Art historian and critic David Lewis has announced that he is closing his eponymous gallery following eleven years in business and the presentation of eighty exhibitions.
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Liz Craft, Emma Gray, Pentti Monkonnen and Thomas Solomon discuss the exhibition programmes they launched in their homes
Liz Craft, Emma Gray, Pentti Monkkonen and Thomas Solomon discuss the exhibition programmes they launched in their garages.
Thomas Solomon When I moved to LA in the early 1980s, I had been director at White Columns. I was very New York: I wore black, smoked, didn’t drive. A lot of the artists I met in LA used their garages as studios so, when I decided to open a gallery in 1988, I found a two-car garage off Fairfax Boulevard and called it The Garage. At the time, the city was dominated by big galleries such as Margo Leavin, Rosamund Felsen and Luhring Augustine Hetzler, but my space was more like 98 Greene Street Loft – the New York gallery that my mother, Holly Solomon, started with Gordon Matta-Clark in 1969 – although it was also very LA: the birthplace of garage rock an