United Talent Agency, a global talent and literary agency, has announced that it will launch UTA Artist Space, a new multidisciplinary exhibition venue in downtown Los Angeles.

“We are dedicated to seizing opportunities for artists, and UTA Artist Space provides a place for artists to interface with the public and each other in a dynamic, supportive way,” chairman and cofounder Jim Berkus said.

The new 4,500-square foot arts space aims to become a flexible site for cultural exchange for artists, musicians, filmmakers, and writers represented by the agency. The venue is set to open on September 17 with a show of works by photographer and filmmaker Larry Clark that was organized in collaboration with Luhring Augustine. Fifty works will be exhibited, including vintage photographs from his past as well as his most recent paintings and photomontages.

“When UTA invited Larry Clark to exhibit his work in Los Angeles for the first time in over a decade, it made so much sense to us,” Lawrence Luhring, coowner of New York’s Luhring Augustine gallery, said. “UTA’s new Artist Space initiative is the perfect context for emphasizing the cross discipline importance of Clark’s visionary art practice, whether it be in painting, photography or film.”

Gallery owners have been speculating over whether the agency was going to open a gallery since it hired art lawyer Joshua Roth to start its first fine art division in 2015. The space will be open to the public Wednesdays through Saturdays and will be located at 670 South Anderson Street in the Boyle Heights neighborhood, residents of which recently demanded all galleries leave the area.

In response to the news, the venerable New York nonprofit Artists Space released a statement dissociating themselves from UTA’s venture.

“Founded in 1972 in Downtown Manhattan, Artists Space has indeed united many talents, has supported artists early in their career to establish agency: Louise Lawler, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Michael Asher, Jeff Koons, Adrian Piper, Danh Vo, Hito Steyerl and Laura Poitras, to name just a few,” wrote Artists Space director Stefan Kalmár.

He added: “Over the next three months Artists Space, together with Common Practice New York, will be working with art historian Yates McKee, Professor for Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU Andrew Ross, and the activist collective MTL to address, under the title ‘Decolonize This Place,’ the urban reality that artists and not-for-profit organizations face in New York and elsewhere. United Talent Agency opening a new venue in Downtown LA and calling it UTA Artist Space speaks exactly to this new urban reality. I have never been more proud of our ‘s’ in Artists Space.”