Michele Maccarone is going west.The veteran New York gallerist will keep her two West Village spaces while expanding into downtown L.A. with a 50,000-square-foot complex replete with a 15,000-square-foot outdoor sculpture garden.“I’m really interested in doing large, longer-lead solo exhibitions with gallery artists in the new space,” says Maccarone. “It allows me to be more experimental in New York, and to do group shows or historical shows or projects with artists we don’t necessarily represent.”Also in the works are plans for a 2,000-square-foot project space, to open within the L.A. compound in the fall of 2016.“If people are going to go out of their way to the gallery, they want an experience, and that’s what the sculpture garden and exhibition space are, and that’s eventually what the project space will be,” says Maccarone.At its September 19 debut, the new gallery will host a solo show of work by Alex Hubbard, as well as new pieces by Oscar Tuazon and Carol Bove in the sculpture garden.A version of this article appears in the September 2015 issue of Art+Auction.
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