COURTESY STEVEN STEWART
New York’s gallery landscape has shifted many times over the last few decades, as dealers followed artists to new neighborhoods in search of cheaper rents. There have been a few seismic movements, from the rise and fall of SoHo, to the blip of a moment that was the East Village circuit in the 1980s, to the annexation of West Chelsea in the 1990s. Over the past two years, as some segments of the market have cooled, an alarming number of relatively established outfits—the Middle Class Galleries, if you will—shut their doors. Others have moved, on the hunt for less expensive real estate, more space, or both. Below, a look at some of the recent changes.
CLOSED
Mike Weiss October 2016
Kansas Gallery October 2016
Lisa Cooley August 2016
Tracy Williams Ltd. July 2016
Clifton Benevento May 2016
Team Gallery April 2016 (closed second space)
Laurel Gitlen February 2016
Feuer/Mesler November 2015 (closed second space)
Joe Sheftel October 2015
Wallspace August 2015
MOVED
Bortolami Spring 2017 (Chelsea to Tribeca)
Galerie Perrotin Spring 2017 (Upper East Side to Lower East Side)
Anton Kern Spring 2017 (Chelsea to Midtown)
Martos Gallery Early 2017 (Chelsea to Chinatown)
JTT November 2016 (Lower East Side to larger space L.E.S. space)
Karma November 2016 (NoHo to Lower East Side to East Village)
Alexander and Bonin October 2016 (Chelsea to Tribeca)
Chapter NY September 2016 (Lower East Side to larger L.E.S space)
Elizabeth Dee September 2016 (Chelsea to Harlem)
Gavin Brown’s Enterprise May 2016 (West Village to Harlem)
Foxy Production March 2016 (Chelsea to Chinatown)
Andrew Edlin December 2015 (Chelsea to Lower East Side)