Clever upstart galleries helmed by ambitious young curators pop up and expand every year—it’s a vital part of a city’s street ecosystem. Many such galleries promise to showcase “underrepresented voices,” but one space, run by two gay twin brothers, has continually delivered on that intriguing promise. In its short life in New York, Kapp Kapp has become a career-maker—and a career-reviver—for a fleet of talents who might not otherwise have received their due.
SAM: Daniel and I have been referring to the neighborhood in the last couple months as “BeCa”—Below Canal—because if you ask a long-time New Yorker about where most of the area’s galleries are, they’ll say it’s not true Tribeca. The artist Stanley Stellar, whom we represent, has lived in the same Tribeca loft since the ‘70s, and he told us we’re not in real Tribeca.DANIEL: Yeah, The Hole is on the ground floor and Lomex is on the third floor. We will be on the fourth floor.
SAM: I think that’s the beauty of this show. The Piers were a Secret Garden. They had been old shipping piers that were abandoned. Stanley told us that there was a fence around the perimeter, and in ‘75 he first noticed people crawling through a hole in it. He followed them, and beyond the fence was this fantasyland. There’s something really special about seeing that world in color, too. These abandoned offices are painted in this beautiful turquoise color.
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