New York’s Mitchell-Innes & Nash to close Chelsea space, shift to ‘project-based consultancy’

Mitchell-Innes & Nash, a gallery representing artists such as Pope.L, Martha Rosler and Jacolby Satterwhite, will close its Chelsea space and move away from its current business model.

The gallery will now be “a project-based advisory space,” founders Lucy Mitchell-Innes and David Nash wrote in a letter sent Friday evening, which was obtained by ARTnews. “Moving forward we will work within a new paradigm, consulting with select primary market artists and properties, providing art advisory services to individual collectors and foundations, and representing artworks in the primary and secondary markets,” they write. traders.

They founded their gallery 28 years ago, in 1996, on the Upper East Side and moved the business to Chelsea in 2005. The married dealers, who both held senior positions at Sotheby’s before launching Mitchell-Innes & Nash, teased a move to a new location in Manhattan, but they didn’t say where.

A wide range of artists have shown at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, from established giants such as Roy Lichtenstein and Joseph Beuys to emerging talents such as Satterwhite and Gideon Appah. Conceptual artists such as Rosler, Pope.L, Mary Kelly, Monica Bonvicini and the General Idea collective all found a home in the gallery alongside abstractionists such as Eddie Martinez, Keltie Ferris and Gerasimos Floratos.

A spokesman said Mitchell-Innes & Nash confirmed the gallery will no longer be open to the public and will no longer host an exhibition programme. Selected artists and properties will continue to be represented by Mitchell-Innes & Nash, the spokesman said, although it was not immediately clear which ones.

The gallery’s transition is reminiscent of another Chelsea gallery Cheim & Read, which in 2018 became a “private practice” before closing for good last year. The pilot is happening against the backdrop of a number of other gallery closings, many affecting smaller, less established businesses in Tribeca, the Lower East Side and Chinatown.

“We have enjoyed running our space in Chelsea and welcoming visitors from around the world,” Mitchell-Innes and Nash wrote in their letter. “It has made this trip even more meaningful.”