Puchong Gallery records
name: label: Creator
content: Puchong Gallery
label: Names
content: Kravitz, Susan
label: Names
content: Manasse, Geoff
label: Names
content: Miller, Marilyn
label: Names
content: Moore, David
label: Names
content: Serbin, Vincent
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The collection was donated by gallery co-founder Tom Stetz in 2018.
creator: label: Creator
content: Puchong Gallery
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content: Puchong Gallery records
abstract: label: Summary
content: The Puchong Gallery records measure 0.5 linear feet and date from 1984 to 1998. The records shed light on the gallery's operation through artist files, exhibition files, and photographic materials.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: The Puchong Gallery was founded in New York, New York, in the early 1980s by Melvin Dennis, Puchong Chongvanich, Tom Stetz, and David Schlesinger. The gallery specialized in fine-art photography, but also held shows of xerox art, computer-generated art, and artwork executed in various styles of photographic printing.


The gallery was located in the front of Saint Marks Foto/Grafik, a photography shop managed by Chongvanich. Artists who exhibited at the gallery include David Moore, Susan Kravitz, Anita Chernewski, Michael Collins, Marcia C. Sheer, Emily Rhys Davis, and Chongvanich himself. The gallery's founders also published Puchong Portfolios, a publication about fine art photography.
function: label: Function
content: Art galleries, Commercial -- New York (State) -- New York
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.5 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1984-1998
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.puchgall
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Due to the small size of this collection the papers are arranged as one series.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Puchong Gallery records, 1984-1998. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
label: Processing Information
content: The collection was processed and a finding aid prepared by Christopher DeMairo.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The Puchong Gallery records measure 0.5 linear feet and date from 1984 to 1998. The records shed light on the gallery's operation through artist files, exhibition files, and photographic materials. 


There are artist files for Jim Lamb, David Moore, and Geoff Manasse, and a general artist file including Marilyn Miller, Wayne David Geist,and  Vincent Serbin. Also found are several editions of the gallery's publication Puchong Portfolios (1990-1992) and photographs by artists Susan Kravitz, Donald Lawrence Herron, Jill Waterman, and Jeanne Hamilton, among others.