While the city has nurtured generations of pioneering artists, much has been written about how Los Angeles arrived in recent months amid the arrival of major companies, including Lison and David Zwiener. But the opposite happened on May 6 in New York, when Los Angeles-based David Kordansky Gallery opened a 5,000-square-foot branch in Chelsea.
As part of New York Art Week, the gallery finally opened its doors with a spectacular solo exhibition by Los Angeles resident Loren Hals. Featuring an array of new sculptures, part of the installation and artwork hanging on the wall, including one with a hard-working fountain.
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In an interview before the official opening of the gallery in the New York workshop, art dealer David Kordansky described Hals’ work as “winning your own geography, your own place, your own space”, which is typical of an artist from The angels. That spirit is shared by the vast majority of artists in Kordansky’s cast and is part of what he intends to deliver in New York.
“For some reason, I think Los Angeles artists are fascinated by Los Angeles,” he said, noting that they include works by Jonas Wood, Catherine Andrews, Raoul Guerrero, Mary Weatherford and Larry Johnson. . “Thanks to the art of Los Angeles, I became part of a larger international community.
Kordansky, who opened his LA Gallery for the first time nearly 20 years ago, arrived in New York on April 16 “to participate and be involved in every detail of finishing the space and, most importantly, for Lauren’s early participation. Installation.” He was also in town in March to mark a new painting by gallery artist Shara Hughes, which he saw at the Flag Art Foundation as part of the organization’s new “Spotlight” series.
The gallery rented the new space in June of last year. Kordansky soon began working with Kulapat Yantrasast of wHY Architects, who designed the gallery’s Los Angeles campus to create a natural space in New York City. “This architecture reflects the space of Los Angeles,” he said. “It’s important that we have the atmosphere in New York in every way, shape and form.
Starting in a modest space on Bernard Street at 24 Chinatown, Los Angeles, Kordansky, who grew up in Connecticut before heading west to attend CalArts, said the New York space “has always been part of the dream.” He described the pursuit of that goal as an intensely “emotional” experience.
He added: “One of the great beauties was the ability to grow with our artists. I think New York is another way to associate. I want to use the space as an opportunity to bring back these extraordinary people that I am grateful to serve. ”
He said it was key to the gallery’s success and putting artists first as a way to “be a part of realizing their vision and their reality, that’s what gives my life meaning,” he said, followed by the latter. Grateful Dead Lyrics. Song “Help on the way”: “In a dream without love never comes true”.
On the gallery’s future, Kordansky suggested that the new space “is certainly more ambitious. For me, vision is a holistic concept. This is how the gallery works inside and out, on a macro and micro level. We’re just doing our job. We are trying to create a model that may not exist. We’re trying to do something that’s idiosyncratic. We show the best artists alongside someone like William E. Jones, author of a book on the history of porn rock, Semiotext(e).
This new space marks the biggest growth of one of the main galleries in the country, beyond the horizon. The gallery has gone on to establish a secondary market segment that focuses on the ongoing production of gallery shows and catalogs of publications about its artists. Over the past 15 months, he’s also joined a number of spectator artists: Derek Forjour, Lucy Bull, Raul Guerrero, Hillary Pace and Guan Xiao, and Kordansky says there’s still news ahead.
He added: “I can’t sit still. It’s a desire not to want to feel pain again, but more fluid.
This story was originally reported on ARTnews.
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