Mitchell-Innes & Nash, which represents artists including Pope.L, Martha Rosler and Jacolby Satterwhite, will close its Chelsea space and abandon its current business model.
Founders Lucy Mitchell-Innes and David Nash wrote in a letter sent on Friday night that the gallery would now become “a project-based consultancy Space”, the letter was written by art news. The dealer writes: “Going forward, we will work within a new paradigm, consulting with select primary market artists and heritage institutions, providing art advisory services to individual collectors and foundations, and creating a comprehensive portfolio of primary and secondary market projects. Represent artworks on the market.
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They founded their gallery on the Upper East Side 28 years ago, in 1996, and moved their operations to Chelsea in 2005. position. The gallery plans to open a Heidi Hahn exhibition in September, according to its website.
From established artists like Roy Lichtenstein and Joseph Beuys to emerging artists like Satterwhite and Gideon Appah, various A wide variety of artists have exhibited at Mitchell-Innes & Nash. Conceptual artists such as Rosler, Pope.L, Mary Kelly, Monica Bonvicini and the General Idea collective have all found a home in the gallery, alongside Eddie Martin Alongside abstract artists such as Eddie Martinez, Keltie Ferris and Gerasimos Floratos.
A spokesman said Mitchell-Innes & Nash confirmed the gallery would no longer be open to the public and would no longer host an exhibition programme. A spokesman said select artists and estates will continue to be represented by Mitchell-Innes & Nash, but it was not immediately clear which ones.
The gallery’s transformation is reminiscent of another blue-chip Chelsea gallery, Cheim & Read, which became a “private gallery” in 2018 and closed permanently last year. The shift comes amid a series of other gallery closings, many of which impacted smaller, less established businesses in Tribeca, the Lower East Side and Chinatown.
“We enjoy operating our Chelsea space and welcoming visitors from around the world,” Mitchell-Innes and Nash wrote in the letter. “It makes the journey even more meaningful.”
