Tag: RobertKent Galleries

A little over a year ago, Robert Kent Tuchman wondered if moving his Marietta-based RobertKent Galleries from 85 Church Street to 145 Church Street was the right decision. True, it wasn’t far—just a dozen-odd doors down the street—but number 85 had been a good fit for six years. Then he saw his own initials, RKT, carved into the pavement behind the building at the proposed spot, and fate seemed sealed.

In 2008, Venezuelan artist Carlos Solis looked around the Atlanta metro and found the representation of Latin American art lacking. He reached out online to another local Venezuelan artist who he thought might share his vision of creating together and raising awareness about Latin American art. Over the next decade and a half, the contemporary artists collective known as Contrapunto came together.