FUN Gallery

FUN Gallery

FUN Gallery was founded in 1981 by Patti Astor and Bill Stelling as a place for graffiti artists to display their work in one-man shows. The original FUN Gallery was located in the East Village on 254 E. 10th Street. Along with graffiti, FUN gallery was a place for neighborhood kids, hipsters, and beat boys to celebrate all art forms of hip hop culture in the 1980s. Exhibitions at the FUN Gallery were created by artists including Kenny Scharf, Futura, Fab 5 Freddy, Keith Haring, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Word spread, and soon the FUN Gallery became a popular place for museum directors and uptown collectors to mingle with the fresh-face artists of downtown. The success of FUN Gallery boomed until Patti Astor finally closed the gallery four years later in 1985.

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