A Chelsea Loft Becomes a Ten-Day Gallery

May 11. A Chelsea loft at 26th and 10th opened as a temporary gallery. Ten days, appointment-only. Art BILLYCLARK and Paris-based advisory _POLIMENO stacked the space with work from their rosters, calling it 26TH AND 10TH. The show closed May 23.

The format extends an idea from _POLIMENO's Art Basel Paris booth earlier this year: Room with a View, where the gallery built a living-room setup inside the fair. Here, the living room is real. The loft belongs to someone. The art sits where furniture would. A domestic exhibition, not a white cube.

BILLYCLARK's roster leans contemporary figurative. _POLIMENO's leans conceptual and installation-based. The pairing puts two registers in one apartment. Walk through and the tonal shifts happen room to room. A painting in the kitchen. A sculpture where the couch should be. The contradiction is the point.

The appointment format keeps traffic controlled. No opening night, no crowd. You book a slot, you see the work, you leave. Closer to a studio visit than a gallery opening. The loft returns to being a loft on May 24.

Temporary residential galleries are not new. What's notable here is the pairing: an art advisor known for fair booths and an artist-run platform staging work in a private space with no long-term lease. The format borrows from both worlds and commits to neither. A pop-up that feels like a friends-and-family preview, scaled just wide enough to call it public.

The work shown has not been listed anywhere. No press images released. If you missed the ten days, you missed it.