Bob’s Gallery has joined Nine

Nine was founded in 2025 as a partnership between Blue Boy (now Hopes, Chattanooga, TN), Curmudgeon, Living Skin, and Site Service, operating out of a basement at 9 Monroe Street. The gallery has since moved across the block to a storefront at 112 Madison Street, and welcomed a new community of partners.

  • Bob’s Gallery, directed by Sammy Bennett with Paz Rocio Mallea Rubilar, Rui, & Til Will

  • Curmudgeon, directed by Jordan Segal with Will Kaplan & Lola Lefrançois

  • Mall, directed by Graham Krenz & Emily Drew Miller

  • Site Service, directed by Seoyoung Kim

Together, the partners push dialogue around alternative curatorial and artistic practices. Individually and as a collective, they work toward a model that favors flexibility, cooperation, and sustainability — one that pools resources without flattening each project’s distinct identity and curatorial vision.

Bridge Two connects each partner’s creative ethos into one collective installation encompassing painting, photography, performance, fashion, and sculpture. The nine artists on view each combine modular components or distinct materials to form a new whole. The works parallel Nine’s partnership gallery model. As the first collaborative exhibition following the formation of the new partnership among four projects, this presentation affirms the shared belief that artist-run and experimental spaces are essential to artists and curators in the NYC arts ecosystem.