“What’s happening with galleries?”

That is the question which, more than any other, has landed in Philly Steward’s inbox and DMs over the past several months. Some people have heard that Gross McCleaf has changed hands, that Bluestone is waiting until the spring to see if they will reopen, that members of High Tide have opened a new LA space, that Tiona McClodden is organizing a new gallery and that the futures of quite a few OG artist-run spaces are somewhat uncertain. This question was repeatedly delivered tinged with the anxiety that when quarantine rules are lifted, the Philadelphia gallery scene that had existed before the tumult of 2020 won’t exist with the same vivacity and sense of purpose that it had before.

The truth is that the PS team has had the same questions. Like everybody else, we’ve been siloed in our homes for the past nine months, walking the tightrope of work/life balance, health, and sanity. We had all heard the stories making their way through the grapevine of Philly art gossip, but no one seemed to have any genuine sense of where things were at.

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