GalleryLower East Side
Below Grand
Artist-curators stretch the rules in this LES storefront gallery.
Photo by Effie Liu for Beholdr
Walk in With Us
Downtown ingenuity plays out in this artist-run space with a storefront on Allen Street.
Shows are scrappy, a little wild, and full of feeling. A different artist from the collective curates each show, so each exhibition has its own distinct obsession and aesthetic.
The whole thing feels like an experimental sea of ideas, with artists making room for each other's visions. It’s rare and bold. It’s so New York.
About the Gallery
Artist-writer Andrew Paul Woolbright started this space in 2017 as Super Dutchess. He renamed it Below Grand in 2020, and it has since grown into a 20+-member artist-run collective. There are no gatekeepers, just a shifting constellation of people building something bigger than the sum of its parts.
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