Francois Ghebaly New York

Tucked inside a mid-century mini-mall just off Grand Street, Francois Ghebaly Gallery is a portal to other worlds. It vibrates with an air equal parts mystical, mysterious, and utterly mesmerizing.

The work here often explores vast subjects — climate, motherhood, animal life, love, what it’s like to live in a world without sound — but renders them into intimate, touchable, human-sized dreamscapes.

There’s a poetry to the cozy, single room space: you feel it while sitting on the windowsill bench, letting the sun hit your back, the art breathe around you, and the all-is-well vibe sink in.

Swiss-born François Ghebaly founded his eponymous gallery in Los Angeles in 2009. The original space is now in a 12,000 sq ft warehouse in Downtown LA’s Arts District that he shares with an artist’s residency, two artist book publishers, and an archive that supports LA’s artists. In May 2021, he expanded to New York, bringing on Blaize Lehane (formerly of Ramiken) as partner. Where its LA space is vast and airy, the New York gallery feels more like a private viewing room where we want to settle in and stay a while.