New galleries open every year in Soho.
People with entreprenuerial spirit and a few artists who they have chosen to champion open their doors to the public and test the waters. Well for the most part they come from the underground New York art scene. In order to organize and focus the material I determined to set up some loose criteria. I thought to start the time frame in 1970 with the opening of 112 Workshop, the first alternative space in Soho and ending with Thread Waxing Space in Soho which opened in 1990 and was a sort of simulated 112 redux. The problem with that matrix was the sheer number of artists I would have to deal with, not doing justice to any of them.