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About the Gallery
Founded by François Ghebaly in 2009, Ghebaly's gallery has presented an innovative program of Los Angeles-based and international artists. The gallery works with both emerging and mid-career artists, including Davide Balula, Neïl Beloufa, Channa Horowitz, Sayre Gomez, Joel Kyack, and Mike Kuchar. Originally located in Los Angeles's Chinatown, the gallery moved to the Culver City arts district after its first year, transforming a former auto repair shop into an art gallery. Continuing to grow alongside its artists, the gallery relocated to a 12,000-square-foot venue in Downtown L.A. in 2013, pioneering an exciting shift in the Los Angeles art scene. The gallery shares the space with several other institutions, creating a mutually supportive ecosystem for like-minded projects. François Ghebaly's program demonstrates a commitment to challenging work across all media and fostering the progressive practices of its artists.
Exhibition view of space shared by François Ghebaly and Galerie Nagel Draxler at Independent New York, 2018.
Courtesy of Independent. Photo Etienne Frossard.
Courtesy of François Ghebaly
Courtesy of François Ghebaly
Courtesy of François Ghebaly
Assuming the mantle of an abstract painter, he critiques, through imitation, both the aesthetics of production and consumption of this genre, while experimenting with the incongruous addition of the zoological.
Sayre Gomez's solo offering at François Ghebaly Gallery, "I'm Different," trumpets its title's adolescent battle cry across two galleries of new work.
Gomez's evocative paintings are aesthetically consistent, but his elaborations on them are ever-changing.
Both artists produce work that calls attention not so much to a finished result than to the process that generated it: in Gomez’s case, that process is a signature marbling effect that he achieves by dripping paint wet-in-wet on a horizontal surface; for JPW3, melted wax is a binding agent that incorporates found images and objects, as with the magnificent painting Marco Polio Portfolio (all works 2014) which rises 12 feet toward the ceiling but was clearly made on the floor, catching the run-off from other wax sculptures.
