THE GALLERY
About
Founded in San Francisco by Callie Jones and Julia Li in 2023, COL presents emerging and historically significant artists, creating conversations across generations, practices, and cultural perspectives.
Richard Nonas, COL; the place between, 2017, Wooden beams, Avenue Winston Churchill between the Grand Palais and Petit Palais, Paris.
THE GALLERY IS NAMED AFTER THE LATE SCULPTOR RICHARD NONAS
“For sculpture is that spatial, gap-between, that COL between mountain peaks. Sculpture is that implied absence, that almost-clarity about not-quite-confusion. Sculpture is that dissonance — the dissonance of intersecting and conflicting chunks of human meaning cut into an historicized world. The dissonance, that is to say, of art.”
FOUNDERS
Callie Jones & Julia Li
Julia Li
Founder
Li previously served as the inaugural Director of Inclusion and Belonging at the Asian Art Museum, where she developed and implemented the museum's first diversity, equity, access and inclusion strategy. Li is dedicated to championing underserved voices and artists with powerful stories to tell. She is also the founder of Create Space Generator, a nonprofit creative entrepreneurship incubator, and Lulu Fresh, a San Francisco café serving contemporary Asian cuisine—the California expansion of her family's restaurant.
Callie Jones
Founder
Jones previously served as a Director at Skarstedt and Fergus McCaffrey Gallery in New York. For the past decade, she has focused on artist development and representation while creating close relationships with private collectors and institutions, participating in both domestic and international fairs including Art Basel, Frieze Masters, FOG, and TEFAF Maastricht. She is dedicated to championing overlooked women artists and building the collector and institutional support their work deserves.