Art *Coming Soon*
As we prepare to enter 2024 there are exciting changes at The Pit that we’d like to share with you. We have been working diligently through 2023 renovating a new building for our gallery that we will launch on February 24 with a public reception to kick off Frieze week. The Pit’s new home will be located in the Atwater Village neighborhood of Los Angeles. The nearly 13,000 sq. ft. building has been designed by LA based architectural firm JK & Co. The new building will include three large exhibition spaces, onsite storage facilities, the return of our former shop which will stock Pit publications / shirts / as well as serve as the local base for Reaperware. We will also have on site parking for our visitors, and offices for our staff. This next chapter for the gallery is something that we have been working towards for many years as it was extremely important to us to find a building and architect who could help us to level up but also retain the feeling of The Pit.
We will have our final reception at the Glendale location on Sunday January 14th from 3-5pm. We are thrilled that Jonathan Casella’s solo exhibition “This Palace” will be our final presentation at this building, which has meant so much to us. We are also happy to announce that we have arranged for our friends and colleagues at Gattopardo, another artist-run gallery, to take over the lease at 918 Ruberta Avenue and they will continue to host exhibitions. In many ways Gattopardo and their programming remind us of The Pit in our earlier years, and we are happy to know that the exhibitions and spirit of the programming from those days will continue on with such thoughtful and exciting stewards. Alongside our exhibition with Jonathan Casella on January 14th, Gattopardo will have their first show in the upper gallery at the building and this will serve as a passing of the torch as The Pit relocates and Gattopardo establishes themselves in the building.
We started the Pit in a storage garage in an alley in 2014, and we are entering this next phase and new building as we celebrate our tenth anniversary! Over the ten years we have had the honor of exhibiting the works of hundreds of artists and have felt the support and encouragement of our community as we continued to grow. We are thankful to all of you who have been on this journey with us and look forward to the next chapter with you.
- Adam D. Miller & Devon Oder