Tilton Gallery introduced on Wednesday (24 September) that its subsequent present, devoted to the German-born American conceptual artist Ruth Vollmer, would be the gallery’s ultimate exhibition.
The closure comes eight years after the dying of the gallery’s founder Jack Tilton, who for many years was a frontrunner of the New York artwork scene and staged many early-career reveals for vital artists. Since his 2017 dying from most cancers issues, the gallery has been run by his widow and companion Connie Rogers Tilton. Following the Vollmer present, scheduled to run from 30 September to fifteen November, she stated she plans to “reformulate” her function within the artwork world and transition to “a extra personal setting”, whether or not or not it’s personal gross sales or analysis initiatives.
“I’m extremely grateful for the help, friendship and enthusiasm of gallery artists, employees, collectors, museums and fellow sellers throughout these years,” she stated in a press release, including she hopes to “proceed to supply help to artists and to focus extra on my household”.
The gallery has represented Vollmer’s property since Tilton opened his gallery in 1983, in keeping with the exhibition announcement, which says it will likely be probably the most complete gallery present of her work to be staged for the reason that Nineteen Eighties.
Previous to founding his gallery, Tilton labored for the pioneering vendor Betty Parsons, and after her dying opened his house on West 57th Avenue earlier than relocating the gallery to Soho and later to the Higher East Facet, the place it stays in the present day. The gallery additionally opened a Los Angeles house within the late Nineties.
Tilton was an early backer of younger artists together with Marlene Dumas, David Hammons and Kiki Smith, who went on to turn out to be artwork market powerhouses. Tilton Gallery is the most recent in a string of gallery closures, together with LA Louver, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery’s Los Angeles outpost, Clearing, Blum, Venus Over Manhattan and Kasmin (the final of which is able to transition into a brand new enterprise known as Olney Gleason).
