The Gallery was conceived in 2004 in the central Plateau of Central Mexico in a town called San Miguel de Allende. Since then the gallery has had quite an evolution from representing many artists to concentrating exclusively on Michael French. The Gallery curated many exhibitions in San Miguel, México such as exhibitions of marvelous Croatian hyper realist, Zvonimir Mihanović and the iconic New York photographer and close friend of Andy Warhol’s, Cris Alexander. In 2007, The Gallery was originally called Whitfield Gallery and it had a focus on curating international exhibitions, working in conjunction with Michael French in exhibitions such as his Forbes museum show New York in 2008. Originally, Whitfield gallery was run by Veronica Ramirez, Erika Ramirez and James Whitfield, Michael’s longtime agent and friend in New York. James unfortunately passed on. The gallery is located in the central, West London in Marylebone.
Erika Ramirez has been working with Michael in different capacities such as assistant and sales and in the gallery business for 21 years. As well as being director of Whitfield gallery in three different locations she hosted all of Michael’s exhibitions from 2003 until 2020 including the prestigious exhibition Michael had in the exclusive Club 51 in Mexico City in 2020. Erika was with Michael most of the time when he was doing trips for inspiration for future subjects for upcoming exhibitions. Michael has painted Erika five times. He has also painted other members of family including Sophia and Amelia. It is often hard to separate an artist’s life from his work and inspiration. Erika also manages so many of Michael’s business activities such as hosting important clients and the day to day details of running the business side of things.

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