Van Der Plas Gallery

By celebrating its important heritage and building upon its foundations, Van Der Plas fosters a community committed to the artists ingrained in the very fabric of the Lower East Side. While engaging with the important history, Van Der Plas seeks to promote art that lives outside of the traditional canon. Home to artists willing to explore unconventional modes of creativity, the gallery represents artists such as Al Diaz, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s partner in graffiti, a notorious downtown art-world scamp and ‘Van Gogh of the East Village,’ Kevin Wendall, aka. “FA-Q”, and subway-card collagist and Artista de la Calle Juan Carlos Pinto.Work by institutional artists is also an area of focus for the gallery, representing the evocative and sensuous works of Frank Boccio and John Tursi from the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center.