The Last Artists of SoHo and TriBeCa

In the late 1950s, when artists started moving downtown, the area was a sprawling wasteland of low level buildings anchored by two largely industrial areas — what we now call SoHo and its neighbor immediately to the south, TriBeCa. By the 1980s, SoHo was once again an important commercial center for the city, host to New York’s most influential galleries and the place where many artists lived and worked. Artists like Lorraine O’Grady, David Hammons and Senga Nengudi were left out of the narrative of SoHo’s heyday, though they did find a home at Linda Goode Bryant’s Just Above Midtown gallery, which opened in 1974 on West 57th Street and moved to TriBeCa in 1980.)

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