After 5 years at 9 White Road in Tribeca, Ortuzar Tasks will transfer to a brand new, 10,000 sq. ft house simply next-door that can enable the gallery to carry a number of exhibitions directly whereas nonetheless holding its presence in Tribeca, New York’s fastest-growing neighbourhood for galleries.
Ortuzar Tasks will open this autumn at 5 White Road, which is being designed by structure agency Caplan Colaku, which not too long ago designed the non-profit Artists Area’s new location, additionally in Tribeca. A long time in the past, within the Eighties, Artists Area was primarily based at 5 White Road.
Ortuzar Tasks’ first present on the new location will likely be an exhibition of works by Ernie Barnes, curated by Derrais Carter. Final 12 months throughout Frieze New York, amid a market frenzy for Barnes’s work that took many unexpectedly, Ortuzar Tasks introduced it might co-represent the property of the late American soccer player-turned-artist with Andrew Kreps, one other Tribeca-based gallery.
Ales Ortuzar—a former companion at David Zwirner—opened his gallery in 2018 as a two-year challenge to current essential Twentieth- and twenty first century artists to new audiences within the US.
When Ortuzar Tasks opened in Tribeca 5 years in the past, the neighbourhood was simply starting to expertise the mass migration of artwork galleries to the world. In the present day, increasingly galleries are increasing downtown or decamping from neighbourhoods like Chelsea altogether. Galleries asserting strikes to Tribeca embody Timothy Taylor, Stephen Friedman, Marian Goodman and Alexander Grey, and collector Lio Malca.
