Mitchell-Innes & Nash

People

Staff Members

Mike Amrhein - Preparator
Lucy Dew - Gallery Manager
Josephine Nash - Gallery Assistant
Jay Gorney - Director of Contemporary Art
Alina Kohlem - Gallery Assistant
Peter Tecu - Preparator
Robert Grosman - Director
Kara Gustafsson - Financial Manager
Sheldon Mukamal - Registrar
Ashley Robinson - Assistant to Lucy and David
Mamie Tinkler - Associate Director
Nicole Russo - Associate Director

Lucy Mitchell-Innes

Director
In 1994 Lucy Mitchell-Innes left Sotheby's to set up her own business as a private dealer and art advisor. Two years later, her husband David Nash joined her in opening Mitchell-Innes & Nash on Madison Avenue; since, the Gallery has opened a second space in Chelsea. Mitchell-Innes & Nash shows both emerging artists and established masters. In its exhibitions program, it often combines these interests, presenting cutting-edge works against the backdrop of their predecessors.

Before starting her own business, Ms. Mitchell-Innes was the Worldwide Director of Contemporary Art and a Senior Vice President at Sotheby's. She joined the firm in London in 1981 and transferred to New York two years later as Director of Contemporary Art in North America. In 1992 she was appointed head of the Contemporary Art Division Worldwide.

Ms. Mitchell-Innes holds a BA and an MA in art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art, where she specialized in 19th and 20th century European and American art. After leaving the Courtauld, she worked for the Henry Moore Foundation as a research assistant; she then worked for Air and Space, an experimental program that provided studio and exhibition space to artists whose work conventional galleries found too radical.

Lucy Mitchell-Innes continues to handle Contemporary paintings, drawings, and sculpture. She has placed important works by 20th century masters such as Johns, de Kooning, Pollock, Rauschenberg and Warhol into private and public collections of international significance. Her privileged and ongoing relationship with the Roy Lichtenstein Estate has further extended her reach and has given her greater access to collectors and institutions.

In 2009 Lucy Mitchell-Innes was appointed President of the Art Dealers Association of America for a 3 year term.

David Nash

Director
David Nash left Sotheby's in 1996 to join his wife, Lucy Mitchell-Innes, in opening a gallery on Madison Avenue. In 2005 they extended their reach into Chelsea with a space on 26th Street.

Mr. Nash spent thirty-five years at Sotheby's, where he sat on the Board of Directors. He was also in charge of the International Impressionist and Modern Art Department and all the firm's Fine Arts departments in New York. He joined the firm's newly formed Impressionist Paintings Department in London in 1961 and transferred two years later to New York. Mr. Nash sat on the Art Advisory Panel for the IRS for fourteen years, retiring in 2001. He now serves on the Board of the Art Dealers Association of America and on the Board of IFAR.

David Nash was involved in every Impressionist and Modern paintings auction held at Sotheby's in both New York and London. He is responsible for the sale of over one billion dollars' worth of Impressionist art in New York alone. In consequence, he has strong, long-standing relationships with many of the major dealers, collectors and museums in the field of 19th and 20th century fine arts. At the Gallery, Mr. Nash continues to handle the sale of important Impressionist and Modern works and to appraise such works for museums and private collectors.

Jay Gorney

Director of Contemporary Art
Jay Gorney has had over twenty-five years of experience exhibiting contemporary art. In 1985, he opened his first gallery, Jay Gorney Modern Art, in New York's East Village, where he mounted exhibitions of artists central to art of the 80s, including Tim Rollins + K.O.S., and Haim Steinbach and Sherrie Levine. In 1988 the gallery moved to Greene Street in SoHo, where Gorney exhibited artists including Gillian Wearing, James Welling, Allen Ruppersberg, and Catherine Opie, as well as solo exhibitions of Joseph Kosuth, Michelangelo Pistoletto, and Richard Prince. Jay Gorney Modern Art also produced early solo shows of Martha Rosler and Jessica Stockholder.

In 1999 Mr. Gorney joined John Lee and Karin Bravin to open Gorney Bravin and Lee in Chelsea, where he continued to work with Rosler and Stockholder, as well as photographer Justine Kurland and painter James Siena.

In 2005 Mr. Gorney joined Mitchell-Innes & Nash as the Director of Contemporary Art. Since joining the gallery he has developed a program that spans emerging art and modern masters. The gallery's artists have exhibited widely in galleries and museums and are regularly included in significant thematic exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad.