After nearly three decades of selling art out of a gallery in New York, Mitchell-Innes & Nash will shutter its Chelsea space on West 26th Street and transition into a new “project-based advisory space”.
In its new form, Mitchell-Innes & Nash will focus on supporting primary market artists and estates, offering works on the primary and secondary markets, plus a range of advisory services. A new Manhattan location for the business will be announced in the coming months, the gallery said.
“We express enormous gratitude to our artists who have entrusted us to work on their behalf and fueled our passion for art. We look forward to our next chapter in supporting artists in different ways,” gallery co-founders Lucy Mitchell-Innes and David Nash wrote in a statement posted to the gallery website.
Nash and Mitchell-Innes first launched their gallery on the Upper East Side in 1996 before relocating to Chelsea in 2005, part of a wave of galleries that migrated to the West Side neighbourhood from Uptown and Soho. The married pair put on more than 200 exhibitions in their Upper East Side and Chelsea spaces combined.
Artists currently listed on the Mitchell-Innes & Nash roster include Jacolby Satterwhite, Sarah Braman, Martha Rosler, Keltie Ferris and Gideon Appah, as well as the late artists Pope.L, Anthony Caro and Leon Kossoff, plus the estate of the collective General Idea. A representative for the gallery did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Art Newspaper.
On neighbouring West 25th Streey, longtime Chelsea gallery Cheim & Read shut for good last year after previously announcing in 2018 it would step back from a traditional gallery space in order to transition into a “private practice, concentrating on the secondary market, sculpture commissions and special projects”. Another fixture of 25th Street, Marlborough Gallery, will close its spaces in New York and London when the last of their current shows at the end of the month.