EventsThe New Social Environment#1351
Aesthetic Confessions: David Totah
Featuring Totah and Andrew Woolbright
Thursday, April 30, 2026 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Gallerist David Totah joins Rail Editor-at-Large Andrew Woolbright for a conversation on Zoom.
In this Talk
David Totah

Photo credit: Sean Fader
David Totah is an Italian gallerist based in New York City. Although he began his career in finance, David grew up among artists, in a family of art dealers and collectors known for identifying and promoting artists who went on to have a significant impact on the contemporary era. David links this tradition with over 25 years of experience as a dealer, collector, and observer of art world dynamics. He began as an independent art dealer in 2011, and in 2016 he opened TOTAH in the Lower East Side.
Andrew Woolbright

Artist, curator, and critic Andrew Woolbright is based in Brooklyn, New York, and is an MFA graduate from RISD in painting. Woolbright is the founder and director of the gallery Below Grand located on the Lower East Side in New York. In addition to curating, he is an Editor-at-Large at the Brooklyn Rail. In 2021, Woolbright curated the show Density Betrays Us with Angela Dufresne and Cash Ragona at the Hole; and curated shows at Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and Hesse Flatow in the summer of 2022. He currently teaches at School of Visual Arts and Pratt Institute and is a 2021–2022 resident at the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program in Dumbo.
We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨