Timothy Taylor Gallery Will Relocate Its New York Space to Tribeca – RisePEI

Timothy Taylor, one in every of London’s premier galleries, will relocate its New York house from Chelsea to Tribeca subsequent yr, becoming a member of a wave of New York enterprises which have not too long ago arrange store within the Decrease Manhattan neighborhood.

The gallery’s new location will take over a 6,000-square-foot house in Tribeca on the bottom flooring of 74 Leonard Avenue. Main the renovation of the Tribeca location is the New York-based architectural agency studioMDA.

“The pandemic was really the catalyst for our growth,” Timothy Taylor, who first introduced his enterprise to New York in 2016 as an experiment, advised ARTnews in an interview. “The heightened visibility that New York continued to carry throughout these uncommon months gave us the arrogance to develop on the first second that we had the chance to take action.”

David Zwirner, Mendes Wooden DM, James Cohan, P.P.O.W, and Canada are just some of the galleries which have opened in Tribeca up to now couple years. Tempo Gallery additionally has plans to open a Tribeca house later this yr.

Taylor, whose gallery opened in New York in 2016 and expanded its London headquarters in 2017, represents artists based mostly within the U.S. like Hilary Pecis, Honor Titus, Chris Martin, Alex Katz, and Josephine Meckseper, in addition to U.Ok. artists like Sahara Longe and Antonia Showering.

Prematurely of the New York gallery’s relocation, Taylor introduced on Stephen Truax, who got here on as a director earlier this month after departing Cheim & Learn gallery, the place he labored for seven years. Truax will work with Taylor and one other of the gallery’s companions, Chloe Waddington, who relies within the U.S., to construct out the supplier’s program in New York. He’ll preside over gross sales, artwork festivals, and exhibition improvement, each on the gallery and for establishments, and his work for Taylor will assist “develop and focus the ambitions of our U.S. presence,” Taylor mentioned.

For Taylor, the transfer to Tribeca is ready to mark an vital chapter within the gallery’s improvement.

“The compelled pause of the pandemic additionally gave us house to contemplate what the way forward for the gallery would appear like,” he mentioned. “One of many defining objectives of the gallery is to have a program that spans generations, so it was all the time going to be about discovering an area that suited that dynamic.”