David Lewis Gallery, which moved to 57 Walker as part of the great gallery migration in 2021, has announced it is closing. I saw it in ARTnews; Lewis made the announcement on Instagram. (My picture below is from 2014, to give you a sense of what these places looked like before the galleries moved in.)

Lewis opened his gallery in 2013 on the Lower East Side, centered around emerging artists and eventually expanding to ” its roster with “historical and under-studied artists,” as ARTnews describes it. From ARTnews: “In 2018, the gallery began working with the estate of Thornton Dial (1928–2016), a self-taught artist from rural Alabama whose intimate works on the legacy of slavery and sharecropping in America had begun to find success in mainstream art institutions. Speaking to Cultured in 2021, Lewis called Dial ‘a giant art-historical challenge.'”

The gallery moved to 57 Walker in 2021, closing with a group show that marked its roots.

“I entered the gallery world as a wide-eyed academic, and, after over a decade of professional growth, it feels right to come full circle,” Lewis wrote on Instagram. “I’m bringing to a close this iteration of my gallery with a celebration of artists, creative communities, and innovative, even transgressive ideas. It has been the honor of a lifetime to work with such brilliant artists. It’s time now for a new chapter, which will further develop these collaborations and commitments,” he wrote, signing it with “love, admiration, and optimism.”