MACCARONE TO INAUGURATE ITS NEW LOS ANGELES SPACE IN SEPTEMBER 2015
FIRST EXHIBITION PRESENTS NEW WORKS BY ALEX HUBBARD
Friday, June 12, 2015...Michele Maccarone, principal and founder of Maccarone, New
York, announced today that the gallery will open its new Los Angeles space on
September 19, 2015. Maccarone Los Angeles will occupy a former factory building at
300 South Mission Road, at the corner of 3rd Street in Boyle Heights, along the Los
Angeles River in the city's burgeoning Downtown Arts District. The new 50,000
square foot complex will present a dynamic series of exhibitions and public
programs focused upon the gallery's internationally admired roster of artists, as
well as works by related historical figures.
Maccarone Los Angeles opens in conjunction with the 15th anniversary of the
gallery, which launched in 2001 at the eastern end of Canal Street in Manhattan. In
2007, Maccarone moved to an expansive space at 630 Greenwich Street in the West
Village, where its pioneering program has attracted consistent critical praise. In
Los Angeles, Maccarone will occupy an industrial building constructed in 1926 and
transformed by Jeffrey Allsbrook and Silvia Kuhle of the LA architecture and design
firm Standard to house gallery spaces of various scales; 15,000 square feet of
outdoor exhibition and event space; two working artists' studios; and an upstairs
residence and project space where the gallery plans to explore programs merging
art, design, and other disciplines.
"The opening of Maccarone Los Angeles represents a homecoming of sorts for us,"
said Michele Maccarone. "We presented exhibitions at MC, a project space in Culver
City, between 2005 and 2007, and our relationship with LA has only intensified
since then. We work closely with so many museum curators, scholars, and
extraordinary collectors in Los Angeles, and we spend a great deal of time on the
West Coast. But our decision to open the new space on South Mission Road is
ultimately a response to our artists' increasing engagement with LA, which has
become one of the most important cities for contemporary art worldwide. We are
opening in the downtown district at a moment of ferment there, and Maccarone looks
forward to being a full-time participant."
Ellen Langan, partner at Maccarone, observed, "Our priority is to provide not just
a platform but also an active laboratory for our artists, to offer a place for
their processes as much as their finished work. The atmosphere in Los Angeles - and
the ability to spread out there - helps us to do this. The facility on South
Mission Road will be an ideal counterpart to our New York space, giving us a way to
materialize the dialogue with Los Angeles that we already enjoy."
Maccarone also announced it will inaugurate the Los Angeles venue with an ambitious
presentation of new works by gallery artist Alex Hubbard. Admired for an enigmatic
art that proposes new bridges between performance, painting, and video, Hubbard
recently relocated to Los Angeles from New York City. Like fellow gallery artist
Oscar Tuazon, he occupies one of the studios that are an integral part of 300 South
Mission Road.
About Maccarone Gallery
Founded in 2001 by Michele Maccarone, Maccarone Gallery represents 20 established
and emerging contemporary artists including Carol Bove, Sarah Charlesworth, Chivas
Clem, Ann Craven, Eli Hansen, Alex Hubbard, Rosy Keyser, Phanos Kyriacou, David
Lamelas, Paul Lee, Hanna Liden, Nate Lowman, Corey McCorkle, Rodney McMillian, Otto
Muehl, Claudia & Julia Mueller, Daniel Roth, Ryan Sullivan, and Oscar Tuazon.
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