About

We represent a diverse and distinguished group of artists, covering a broad spectrum of contemporary artistic practices.  Our gallery is driven by a commitment to assisting in the development of artists’ careers, and to serving individual collectors, corporations, architects and designers, by providing them with distinctive, high quality, original works of art.

 

About Kathy Imlay

Kathy Imlay, the Director of Imlay Fine Art, has been working in the fine art world for several decades.  She has independently curated gallery exhibits in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut with a particular emphasis on artwork arising from cultures that are in some way isolated from the rest of the world, whether by economics, politics, or even natural (or national) disaster.  Ms. Imlay has organized exhibits of Contemporary Cuban Printmaking Techniques, and the Stone Sculpture of Zimbabwe, as well as New Orleans artists in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Her background as an independent art researcher, has led her on diverse endeavors, such as examining the use of art in healing practices in Ethiopia, and collaborating with international van Gogh scholars, on the provenance and authenticity of an unknown work attributed to the artist.

Ms. Imlay has traveled extensively throughout Africa, Cuba, and Central America, collecting art, along with a wealth of experiences that have informed her sensibilities as a curator and an art dealer.

“My interest has always been in the story being told.  Art making and the history of art is the history of the human race, on a transcendent note.  The creators of art have always used their work as a means to express and to heal themselves and their world- its tragedies and celebrations, as well as its belief systems – both magical and mundane.  Living with fine art connects us to the universal creative force that is at the heart of our humanity.  I see artists as social alchemists, who can help us better understand the world in which we live.”