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Park Place Gallery
Formation1963
Dissolved1967 (aged 3–4)
Headquarters542 West Broadway,
New York City, New York, U.S.

The Park Place Gallery was a contemporary cooperative art gallery, in operation from 1963 to 1967,[1][2] and was located in New York City.[3] The Park Place Gallery was a notable as a post-World War II gallery for both its location and that it supported a group of artists working with geometric abstraction and space.[3]

It is thought of as being the first gallery of the 1960s in that area of Lower Manhattan. Park Place Gallery was located at 542 West Broadway, adjacent to the neighborhood that is now called, SoHo. Originally opened as a cooperative gallery in 1963 near Park Place in Lower Manhattan, in 1965 it moved to a new and larger location at 542 West Broadway.[4] The gallery was a large open exhibition space with an office and second showing space in the back. In general there were two-person exhibitions each featuring a painter and a sculptor in the larger front room, and a small selection of artists work in the back room.[4]

The first director of Park Place Gallery was John Gibson who later opened his own John Gibson Gallery in the early 1970s. He was succeeded by Paula Cooper who after Park Place Gallery closed in the late 1960s opened the Paula Cooper Gallery in SoHo.[4] She became a pioneer of the contemporary art scene and a forerunner of the population explosion of art galleries in New York City during the 1970s.[2]

History

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Precursors

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Further information: SoHo, Manhattan § Artists move in

In the early 1960s, artists from all over the country moved to Lower Manhattan's lofts and warehouse buildings, in what used to be known as "Hells Hundred Acres", which became large and inexpensive studios. Dealers and gallery owners opened new gallery spaces nearby.

By 1966, SoHo was a growing artist community, and Park Place Gallery became a meeting ground for artists. Especially crowded and popular were the music performances and other special programs hosted by the gallery. During the mid-to-late 1960s and the early 1970s Max's Kansas City on Park Avenue South between 17th and 18th Streets and the St. Adrian's bar on lower Broadway became hangouts for young artists, writers, poets, and creative people in downtown Manhattan.

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The first location of the gallery was at near Park Place in Lower Manhattan. The Park Place Gallery was founded in 1962 as a cooperative art gallery by 10 artists, including Mark di Suvero, Dean Fleming, Robert Grosvenor, Forrest Myers, Peter Forakis, Leo Valledor, Tamara Melcher, Tony Magar, and Edwin Ruda.[3][5] The first director of the space was John Gibson (1933–2019; later of John Gibson Gallery).[1] Later artists to join the cooperative community included David Novros, Jonathan Baldwin, and Gay Glading.[5]

The gallery showcased works by younger, less established artists with an emphasis on Geometric abstraction,[3] shaped canvas, Hard-edge painting, Op Art, paradoxical geometric objects, sculpture, and experimental art. Many of the sculptors, painters and other artists who exhibited in Park Place Gallery were interested in cutting edge architecture, electronic music, and minimal art.

Later history

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In 1965, the gallery moved to 542 West Broadway, on what is now LaGuardia Place just north of Houston Street adjacent to the neighborhood that is now called, SoHo.[1] By 1965, Paula Cooper served as director, and Park Place became a lightning rod of attention for the downtown art scene. It became a center for the downtown avant-garde as well, with weekly poetry readings, concerts by new electronic composers, and openings that always drew large crowds of young artists.[6] They had attracted funding from the Lannan Foundation.

Closure and legacy

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By 1967, the gallery had closed.[1]

In the late 1960s and early 1970s in New York City, art shattered into many directions: Conceptual Art, Earth Art, Lyrical Abstraction, Minimal Art, Postminimalism, Performance art, and the continuation of Abstract expressionism, Color field painting, Op Art and Pop Art. A significant development in the New York art scene was the birth of the gallery scene in SoHo, which Park Place Gallery helped define.[7] After the closure of the gallery, director Paula Cooper took many of the experience she had at the Park Place Gallery and used that to open the Paula Cooper Gallery on 96 Prince Street in SoHo.[2]

In September 2008, the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin presented an exhibition entitled: Reimagining Space: The Park Place Gallery Group in 1960s New York curated by Linda Dalrymple Henderson. The exhibition ran from September 28, 2008 – January 18, 2009.[8]

Artists

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Many of the artists that were affiliated with the gallery have been nicknamed, The Park Place Group.[4] The Park Place Gallery had exhibited the works of lesser known young and older artists, often for the first time.

Founders

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The Park Place Gallery founders, included:

Exhibitors

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The following artists had exhibited work at Park Place Gallery, including:

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Smith, Roberta (December 17, 2009). "Peter Forakis, a Sculptor of Geometric Forms, Is Dead at 82". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved September 14, 2021.
  2. ^ a b c Kirwin, Liza (2007). "Art and Space: Park Place and the beginning of the Paula Cooper Gallery". Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved September 14, 2021.
  3. ^ a b c d ""Reimagining Space: The Park Place Gallery Group in 1960s New York" at Blanton Museum of Art". Artforum.com. September 2008. Retrieved September 14, 2021.
  4. ^ a b c d e Henderson, Linda Dalrymple (2008). Reimagining Space: The Park Place Group in 1960s New York. Austin, TX: Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art. pp. 379–389.
  5. ^ a b Landfield, Ronnie (June 1995). "Lyrical Abstraction". www.abstract-art.com/. Archived from the original on October 20, 2012. Retrieved October 9, 2006.
  6. ^ "Lyrical Abstraction". Archived from the original on October 20, 2012. Retrieved October 9, 2006.
  7. ^ Schwendener, Martha (February 16, 2007). "Art in Review; Art and Space -- Park Place and the Beginning of the Paula Cooper Gallery". The New York Times. Retrieved September 14, 2021.
  8. ^ "Reimagining Space: The Park Place Gallery Group in 1960s New York". Blanton Museum of Art.
  9. ^ a b Bacon, Alex (March 7, 2019). "Robert Grosvenor with Alex Bacon". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved September 14, 2021.
  10. ^ a b c d Dirié, Clément; Bovier, Lionel (2018). "From Sol LeWitt to Tauba Auerbach: gallerist Paula Cooper on nurturing artistic talent for five decades". Art Basel. Retrieved September 14, 2021.
  11. ^ Samet, Jennifer (December 7, 2013). "Beer with a Painter: Jake Berthot". Hyperallergic. Retrieved September 14, 2021.
  12. ^ "Ronald Bladen". Artforum.com. October 1966. Retrieved September 14, 2021.
  13. ^ a b c d e Abatemarco, Michael (February 17, 2017). "A moment in the sun: The influence of Park Place Gallery". Santa Fe New Mexican. Retrieved September 14, 2021.
  14. ^ Nixon, Bruce (January 1, 2004). "A Question of Perspective: Sculpture by Charles Ginnever". Sculpture. Retrieved September 14, 2021.
  15. ^ Strobl, Andreas (2009). "Grosvenor, Robert". Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Online [Artists of the World Online] (in German). De Gruyter.
  16. ^ Allen, Greg (October 12, 2018). "'A Beautiful Vision': Artist Susan Weil on the Work of—and Her Life with—Bernard Kirschenbaum, Her Poetry, and More". ARTnews.com. Retrieved September 14, 2021.
  17. ^ Henderson, Linda Dalrymple (2008). La Línea Continua: The Judy and Charles Tate Collection of Latin American Art. The Blanton Museum of Art. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin. ISBN 978-0-9815738-0-9.
  18. ^ "Villa's Remarkable Range Shown at b. Sako Garo". Newspapers.com. The Sacramento Bee. April 25, 2004. p. X25. Retrieved October 25, 2020.
  19. ^ "Orient artist's work on display at Riverhead gallery". The Suffolk Times. March 28, 2011. Retrieved September 14, 2021.

Further reading

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  • Blanton Museum of Art: American Art Since 1900 / editors, Annette DiMeo Carlozzi and Kelly Baum, published by the University of Texas at Austin, 2006, catalog of the collection ISBN 0-9771453-1-X.
  • Blanton Museum catalog of the collection: (above) Henderson, Linda Dalrymple (2008), Dean Fleming, Ed Ruda, and the Park Place Gallery: Spatial Complexity and the "Fourth Dimension" in 1960s New York, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, pp. 379–389
  • Lyrical Abstraction, online essay by Ronnie Landfield, [1]
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