PALO Gallery

Step into this small, comfortable gallery, and everything softens. The space is cozy; a viewing room up front with a bookstore tucked behind. Walking around feels like a pause. The kind you don’t realize you need until you take it.

Emotion, rather than reason, often takes the lead here. Black-and-white landscapes from the edges of exile by Palestinian artists aching for home, photographic portraits of a couple’s love and addiction trembling between ecstasy and ruin, or luscious tropical maps that are wistful and elegiac hymns to the beauty and the extraction of Brazil's rainforest.

Love and ruin, devotion and disappearance: art here becomes a way to stay alive to both extremes. You’ll leave feeling touched by both the gravity of history and the grace of wonder.

Paul Henkel grew up in London, but comes from generations of German art dealers and collectors of Old Masters. The gallery began in 2018 as a roving, boisterous pop-up he started with friends, eventually morphing into the tender, elegant space we see today on Third Street. The sunny, double-windowed storefront sits just across from Project Renewal, a men’s shelter, which somehow adds to the sense of art’s necessity and social relevance.