Less than two blocks from the Katonah train station stands a nondescript, gray two-story building on one of the main drags of this Hudson Valley town. Emblazoned in a kerned-out serif font, its name, Branchline, belies what awaits inside: a public-facing exhibition space for the Gochman Family Collection (GFC).
Established just five years ago, the GFC has already become one of the world’s leading collections of contemporary Indigenous art, with more than 850 works. Until now, works from the GFC have primarily hung in the New York apartment of Becky Gochman, the collection’s founder and custodian, and her family, though some 200 works are typically on loan to institutions around the world at any given time. The GFC has generously opened the home to museum groups, schools, and artists for tours and events as a way to bring more attention to Native artists, but the organization’s ambition has always been to make its holdings as accessible as possible.
