2.26.2004
So as I'm sure you've all noticed, I haven't posted here in a super long time because I've been pretty busy with art.blogging.la. Soon I'll get my own blog up-and-running but abLA is the place right now.
1.30.2004
When I went to the Stray Show last year I met another young dealer, Oliver Kamm whose gallery 5BE is in New York, during a panel discussion about emerging galleries. What we were saying in this panel led me to believe that this guy was either going to really hate me or we'd hit it off...fortunately, it was not the later. Oliver is showing one our artists, Seonna Hong, this October in her first New York solo show and we've been able to discuss what it's like being a young gallerist trying to make this whole thing work. It has been really nice and comforting to know that I have contemporaries that I can talk about running a gallery without all the competition. I can't talk to any dealer in LA about it.
I talked to Oliver today and he told me about an article that ran in the New York Times last week called "How an Art Scene Became a Youthscape" which features not only him but other young dealers in New York such as Andrew Reich, John Connelly (LFL), and Becky Smith who are shaking things up. They're young, showing emerging artists (some straight out of school), and becoming successful at having shows in their apartments. So much so, that they're moving into "real" spaces. Most of these dealers worked at bigger galleries such as Pat Hearn and Marianne Boesky and decided to go out and do it on there own. What strikes me most in this article, is how much I relate to it and see what I'm doing with my gallery. Similar backgrounds, similar aesthetics, similar trials-and-tribulations, similar goals. But they're in New York and while it comforts me to know that my aspirations are not insane or unattainable and that I am a part of the new contemporary art, I am a wishing a little that there was some space to share this with in Los Angeles.
Anyway, enjoy the article because it's inspiring and because it's what's next in art.
I talked to Oliver today and he told me about an article that ran in the New York Times last week called "How an Art Scene Became a Youthscape" which features not only him but other young dealers in New York such as Andrew Reich, John Connelly (LFL), and Becky Smith who are shaking things up. They're young, showing emerging artists (some straight out of school), and becoming successful at having shows in their apartments. So much so, that they're moving into "real" spaces. Most of these dealers worked at bigger galleries such as Pat Hearn and Marianne Boesky and decided to go out and do it on there own. What strikes me most in this article, is how much I relate to it and see what I'm doing with my gallery. Similar backgrounds, similar aesthetics, similar trials-and-tribulations, similar goals. But they're in New York and while it comforts me to know that my aspirations are not insane or unattainable and that I am a part of the new contemporary art, I am a wishing a little that there was some space to share this with in Los Angeles.
Anyway, enjoy the article because it's inspiring and because it's what's next in art.
