Local photographer and curator Mauro Antonio Barreto’s Neue Welt gallery opened in the former Unrequited Leisure space at The Packing Plant back in February. The gallery has already established itself as a don’t-miss First Saturday destination with a contemporary art program that’s brimming with smart and thoughtfully crafted formalist installations. Consider Neue Welt’s Best New Gallery status like a Fabergé egg — it comes with a few surprises inside. It includes a Best Reuse Sculpture Exhibition award for Neue Welt’s inaugural exhibition, Brian Jobe’s Pax. Neue Welt hosted Austin Reavis’ Red State in June, and this is also his award for Best Tennessee Exhibition. Congratulations to the Neue Welt-ers on a well-earned hat-trick.
Best New Gallery
