Midsize Galleries Have Been Struggling for Years. One Gallerist Has Ideas on How to Survive.

I opened my New York gallery, On Stellar Rays, in September 2008, around the same time as other promising upstarts—Invisible-Exports, 11R, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, Bureau, Lisa Cooley, James Fuentes, Laurel Gitlen, Simon Preston, Rachel Uffner, Kate Werble—run by dealers who would become my colleagues during a vibrant and remarkably collaborative moment in the history of the city’s art scene. Opening on the brink of global financial crisis might have seemed inauspicious