Highlights of 2024
Thank you to all who supported us this year! 2024 marks the second year of the gallery during which we participated in three art fairs, opened nine exhibitions, and received press from The New York Times, Artforum, Cultured, T Magazine, Forbes, ARTnews, Office Magazine, and The Brooklyn Rail.
In 2020, the gallery was just a project space in my live/work basement studio. Since then, it has turned into a notable DIY art gallery in Tribeca. Never would I have thought that this was possible.
2024 has been the most financially challenging year and unpredictable for our young gallery, especially as the gallery's 2022 opening in Tribeca coincided with the beginning of a historic market dip. Our artists have been most understanding, and our collectors are adventurous, giving us the trust to present them with a stellar, well-deserving roster.
In partnership with Foster Pride, our A.R.T. (Application Readiness and Techniques) internship program has supported over fourteen interns. The program included students from Parsons, Harvard, Columbia University & Cooper Union. Developed from my research on Rikers Island (2018-19), A.R.T is a vocational training program focused on business skills development, research, and application within the art trade. We are grateful to have built rewarding partnerships towards a more equitable art world.
To our artists & interns, thank you; to the art writers, I thank you immensely; to our collectors, your support is always appreciated.
With gratitude,
Onyedika Chuke
Founder and Director
Michiko Itatani's (b. 1948) 6-month solo exhibition, as reviewed in Artforum, focused on a 16-year span in her fifty year oeuvre. Itatani taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for over 40 years and remains active as a prolific artist.
Storage's retrospective solo of Jeff Way (b. 1942) spanned 54 years of his work and was reviewed in The New York Times. Accompanying programming for the exhibition included a presentation by curator and art historian Dieter Buchhart, whose scholarship spans Tom Wesselmann, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Andy Warhol, amongst others.
Storage received coverage of ARTnews Best Booth at Felix Art Fair, for our presentation of artists Sebastian Burger (b. 1980), Kathryn Goshorn (b. 1991), and Barbara Nitke (b. 1950) in extension of the gallery's ongoing survey of international and overlooked artists.
Storage APT opened as a boutique, non-commercial salon founded in the tradition of great apartment galleries in the likes of Gracie Mansion. Storage APT fosters intimate programming with such artists as Nick Hobbs (b. 1997) and Barbara Nitke (b. 1950), whose inaugural solo exhibition was covered in Forbes.
Currently on View
Press Release (Cycle XIII) features the works of Rick Lowe (b. 1961), Leasho Johnson (b. 1984), Jeff Way (b. 1942), Hugo McCloud (b. 1980), Michael Igwe (b. 1994), and Carolyn Oberst (b. 1946).
Blending abstraction and figuration, this exhibition brings together a diverse assemblage of voices that collectively explore the multifaceted nature of identity, culture, and social observation. Press Release (Cycle XIII) will be on view from November 9th, 2024 through January 2025 at Storage.