On the Record
by Nicholas Schou
Nicholas Schou is an award-winning investigative journalist and author of several books, including Orange Sunshine and Kill the Messenger. If you have tips or stories about Montecito, please email him at newseditor@montecitojournal.net
Caldwell Snyder Gallery Opens New Storefront on Coast Village Road The gallery’s new storefront featuring a Brad Howe sculpture
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ontecito’s newest storefront, the small yet striking Caldwell Snyder Gallery features a monumental Brad Howe steel sculpture out front and showcases works by an exclusive roster of 55 living contemporary artists from around the world. It’s no coincidence that it’s located just across the street from the Honor Bar. Along with his longtime partner Susan Snyder, co-founder Oliver Caldwell first opened the gallery on Sutter Street in San Francisco’s Union Square neighborhood in 1983; it has since expanded to include a separate gallery in the historic, turn-of-the-century Star Building in Napa Valley’s St. Helena. Caldwell and Snyder had long been hoping to break into the Southern California market, which is why he and his wife toured every major art-friendly coastal village from La Jolla north to Carmel earlier this year, looking for the best town to locate a new gallery. Yet after finding too many resort towns such as La Jolla and Laguna Beach oversaturated with bad art (and overpriced galleries full of it), the couple realized that only Montecito had the potential they were looking for. “We were just sitting at the Honor Bar and eating lunch when we noticed that the place across the street was unoccupied,” Caldwell told the Montecito Journal this week, just days after the gallery’s soft opening. (“Soft opening” is somewhat of an exaggeration; per Caldwell. “We never really opened,” he said. “We just started moving in and all of a sudden people who were walking or driving by and were curious started moseying on in.”) Caldwell’s timing was fortuitous. The former Bay Area resident had only just discovered Montecito when his children moved to Santa Barbara for college, and at his wife’s behest, they followed suit. “We moved down here and just fell in love with the area,” he says. Because of COVID-19 complications, the high-end women’s clothing boutique that used to inhabit the space had recently closed, so after contacting the landlord, Caldwell happily signed a lease. “We love the neighborhood and the street and the whole vibe,” Caldwell says of Montecito and Coast Village Road. “It’s a beach town but it’s sophisticated and we were surprised there weren’t a lot of art galleries.” Because Caldwell Snyder sells art priced roughly between $25,000 and $100,000, the gallery wasn’t looking to open up on a block surrounded by storefronts promoting California beach art kitsch. “We appeal to entrepreneurs, hedge fund guys with their own jets who have access to all the great things in the world, and they are not walking down the
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