Jack Hanley Gallery, which opened on Duane and Staple in 2021, will close after 37 years in business, ARTnews reports. The current show, new drawings by Ed Loftus, closed on Saturday. That’s quite a long run.
The space was originally renovated by the facialist Teresa Tarmey in 2018; she never returned after the pandemic, and at one point there was an application for a cannabis dispensary there, but that never transpired.
The gallery was founded by Hanley in Austin as Trans-Avant Garde Gallery in 1987. In 1990, he moved the gallery to San Francisco and changed the name officially to Jack Hanley Gallery, running it there, minus a two-year hiatus, until 2008. The gallery then relocated to the Lower East Side in 2012, and in 2021 relocated to 177 Duane and opened an outpost in East Hampton.
“We would like to extend our deepest thanks to all of the incredible artists who have shared their artworks and visions with us over the years,” Hanley said in the emailed announcement to ARTnews. “They are the foundation of this gallery and community, and it has truly been a privilege to work alongside them.”
We were proud to have occupied 177 Duane from 1998 through 2018. This was uur 2nd Pilates home and was sandwiched between our first retail space at 310 1/2 Greenwich (now a dry cleaner) and our current space at 137 Duane St.
Having moved steadily east for 20 years – our longest tenure at 177 Duane was literally where Real Pilates grew up.
Hope someone or something fabulous moves in!
Alycea Ungaro
Real Pilates