Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn Exits LGDR to Reopen Salon 94 – WWD
A FOURSOME NO MORE: Two years after beginning the three way partnership LGDR, 4 monikers within the New York artwork scene — Dominique Lévy, Brett Gorvy, Amalia Dayan and Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn — are shifting gears.
In the summertime of 2021, the foursome joined forces by combining their respective galleries throughout a shakier level within the pandemic when some galleries had been folding. Their purpose was to create a one-stop-shop for consulting, dealing and consulting with public sale homes.
With the brand new set-up, purchasers and just-passing-by Higher East Aspect customers gained’t must journey far to seek out them of their new environs. Greenberg Rohatyn will reopen Salon 94 at 3 East 89th Road, the place she is going to focus once more on exhibitions and her artwork advising. Positioned in a landmark Beaux-Arts city home that had been inbuilt 1915, Salon 94’s interiors had been refreshed a number of years in the past by Rafael Vinoly. It as soon as housed the Nationwide Academy of Design Museum. The ethereal, multifloor area had turn out to be a vacation spot for some tony clientele. The gallery had closed two years in the past, when the three way partnership was finalized.
In the meantime, the remaining trio will now function as Lévy Gorvy Dayan and will probably be primarily based at 19 East sixty fourth Road. They’ll go ahead representing artists and estates and they’ll additionally curate exhibitions and provide different companies to globetrotting purchasers as a part of the newly shaped Artwork Household Workplace.
Subsequent month, Lévy Gorvy Dayan will unveil a retrospective of Pierre Soulages that has been curated by his longtime good friend Dominique Lévy. Working with the Soulages household, Lévy Gorvy Dayan is making an attempt to enlarge the European summary artist’s affect and legacy. That present will probably be adopted by one in November from the painter Jenna Gribbon that includes large-scale work of her spouse and muse, Mackenzie Scott.
Lévy Gorvy Dayan will proceed to participate in such artwork gala’s similar to Paris + par Artwork Basel in October, and displays in London, Paris and Milan. These initiatives will probably be helmed by Victoria Gelfand-Magalhaes, European president, and in Hong Kong via a partnership with Rebecca Wei that can function as Lévy Gorvy Dayan and Wei.
Looking forward to the October Salon 94’s reopening, American sculptor Karon Davis could have a solo exhibition of her new work entitled “Magnificence Should Undergo.” The present will look at the archetype of the Black ballerina, and a dancer’s infinite sacrifice to inhabit perfection. Plans are additionally in place for a complete curatorial program to play up the voices and variety of residing and deceased artists. Because it was began in 2002, Salon 94 didn’t simply host exhibitions, and launched artist-made films and animations to bounce and efficiency amongst different occasions.
Greenberg Rohatyn additionally carries on with Salon 94 Design, which blends artwork and design, and strives to chip away on the hierarchies between the 2. The situation is prime actual property not simply in its personal proper, but in addition for attracting well-heeled residents within the neighborhood and in addition the extra numerous artwork crowd. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Cooper-Hewitt, Nationwide Design Museum and the Nationwide Academy Museum and College are a number of blocks away from Salon 94.
In a letter saying the realignment to purchasers that was signed by the artwork specialists, they mentioned, “Whereas we transfer ahead as two separate galleries, the 4 of us will proceed our collaborative actions that we have now loved and fostered for thus a few years.“
