Ellie Rines trades Chinatown for Tribeca under her own name
Ellie Rines has put her own name on the door in Tribeca.
After a decade running 56 Henry in Chinatown in New York, the dealer has reopened as Ellie Rines Gallery at 46 Walker Street in Tribeca, New York, according to The Art Newspaper. The name is new too. The address is a step change in scale.
The new room sits in the former home of Soho Rep, the downtown New York theatre company. It has 14.5ft-high ceilings. Rines worked with real-estate broker Jonathan Travis to secure it, and the space sits across the street from the Tribeca gallery founded by her former mentor Stefania Bortolami.
The first show is built for the bigger room. It presents 20 candelabra sculptures by artist Christopher K. Ho. The gallery lists the exhibition as Waterloo!, which opened on 9 September with an evening reception from 6-8PM, according to the gallery's Instagram.
Rines started small. Very small. She opened her first gallery in 2013 at 55 Gansevoort Street in New York's Meatpacking District, a space once described as walk-in-closet-size in ARTnews. That room closed abruptly that summer. She then opened 56 Henry at its namesake address in Chinatown in 2015 and stayed for ten years, adding a second location at 105 Henry Street in 2022.
The roster has grown with the footprint. The gallery represents artists including Cynthia Talmadge, Al Freeman and Jo Messer. Rines was also the first dealer to give Anna Weyant a solo show, an exhibition devoted to a single artist. Isabelle Hogenkamp joins as director, the person who leads day-to-day artist liaison and sales.
What makes this stand out is continuity. The programme moves with Rines to Walker Street. The Chinatown addresses stay in the history, and the Tribeca opening tests that history in a taller, larger room.
