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New York: Introducing Selection Committee Member Peter MacGill

We are thrilled to unveil our esteemed New York Selection Committee. These members of a globally significant art community set the high standard of the fair, ensuring you can buy from our artists with the confidence that you are investing in the very best of emerging talent.

The final member of our esteemed Selection Committee is Peter MacGill.

Peter MacGill is the president of Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, which was founded in 1983 by Arnold Glimcher of Pace Gallery, Richard Solomon of Pace Editions, and Peter MacGill.  The gallery represents the Estates of Richard Avedon, Harry Callahan, William Christenberry, Peter Hujar, Irving Penn and Garry Winogrand, as well as the work of Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, David Goldblatt, Emmet Gowin, Paul Graham, Josef Koudelka, Richard Learoyd, Richard Misrach, Michal Rovner and Kiki Smith, among others.

Pace/MacGill Gallery strives to disseminate the work of its artists to museums, private collectors and corporate collections worldwide, and has become the leading organizer of transactions to place major private collections and/or archives into public institutions.

MacGill was the director of LIGHT Gallery, New York, and graduated with a BFA from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1974 and an MFA from the University of Arizona in 1977, where he was the first student to graduate from the MFA Photography program.

The Other Art Fair New York will launch its first edition on June 1-4 2017 at the Brooklyn Expo Center. Tickets are now live.