Closing Soon - The New York ‘Yours Mine & Ours’ Gallery

A New York contemporary gallery ‘Yours Mine & Ours’  was founded by Courtney Childress, Patton Hindle, and RJ Supa. The gallery had opened in September 2016 at 54 Eldridge Street in Lower East Side of New York city for public where the artists on the roster include Todd Bienvenu, Jeremy Couillard, and Mandy Lyn Ford. Recently, it has been announced that after an existence for two and a half years of operation, the New York gallery ‘Yours Mine & Ours’ will be closing by end of the month. The ‘Your Mine & Ours’ gallery had mentioned in one of its email ‘A Long December’ that “We’ve shown video games, paintings, sculptures, bongs, photographs, computer programs, videos, and even a large ceramic pipe that functioned as a planter.

We’ve always had fun in this endeavour and hope our programming has shown you a bit of who we are, too, as people. With both sadness and joy, we will be closing our final exhibition next week on December 23rd.” Currently, there is an exhibition of drawings on canvas in the gallery that is done by Nicole Wittenberg. This show has marked the end of a run on Eldridge Street that featured memorable offerings by Jeremy Couillard, Rachel Hecker, Steve Locke, Hannah Barrett, Todd Bienvenu, and more. Martin Roth had also presented a haunting but uplifting show in the form of “In November 2017 I collected a plant from the garden of a mass shooter,” in the last year. This had featured a succulent plucked secretively that represented a sign of hope amid despair from the yard of the murderer who had killed 59 people in Las Vegas, as well as carpeting inspired by the kind in the casino hotel from where this incident had taken place. However, the shooter’s name was not included in the show. Jeremy Couillard’s exhibition “Alien Afterlife” was also there in the same year that had included an ambitious large-screen video game developed by the artist as well as alien sculptures that typed strange communiques on laptops in the gallery’s basement. In 2017, ‘Yours Mine & Our’ gallery had also presented a group affair titled “The Roger Ailes Memorial Show: Fair and balanced.” RJ Supa along with Patton Hindle who is currently the director of arts at Kickstarter, Nick Rymer, and Courtney Childress who had already left the gallery had informed ARTnews that they had “We all felt like we were being pulled in different directions. Patton is at Kickstarter, Nick is a professor, and I’m preparing for a solo show at Marinaro gallery in January. In order to sustain the business we needed all hands on deck, and it wasn’t possible given the current financial landscape. Personally, I’m going to focus on my art.”

By: Anuja Arora

Content: http://www.artnews.com/2018/12/14/new-york-gallery-mine-close-leaving-lower-east-side-one-void/