“Our gallery has become an extension of our home,” STUDIOTWENTYSEVEN co-directors Nacho Polo and Robert Onuska tell Observer. Partners in both business and in life—Polo founded the gallery in Miami in 2018; Onuska came on later—they’ve built an admirable art collection with paintings by André Butzer, Brent Wadden, Caroll Dunham, Catherine Bern and Ron Gorchov; sculpture by Daniel Arsham and Lynda Benglis; and photographs by Alex Prager, Bruce Weber and Marilyn Minter, among many others.

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There are, at any given time, large-scale pieces from their private art collection on display in their New York, Miami and London galleries. They live with their art and work with their art, much in the way they are partners at home and partners in STUDIOTWENTYSEVEN. The Tribeca flagship, it’s worth pointing out, just opened this past February with 7,000 square feet of space in the Henry J. Hardenbergh-designed Textile Building on Church Street, across from Anish Kapoor’s somewhat controversial ‘mini bean.’

The kind of immersion alluded to above—private and public; work, life and love—isn’t for everyone, but it energizes........

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