Business Hours Tuesday-Friday 11-6pm Saturday 12-5 Sunday & Monday Closed
MISSION STATEMENT:To unite artists and collectors, to make art viable once again by
offering a platform, a unique and exciting venue that attracts and engages the
most prominent names in the New York art world today.
The elite art world of New York City is a limited circle and
it is our aim to provide an exciting venue that is vibrant and vital to all
interested parties, including the art illuminati, dealers, collectors and the
artist, which currently stand apart and have been presently vivisected.
Our visionary goal is to reopen the art world with
synergetic exchanges between artist and dealers, patrons and collectors:to provide the communication and
information necessary to understand the contemporary art world of Chelsea,
which is a mystery to most artists:To redefining the parameters of buying and selling and creating art, to
make this available and transparent to artists at large around the country and
around the world, as to what is making and molding the art of our time, how
this is happening and how one can become a vital part of this world and of art
in our time.
To bring about an elegant commerce between artists and
collectors by redefining the purpose and meaning of art and establishing art as
a necessity rather than a luxury commodity whose value rests solely in personal
taste and private equity:To
acknowledge that “everything is art” was a necessary movement which now must
progress to redefining what art actually is: To destroy the art myths which are
destroying contemporary art.
Ico Gallery Dalia and David Chako, and their son Skylor Brummans founded the Icosahedron Gallerie in 2004. This Visionary Family is on a mission, wishes "to restore art to the sanctuary, the solace, the anodyne, the place between places that affords each soul a private liberty."
Dalia Chako
CEO
Gallerie Icosahedron, Inc.
Avid Collector, Visionary Investor
Patroness of Emerging Artists
As far back as I can remember I wanted to dedicate my life
to the arts.I wanted to journey
to a new country and I dreamed of New York City.New York City does not really exist for anyone outside of
dreams.
The arts are many things to many people.For me the arts were life and
death.I did not emerge from
privilege, nor did I emerge from the middle class, and I was not one of the
poor, because the poor in North America still have some opportunity, and they
are afforded possibilities; a chance.
I emerged from a class that was beneath the poor, a class
that was invisible largely due to parental circumstance that was extreme and
extraordinary.There are many like
me, they are forgotten ones of the shadow lands and their spirits will always
hang heavy as lanterns in mist and storm glowing.
We were the ones that learned that we did not live by bread
alone - because when there was no bread, there was something that nourished
more.And for us to see a work of
art or even reproduction was an epic pilgrimage, fraught with consequences that
could become severe.But to open a
book of literature, to see a book of art, or even a mere reproduction, was to
see the face of grace.And
then we did not need.
Great art was proof, proof that we were grace, proof that we
were not the less than animals, proof that we were human, and proof that grace,
a gift bestowed, was the ecstatic anodyne, proof of the wonders of the spirit,
the miraculous intellect, the courageous imagination, the largess of the
ineffable and proof that heavy chains cannot manacle liberty.
Then the wheel of fortune spun again, and I received a
settlement, a pittance for a life lost, a life of travail.I invested the settlement, and
eventually became so affluent, that my income level is now in the nation's top
half percent.
The gallery belongs to all my brothers and sisters of the
shadow lands who journey with me, dreamed this dream with me, dreamed this
dream knowing they would never live to see its fruition, whose weeping I still
hear in the night, and this was their dream - and my promise to them is Ico
Gallery, and it is their gallery.
David Chako
CFO
Gallerie Icosahedron, Inc.
Collector
Investor
Patron of Emerging Art
Artist-Scientist
Son of elementary school teachers, David grew up in Potter
Valley, California.His prodigious
talents earned him a full scholarship to graduate school at Harvard where he
studied mathematics, chemistry, and physics.
His early career on Wall Street was at Goldman Sachs, and
then continued at UBS, and Merrill Lynch. After leaving Wall Street he became
global CTO of structured finance at an independent financial services firm.
The sciences have traditionally been enhanced and inspired
by the arts, the arts being the predecessor of vision; few realize that without
art, there would be no science.The vivisection that has occurred between the arts and sciences has
harmed both and exponentially harmed our society, our culture, and greatly
reduced our evolution, made us purblind.
Icosahedron is a partnership, a marriage.We wanted to marry the arts and
the sciences, and then we married each other, spending countless hours on our
unification theory, which ascended into our delectable world of adulation and
elegance.
David chose the name Icosahedron.An Icosahedron is the 20-triangle-sided Platonic solid, and
is both angularly stable (because triangulated) and has the greatest possible
degree of rotational symmetry of any conceptually finite structural
enclosure.Thoughts are examples
of such enclosures.
The union of physics and art is plural.What principles does it concern itself
with?Motion, the relative,
the constant, light, velocity, density, all these armatures to contain the
spirit, and the philosophical combustion that is unique to great art.
Skylor Brummans
Vice President
Gallerie Icosahedron, Inc.
Promotions and Sales
We are distinguished because we are a family business and I
am honored that my son, Skylor Brummans has chosen to dedicate his life to this
thrilling, rigorous, taxing and often unbearably arduous business.I am both proud and humbled by his
courage.
After speaking with Skylor, and working with Skylor many
people simply cannot believe that he is not the scion of enormous wealth that
has earned his suave and polish from privilege and power, few can believe that
Skylor's journey was not a crystal stair.
But what Skylor has witnessed few have witnessed, and those
who witness such things are set apart by them and can never separate
themselves.As an adult, he had
the choice and ultimately the privilege to pursue any path, but chose to
champion those that came before him, remembering those who he never met,
knowing that they were the ones who dreamed this dream before he was born, so
he could be born.
When one has a
naturally forthright outgoing personality, one can take delight and full
advantage of these qualities that are essential to breaking down doors.Skylor enjoys forging new ground, and
laying new highways filled with opportunities that artists could not access for
themselves, often not having the time or temperament to do so.We count on him to deliver
long-standing promotions and placements that make a significant and critical
difference in establishing name recognition in this aggressive business.
Robert Berry
Director/Senior Curator
Gallerie Icosahedron, Inc.
Robert Berry has this to say about himself:I am not short, fat, or old.
I have this to say about Robert Berry:There are very few people on the planet
who will do what they believe in and stand by what they think is noble and true
and persevere and be joyously and doggedly willing to pay the price for their
personal ethics. This is most distinguishing and most rare.
Others have much to say about Robert berry as well; I am
often approached by artists, who make it a point to seek me out and recount the
excellent experience they had with the exposition and curation, the direction
of the exhibitions, the attention to detail offered, the patience extended, the
inspiration, motivation and thorough work that excels far beyond the call of
nine to five.
Robert is the art scholar amongst us, specializing in
contemporary work of the century.I share his interest in what is often considered the scholarly
recondite, the arcane and often obtuse, often complex.Without this, we would have no
dimension.
