~GOOD WILL (LEUNG) . . HUNTING !!
WILL LEUNG OPENS . . ANOTHER PLACE,
& TAKES . . A SOLO ‘STAB’ at the ART WORLD !!
see: ANOTHER PLACE / LOWER EAST SIDE
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WILL LEUNG: “JUST GOING TO TAKE A STAB – AT IT !!”
image via Instagram Story @willnyc / at the inaugural opening of ANOTHER PLACE – his first solo gallery.
JAN 8, 2022.
WILL LEUNG / PHOTO: CULTURED MAGAZINE FEB 9, 2021
FOR A LITTLE MORE LOW-DOWN – on WILL !!
check out: CULTURED MAGAZINE / ‘IN NEW YORK, ATM Gallery REACTS TO THE MOMENT’ . . by MOSES DRIVER / FEB 9, 2021
at that point in time, FEB 2021, just about a year ago: it was all about: WILL & BILL !!!
WILL LEUNG & BILL BRADY.
Will had just partnered up with, and co-opened . . a new rendition / or resurrection of the original / legendary NYC ATM Gallery – with BILL BRADY, the original founder. BILL opened the historic, original, raw & tiny . . ATM space, in 2000 / on a gritty corner of AVE B, in the East Village, when the concept of small, as in very small !! indie galleries – was just percolating.
ANOTHER PLACE . . represents Will’s first solo / gallery venture, and the 2 galleries are side by side, which is quelle FUN !!!
and, YES !!
I do know – that original ATM Gallery time, place, and all the players – very, very well.
I covered that scene for editor WALTER ROBINSON at artnet / from 2002- 2004.
when by 2005 / digital technology had advanced enough – to allow for easy desktop ‘self-publishing’ / artlovers left artnet – to become artloversnewyork.com / in turn, becoming totally indie / independent – itself !!
here’s a link – to my very first photo report for Artnet:
‘ART LOVERS NEW YORK – PHOTOS by NANCY SMITH’ 11/15/02
that’s the top 2 rows / it scrolls down for several more lines / the early digital format at that time was . . thumbnail photos in a grid / and, then, if you hit each photo, you got the larger format.
KEANU REEVES, at “NUTSY’S” – an early . . TOM SACHS install.
ARCHIVAL PHOTO: NANCY SMITH / artnet. NOV 8, 2002.
yes !!!
it was an amazing time !!! – even KEANU REEVES was out & about – strolling through the art .. scene.
here’s . .
one of my earliest photos of BILL BRADY, published on Artnet.
it’s artist . . PETER CAINE, on the right / with BILL BRADY at the center / at the original ATM GALLERY, on SEPT 10, 2004.
ARCHIVAL PHOTO: NANCY SMITH / artnet
my photo of STEVEN PARRINO, at his big TEAM GALLERY opening on OCT 7, 2004 / the night before he tragically died in a motorcycle accident, was on the same report. it’s been floating around the internet forever.
ARCHIVAL PHOTO: NANCY SMITH / artnet
and again, another one – I’m . . really, really very proud of:
CAT POWER !!!
aka singer CHAN MARSHALL / SEPT 9, 2004 – at a CANADA GALLERY opening.
ARCHIVAL PHOTO: NANCY SMITH / artnet
you can scroll that original report, in full here: ‘ART LOVERS NEW YORK – PHOTOS by NANCY SMITH’ – ‘YOUTH RULES in the BIG APPLE – FALL 2004’
(!!!!!)
ps: for the brave-hearted & curious, it was WALTER ROBINSON, editor of artnet / at that time – god bless his little ole heart – who gave me my first, big break at artnet / and, it was he . . . who labelled me ‘artloversnewyork’ – like it, or not /
but, it sure did . . . stick !!