Art Consultant Lindsay Jarvis Bets on The Bowery and a Revival of Connoisseurship
In the heart of New York's Bowery, a vibrant and historic neighbourhood, a new art gallery has made its mark. The gallery, named "Ghost," is the brainchild of London-born art dealer Lindsay Jarvis.
Jarvis, who has built a reputation as an auction savant, specializing in 20th-century artists such as Lois Dodd, Richard Mayhew, and Joan Snyder, has chosen this location because of its alive and spirited atmosphere. The second-floor space at 96 Bowery is a perfect fit, offering a mix of history, scrappy spaces, and serious ones too, making it the right place to stake a claim.
The gallery's debut exhibition, "Ghost," organized with Max Werner, focuses on landscape as a theme and runs from Wednesday to October 4. Many of the works in this exhibition have a neo-romantic sensibility, where the landscape becomes less about scenery and more about a stage for questions about organic versus synthetic, decay versus renewal, and geopolitical borders.
One contemporary artist featured in the gallery's first solo exhibition and also represented in the group exhibition "Ghost" is Lovis-Marie Scherer. The young painter Daniel Licht, who has one piece in the show, will be the focus of the next show at Lindsay Jarvis' gallery, marking his first New York solo.
Jarvis' background in advising collectors and bidding at auction influences the program of his gallery. With a focus on artists like Lois Dodd, Richard Mayhew, Joan Snyder, Janet Sobel, whose market is only just catching up to their importance, the gallery program showcases contemporary artists alongside undervalued 20th-century figures.
In a climate where the art market is swinging back to connoisseurship, with people preferring art that rewards time and has long-term value, Jarvis emphasizes long-term value, connoisseurship, and quality over chasing trends. Rent is part of the program for Lindsay Jarvis' gallery, with a focus on keeping it sensible and sustainable.
The closure of galleries like Blum is often not acknowledged in the press as being from a position of strength. Jarvis sees the current art market as a healthy climate for a long-term career, despite some collectors being less active. The space for Lindsay Jarvis' gallery is a fraction of what one of the recently closed galleries was paying, showing that careful deals can be made in the current market.
The "Ghost" exhibition aims to hold a lot of present anxieties, as it is a genre that can accommodate a wide range of themes. The exhibition features the work of Daniel Licht, a young painter who has one piece in the show, and contemporary artist Lovis-Marie Scherer, among others.
Interestingly, there is a huge demand for certain 20th-century artists and Japanese artists in particular, but this is often not reported in the press. Lindsay Jarvis' gallery, with its focus on artists like Lois Dodd, Richard Mayhew, Joan Snyder, Janet Sobel, and Beverly Buchanan, among others, is helping to bring this demand to light.
Landscape feels urgent again, according to Jarvis, due to the anxiety that technology is cutting people off from the natural world, similar to the Industrial Revolution. The "Ghost" exhibition, with its focus on landscape and neo-romantic sensibility, seems to echo this sentiment, offering a thought-provoking exploration of our relationship with the natural world.
