Art world insider meets âpent-up needâ with new Coolidge Corner gallery
By Cate McQuaid Globe Correspondent,Updated December 15, 2020, 6:15 p.m.
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BROOKLINE â Yng-Ru Chen never planned to open an art gallery. COVID-19 changed that.
Last year, Chen moved from New York back to her childhood home in Brookline to send her kids to schools here. She was still running her art advisory company, Praise Shadows, from a Brooklyn studio, working with artists and companies on new models for entrepreneurship.
Then the pandemic hit.
âI realized how much more localized art was going to be,â Chen said.
As the pandemic wore on, Coolidge Corner businesses began to shutter. The GNC vitamin and supplements store on Harvard Street closed. Annaâs Taqueria closed after 25 years in the neighborhood. The Gap recently announced it would shutter in January.