NEW YORK, NY.- François Ghebaly New York announces Materia Expandida, a two-person exhibition featuring Patricia Iglesias Peco and Pablo Edelstein opening at the gallery’s Lower East Side location in September 2025.

Patricia Iglesias Peco’s (b. 1974, Buenos Aires, Argentina) practice is tuned into the vibrancy of the natural world, imagining rambunctious gardens of flora and fauna rendered in oil paint—vegetal bodies caught in whirling gestures of bloom and decay, a choreography of endless beginnings. A playful undulating tension pervades Iglesias Peco’s strange compositions, which appear simultaneously grotesque and beautiful, repulsive and alluring. Flowers appear as more than familiar metaphors but vessels for the artist to exercise her formal interest in painting and color theory.

Iglesias Peco holds a BFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design and the School of Visual Arts in New York. She has participated in several solo and group shows including the Santa Barbara Museum of Art; François Ghebaly, Los Angeles and New York; James Cohan, New York; Gladstone Gallery, New York; Del Vaz Projects, Los Angeles; La Loma Projects, Los Angeles. Iglesias Peco lives and works in Los Angeles, California. In 2026, she will be included in group exhibitions at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle and the Buffalo AKG Art Museum.

Pablo Edelstein (b. 1917, St. Moritz, Switzerland; d. 2010, Buenos Aires, Argentina) was an Argentine visual artist and teacher whose work combined expressive motifs from observational study and the natural world with a dynamic, indefatigable exploration of material identity. Across a career of eight decades, Edelstein worked prolifically in painting, engraving, drawing, collage, multimedia assemblage, and ceramic sculpture most notably––each in the pursuit of giving form and gesture to “living architecture[s]” and the intrinsic voice of the medium. A lifelong friend of vanguard Argentine-Italian artist Lucio Fontana, Edelstein describes these tenets in a 1949 letter to Fontana: “I find that it is not possible to translate any sculptural or pictorial idea in ceramics, but, rather, one has to think and create in the material itself.”

For over thirty years, Pablo Edelstein was a professor and Dean of the Culture Department at Argentina’s National School of Fine Arts. Edelstein exhibited around the world, with solo exhibitions at important South American galleries and institutions including Isabel Anchorena Art Gallery, Buenos Aires; Perlotti Museum, Buenos Aires; Maldonado Museum of American Art, Maldonado; Rómulo Raggio Museum, Buenos Aires; and Rubbers Gallery, Buenos Aires. His work has also been exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; the Museum of Architecture and Design, Buenos Aires; Sívori Museum, Buenos Aires; Weiterbildungszentrum, Dusseldorf; Casa Argentina, Rome; and the National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires. Edelstein was the recipient of many prizes and awards, among them the sculpture prize at the Salón de Mar del Plata, the gold medal at the Salón de la Sociedad Hebraica Argentina, and the Konex Award for Ceramics.