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Downtown Dealers returns with a new podcast episode spotlighting two influential gallerists whose practices evolved out of publishing, curating, social justice, and non-profit initiatives. Phillip March Jones, founder of MARCH, and Cay Sophie Rabinowitz of OSMOS join Independent’s founder Elizabeth Dee for a conversation about becoming “accidental dealers,” bridging between the Southern and New York art scenes. From Rabinowitz’s editorial roots at Parkett magazine to Jones’s early leadership of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, the episode traces how both dealers draw on a deep sense of place, community, and purpose.

 

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Downtown Dealers Podcast: Cay Sophie Rabinowitz and Phillip March Jones - Features - Independent Art Fair

Phillip March Jones (b. 1981, Shreveport, LA) is an artist, writer, and curator based in New York City. In 2009, Jones founded Institute 193, a nonprofit contemporary art space and publisher in Lexington, Kentucky. He later served as the inaugural director of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation in Atlanta, and as director of the Galerie Christian Berst (New York/Paris) and the Andrew Edlin Gallery in New York. In 2020, Jones created MARCH, a gallery and public benefit corporation in Manhattan's East Village that continues to operate. Jones’ writing has been published by the Jargon Society, Vanderbilt University Press, Dust-to-Digital, and Poem 88, among others.

Downtown Dealers Podcast: Cay Sophie Rabinowitz and Phillip March Jones - Features - Independent Art Fair

In 2012, Cay-Sophie Rabinowitz established OSMOS in New York as a project space for art gatherings, publications, and exhibitions in a storefront that was once a saloon frequented by radicals such as Emma Goldman. Born and raised in Southern Virginia, she earned a BA in Philosophy and Literature from Reed College and a M.Phil. in Comparative Literature from Emory University. Rabinowitz spent the 1990s researching and writing about art from Berlin and taught in the MFA programs at Parsons (2000-2009) and Columbia University (2011-2013). She served as Senior Editor of Parkett (1999-2007), Artistic Director of Art Basel (2007-2008), Co-founder and Editor of the photography magazine FANTOM (2008 -2011), Director at Hauser and Wirth New York (2009-2010), and served as CEO of the fashion brand Giulietta (2010-2011). Rabinowitz places emphasis on inclusive, meaningful, and haptic encounters with people and with objects in physical space to encourage accountability and build trust.

Since its founding, OSMOS has expanded from an active program of publications and exhibitions to representing artists and estates and participation in fairs. Prioritizing social engagement and community activism, OSMOS maintains a storefront gallery in the East Village of Manhattan and a project space with a non-profit artist residency program in rural Upstate New York.