March 09. 2021

Metro Pictures. COURTESY METRO PICTURES 

The storied New York art gallery Metro Pictures will close toward the end of 2021.

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Representatives for the gallery, a fixture of the city’s art scene for more than 40 years, announced the surprise decision on Sunday night, “a demanding year of pandemic-driven programming, and the anticipated arrival of a very different art world,” and included a statement from gallery founders Helene Winer and Janelle Reiring: “We have decided to announce this difficult decision far in advance of our closing in order to give the artists we represent and our staff time to pursue other options and to allow us to participate in their transitions. We are extremely grateful to all of the brilliant artists we have worked with over the past 40 years and to our excellent staff, who have sustained the gallery and its program. We would also like to thank all of the critics, curators, collectors and fellow dealers with whom we have worked over the years.” Many art-world players were surprised to receive a candid email from legendary contemporary art gallery Metro Pictures The decision surprised artists and curators, who saw the gallery’s place in history as incontestable.

Cindy Sherman installation view, from an untitled exhibition in September 2020 at Metro Pictures. Courtesy Metro Pictures, New York.

The decision marks another unexpected twisting to an art scene whose landscape is still transforming due to the ongoing pandemic that forces the art world to rewrite its vocabulary, rethinking the standard of the exhibition models. Since the beginning of the pandemic the founders had discussed about the future of the gallery and decided to call it quits, because reopening the gallery would have required different models, more energy and willpower in reinventing the gallery sector, but none of these coincide with their plans. Over the weekend, the founders of Metro Pictures called their artists and staff to announce their decision to close.

From 1982, ushering proponents of Californian conceptual art onto the New York stage, Metro Pictures held the first New York exhibition of Mike Kelley, followed by shows with fellow influential CalArts graduates John Miller, Jim Shaw and Gary Simmons. Artists such as Sherman, Louise Lawler, Robert Longo, Jack Goldstein, Sherrie Levine, James Welling, and more, all of whom made photo- or film-based work that relied heavily on appropriation and questioned ideas about authorship, had some of the earliest shows at the gallery. Some of these art-historical giants, such as Sherman, Lawler, and Longo, have continued to maintain representation at the gallery throughout their careers.

However, some artists were still surprised by the gallery’s decision to close the store.