Lineage Closes, Oh No!

The Lineage gallery in Old City has been one of my favorite first friday stops since I was in art school. It has been a couple of months since I have payed the gallery a visit, so I was shocked and appalled to find the gallery has had its last show and already and closed. Apparently there was a splitting between the two gallery owners and the gallery has thus closed. Joshua Liner, former owner, is now planning on opening a gallery in NYC sometime in the spring of 2008. He is advertising that his new gallery will feature works of such artists formelly reprerestented in the Lineage Gallery such as Ron English, Jeremy Fish, Ben Tour, Futura, and a many other "big name, and internationally recognized" artists. This is incredibly sad. The Lineage gallery was one of the best places in Philadelphia to see Post Pop and Street inspired works at the internationall level. The gallery was big enough to attract such great names, but still small enough that you could talk with the artists at many of the openings. In 2006 i had the opportunity to meet one of my heroes Ron English at the gallery and have a breif conversation about the show and his recent work. I have always enjoied the Philadelphia art sceen, and celebrated the differences we have from the omnipresent New York. I wish Joshua Liner luck with his new Gallery, and hope that New York City will be as kind and accepting of him as Philadephia was.

Sillydelphia Creator Ian A. Goering with Artist Ron English at the now closed Lineage Gallery