Over the years, our journal has become a means for sharing not only the Colony collection but also our milestones. 2024 was a year to be remembered. We celebrated our tenth year anniversary with a new address—moving from our second floor loft on Canal St. into a retail level gallery in Tribeca. Just one month after our opening party at 196 West Broadway, we threw a book launch to introduce What We Keep by Jean Lin. Moments like these are only as special as the community we have to share them with. Looking forward to what 2025 has in store.
In celebration of the New Year, we thought we'd take a look back at 2024 and count down our three most popular mailers:
Summers were once slow at Colony. With clients out of town between the hazy months of June and August, Jean and I would pass each day in the gallery dreaming up grand plans for the future. We’d sprawl out on floor cushions with a notebook and pen close by. Fast forward half a decade, and it’s a different scene. We don’t have much time for lounging, not even in the dog days of summer.
by Lucille Clifton
"is a black shambling bear
ruffling its wild back and tossing
mountains into the sea"
The first time I walked up the creaky steps of 324 Canal Street to the second floor, I had already viewed dozens of commercial spaces in downtown Manhattan. It was 2013 and Colony was just a fledgling idea without a home.
The open loft space with 15 foot ceilings had graffiti on the walls, no lights, and the rotting plywood floor was pitched 14". Anything you put on the floor would roll to the front corner of the space. A thick layer of dust covered everything and the tin ceiling had all but rusted out in spots.
