Alumnus Michael Nevin ’04 Featured in the New York Times
From left: Kika Karadi’s “Untitled (OPM No.1),” 2014; Julia Dippelhofer and Michael Nevin; Jeff Zilm’s “The Pilgrim,” 2014. Courtesy of the Journal Gallery
Defining Moments | Reflections on the Magic of the Journal Gallery, From the Artists Who Show There CULTURE By BEN BARNA MAY 28, 2014
Julia Dippelhofer had come to the United States from Germany to work as an au pair when she met Michael Nevin ’04 in a photography class at the Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, Mass. Then 19, Nevin had recently started a photocopied zine out of his dorm called The Journal that was dedicated to his twin passions: snowboarding and art. The two formed a bond based on their shared aesthetic sensibility, and soon moved to New York and turned The Journal into an effortlessly stylish publication at the crossroads between the city’s downtown fashion and art worlds.
As it grew in both recognition and reputation — contributors included names like Juergen Teller and Terence Koh — Dippelhofer and Nevin became champions for the artists they featured, who often created work specifically for the magazine. The next logical step was to transform their East Village production office into an event space that could showcase works from emerging and established talent. In 2004, the Journal Gallery was born. “The magazine, along with the gallery, created a certain energy that we found inspiring,” Nevin says. “We wanted a space in which we could connect with readers and contributors to create a dialogue.”
They later relocated to Williamsburg as a full-fledged gallery representing artists that quickly established itself as a bastion of taste and creativity across the river from New York’s traditional art epicenter. “To the New York art world, that’s like opening on Mars,” Nevin once said. To celebrate the Journal Gallery’s 10-year anniversary, the Manhattan gallery Venus over Manhattan will be staging a retrospective that will include works from the artists that defined it, including Rita Ackermann, Brian Belott, Daniel Hesidence, Sarah Braman, Graham Collins, Peter Demos, Chris Succo, Michael Williams and more. Five of those artists wrote in to share their thoughts on what makes the Journal Gallery one of a kind.
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