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Branchline opens in New York to showcase contemporary Native art
The Gochman Family Collection has opened Branchline in Katonah, a town in Westchester County, New York.
The new centre gives the private collection a public gallery and studio space focused on contemporary Native American art.
Its opening exhibition, Line Break, brings together nearly 30 works by 18 artists, exploring ideas about lines and borders.
The collection, founded in 2021, holds more than 800 works and has lent art to exhibitions at museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
The gallery makes more of that collection available to the public, addressing the risk that privately held art may not be seen.
Katonah is named for a Munsee Lenape leader, and questions remain about how the project engages with the local Lenape community.
Branchline is expected to expand next year into three adjoining buildings, with more galleries, a ceramics studio, artist apartments and a café.
Branchline, a new centre for contemporary Native American art in Katonah, New York, opened its main gallery to the public in November.
The centre is an initiative of the Gochman Family Collection, a private collection established in 2021.
Its opening exhibition, Line Break, features nearly 30 works by 18 artists and explores lines and borders.
Branchline includes galleries, artist studios and a community ceramics studio, with more facilities planned as the complex is completed.
The sources give different public opening dates: November 6 in Hyperallergic and November 7 in The Art Newspaper.
- Who
- Branchline, an initiative of the Gochman Family Collection, opened its main gallery.
- What
- It is a new centre focused on contemporary Native American art, opening with the exhibition Line Break.
- When
- November 2026. The sources differ on the public opening date: November 6 or November 7.
- Where
- Katonah, in Westchester County, New York, near the Katonah Metro-North station.
- Why
- The centre aims to champion contemporary Native American art, support artists and share work from the collection.
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The Gochman Family Collection was established.
Branchline held a preview of the centre.
Branchline opened its main gallery to the public; the sources give different dates.
Branchline is expected to be fully completed across three adjoining buildings.
- Location
- Katonah, Westchester County, New York
- Collection founded
- 2021
- Collection size
- Around 800 works
- Opening exhibition
- Line Break
- Exhibition artists
- Nearly 30 works by 18 artists
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What people are saying
Branchline builds on an extension of the ethos and the experience of the GFC, which is centring artists, supporting artists and sharing their work.
Just because you collect something doesn’t mean you’re going to show it.
The risk is that it doesn’t circulate.