Archinect - News 2024-11-21T13:00:01-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150291408/bond-s-new-company-gallery-space-offers-a-unique-showcase-for-queer-artists-and-for-themselves BoND’s new Company Gallery space offers a unique showcase for Queer artists and for themselves Josh Niland 2021-12-16T12:33:00-05:00 >2024-10-25T04:07:38-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/a2/a26c25482f543f5aa1c484d8bb69c5ff.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>One of the flashiest openings in the art world this fall came not in the form of a suite of salable oil paintings or an of-the-moment sculptural showcase but rather from a one-time dry goods storage space which has been converted into the new home of New York&rsquo;s Company Gallery by an upstart duo called <a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/150291409/bond" target="_blank">BoND</a>.</p> <p>The duo is formed by Noam Dvir and Daniel Rauchwerger, partners in business and in life, who say their design was inspired by several different elements of the history of the city&rsquo;s Queer arts community for whom Company was founded seven years ago.</p> <figure><figure><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/cf/cfe5758c2dfe5581a3925d1b6f3bba2b.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/cf/cfe5758c2dfe5581a3925d1b6f3bba2b.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=514"></a><figcaption>Photo: Nick Glimenakis. Image courtesy BoND.</figcaption></figure></figure><p>The gallery&rsquo;s roster features a veritable who&rsquo;s who of hot young artists like <a href="http://officemagazine.net/gender-blender" target="_blank">Jonathan Lyndon Chase</a> and <a href="https://www.frieze.com/article-raul-de-nieves-profile-2021" target="_blank">Ra&uacute;l de Nieves</a> and was looking for a space to help inaugurate &ldquo;a jump to a different chapter&rdquo; with the help of some highly skilled hands from inside that same community.<br></p> <figure><figure><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/6c/6c3dfd358d5526da17d3ac4e73092cb0.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/6c/6c3dfd358d5526da17d3ac4e73092cb0.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=514"></a><figcaption>Photo: Nick Glimenakis. Image courtesy BoND.</figcaption></figure></figure><p>&ldquo;It was almost like a political discussion a little bit, and I think that we ...</p>