EventsThe New Social Environment#1363

Aesthetic Confessions: Nick Olney and Eric Gleason

Featuring Olney, Gleason, and Elizabeth Buhe

Thursday, May 28, 2026 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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Gallerists Nick Olney and Eric Gleason join art historian Elizabeth Buhe for a conversation on Zoom. 

Nicholas Olney

A photo of Nicholas Olney on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

Nicholas Olney is Co-Founder of Olney Gleason, established in New York in fall 2025 alongside Eric Gleason. Olney spent nearly two decades at Kasmin Gallery, rising through leadership roles including Director and Managing Director before being appointed President in 2020 following the passing of founder Paul Kasmin. He led the gallery through multiple expansions and guided its 2025 succession. In 2023, he co-founded Meridiano, an experimental arts space in Puerto Escondido, Mexico. Olney has served on the Board of the Art Dealers Association of America and conceived the Bartlett H. Hayes Jr Prize with the Addison Gallery of American Art.

Eric Gleason

A photo of Eric Gleason on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

Eric Gleason is Co-Founder of Olney Gleason, established in New York in fall 2025 alongside Nicholas Olney. In 2013, he joined Kasmin as Director and was named Head of Sales in 2022, playing a key role in the gallery's expansion. Gleason began his career at Marlborough Gallery in 2005, becoming Sales Director of Marlborough Chelsea in 2007. From 2012 to 2013, he served as Director of International Sales at Galerie Gmurzynska, Zurich, focused on Modernism and the Russian Avant-Garde. He serves on the Council of the Visual and Performing Arts school at Syracuse University and the Board of Directors at Artistic Noise.

Elizabeth Buhe

A photo of Elizabeth Buhe on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

Photo by Jason Mandella

Elizabeth Buhe is a widely-published critic and art historian based in New York. Her writing addresses expanded modernisms and spatial ontologies in Europe and North America in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Elizabeth has taught at the Whitney Museum of American Art and at Fordham University, and is a contributing critic for the Brooklyn Rail and Studio International. Her writing has earned support from the Fulbright Program, the Luce Foundation, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Getty Research Institute, The Courtauld, and the Terra Foundation for American Art, among others. She is currently completing a book titled Beside Painting on abstract painting and perception.

We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨

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