Lisa Cooley gallery opens its first show in Manhattan’s Lower East Side on January 20 with Frank Haines and Austin’s Andy Coolquitt . Cooley, former director of Houston’s Mixture Gallery, moved to New York a few years ago, but working for Nicole Klagsbrun and Andrea Rosen galleries she "felt like my conversations were all about mailing lists and shipping", and started showing single artworks or staging performances in friend’s houses. Add a friendly "leprechaun" with a pot of gold, and the rest is history!