Dear GBG Collectors, Artists, Art Lovers, and Friends:

To say that these are momentous times is an understatement. What we are going through today as a people, as a human race, around the world is seen only once in a generation. We hope each of you is doing well.  We hope each of your family members and significant persons in your life is doing well as well. 

They say that unlike other global issues, such as war, that unify communities and nations, disease drives people apart. They say that during pandemics the first casualty is too often feelings of compassion, consideration, and sympathy towards our fellow living creatures. It doesn’t have to be this way. Throughout generations, art has been a source, a passageway, of hope, comfort, and the overcoming of fear. Indeed, it was only through art and books, that I personally got through some of the most difficult times in my life – Art and books allowed me to imagine a better situation for myself, a better life and world, a better me that I could transform into. It is specifically during these times of uncertainty and stress that art can become a panacea, a healer, to what ails us, and prevent us, in this way, from succumbing and being overpowered by the illnesses of cynicism, indifference, and meaninglessness.