Essays
Gallery Scene: 1989–1998
Published: September 1, 2009
 
Photo by Johnnie Shand Kydd
Jay Jopling is credited with introducing Young British Artists Tony Cragg, Julian Opie, and Anish Kapoor.
When the renovated Bakery Building reopens in SoHo in 1990, dealers, including Andrea Rosen, launch galleries there. As the decade nears its end, however, the building’s art world occupants migrate to Chelsea, where prominent names such as Matthew Marks and Paula Cooper have already set up shop. In 1997 it is reported that 39 galleries have opened in west Chelsea, with 50 more expected by 1998. London dealers Jay Jopling, of White Cube gallery, and Nicholas Logsdail, of Lisson Gallery, are responsible for introducing such Young British Artists as Tony Cragg, Julian Opie and Anish Kapoor and Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst and Antony Gormley, respectively. Vrej Baghoomian, Basquiat’s last gallerist before the artist’s death, shutters his SoHo space in March 1992 and is rumored to have fled to Armenia leaving behind debts and legal troubles. In 1993 the dealer returns to New York cleared of the more serious allegation that he stole artworks from his own inventory. (He dies in 2003.) After years in the East Village scene, art dealer and provocateur Colin de Land opens American Fine Arts gallery in SoHo. De Land, who died in 2003, showed the work of Alex Bag, Cady Noland and others. "Gallery Scene: 1989-1998" originally appeared in the September 2009 issue of Art+Auction. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Art+Auction's September 2009 Table of Contents.
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