Ezersky Gallery

I founded Ezersky Gallery in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic to help young people collect work by young artists.

When I was in pre-school, I collected quarters from all fifty states. In elementary school, I moved on to baseball cards and filed my Topps complete sets into three-ring binders. In high school, I started to collect t-shirts. In college, I set out to collect art but found myself unable to access or afford the work presented at galleries. 

Ezersky Gallery is a reaction to the inaccessibility of traditional art galleries and the inadequate compensation artists receive. I believe  the opportunity to collect art should not be reserved for a select few and artists should receive the lion’s share of the proceeds from the sale of their work. Ezersky Gallery eschews the traditional fifty-fifty split between artists and their dealers, instead arranging the division of proceeds with each artist for each work—and always giving the artist more than half.

Matthew Ezersky

The photograph used in the website icon is Woman in B3 club chair by Marcel Breuer wearing a mask by Oskar Schlemmer and a dress in fabric designed by Lis Beyer by Erich Consemüller (1926).

last updated February 17, 2021