BIG APPLE BUSINESS: John McWhinnie at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller
John McWhinnie at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller is a bookshop and art gallery devoted to buying and selling rare and out of print collectible editions of books. They specialize in the history of the 20th and 21st century avant-gardes in art, literature, photography, and design. Their emphasis is on the highest caliber association copies--books inscribed by authors or artists--in the market. Their goal is to chronicle this important niche of the rare book market through catalogues and exhibitions. Peachy Deegan met them at the recent AIPAD show at the Park Avenue Armory.
They work with individuals and institutions to build in-depth collections surveying the rise, growth, and development of the most compelling vanguard movements of the last century. Emphasis is on collection building and to that end they work closely with clients to create collections that reflect their shared interest in the cutting- edge in artistic and popular media. From Dada to Punk, the Luddites to the Lower East Side, they seek out important material that provides a window onto the social, political, and artistic movements that shaped modernity.
John McWhinnie at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller also features an art gallery. They mount 5 to 8 shows a year, highlighting the up-and-coming as well as the well-established. They have mounted solo exhibitions with artists Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Matthew Barney, Elizabeth Peyton, Brigid Berlin, Terry Richardson and Ryan McGinness, amongst others. As part of their mandate to exhibit the most important developments of contemporary art, they have begun an imprint, JMc & GHB editions, to publish artist's books. These books emerge out of the shared interests of the gallery and the artists it exhibits. In the past year JMc & GHB editions has published books with Richard Prince, Matthew Barney, Terry Richardson, and Mats Gustafson.
John McWhinnie @ Glenn Horowitz Bookseller is a collaboration between its two principals, John McWhinnie and Glenn Horowitz. John McWhinnie managed Glenn Horowitz's flagship East Hampton business for 8 years before opening this joint venture with Horowitz in 2005.
More recently they have hosted exhibitions of work by Christopher Wool & Richard Hell, David Levinthal, and Brigid Berlin. They produced their own editions in connection with the artists on the Wool/Hell and Levinthal shows. Most recently they showed a remarkable archive of the fashion designer Stephen Sprouse covering the seventies and eighties. Their forthcoming show will be opening April 2nd (no reception planned) and is entitled - What I've Been Hoarding; An Accumulation of Rock and Literary Decadence: 1965 - 85.
For more information:
http://www.johnmcwhinnie.com/index.php
