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December Issue 2002
The Passionate Collector Moves from Santa Fe to Charleston, SC
Having moved to Charleston, SC, after eleven years in Santa Fe, NM, The Passionate Collector has opened its doors at 168-A Church Street, less than a block from Charleston's Market area. The gallery specializes in folk art, ceramics, and photography; the vast majority of their work is from Russia and Mexico. Although it may seem an odd combination, these are the countries where the two owners have lived a long time, have reliable, long-tested partnerships, and are fluent in the respective languages.
The gallery carries Talavera kitchenware made by one family out of a house, which is done on an extremely small scale and has been time-tested. They carry stunning Oaxacan woodcarvings as well as Huichol Indian yarn and bead sculptures and other mosaics.
The gallery also offers Russian Christmas ornaments, shawls, lacquer boxes, and other, rarer works of art. One of the owners, through his wife Marina, fortuitously stumbled upon a professional Russian photographer/filmmaker whose work has been shown in over 21 cities around the former Soviet Union. Marina's cousin, Aleksander Urakhov, born in a tiny village near the Volga River, is by trade a furniture maker. He has agreed to design vases and Christmas ornaments (something he has never before made) exclusively for The Passionate Collector!
For further information check our SC Commercial Gallery listings, call 843/579-9833 or e-mail at (marchackel@yahoo.com).
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