Slip House, a new gallery co-founded by Ingrid Lundgren and Marissa Dembkoski, will open to the public on May 9, 2025, during Frieze Week. Located in a 1,000-square-foot, three-story former carriage house at 246 East 5th Street in New York's East Village, the gallery's inaugural exhibition features a multigenerational roster of artists, including historic works by Jack Whitten and Claude Viallat alongside contemporary pieces by Anne Hayden Stevens, Lizzy Gabay, Max Guy, and others. Former Sprüth Magers Director Jessica Draper co-curates the debut presentation. The space includes a second-floor fireplace and kitchen, and a third-floor live/work area that will host a rotating artist residency, with co-founder Dembkoski living onsite during the first year.
This opening matters because Slip House represents a deliberate rethinking of the gallery model through hospitality, domestic intimacy, and historical continuity, inspired by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. The founders aim to create a "way station" connecting artists across geographies and generations, blending cross-generational exhibitions with a residency program. The building's own layered history—once inhabited by artist Charles Kritsky, a friend of Jean-Michel Basquiat—adds cultural resonance. The gallery's name references the Coenties Slip artists (Agnes Martin, Ellsworth Kelly, James Rosenquist), linking it to a legacy of artist communities in Lower Manhattan.