After almost three many years of promoting artwork out of a gallery in New York, Mitchell-Innes & Nash will shutter its Chelsea house on West twenty sixth Avenue and transition into a brand new “project-based advisory house”.
In its new kind, Mitchell-Innes & Nash will concentrate on supporting major market artists and estates, providing works on the first and secondary markets, plus a spread of advisory providers. A brand new Manhattan location for the enterprise will probably be introduced within the coming months, the gallery stated.
“We categorical huge gratitude to our artists who’ve entrusted us to work on their behalf and fueled our ardour for artwork. We look ahead to our subsequent chapter in supporting artists in numerous methods,” gallery co-founders Lucy Mitchell-Innes and David Nash wrote in an announcement posted to the gallery web site.
Nash and Mitchell-Innes first launched their gallery on the Higher East Facet in 1996 earlier than relocating to Chelsea in 2005, a part of a wave of galleries that migrated to the West Facet neighbourhood from Uptown and Soho. The married pair placed on greater than 200 exhibitions of their Higher East Facet and Chelsea areas mixed.
Artists at present listed on the Mitchell-Innes & Nash roster embody Jacolby Satterwhite, Sarah Braman, Martha Rosler, Keltie Ferris and Gideon Appah, in addition to the late artists Pope.L, Anthony Caro and Leon Kossoff, plus the property of the collective Basic Concept. A consultant for the gallery didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from The Artwork Newspaper.
On neighbouring West twenty fifth Streey, longtime Chelsea gallery Cheim & Learn shut for good final 12 months after beforehand asserting in 2018 it might step again from a standard gallery house with a view to transition right into a “non-public apply, concentrating on the secondary market, sculpture commissions and particular initiatives”. One other fixture of twenty fifth Avenue, Marlborough Gallery, will shut its areas in New York and London when the final of their present exhibits on the finish of the month.
