Margaret Saliske lived and worked in New York City until moving to the Hudson Valley in 1989. She has a B.A. degree from Bennington College and attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program in studio art. In 2018 she received an Apexart fellowship to Seoul South Korea and in 2019 was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome.

She exhibited her work at Artists Space and 55 Mercer Street Gallery in New York City before moving upstate where she has shown her work at numerous area galleries. She exhibited with Pamela Salisbury in Hudson NY and Lockwood Gallery in Kingston NY. In 2023 she was represented at Art Taipei by Carrie Chen Gallery. She was recently included in “Let It Shine” an exhibition of New York artists in Mark McDonald’s L House designed by Steven Holl. Saliske lives and works in Hudson New York. Her work can be viewed on instagram and at margaretsaliske.com

Mark McDonald opened Fifty/50 in New York City in 1982 with Ralph Cutler and Mark Isaacson. Over the next decade, the partners pioneered the research, exhibition, marketing, and sale of what has come to be known as Mid-Century Modern. During this period, McDonald mounted three major exhibitions at Gansevoort Gallery: Intimate Sculpture: Art Smith and His Contemporaries; The Nordic Modern Movement: Masterworks in Glass, Ceramics, Silver, and Wood(accompanied by a catalogue); and Highlights: 20 Years of Collecting Modern.

In 1995, McDonald opened Gansevoort Gallery, and in 2002 he relocated to the Hudson Valley, where he established a store on Warren Street. Most recently, he moved to Union Street in Hudson, New York.

McDonald’s business is now located at 556 Union Street in “Hudson L-House,” a building designed by Steven Holl and completed last year. L-House functions as a shop, gallery, office, and part-time residence, where McDonald continues his tradition of collecting, exhibiting, and selling exceptional examples of mid-century design, as well as contemporary art.

Over the past 22 years, McDonald has provided guidance and appraisal services to leading collectors and institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Montréal, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Vitra Design Museum. He is frequently cited as an expert in national publications and has contributed research to numerous books on design from the 1930s through the 1970s.