— Best Art Gallery
E&S Gallery
The Basics
Opened: 1989 (when it was in the East End)
Neighborhood: Just west of downtown (eastern edge of Portland)
Self-description: “Fine art by African American artists.”
Website: eandsgallery.com
Best of Louisville Stats
Total nominations: 1
Total wins: 1
A Nice Internet Review!
“Pretty much my favorite place in the city. Not only is it a perfectly curated, Black, family-owned gallery, but they did an OUTSTANDING job framing my original Leroy Campbell piece.”
We asked E&S Gallery to share something that says something essential about them…
“‘Clothesline Series #2, Adaptability’ (2020), an original mixed-media collage by Alice Gatewood Waddell of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Because of her longevity with the gallery, we selected an original by Ms. Waddell that epitomizes her rural roots and shines light on the community in which she was raised.”
Scroll Credits
E&S Gallery
Walter Shannon
Founder, CEO, visionary
Dr. and Mrs. Samuel G. Eubanks II
Shannon’s brother-in-law and sister, first and most important partnership
Mr. Deniz Ozdogu
First framer
Employees
So many over the years as salespeople and framers
Cathy S. Hall
Second key partnership — in marriage to Walter Shannon and as a marketing professional
Publications
Décor, Black Enterprise, Southern Living, numerous local media outlets
Ms. Shirley Wolf
To assist Ozdogu and allow the Shannons to manage a hectic business travel schedule taking them out of the gallery for weeks at a time
Mr. Robert Drennen, Mr. Harvey Barnes
Framers, kindred spirits, listeners of baseball games on the radio or tunes from Drennen’s bottomless vault of oldies-but-goodies
American Art Awards
For recognizing E&S as a top 25 gallery in the country
2020
Shut everything down. Or so we thought. People began fixing up their homes — and online art sales soared.
Charles Rice, Mr. Demetrius Neal
So E&S could do multiple shows in multiple cities at the same time
Ms. Alice Gatewood Waddell
The artist who has been with the gallery from the start and who continues to be one of our most popular more than 30 years later. Her mixed-media collages set the tone for E&S to become a gallery know for outstanding, fine artworks.