Metro Pictures was a

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art gallery founded in 1980 by Janelle Reiring (previously of Leo

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), and

Helene Winer Helene Winer (born 1946) is an American art gallery owner and curator. She co-owned Metro Pictures Gallery in New York City with Janelle Reiring. Metro Pictures closed in late 2021. Her career deeply involved the postmodern artists of the 1970s an ...

(previously of Artists Space). It was located in

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until 1995 when it moved to Chelsea. The gallery closed in December of 2021.

Artists

Metro's opening group exhibition in 1980 included

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, Robert Longo,

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, Jack Goldstein, Sherrie Levine, James Welling, and Richard Prince. During the early and mid-1980s, Mike Kelley, Louise Lawler, Martin Kippenberger, John Miller, Tony Oursler, Walter Robinson, and Jim Shaw joined the gallery. Newer generations of artists have continued to expand the gallery's offerings. These artists include Gary Simmons, Olaf Breuning, Andy Hope 1930, Andre Butzer, Sara VanDerBeek, Tris Vonna-Michell, Trevor Paglen, Camille Henrot, Sam Falls (since 2013), Judith Hopf (since 2017), and Gretchen Bender (since 2020).

History

In 1996, Metro Pictures teamed up with two other galleries –

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and

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– to acquire and divide up a warehouse at 515 West 24th Street. The space was renovated by

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in 2016. It closed in December 2021.Sarah Douglas (March 7, 2021)
Metro Pictures Gallery, Which Represents Cindy Sherman and Other Top Artists, to Close
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References

External links

Metro Pictures Gallery
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