London-based gallery Richard Saltoun will open a brand new location in New York this Might, coinciding with the Frieze New York honest. The area will open on Thursday (2 Might) with a solo exhibition by Canadian artist Jan Wade.
Located on the third ground of a 1920 townhouse in Lenox Hill on the Higher East Aspect, the area would be the gallery’s third location. Neighbours in the identical constructing embrace Rosenberg & Co and Franklin Parrasch Gallery. The area can be the previous New York location of Blum gallery, which can open a brand new area downtown in Tribeca this 12 months. Richard Saltoun based his gallery in 2012 in Mayfair, London as one of many first areas to centre its programme round girls artists. Saltoun opened an area in Rome on Through Margutta in 2022.
“It’s an honour and privilege to open a gallery in New York, a metropolis famend for internet hosting a number of the most necessary exhibitions of the previous 100 years. We look ahead to contributing to this thriving inventive panorama,” Saltoun mentioned in a press release.
The gallery’s inaugural present in Manhattan can even be Wade’s first solo exhibition within the US, and showcase work from throughout her decades-long profession that offers with Black postcolonial identification and spirituality. Wade typically attracts on inspiration from her personal heritage by means of her familial ties to the American South. Wade’s work was the topic of a serious retrospective that opened on the Vancouver Artwork Gallery in 2021, Jan Wade: Soul Energy, which marked the museum’s first solo present for a Black feminine artist. That present is now travelling and can subsequent open in Ontario on the Artwork Gallery of Hamilton in June.
