Supplier David Lewis Joins Hauser & Wirth as Senior Director

David Lewis, a taste-making New York seller who lately shuttered his gallery within the metropolis, has joined Hauser & Wirth, the place he’ll now function senior director.

Lewis’s eponymous gallery opened in 2013 and mounted reveals for artists comparable to Trey Abdella, Barbara Bloom, Thornton Dial, Tomás Esson, Mary Beth Edelson, and Greg Parma Smith. Hauser & Wirth’s announcement of Lewis’s rent didn’t embody point out of whether or not any artists from his roster would acquire illustration along with his new gallery.

Previous to opening his gallery, Lewis obtained a PhD from the Metropolis College of New York, the place he studied Francis Picabia, the Dada artist whose affect Lewis charted in “Everybody Loves Picabia,” his gallery’s remaining present.

“It’s an unbelievable honor to be becoming a member of Hauser & Wirth,” Lewis mentioned in an e mail to ARTnews. “Since my days as an artwork historian, after which when proudly owning and working a gallery, I’ve all the time intensely admired Hauser & Wirth, and particularly the dynamism of its artwork historic imaginative and prescient. I’m thrilled that what began with Marc Payot as a dialog about artists, the artwork world, and the ever-changing panorama of concepts, has grow to be this chance to assist additional the gallery’s mission.”

Hauser & Wirth president Marc Payot mentioned in a press release that Lewis “shares Hauser & Wirth’s values, our dedication to authentic artwork historic scholarship and our love of dwelling artists as generative forces important to the wellbeing of the broader tradition.”

He’s the third New York seller to shut a gallery devoted primarily to younger artists and take a job at a blue-chip area prior to now yr.

Simone Subal, who ran a Decrease East Facet area that closed this previous summer time after 12 years in enterprise, was made senior director at New York’s Paula Cooper Gallery this summer time. In the meantime, final yr, Jasmin Tsou wound up operations at JTT, the gallery that helped make artists like Jamian Juliano-Villani and Elaine Cameron-Weir well-known, after which turned a director at Lisson Gallery.

Lewis, Subal, and Tsou’s areas are among the many most distinguished New York galleries which have closed prior to now two years. Others embody Helena Anrather, Queer Ideas, and Denny Gallery, in addition to the blue-chip area Cheim & Learn.