Artist, owner and director of VSOP Projects Jonathan Weiskopf hopes to have left a mark on Greenport as he will close the gallery and take operations to the Hudson Valley come 2026.
“Ultimately, my goals and aspirations for the business and the program don’t align with where I physically am right now,” says Weiskopf. “I anticipate that the move and putting myself in the Hudson Valley will put me in a community of artists and institutions where I really think that I can find a slightly more critical and conceptual community in which to operate and be in dialogue.”
Weiskopf, who founded the space in January of 2017 and presented his first exhibition Memorial Day Weekend of that year, announced the impending shuttering on Oct. 29.
To close out VSOP Projects’ time in Greenport, Weiskopf will host a final group exhibition with an opening reception on Nov. 15.
“It is a very tight group of mostly local artists that have been most important to the evolution of the program over the last nine years,” says Weiskopf.
In anticipating the final shows at this space, Weiskopf also decided to feature local artists Arden Scott, Louise Crandell and Thomas Halaczinsky in the penultimate series, which closed on Oct. 5
The gallery will remain open for viewing the weekend of the reception, subsequent open house weekends and by appointment through the end of the year and until the space is sold.
VSOP Projects has been home to 40 solo exhibitions and 32 group shows. Weiskopf has been involved in various art fairs, off-site events, performances and publications since he opened the doors nine years ago.
“Without question, those working artists that have grown with me these last ten years are by far the most important part of what I have been a part of and what I have accomplished,” says Weiskopf.
In the Hudson Valley, which Weiskopf considers a hub for creatives, interior designers, antique dealers and collectors, he plans on embracing the abundance of inspiration in the local artist colonies, close by the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art and Upstate Art Weekend in the summer.
He hopes to leave an impact on Greenport like beloved artists Amy Worth, Caroline Waloski and Richard Fiedler.
“Their influence is still felt in the art community, in the local art market, in the way that art is shown and in the spaces in which it is shown,” says Weiskopf. “To be a part of that history would be very satisfying for me.”
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