Category: Gallerist
Nationality: British
Last Year: 57
The enterprising Mr Brown continued to walk a fine line between commerciality and cool this year, his gallery alternating sprawling, funky installations (Jonathan Horowitz’s celebratory, president-in-waiting- themed Obama 08 last October; January’s loose-limbed hipster group show The Living and the Dead) with solos by bankable daubers like Peter Doig and Verne Dawson. The rest of the roster didn’t disappoint either: with Mark Leckey scooping up the Turner Prize and Elizabeth Peyton doing weird collaborations with Matthew Barney, Brown appears to have his finger in the right pies and on the pulse.