GalleryEast Village
Half Gallery
This glass-walled gallery shows realist work in which desire and fantasy simmer on the surface.
Photo by Anastasia Simone for Beholdr
Walk in With Us
Half Gallery vibrates with unexpected sensuality. You arrive open. You leave charged, maybe swooning, a little seduced.
The space itself is a former corner store flooded with light. Its floor-to-ceiling windows make the whole thing feel voyeuristic, like you're watching or being watched.
Expect mostly figurative work where bodies feel urgent. When the paintings lean realist, they’re Renaissance-like in their technical skill, rendered with the kind of attention that makes you look twice. The abstract work has a feral edge, luscious brushwork filled with attitude.
Don't miss the smaller, closet-like outpost further down 4th Street for more experimental work.
About the Gallery
Bill Powers founded Half Gallery in 2008 on the Lower East Side. He moved it to the Upper East Side in 2013 and has been back downtown since 2020. Before dealing art, he wrote about it for Purple Magazine and The New York Times. His eye for emerging talent has earned him a reputation as a talent scout and a gallery that finds painters before anyone else.
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