents. Here collectors will find historically significant items — objects, photographs, works on paper — that can be purchased. Every object found in Gallery 98 has been authenticated and dates from the years 1969 to 1989.
As its first offering, Gallery 98 features art and ephemera created by artists connected to the artist group Collaborative Projects Inc. (Colab) and its two affiliated galleries, Fashion-Moda in the South Bronx and ABC No Rio on the Lower East Side. Many of these items were featured in ABC No Rio Dinero; The Story of a Lower East Side Art Gallery, the out-of-print, 1985 book that the 98 Bowery website has resurrected online.
Gallery 98 and the 98 Bowery website have been created by Marc H. Miller, artist, curator, writer and publisher. The gallery is a unique resource that draws upon Miller’s ongoing history with the artists featured on the 98 Bowery website.
Artists: John Ahearn, Jane Dickson, Stefan Eins, Bobby G, Alan Moore, Paulette Nenner, Walter Robinson, Kiki Smith, Tom Warren