NEW YORK, NY.-Phillips de Pury & Company is proud to debut Associates, a non-profit gallery initiative featuring works by cutting-edge contemporary artists. Associates, a non-profit gallery in London’s East End, was a critically acclaimed endeavor begun by artist Ryan Gander and co-directed by Rebecca May Marston. Run from September 2006 -- October 2007, Associates was a one-year project of twelve monthly solo exhibitions by artists who largely had not
previously had a solo show in London. The gallery was designed as non-profit and for solo exhibitions in order to commit to the individual development of the artists, offering them 100% of their sales profits.

Associates in New York, curated by Paola Clerico, will be a group show of twelve solo shows of new work by the artists and marks the first time all the artists have exhibited together. The following artists will be shown: Ben Cain, Stella Capes, Alice Channer, Lucy Clout, Kim Coleman & Jenny Hogarth, Sean Edwards,
Josephine Flynn,Tom Gidley, Matthew Harrison, Adrià Julià, Matthew Smith, Adam Thomas. Associates in New York will run concurrently with the viewing and sale of Phillips de Pury & Company’s Under the Influence auction which showcases work by emerging artists and compliments the New York Armory Show. Associates in NewYork will offer audiences a unique opportunity to collect works by emerging artists.

Associates was included in London’s Zoo Art Fair during Frieze Art Fair week 2007 and it has been a great critical success. Ryan Gander has gained a reputation for a body of work in a range of mediums. Shortlisted for the Beck’s Futures Award in 2005 and featured in the TateTriennial in 2006, he has exhibited widely in Europe and The United States. Ikon, Birmingham will host a solo show by Gander this spring which then moves to South London Gallery. Further exhibitions in 2008 include a solo show at the Kunsthalle in St. Gallen, Switzerland and the Bonner Kunsteverein in Germany.

Paola Clerico comes to her new role as an independent curator from nine years of experience as a gallerist in Milan. As a gallerist she has focused her research on artists such as Haluk Akakce, avaf(assumed vivid astro focus), Ricci Albenda,Trisha Donnelly, Stefania Galegati, Ryan Gander, Piero Golia, Johannes Kahrs, Ian Kiaer, Annika Larsson, Guillome Leblom, Armin Linke, Yan Pei-Ming, Jonathan Pylypchuk and Tino Sehgal.