Twelve Chairs Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Williamsburg that operates an indoor exhibition space and sculpture garden on North 3rd Street, focusing on figurative work in bronze and mixed media.
Twelve Chairs Gallery takes its name from a 1928 Soviet satirical novel (a knowing nod to an era of radical artistic experimentation) and runs on a similar appetite for the tension between tradition and rupture. Founded by Kristine Stasiulevich and Georgian sculptor Zura, the gallery operates out of a double footprint on North 3rd Street: an indoor exhibition space and a sculpture garden where figuration, in bronze and mixed media, can breathe in open air. The roster (Zura, Bruce Gagnier, Bert Esenherz, David Paulson, Thaddeus Radell) shares a commitment to the figure, not as nostalgia but as live material for psychological and existential inquiry. The question the gallery keeps returning to: what does classical form say when it's under genuine contemporary pressure?
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