Fishing, Art, and Law

Walk into this Gloucester gallery and you might overhear a conversation about a deposition. That’s because Ken Riaf is also a lawyer in general practice and you’ve just stepped into a client’s private legal issues, all contained in this one room law office/gallery. This is normal for someone like Riaf, a person who has lived many lives—commercial fisherman, professor, documentary researcher, playwright, lawyer, artist, and gallery owner. In his Law and Water Gallery, Riaf has spent the last two years representing local and regional artists as well as displaying legal ephemera such as handwritten documents

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In his Gloucester-based Law and Water Gallery, Ken Riaf has spent the last two years representing local and regional artists as well as displaying legal ephemera.

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