Everette Taylor, the 31-year-old chief marketing officer of the online art marketplace Artsy, arrived in New York City only last winter, mere months before the city entered lockdown. But he’s quickly made himself at home. High above Canal Street, where SoHo’s shine meets Tribeca’s quiet charm, this serial entrepreneur has transformed a fourth-floor loft into a personal showcase for contemporary African American art—with reverence for the past but all eyes to the future.
“Friends urged me to consider places like Harlem or Brooklyn—which are great,” says Taylor, who previously founded ArtX along with a handful of social-media and digital-marketing start-ups. “But coming from Los Angeles, I wanted to be able to walk everywhere, and I now live just four minutes from our offices on Broadway.”
Paintings by Brittney Leeanne Williams (left) and Floyd Strickland.
