UPPER EAST SIDE — A Madison Avenue art gallery selling works by Willem de Kooning and Pablo Picasso is planning to expand into a ground floor space by next year, its owners announced.
The Dominique Lévy gallery currently shares its three-story building at 909 Madison Ave. at East 73rd Street with Galerie Perrotin, which occupies the ground floor.
But starting in January 2017, Dominique Lévy will take over that space, redesigning it to accommodate its expanding programs, according to gallery representatives.
Designer Bill Katz will reimagine the space. The neo-federal-style building was constructed for the Bank of New York in 1931. JPMorgan Chase occupied it until 2011.
Galerie Perrotin has decided to move out of the ground floor space in search of a bigger gallery, but will announce where at a later time, according to a spokeswoman for owner Emmanuel Perrotin.
By taking over the ground floor, Dominique Lévy will be able to increase exhibition space and add room for private viewing areas and its research facilities.
Works by Willem de Kooning and Zao Wou-Ki will be included in the first exhibition in the new space when it opens next year. A solo exhibition of artist Pat Steir's work will follow in June 2017.
Dominique Lévy, which has a gallery in London and an office in Geneva, opened its Madison Avenue gallery in 2013 and has since had 28 exhibitions and published 20 catalogs and artist monographs.
