Comme Ca NYC
645 West 27th Street, between 11th/12th Ave. New York, NY 10001
Manchester-based Comme Ca Art Ltd. opened a 3,500-square-foot gallery in Chelsea, Comme Ca NYC, on October 16, 2003, with the aim of introducing emerging artists from The North of England to New York, as well as assembling shows of U.S.-based artists in Manchester and abroad. The gallery’s inaugural exhibition We go round and round in the night and are consumed by fire (on view until November 22) is curated by Edinburgh-based art historian Dr. Neil Mulholland, author of The Cultural Devolution: British Art In The Late Twentieth Century (Ashgate, London 2002). Notably, it features this year’s Whitney Museum of American Art Artist Resident Graham Parker and Comme Ca Art Prize North winner Paul Rooney among other artists transported from Manchester and Liverpool, including David Mackintosh, Pat Flynn, Oliver East, Jim Medway, Tom Wood, David Alker & Peter Liddell, Lesley Halliwell, Nick Jordan and Dave Griffiths.

Comme Ca Art Ltd.
Founded by Mancunian Claire Turner in 1994, Comme Ca Art Ltd. is recognized as The North’s leading art agency and one of the main catalysts of the region’s burgeoning art scene. On October 8, 2003, Turner awarded the first 10,000 GBP Comme Ca Art Prize North, along with Prize Art Patron Chris Ofili, to one of five artist nominees from The North. In 2002, Comme Ca established its first gallery, Comme Ca MCR. Combined with its arts services, Comme Ca has pioneered new ways of collaborating with artists on commissions for commercial and public projects that engage broader audiences outside the museum and gallery system, such as Cow Parade Manchester 2004, the city’s largest public art event scheduled to date leading up to Manchester’s bid to host the international art world’s alternative biennale, Manifesta.

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