Gochman Collection of Indigenous Art to Open Katonah Space in November

The new home in New York, known as Branchline, will display selections from the family’s trove of over 800 contemporary Native artworks.

Gochman Collection of Indigenous Art to Open Katonah Space in November
From left to right: Rachel Martin, Becky Gochman, Audrey Lea Collins, Nicole van Brugge, Moonoka Begay, and Laura Phipps, of the Gochman Family Collection team (photo Denis Gutierrez-Ogrinc, courtesy Gochman Family Collection)

Branchline, a permanent exhibition space for the Gochman Family Collection, will open on November 6 in Katonah, New York, functioning as a new home for the renowned trove of contemporary Native art.

Building on the private collection's focus on Indigenous and anti-colonial art, Branchline will present rotating exhibitions of the over 800 works by contemporary Native artists in the Gochman Collection and provide residential and studio spaces for artists. Deriving its name from the network of rail lines that connect Katonah to surrounding areas like Manhattan and Upstate New York, Branchline also encompasses the ancestral and historical lineages informing the featured art.

"We imagine this as a flexible space to not only more broadly share the Collection, but to also create opportunities for varied audiences of artists, scholars, students, families, and our neighbors to spend time together," Laura Phipps, who became the collection's director in March, told Hyperallergic.

Jeffrey Gibson's (Mississippi Band of Choctaw and Cherokee) "ACTION NOW ACTION IS ELOQUENCE" (2024) (photo Max Yawney, courtesy Gochman Family Collection)