Jeff Rymer | In Reflection

It was designed to be a classic modernist white box, the Rymer Gallery. The idea was to create a white-on-white-on-white space for showcasing contemporary art, but the results are anything but cold and sterile. An exposed brick wall, deep russet metal beams, and wooden flooring in the entry and on the stairs infuse the space with warmth and serve as anchors to keep it from being an undefined sea of white. The wooden flooring continues in a mezzanine carved out of one side of the gallery. This is one of the four zones within the gallery, the others being a glass room, a long hallway, and a large open space.

Though the look of the Rymer Gallery derived from a carefully researched and executed concept, the gallery itself was not something Jeff Rymer had thought about when he first acquired the Fifth Avenue North space…

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