The Hole

We can’t get enough of the slightly scrappy, hyper-saturated, glossy aesthetic at The Hole. Where Surrealism collides with pop, refracted through the lens of the wacky life-is-stranger-than-fiction media age we’re living in now.

The art here is bold, colorful, and cheeky. Think rainbow-colored, airbrushed abstraction, objects blown to smithereens in a techno explosion, or your best friends coloring in iconic art historical images in the early hours after a night of debauchery. (The gallery was named after a much-loved early-2000s Manhattan club, which was famously gay, lesbian, and lawless, so this tracks.)

We like places that show us things we think we know about – fashion, music, computer games, art – and twist it into something magnificent that we could never dream up on our own. The mind-blowing, mood-altering shows at The Hole do just that, time and time again.

Kathy Grayson started The Hole in July 2010. Her first gallery was a single wall at Dartmouth College. She segued that into an internship at Deitch Projects, where she worked for eight years before launching her first space at 312 Bowery in NoHo. She added a second location in Tribeca in 2020, in the former studio of painter Peter Doig. She opened up an LA gallery in West Hollywood in 2022, right around the corner from the LA digs of her old boss, Jeffrey Deitch.