{"id":2209397,"date":"2026-10-19T18:24:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T15:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2209397"},"modified":"2026-10-19T18:24:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T15:24:24","slug":"new-yorks-massey-klein-gallery-closes-its-doors-and-goes-nomadic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2209397","title":{"rendered":"New York\u2019s Massey Klein Gallery Closes its Doors and Goes Nomadic"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\tNew York\u2019s Massey Klein Gallery will close its doors after nine years, saying that after initial success, the numbers no longer add up to pay for its showroom on the Lower East Side and support the dealers\u2019 family and the gallery\u2019s artists. <\/p>\n
\n\tHusband-and-wife team Garrett Klein and Ryan Massey felt called by their Christian faith to open the gallery, and say they\u2019ll continue on with nomadic projects. They announced the closure in a Saturday Instagram post. The gallery\u2019s current show, of Kate McQuillen, is extended through November 20.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe gallery has participated in prominent fairs including the Armory Show and NADA in New York, Untitled in Miami, and the Dallas Art Fair. At NADA New York in 2025, ARTnews<\/em>\u2019s Harrison Jacobs noted its display as one of the fair\u2019s best.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cOur relationship with God has informed what we want the gallery to feel like,\u201d said Klein in a phone interview. \u201cWe\u2019re all accustomed to feeling uninvited at galleries. We wanted to create a place of warmth.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cPreviously, sales were up steadily, and we were hitting benchmarks each year,\u201d said Klein. \u201cBut four years ago, we started to go into decline. We were hoping that by this point we would start to see a leveling out. We\u2019ve always been sensitive to the numbers. We never had a large nest egg to start a gallery. We have to sell the work. We\u2019re religious, and it seemed like we were pushed into this place where we could take that leap of faith but with the numbers declining so much we\u2019ve had to figure out other jobs to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\tKate McQuillen exhibition at Massey Klein Gallery.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
\n\tThe couple opened with just enough to secure a lease and cover a month\u2019s rent, says their farewell announcement. Both the founders had worked at other New York galleries, Klein principally with Bertrand Delacroix and Massey at Mulherin and Pollard. \u201cWe were blessed with some amazing sales right out of the gate,\u201d said Klein. But the gallery sells works by emerging artists in the range of $3,000 to $20,000, and has to sell $30,000 to $40,000 a month to comfortably cover expenses, including rent, which comes in at a little under $10,000 a month for the 1,000-square-foot gallery.<\/p>\n
\n\tMassey Klein has been a small operation all along, and currently represents just six artists\u2014Chrissy Angliker, Lydia Baker, Bethany Czarnecki, Jude Greibel, and Laura Sallade, along with McQuillen. Klein says they\u2019ve done their best to keep the artists abreast of the challenges so that this news wouldn\u2019t be a shock.<\/p>\n
\n\tMany galleries have closed in recent months in a challenging market, some of them putting out farewell statements that blamed the art market system, some closing amid legal battles, some simply saying business had fallen off a cliff and prices for services like storage and shipping have implacably risen. Massey Klein\u2019s signoff may be the only one that discusses a prayer practice that was intertwined with the gallery. Klein said he would usually start his day with a brief mediation and prayer, and that they had sometimes invited others from their Christian church community to prayer events.<\/p>\n\n
\n\tAs for the future, the dealers hope to continue showing at some of the art fairs they\u2019ve previously participated in. They will still participate next year in New York\u2019s Split Level art fair, its third edition, and will continue to organize art displays with Groupe NYC, a collective of clothing designers with a showroom on the Bowery nearby.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n
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