Amy Greenspon & Mitchell Algus

Portrait by Annabel Mehran

interview by ALEX GARTENFELD
portrait by ANNABEL MEHRAN

 

Mitchell Algus has decades of experience running a storied cult gallery, first located in Soho and later in Chelsea. Amy Greenspon was a private dealer and later a director at Marianne Boesky Gallery. The two have recently set up shop together in a giant ground-floor space on Morton Street in New York’s Meat Packing District, an insurgent but expensive Downtown neighborhood full of young, brazenly conceptual gallerists. By representing both young and old artists, Algus Greenspon is bending the traditional rules of the game. In August they exhibited a solo show by West Coast painter Gene Beery and in October they will open a two-person show featuring Balthus and Louis Eilshemius.

ALEX GARTENFELD — How did you and Mitchell decide to open a gallery together?
AMY GREENSPON — When we first…