Lance Fung Gallery

Lance Fung Gallery was established at 537 Broadway in New York City in 1996 and shared an exhibition space with Emily Harvey Gallery. It closed its doors in 2003. Previously, Lance Fung had been the director of Holly Solomon Gallery for several years. The venue emerged when Lance Fung and artist Nam June Paik approached Emily Harvey suggesting the two galleries cooperate in the space. The result was a vigorous and ambitious schedule of exhibitions which inspired the New York art scene during its functioning years.

The history of Lance Fung Gallery is divided into two periods. The First Five Years, 1996 to 2001, was driven by a general return to process, experimentalism and solidarity in the 1990s art scene. The period was communal, contrasting the hyper-commercial 1980s art boom. Another driver was kinship with other periods of solidarity and experimentalism in art such as associated with the 1960s Fluxus era, the 1970s process artists and the lesser known, but equally important art events of the early 1980s in Poland under the Solidarity movement.

The second period from 2001 to 2003 was marked by the effects of 9/11 on New York City in general, a migration of art galleries from downtown’s SoHo to Chelsea, interest in distributed curatorial activities and the conclusion of the gallery space.

Lance Fung Gallery opened its doors in 1996 with an exhibition by Shigeko Kubota, to showcase this artist’s work. Going forward the gallery built a solid reputation as an innovative venue for Intermedia, site-specific and process based art and installation. The gallery encouraged experimentation with ideas and materials, allowed an artist run layer to dialogue within its overall process and introduced chosen emerging artists in context with highly established artists.

Among many artists who showed at Lance Fung Gallery, permanent artists of the first five years include Gordon Matta-Clark, Joshua Selman, Tristano Di Robilant, Jessica Higgins, Suzanne Harris, Lars Chellberg, Richard Humann, Top Changtrakul, Anthony Sorce, Erika Knerr and John Roloff. The gallery website later featured a final list of artists which also included Peter Hutchinson and Nam June Paik.

External links

• "Fung Collaboratives".
• "Lance Fung Interviewed: Creating Community at Lucky Number 7". Artist Organized Art. 2008-05-03. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
• "Artist Organized Art and Lance Fung Gallery". Artist Organized Art. 2005-06-02. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
• Glueck, Grace (1996-07-19). "Sculpture With Video and a Lot of Activity". Art review. New York Times. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
• Smith, Roberta (1999-06-11). "'Wall Drawings'". Art in review. New York Times. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)