Soloway Gallery is an artist-run gallery in Williamsburg. Founded around 2010, member artists pool resources to cover rent and each receive a six-week exhibition window to organize their own shows.
Soloway runs on dues and trust. A group of artists pools money to cover rent on a narrow South Williamsburg storefront (the same one where Soloway Plumbing and Heating used to operate) and in return, each member gets a six-week window to mount whatever show they want. Founded around 2010 by artists Annette Wehrhahn, Pat Palermo, Munro Galloway, and Paul Branca, the gallery has cycled through different artist-members over the years while keeping the same structural premise: no directors who aren't also practitioners, no programming that isn't artist-organized. The question Soloway keeps returning to is less about what gets shown than who gets to decide. And what happens to the work when the people hanging it are the same people making it.
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