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Kasmin Gallery to Close This Fall as Olney Gleason Prepares to Launch

Senior directors Nick Olney joined by Eric Gleason have secured backing from Paul Kasmin’s estate to carry the gallery’s cross-generational roster into a reimagined Chelsea institution

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Overview

  • Kasmin Gallery will officially wind down this fall after a 35-year run that produced more than 350 exhibitions and represented over 100 artists.
  • President Nick Olney and senior director Eric Gleason will helm the new venture, Olney Gleason, from Kasmin’s Chelsea headquarters.
  • The transition plan reflects discussions held with founder Paul Kasmin before his death and has full support from his estate.
  • Olney Gleason plans a debut exhibition in Chelsea later this year with about 25 artists and estates, around 80 percent of whom joined Kasmin in the past five years.
  • The new gallery will uphold Kasmin’s artist-centric ethos by blending historical masters with cutting-edge contemporary practitioners.