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Arts Collective President Leaves Towson Framing Gallery

Brian Truax declined to elaborate on why he's leaving, but he's already opened a new gallery near Hamilton.

The co-founder of the has left the 9-year-old establishment to start his own gallery near Hamilton.

Brian Truax, also the president of the Towson Arts Collective, founded the Towson Framing Gallery in 2002 with Mark Armstrong. Truax announced his departure last week in an email to friends. He declined to elaborate on the reasons for the split.

His new shop, TruAx Custom Frames, opened last week at 4711 1/2 B Harford Road. Truax said the gallery will focus on the basics of framing.

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"I guess the whole business plan is to be very small and efficient," he said, and "not have too much space to manage."

Although the gallery and the arts collective, founded in 2006, are in the same building—with the collective in the basement and the gallery above —they are on different leases and Truax said there are no immediate plans to move the collective. However, he said that when a move happens, it will be to another location in Towson, not Hamilton.

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"It would be in the area, just would not be in that building," he said.

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