Photographs from the Rockne Krebs photo archive and by Carol Harrison to accompany a 1986 article by Paul Richard for The artists! “It is not just the art – by Gene Davis, Tom Downing, Howard Mehring, Sam Gilliam and Rockne Krebs – that gives the Jefferson Place Gallery show now at 406 Seventh St. NW particular importance. Nor is it just the sight, there behind the counter, of dealer Nesta Dorrance selling art again.”“The rooms upstairs were tiny – some were literally cubicles, about as high as they were wide – but they made new art look grand.” “What made the Jefferson Place unusual,” says Krebs, who had seven exhibitions there, “is the consideration she extended to her artists. It had been founded as a cooperative, and she ran it that way. She never told you that your work was too experimental. She focused on the artists of this city – and she stuck with them.” "The first time Krebs installed his laser sculptures there Sculpture Minus Object, 1969, installed in the
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