In the last summer I have been getting emails about a new place, which was named Galri sardineWho, I was surprised, would like to name a gallery after a very small fish traveling in schools and packed tightly in flat tin? artist Joe Bradley And his irreversible wife, Valentina Akaraman, is that. “You can take it with you,” Akaraman, when I meet him at Bradley’s huge Long Island City Studio. “It is also not a fancy fish, and we like it.” None of them had ever run an art gallery before, but at the eastern end of Long Island, took 1701 farmhouses on Main Street in Amaganset, and put on many shows, which attracted the throng of local and far-flung art lovers, with the largest fish in the world, Larry Gagosian, whose world is in Amagosian.

“Joe and I have been cooperating ever since we met,” Akarman tells me. Their background can hardly be more different. Akarasan, black hair and vibrant, are from Colombia, born and brought to Bogota. Bradley, calm, but simply as playful, grew up in a family of nine children (seven of them, which were not adopted), in the beautiful beach city of the main. His father was an emergency room doctor. His retired father was now a professor of economics at the National University of Columbia and wrote a Sunday newspaper editorial on politics. “She is an incredibly shiny person who is associated with the world and likes art and music and everything else,” she tells me. “My deciber of life comes from my father, and I can talk to him about anything.” Her mother, now a writer, was a Freudian doctor who worked with children and teenagers. “My school companions were afraid of him.” They did not want to go to her house because they felt that she was “like a witch,” Acharman says. “He is mysterious and slightly cold and a little attractive at once.” (“She is a very glamorous woman,” who says.)

When she was 16, Akaraman’s parents got divorced and her mother started writing books about her childhood in a very remote forest El Choco on the Pacific coast of Colombia. Akarman studied architecture, came to New York to get his master at Columbia University, then practiced high power for a few years Davis Body Bond Architectural Firm In New York, but metastatic thyroid cancer was withdrawn. She was working as a freelance art director when Bradley came into her life.

Bradley’s childhood love drawing love was not faded because he grew up. He ate underground comic books- R. CRMB, Art Spiegelman, “that kind of thing” – and worked on art books in Picasso, Matis, Miro, Calder, Warhol, and Lichnstein’s public library on Lichnstein, and also spent time in the Portland Museum. “But it was not until I found in the Road Island School of Design, which I was bitten by the painting bug, and started seeingSuddenly, I got in touch with all of art history. “A determination on a small semination landscape, called” a small painting ” On the banks of a river (Ca. 1904–1905) In the RISD museum, hit him as “a kind of derogatory and punk rock”, and gave him the feeling that “I could not understand it, but I could have done Reading This. “(Bradley was once the lead singer of a punk band called Bradyberger.) His career began when he and Akarman were together. the new York Times It has been told His initial work as “irony, anti-painting painting … post-ideological and challenging”. They have since the New York galleries – the first time Canada Gallery, then Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, Gagosian, Petzel and, from 2023, David Xavir Gallery. There are lively new paintings around us in our Long Island City Studios In this summer, in Zwirner’s London Outpost.

Akarman and Bradley met at a scaffold party in Williamsburg in the early 2000s. He had to run away for dinner, but within a few minutes he conspired to him together. Bradley says, “This was a classic love-vision situation for me.” “Valentina had this aura, a real shine about it, and I immediately got attracted completely.” They met again after three days, coincidentally, at an opening in Chelsea, and that was it. “From that night, we were never separate,” says Akarman. “We were just magnetically.” They married in early Ougates and shortly after that there were leaf of four children. Basil, Alma and Nova came together at an interval of five years.