The origin of Trigonal Gallery
A NAME
REARRANGED.
A LIFE REMEMBERED.
Before Trigonal was a gallery without walls or a 24-hour T-shirt company, it began as an act of remembrance.
Eight letters. Rearranged in her honor.
Rita Long
DESIGN AS
A WAY OF SEEING.
Industrial designer, color consultant, collector, traveler, and lifelong patron of the arts.
Trained at Cooper Union, Rita built a creative life at a time when few women held that kind of professional authority. Her eye for color and design reached from commercial interiors to the home she composed around an evolving collection of prints, objects, and ideas.
Her curiosity moved without borders: theater, furniture, geometry, Japanese and French, travel, food, civil liberties, and the interests of everyone she loved. She did not treat culture as decoration. It was a way of paying attention.
She stopped to smell the roses—and made sure to share the experience.
Rita’s home and work as a color consultant were featured in The New York Times Magazine in “One-Woman Castles.”
A gallery in motion
THE MEDIUM CHANGED.
THE QUESTION DID NOT.
How can art move beyond traditional walls and become part of everyday life?
- 2021Gallery without walls
Trigonal opened online during the pandemic, presenting emerging artists when conventional spaces had closed.
- 2021–22Art and the blockchain
Exhibitions, NFTs, and public conversations explored new forms of ownership, access, and artistic survival.
- 2023–24Images become objects
Experiments in AI-assisted imagery and sustainable production tested how digital work could enter physical life.
- Now24-hour artist T-shirts
Original works enter circulation for one day, then become a permanent part of Trigonal’s archive.
The next chapter
ART, WORN
IN THE WORLD.
Trigonal now gives independent artists one concentrated moment and their audience a real role in determining what exists.
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