New York’s Marc Straus Gallery will open a brand new house in Tribeca subsequent month at 57 Walker Road, becoming a member of round 85 different galleries within the space because the Manhattan artwork world’s mass migration to the stylish downtown neighborhood reveals no signal of slowing.
For greater than a decade since retiring as an onocologist, Straus has held exhibitions out of a transformed four-storey renovated tenement constructing at 299 Grand Road in Chinatown. Straus’ father, a Jewish immigrant from Ukraine, opened a textile store on Grand Road after he arrived within the US, and a few properties on the road stay within the household. Now, Straus has set his sights on Tribeca, a hotspot for sellers in search of more room downtown. (The gallery may even proceed to function out of the Grand Road house.)
“Since opening in 2011, our gallery has matured tremendously, to the purpose that our 4 flooring on Grand Road are now not sufficient house for our rising programme,” Straus tells The Artwork Newspaper in an announcement. With greater than 4,000 sq. ft, the Tribeca outpost will “give us far larger potentialities to assist the work of our artists”, Straus provides, and will likely be utilized by the gallery to stage a “extra experimental” programme of two-month-long solo exhibitions by way of 2025, permitting for a “deeper and extra sustained engagement with the artists”, he says.
The brand new gallery will open on 14 November with a present devoted to the textile sculptures of Malaysian artist Anne Samat. The house at 57 Walker Road was previously dwelling to David Lewis’s gallery, which shuttered earlier this yr. Marc Straus’s new neighbours inside a one-block radius will embrace Mendes Wooden DM, Bortolami, Kaufmann Reppetto, James Fuentes, Grimm, James Cohan, David Zwirner’s 52 Walker, Tempo Gallery’s 125 Newbury and, as of simply final week, Marian Goodman Gallery.
