Who

The boy wonder of Chelsea, Feuer is one of the city's youngest gallerists, responsible for ushering in a new generation of young artists like Dana Schutz.

Backstory

At the tender age of 20, Feuer turned his $650 a month one-bedroom apartment in Boston into a "happening" by using it as an art showcase: His kitchen counter boasted a toaster with bullet holes through it (the work of Bill Burke, a photographer who documented the execution of the household object), and his bedroom drawers were transformed into an artwork by virtue of being filled with Jell-O. After graduating from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in 2000, Feuer took his act to Manhattan, launching his first enterprise, LFL Gallery, in a fourth-floor space on 26th Street with the backing of a gallery from Provincetown. Feuer bought out his partner in 2004, renamed the gallery after himself and relocated to 24th Street. In 2005 he expanded west, opening the Kantor/Feuer Gallery with Nils Kantor in Los Angeles. He's now readying to expand yet again and open a London space, Brown Gallery, with Kimberly Brown.

Of note

Feuer represents talents like Jules de Balincourt, Tamy Ben-Tor, and Johannes VanDerBeek. It's Dana Schutz, though, who is his most famous client. The two met at a party in Brooklyn when she was a first-year graduate student at Columbia, and Feuer gave the artist her first solo show in 2002. (She's had two more since then.) When Hollywood mogul and art collector Michael Ovitz bought a Schutz in 2005, it sealed her and Feuer's reputation as Generation Y's artist-dealer power couple. These days, Schutz's works are so in demand, Feuer has been able to ration them, doling them out to collectors who pledge to donate them to institutions. The strategy may be great for Feuer and Schutz—it boosts her cred and helps turn buyers into patrons—but some would-be Schutz collectors bristle at the ploy. "The deal he offered was, give a large painting to a museum, and get a little one to take home," one art adviser told New York. "I said, 'Get lost.'"

On the side

He formed the New Art Dealers Alliance, a collective that's organized "side" shows to big exhibits like Art Basel Miami that sometimes draw as big a crowd as the main event.

Personal

The ursine Feuer is married to Allison Smith, a sculptor and performance artist six years his senior. (Her work can be seen at the Bellweather gallery.) They couple has a co-op apartment on West 20th Street, not far from Feuer's gallery space, and a weekend home in Hudson, NY where Feuer says he likes to garden.

True story

A storm drain flooded Feuer's premises in September 2004, putting more than two dozen art works under six inches of water and causing about $100,000's worth of damage.