John Gibson Gallery

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The John Gibson Gallery is a gallery in New York City , New York founded by John Gibson in 1971. It has been closed for reasons of age since 2000.

Invitation to contemporary art exhibition in New York
Invitation to contemporary art exhibition in New York

history

John Gibson was the first director of the Park Place Gallery in 1963. He opened his own gallery in the early 1970s. In 1966, SoHo began to become a growing community of artists. Park Place Gallery was the first gallery in SoHo and became a mecca and meeting place for artists young and old. The gallery's special musical performances and other special programs were particularly crowded and popular. The openings and accompanying artist festivals were always overcrowded events. During the early to mid-1960s, this group of young artists who formed the Park Place Gallery revolutionized what was possible for young artists. The Park Place Gallery pioneered SoHo by showing for the first time many great young artists who would later become famous and successful. The original members Mark di Suvero , Frosty Myers , Robert Grosvenor , Ed Ruda , Dean Fleming , Leo Valledor , Peter Forakis , Tamara Melcher , Tony Magar, and later David Novros , John Baldwin and Gay Glading were all high profile young artists. Funded by the Lannan Foundation and private collectors, John Gibson and later Paula Cooper were the directors. Park Place has become the center of attention for the downtown Manhattan art scene.

Artist

The gallery is best known for minimal art , land art , arte povera , conceptual art and for European artists, whom it represented and whose careers it had decisively promoted. These artists include:

Gallery locations

  • 1968 John Gibson Gallery - Projects for Commissions, 27 East 67th Street, NY 10021
  • 1974 John Gibson Gallery Inc. 392 West Broadway, NY 10021
  • 1984 John Gibson Gallery Inc. 205 East 78th Street, NY 10021
  • 1987-2000 John Gibson Gallery Inc. 568 Broadway, NY 10012

Art fairs

  • Art Basel (1972, 75, 76, 78, 79, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91)
  • Art Cologne (1974, 75)

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