We discovered this article via Google Alert yesterday, from Artinfo's site.
It is gossiping about the "other" Gavin Brown, no not the footballer, the New York gallerist and his intention to begin exhibiting again, as an artist.
Skip down to the 3rd paragraph to find an amusing reference and link to our very own
Mr Brown.
We did indeed take the time to visit the gallery of Gavin Brown, last year when we were in New York. It was a cavernous space on Greenwich Street somewhere between Meatpacking and Tribeca full of, well full of not much. Very cerebral. Not as maximalous as our own Gavin Brown.
Art News & Gossip
In the Air – Art+Auction's Gossip Column
FEBRUARY 19, 2013, 8:40 AM
Gavin Brown, Artist? Dealer’s First Solo Show in Over a Decade Comes to Milwaukee
Gavin Brown has a secret: He’s an artist. The London-born, New York-based gallerist, who represents international art stars like Alex Katz, Elizabeth Peyton, and Rirkrit Tiravanija, is preparing for his first solo show in over a decade at The Green Gallery in Milwaukee. The gallery’s director, John Riepenhoff, confirmed the news to ARTINFO, and said the show would likely take place late this year or in early 2014. (Thanks to Pedro Vélez for tipping us off on Twitter.)
“Gavin has been friends with The Green Gallery for a while,” Riepenhoff told us in an e-mail. Brown’s eponymous gallery has participated in every Mikwaukee International, an infrequent art fair co-organized by Green Gallery’s founders, as well as the Dark Fair, a nomadic in-the-dark art event also co-organized by The Green Gallery.
A cursory Google search offers little insight into Brown’s own artwork (though there is an Australian artist named Gavin Brown whose work has been described as what might happen if Paul Gauguin and Frida Khalo had a lovechild — we’re going to assume that’s not him). The dealer originally came to New York with the hope of making it big as an artist and attended the Whitney Museum’s prestigious independent study program before turning to art dealing.
“I couldn’t ever quite suspend disbelief,” he told New York Magazine of his “proto-conceptual” art. “I looked at these things, and they felt empty to me. I made a practical decision. I wasn’t selling any art, so I had to make money.” Maybe Brown’s fortunes are turning.
— Julia Halperin
