Olney Gleason, a new gallery founded by former Kasmin senior staff Nick Olney and Eric Gleason, has been appointed as the exclusive representative for the estates of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner through the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. The gallery, which opened earlier this year, succeeds Kasmin in handling the artists' work; Kasmin had represented Pollock since 2024 and Krasner since 2017. Olney and Gleason previously organized multiple Krasner exhibitions at Kasmin and supported major museum shows, including a 2019 Krasner retrospective at the Barbican Centre and a 2024 Pollock exhibition at the Picasso Museum in Paris.
This appointment matters because it consolidates the representation of two towering figures of Abstract Expressionism under a single, newly established gallery, signaling a shift in the stewardship of their legacies. The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, which funds exhibitions, scholarship, and grants for visual artists, will collaborate with Olney Gleason on gallery shows, scholarly publications, and museum exhibitions. The move also underscores the ongoing reassessment of Lee Krasner's work, which has gained recognition as equal in significance to Pollock's, and highlights the continuity of expertise from the former Kasmin gallery into a new venture.