{"id":41327,"date":"2025-09-24T20:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T20:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/41327\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T20:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T20:28:08","slug":"new-yorks-storied-tilton-gallery-to-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/41327\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\u2019s Storied Tilton Gallery to Close"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTilton Gallery<\/a> in New York announced that its upcoming exhibition will be its last. That exhibition for late abstract painter Ruth Vollmer will run September 30 to November 15, after which the gallery will move out of its longtime home in the Upper East Side.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis will be the gallery\u2019s final formal exhibition,\u201d the gallery\u2019s press release from Tilton\u2019s widow Connie Rogers Tilton reads. \u201cAfter eight meaningful years continuing the gallery without Jack, it is time to pursue my own projects in a more private setting and to reformulate my role in the art world whether through private sales or research projects.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe news come after a number of other high-profile gallery closures<\/a> earlier this year, including Blum Gallery, Clearing, Venus Over Manhattan, and LA Louver, which announced its closure<\/a> after 50 years just last week.<\/p>\n

\n\tTilton Gallery was founded in 1983 by Jack Tilton, who died in 2017<\/a>. He had worked for Betty Parsons from 1976 until 1982, the year of her death. (Vollmer had shown with Parsons, and Tilton Gallery began representing her estate when it opened.) He opened in Parsons\u2019s space on West 57th Street, before moving to SoHo in the \u201990s, and then to its current home at 8 East 76th Street in 2005.<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring its history, Tilton Gallery was known for its incredible eye for talent, spotting young artists who would go on to have impressive careers. Jack Tilton would also help to revitalize the careers of overlooked artists. Among those who showed at the gallery during its run are Marlene Dumas, Nicole Eisenman, Francis Al\u00ffs, Glenn Ligon, Kiki Smith, John Outterbridge, Ed Clark, David Hammons, and Kennedy Yanko. He also showed the work of important Chinese artists like Huang Yong Ping and Zhang Peili in the \u201990s.<\/p>\n

\n\tAn exhibition that opened in March 2018, nearly a year after Jack\u2019s passing, carried the title \u201cIn Tribute to Jack Tilton: A Selection from 35 Years\u201d and also featured the work of Abraham Cruzvillegas, Suzan Frecon, Lyle Ashton Harris, David Lynch, Richard Nonas, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Fred Tomaselli, Richard Tuttle, and Carrie Mae Weems.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe gallery continued to be run after his death by Rogers Tilton. \u201cI am incredibly grateful for the support, friendship and enthusiasm of gallery artists, staff, collectors, museums and fellow dealers during these years and I hope to continue to maintain these relationships into the future,\u201d she said in the gallery\u2019s announcement.<\/p>\n

\n\tArtists currently listed on the gallery\u2019s roster include Tomashi Jackson, Texas Isaiah, Brenna Youngblood, Noah Purifoy, and February James. The gallery had also recently participated in Frieze Los Angeles this past February and Art Basel Miami Beach last December<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a 2019 interview<\/a> ahead of the gallery\u2019s participation in the Independent art fair, Connie said, \u201cOf course, we want to honor and continue Jack\u2019s legacy, but part of what he and the gallery have always been about is looking at the present\u2014and looking to the future. So, although I feel it important to occasionally do historical shows\u2014and I am very proud of our history\u2014the gallery continues to look into the future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tilton Gallery in New York announced that its upcoming exhibition will be its last. That exhibition for late…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,30193,111,139,69,37138],"class_list":{"0":"post-41327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-gallery-closures","15":"tag-new-zealand","16":"tag-newzealand","17":"tag-nz","18":"tag-tilton-gallery"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}