ART SMART'S TOP TEN LIST OF POWERHOUSE GALLERIES IN CHELSEA
1. David Zwirner 519, 525, and 533 W 19th St. (212-727-2070), www.davidzwirner.com Zwirner gallery in many ways defines the place of the
contemporary art market. Originally, Zwirner opened his doors in 1993 in Soho
and, as with the reputations of his artists, he has grown larger while
successfully following the trends of the art market. Zwirner is now at home in
an expansive, skylit Chelsea gallery with the capacity for three full-scale,
independent shows. The galleries provide ample room for installations of the
well-established, trend-setting, contemporary art figures that fill his roster.
2. Paula Cooper Gallery 534 W 21st St; 521 W 21st St.; 465 W 23rd St.
(212-255-1105) www.paulacoopergallery.com Paula Cooper represents the godmother of New
York's contemporary art gallery scene. Her space opened in 1968, the first
gallery to open in New York's SoHo district with an exhibition of works by Carl
Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, and Robert Ryman, among others, as well as Sol
LeWitt's first wall drawing. Leading the move to Chelsea in the nineties, the
gallery continues with an agenda focused on, though not limited to, conceptual
and minimal art.
3. Friedrich Petzel Gallery 537 W 22nd St between Tenth and Eleventh Aves
(212-680-9467) www.petzel.com Two side-by-side locations feature an
international stable of artists. Petzel Gallery exhibitions reflect the taste
and trends in international art biennales such as Documenta, The Carnegie
International, and the Sao Paulo Biennial.
4. Gagosian 555 W 24th ; 522 W 21st St. (212 741-1717) www.gagosian.com Gagosian is the powerhouse of the art market; the
Steven Spielberg of gallery directors, working only with the biggest-name
artists and the richest collectors. His exhibitions today will be setting
auction house records tomorrow.
5. Luhring Augustine 531 W 24th St. (212-206-9100) www.luhringaugustine.com Count on Luhring Augustine Gallery for
high-quality exhibitions of established contemporary artists who swim upstream.
The roster of artists represents accessible, yet conceptually sophisticated
artists.
6. Barbara Gladstone 515 W 24th St.; 530 W 21st St., (212
206-9300), www.gladstonegallery.com Gladstone Gallery is home to a stable of prominent
contemporary artists working across media. Gladstone is noted for its continued
sponsorship of artist's film projects including Matthew Barney's Cremaster
cycle and Shirin Neshat's many films.
7. Cheim and Read 547 W 25th St, (212-242-7727) www.cheimread.com Cheim and Read represents many well-known artists of
the last thirty years such as Robert Mapplethorpe, Louise Bourgeois and Jenny
Holzer.
8. Pace Gallery on 22nd and 25th 534 W 25th St between Tenth and Eleventh Aves
(212-929-7000) www.thepacegallery.com Pace Gallery is a gallery empire that began with
one small gallery in 1960 in Boston. Today, the gallery has two spots in
Chelsea, one uptown and another affiliate dedicated to art of past centuries.
The galleries host exhibitions of some of the biggest names of the last forty
years, such as Maya Lin, David Hockney and Elizabeth Murray.
9. Peter Blum 526 W 29th St between Tenth and Eleventh Aves
(212-244-6055) www.peterblumgallery.com Holding its own up on 29th Street, the gallery
boasts a lot of the hottest young names in contemporary art. This Chelsea
Gallery features exhibitions of the young upstarts on Blum's roster.
10. Matthew Marks Gallery 523 W 24th St. (212 243-0200) www.matthewmarks.com Innovative new works by contemporary artists fill
this gallery, with a notable presence of some of the biggest names in
mainstream art photography, such as Andreas Gursky and Thomas Demand as well as
others.
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