Brooklyn gallery, wine shop team up to benefit ailing artist
A Brooklyn Heights wine and spirits shop and a Cobble Hill art gallery are rallying the community behind a local artist who needs expensive treatment for leukemia.
Heights Chateau wine and spirits shop and the Muriel Guépin Gallery are throwing a benefit for teacher and artist Jaclyn Talley and her husband Jason Talley, who is fighting AML (acute myeloid leukemia), a rare form of the disease.
A full time painter, Jason Talley works part time in the studio of New York artist Yigal Ozeri. At night and on weekends he works in his own studio alongside his wife. Talley has started chemotherapy, and his treatment will last months, according to the gallery. He will eventually need a bone marrow transplant, but the couple has no health insurance and lacks funds.