Gallery history
The gallery was founded in July 2001 by attorney and photography collector Paul Paletti. The idea for the gallery manifested soon after the office building on Market Street was purchased for the law firm, Sturm, Paletti, and Wilson. Six months of renovation included specific layout and lighting for a photographic art gallery.
Paul Paletti Gallery’s most significant debut to the Louisville art community came in November 2001, as one of the original participants in the First Friday Gallery Hop, a public event occurring on the first Friday of each month from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Currently over twenty Louisville galleries on Main and Market Streets extend their hours, offer refreshments, and welcome thousands to view the artwork. Free trolley service is available for gallery visitors.
Reviews of past shows:
Bill Owens: Suburbia
John Wimberley: The Classic & the Spiritual
2007 Louisville Biennial
The Art of the Photogravure
James Nachtwey: Photojournalism & Social Activism
Mission statement
The mission of the Paul Paletti Gallery is to educate the public about photography as a sophisticated art medium that is varied, beautiful, and highly collectible. The gallery does this by exhibiting historic and contemporary photographic artworks of museum quality in which the photographer combines a superlative degree of technical virtuosity along with a distinctive vision. The gallery also sets an aesthetic and scholarly standard for the display and sale of artworks to support and educate collectors and the public, and serves as an educational resource for photographers, teachers, and students.
About Paul R. Paletti Jr.
Paletti R. Paletti Jr. was born in Louisville, KY. He attended Middlebury College for three years before transferring to the University of New Mexico where he studied with Beaumont Newhall, Van Deren Coke, and Ray Metzker and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography. He continued his education studying art history at UNM at the graduate level; he then transferred to Central Washington University where he earned a Master of Arts degree in photography. Paletti earned his Juris Doctorate at the Brandies school of Law at the University of Louisville in 1987. He has been a partner in the law firm of Sturm, Paletti, and Wilson since 1994.
Paul Paletti serves on the Board of Directors for the following organizations: The Partnership for Creative Economies, Kentucky Cancer Research Foundation, and LOOK at Louisville Visual Arts.
502.589.9254 • 713 East Market Street, Louisville, KY 40202 • prpjr@msn.com