One of Los Angeles’ longest-historic galleries, the pull-off blinds will close its physical space in Venice, California, in a 50-year-old commercial and private deal.
This is the third notable gallery, and the presence of Los Angeles will end this year after this year. Tanya Bonakdar Gallery also closed the Los Angeles space this summer, although the business continues to operate at its New York base.
For half a century, the pull-blinds have run the gallery from Venice, where they maintain a star-studded lineup, and today artists from Alison Saar to Deborah Butterfield, from Edward and Nancy Kienholz to Frederick Hammersley.
“Over fifty years, we have witnessed Southern California’s contribution to the national and global arts and culture, thriving in unprecedented ways, and we have been delighted to have the opportunity to participate in this transformation,” said Pertoder Peter Goulds, co-founder of the gallery, in a statement.
The gallery was founded in 1975 by Goulds and his wife Elizabeth, who performed for Marcel Duchamp, Charles Garabedian, David Hockney, Larry Bell and more in the first few years of their time at the gallery. Elizabeth New Widowa small-scale interpretation of French windows.
“I thought if you open a decent place, you have something to say, open it where the artist lives and works, and then the artist visits other artists, curators visits, collector visits, critic visits, writer visits.” Forbes Earlier this year. “There is a built-in audience. So you just need to bet, i.e. your program will encourage others to come. That works.”
The scene in Los Angeles is smaller than it is now, so the gallery eventually becomes a big part of the city’s ecosystem. Stars with all kinds of stripes from local legends like Ed Ruscha to international stars like Doris Salcedo will eventually appear.
According to La Lover’s announcement on Tuesday, the gallery has hosted more than 660 exhibitions and displayed works by more than 430 artists.
The news said Venice Space will open “selected” exhibitions only by booking an appointment, and the gallery “will increasingly focus its activities on its private warehouse in the West Adams community in Los Angeles.
In an interview Art newspaperPeter Goulds said the cost of maintaining existence at the world’s top art fairs has contributed to the transition to the gallery. He said he had considered “the deterioration of the gallery model” and noted that the gallery spent a total of $600,000 in the artwork editions of Hong Kong and Switzerland, which was regularly exhibited in an infinite part of the latter’s large works.
“People have built a financial future in doing these big fairs, but if 60% of your business comes from that source, that would be a fragile belief. Art newspaper“Most galleries that opened here in the past few years will not be here for five years from now,” added.
Huntington, a library, museum and botanical garden in San Marino, will receive La Lover’s Archives, which contains photography, communications, and various documents related to gallery activities.
Christine Nielsen, director of the Huntington Museum of Art, said in a statement that the gallery’s archives “capture the important history of contemporary art in Los Angeles, documenting how artists and ideas here resonate internationally.”
