After 37 years in operation, the well-known New York gallery Jack Hanley Gallery announced Tuesday night that it would close this month.

Originally called the Trans-Avant Garde Gallery, the Jack Hanley Gallery opened its doors in Austin, Texas, in 1987. Today, it is situated in Tribeca. In 1990, the gallery's original dealer, Jack Hanley, moved it to San Francisco and gave it its current name. In a nutshell, Hanley also operated a location in Los Angeles in the 2000s.

The gallery then shut down both of its California locations in 2008 and relocated once more, this time to New York, where it stayed until the end.

In the emailed notice of his gallery's closing on Tuesday night, Hanley expressed his sincere gratitude to all of the amazing artists who have shared their ideas and works of art with them over the years. It has been an absolute honor to collaborate with them, since they form the cornerstone of our gallery and community.

There was a risk-taking sensibility in Hanley's gallery. His gallery presented solo exhibitions by Zoe Leonard, Christian Marclay, Jack Pierson, Erwin Wurm, and Rirkrit Tiravanija alone in the 1990s. Even though all of these artists are now well-known, when Hanley exhibited their work, they were still extremely young, and most had just a few solo exhibits under their belts.

Hanley previously said to Artspace that he is often drawn to things that he wants to think about or doesn't fully get; if he understands it right away, he isn't very intrigued. He likes items that he must strive to organize and observe how they affect my mind, and that he must own or spend a month with.

There are several additional well-known people on the gallery's roster of graduates. In addition to unclassifiable individuals like photographer Torbjørn Rødland, sculptor Jonathan Monk, conceptual artist Tauba Auerbach, and painter Xylor Jane, the gallery has shown with Bay Area titans like Chris Johanson and Alicia McCarthy.