LA’s The Box Gallery to Close After 19 Years
ARTnews reports that The Box, a Los Angeles gallery founded by Mara McCarthy, announced it will close after 19 years in business. The gallery’s final exhibition was a two-venue collaboration with Parker Gallery devoted to late California artist Wally Hedrick, which ran through April 4, and it will mark its closure with a fashion show for Johanna Went in collaboration with artist and playwright Asher Hartman on June 6. The Box opened in June 2007 at 805 Traction Avenue in downtown LA with a multichannel video installation by Spandau Parks, and McCarthy said the space was formed in dialogue with the career of her father, artist Paul McCarthy, who gained wider acclaim after the 1992 MOCA Los Angeles exhibition “Helter Skelter.” McCarthy cited shifting economics around support for her father’s work and the fact that her family lost their homes in the Eaton fire that ravaged Altadena and parts of the San Gabriel Valley in January 2025 as factors that made continuing impossible.
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