112 Greene Street The Early Years 1970 1974. In the 1980s and 90s the building was the home of Greene St. The artist-run gallery occupied a building owned by Jeffrey Lew with Gordon Matta-Clark as resident imp and impresario.
Gordon Matta-Clark was part of a loose but close-knit coalition of artists and dancers whose work and lives coalesced around the large lofts left over from an earlier industrial age in New Yorks Soho1 When Jeffrey Lew a friend of Matta-Clark opened up 112 Greene Street in October 1970 it immediately became what would now be called an alternative artist-run exhibition space. Aug 19 2012 Installation view of 112 Greene Street. Started in October 1970 by Jeffrey Lew Gordon Matta-Clark and Alan Saret among others the building became a focal point for a young generation of artists seeking a substitute for New Yorks established gallery circuit and provided the stage for a singular moment of artistic invention and freedom that was at its peak between 1970 and 1974.
The artist-run gallery occupied a building owned by Jeffrey Lew with Gordon Matta-Clark as resident imp and impresario.
Today the boutique co-op building offers keyed elevator entry and permits pets and washer-dryers. In the early 1970s the building served as an artist-run exhibition space as chronicled in the book 112 Greene Street. In contrast to the traditional gallery space and the Modernist ideal of a white cube environment its raw and unmediated physicality proved adaptable for an unremitting variety of. This extensively researched and historically important book brings together a number of works exhibited at 112 Greene Street including works by Matta-Clark Vito Acconci Tina Girouard Suzanne Harris Jene Highstein Larry Miller Alan.