If you are searching for the best art galleries in Park City, start on Main Street. Between dinner reservations and an evening stroll, the street is lined with places worth stepping into, and one of them works with materials you rarely see in a gallery: reclaimed wood, raw crystal, polished steel, hand-blown glass and even stardust.
Gaia on Main has been part of Main Street since 2020. You will find it at 314 Main Street, and in 2026 readers of The Park Record voted it Best Gallery in Park City in the People's Choice awards. Here is what to expect when you walk in, and a few works from the collection.
Art drawn from the earth
The gallery's idea is simple: art made from the natural world. That shows most clearly in the sculptures of Dorit Schwartz, who fuses reclaimed wood, raw stone and crystal. Dorit studied Fine Arts at the Wizo Art School in Tel Aviv, began with clay, moved on to marble carving, and now works with wood and crystal.
Her largest piece in the collection, Constellations, combines acacia wood, white quartz crystal and malachite on a high-polish stainless steel base with LED lights, and stands 93 x 61 x 20 inches. Nearby, Poetry of Art strings Colombian Lemurian Quartz Crystal, Limonite, Blue Phantom and Blue Mist from acacia wood, a shape that mirrors a poem's composition.
“My creative process represents my deep appreciation for the organic beauty found in nature.”
— Dorit Schwartz
See Dorit Schwartz's work → · View Constellations →
A gallery designed as an experience
Since 2020, Gaia on Main has grown from a single idea, inspired by gallery artist Dorit Schwartz's work with crystals and reclaimed wood: a space built on admiration for the experience of Mother Earth in art.
The result is a gallery where the materials are part of the story. Ask a curator about the crystals in a piece, or about where the wood came from, and you will usually get a story back.
Paintings that carry real stardust
Matthew Samson works with stardust, particles older than the sun, alongside marble dust and paint. The idea came to him one night while walking his dog, when he saw a shooting star and thought, in his words, "I want to use that."
His Portals Series is a 40 x 40 inch canvas in an emulsion of stardust, marble dust and paint. It is a quiet, graphic piece, and the kind of work people come back to see a second time.
Steel, glass and color
Not everything at Gaia on Main is wood and crystal. Gary Traczyk, based in Miami, transforms raw stainless steel into precision-balanced sculpture; he is also an active firefighter and paramedic. His Spirit, in stainless steel at 13 x 37 inches, is about "the ethereal and nonphysical part of each one of us."
View Spirit → · See Gary Traczyk →
Glass comes from Christopher Jeffries, a master glass artist who apprenticed at Dale Chihuly's Boat House studio and has taught at the Corning Museum of Glass. Look for his hand-blown Rock Series.
For color, the walls carry painters such as Yoram Gal, who works in Old Jaffa and has shown 18 solo exhibitions since 1973. His Tree of Life is acrylic, ink and gouache on a 60 x 48 inch canvas. Kansas City painter Steven Dragan, an architect turned artist, builds heavy-body acrylic surfaces in which tiny figures read as rhythm from across the room, as in Canoers, 49.5 x 73.5 inches in an oak frame.
View Tree of Life → · View Canoers →
Christine Adele Moore layers soft washes, sculptural texture and hidden gold, silver or copper leaf into luminous acrylic paintings. Party of Two is acrylic and mixed media on canvas.
View Party of Two → · See Christine Adele Moore →
Brothers Pablo and Efraín Castro, based in Mexico City, paint textured, atmospheric oils where landscape and abstraction blur. Their Oleo is oil on canvas at 52 x 52 inches.
The gallery also carries jewelry, so it is an easy stop if you are looking for something smaller to take home.
Planning your visit
Gaia on Main is open until 9 PM, so it fits neatly after dinner on Main Street. Every work in the gallery is an original and comes with a certificate of authenticity. Curators are on hand to tell you about the artists and the story behind each piece, and if you would rather have the room to yourself, you can book a private visit.
Mark your calendar for the next Gallery Night in February 2027, featuring sculptor Derek Monturiol, who reveals the beauty hidden inside "abandoned" wood. The exact date will be announced soon.
Heading north to Idaho? The same team runs GAIA Sun Valley in Ketchum, and every piece in the collection is available through both galleries.
Visit the galleries
Gaia on Main
314 Main Street
Park City, UT 84060
Open daily until 9 PM
GAIA Sun Valley
659 Sun Valley Road
Ketchum, ID 83340
Open daily, 10 AM – 5 PM · 208-973-0137
Every work is an original, comes with a certificate of authenticity, and is available through both galleries.