Kathy Grayson stares intently at several large paintings, trying to decide whether they complement one another on a vast wall in front of her. She absent-mindedly twists her light purple hair on either side of her face and ties it in a knot under her chin like a bonnet. It stays there for a moment before falling into place again on her shoulders.
“I don’t know if this works,” she says of an abstract work imbued with deep gray hues. “It might be too dark.”
Grayson stands on the polished concrete floor in the middle of her contemporary art gallery, The Hole, which opened an outpost on La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles a little over a year ago. This is Grayson’s third location. She opened her first in the Bowery in New York City in 2010 and another in TriBeCa in 2021.