Northwest By Northwest Gallery — Attraction in Cannon Beach

Worst gallery experience I've ever had!!! I'm an Artist and looking for new galleries to feature my work. The art selections are decent and displayed nicely. Some are over-priced. From there, it goes downhill simply because of customer service and the gallery owner. She wasn't very friendly when I walked in the door; seemed to be more like I was bothering her, but she did acknowledge me. It was 10:30am and there were no other people in the gallery at the time. After looking around a bit, I asked if they are taking any new artists and was asked what I do.....I could see that there were similar art pieces as to what I do, but my style is very unique and different, so I thought I would at least ask. Once I told her what my art is, her tone of voice suddenly changed, abruptly telling me... absolutley not and that I needed to leave! I was in shock.....a simple question of asking if they are taking new artists and she's demanding I leave her gallery! I even said.....you are throwing me out the door??!!! and she said nothing and no longer spoke to me! What ever happened to being kind and showing top notch customer service....a simple, no thank you, we are full in that area or no, I am sorry, would have done the job, but to demand that I leave...... I can't imagine why she is still in business with that type of service! Once back at my car, I looked up the Google reviews and saw that I am not the only one she's asked to leave. Sad! What could have been a lovely time looking at art and admiring the artists work, turned into a terrible experience!! Now, for my work, I see it as a blessing because if that's how they treat strangers off the street, how do they treat the artists they represent??!!! I will tell every artist I know to stay clear of this gallery! Terrible...

When I came in here and looked around, apparently I was looking around at the items on display the wrong way because the male proprietor began insulting me, accusing me of being high, which I wasn't, and when I revealed that I am autistic, taunting me for my autism, invading my personal space, and raising his hand against me. I am an autistic adult with an autistic son and he made personal attacks on both my own characters and my son's and I am completely confused as to why. It's the last thing I expected when visiting this beautiful and peaceful resort town on Oregon's Coast. The beauty of the art in the gallery was ruined for me as I left yet another situation that should have been peaceful asking myself what can I do to make myself more normal so that people like the male proprietor of Northwest by Northwest gallery do not take my ordinary behavior--which I cannot change unless non-autistic people have the patience to help me with constructive feedback—as an opportunity to insult me, abuse me with cruel language and threaten me with...

I asked about the artist and then asked if I could take a photo of the artist name in the store. The owner didn’t tell me I couldn’t or objected at all. When I asked about another artist and whet to document the name the same way he was very abrupt and then told me he would give me the artist name and bio then said he felt uncomfortable for me to take a second photo 😣. I followed him to the other room to get it the bio without hesitation. Then he said he’d been there 30+ years and felt uncomfortable giving me any information. The owners should have better customer service. I had no issues putting on a mask even though it’s not required to make them feel comfortable so maybe they can not be rude to customers who visit them in exchange. I have seen the other reviews of them doing this so it is something that continues to happen. Too bad as I buy artwork all over the state and support local artist. BTW, they have the artist photos on the website so I just...