Downtown Dealers Podcast Episode 3: Featuring Miguel Abreu and Peter Freeman - Features

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Downtown Dealers, a live conversation series in which New York art dealers from multiple generations come together to discuss their approaches and experiences, is now available as a podcast. The third Downtown Dealers talk was recorded in April 2024 with Miguel Abreu, the founder of Miguel Abreu Gallery, and Peter Freeman, the founder of Peter Freeman Inc., moderated by Independent’s founder Elizabeth Dee and organized by Bill Cournoyer at Tara Downs Gallery. Miguel and Peter discuss how their gallery practices evolved from their early-career experiences working in nonprofits, their unique programming centered on conceptual art, and the challenge of nurturing a new generation of adventurous collectors.

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Downtown Dealers Podcast Episode 3: Featuring Miguel Abreu and Peter Freeman - Features - Independent Art Fair

Peter Freeman founded Peter Freeman, Inc. in 1990, representing leading international artists and the estates of several generations, spanning the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, and specializing in important historical works with particular emphasis on early Pop, Minimal, and Conceptual Art. In 2006, Peter Freeman partnered with Galerie Nelson to establish what would eventually become Peter Freeman, Inc., Paris in 2013. The gallery, both in New York and in Paris, has always presented historically significant works in conversation with newer work by living artists. Peter Freeman publishes scholarly books, including a catalogue raisonné Robert Mangold: Early Works, with text by Robert Storr; the first US catalogue on the works of Charlotte Posenenske; several catalogues on Medardo Rosso; James Ensor: Paintings, with text by Xavier Tricot; the first monograph of Catherine Murphy, with text by John Yau and Svetlana Alpers; a facsimile edition of Mangelos Pythagoras with an essay by Branka Stipančić; and the artist book Tide, a collaboration with Silvia Bächli and the writer Jamaica Kincaid. The gallery is a member of the Art Dealers Association of America.

Miguel Abreu was born in New York City and grew up in Paris. He co-founded with Tim Nye, Thread Waxing Space (1991-2002) on the second floor of 476 Broadway as a non-profit gallery and performance space exploring the interdisciplinary nature of the arts through diverse programming. Abreu established his namesake gallery in 2006 to nurture and promote what he describes as “conceptually challenging, and plastically realized” works of art. In 2010 he co-founded Sequence Press, a publishing enterprise focusing on contemporary philosophy and the arts.