Main Space
PAINTING DECONSTRUCTED
Curated by Leeza Meksin
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 18, 6-8:30pm
Exhibition Runs Saturday May 18th, 2024 - Saturday Aug 24th, 2024
Ortega y Gasset Projects is thrilled to present Painting Deconstructed, curated by OyG co-founder the artist Leeza Meksin. This show takes over the main gallery, the project space, The Skirt, and a bonus gallery space, creating a single largest exhibit to take place at Ortega y Gasset Projects since its inception in 2013.
Painting Deconstructed explores ideas and motivations behind the concept of deconstructed painting, and the vital role that women, immigrants, LGBTQA artists and POC artists play in questioning, rethinking and restructuring what painting can be, what counts for painting. Working across sculpture, photography, ceramics, painting and installation, while employing fiber, paint, ceramics, film, paper pulp, fur, plaster, hydrocal and many other materials, the artists in this show examine and transgress the various conventions of painting such as the rectilinear shape of the support, flatness, continuity, framing, verticality, the use of only paint and having an individual maker for each painting. Although not all artists in this show insist on being painters their practices and strategies are often in reference to, inspired by, or painting-adjacent, exhibiting the tremendous elasticity of painting and the sheer ingenuity with which contemporary artists are testing its limits.
Painting Deconstructed received support from The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and The Andy Warhol Foundation. A catalog designed by Gretchen Kraus of Space Sisters Press will accompany the exhibition, to be launched at the closing event in August.
Painting Deconstructed features works by Sónia Almeida, Polly Apfelbaum, Lisha Bai, Yevgeniya Baras, Gina Beavers, Hannah Beerman, Sanford Biggers, Chris Bogia, Rosanna Bruno, Susan Carr, Kari Cholnoky, Liz Collins, Mark Joshua Epstein, Ada Friedman, Hilary Harnischfeger, Jen P. Harris, Jodi Hays, Valerie Hegarty, Eric Hibit, Morgan Hobbs, Cate Holt, Sacha Ingber, Erin Lee Jones, Lucy Kim, Wayne Koestenbaum, Saskia Krafft, Julia Kunin, Dianna Molzan, Pol Morton, Dona Nelson, Howardena Pindell, Nickola Pottinger, Erika Ranee, Jean Rim, Mariah Robertson, Rita Scheer, Gyan and Kathleen Shrosbree, Kianja Strobert, Emily Tatro, Denise Treizman, Kevin Umaña, Zahar Vaks, Lee Vanderpool, Scott Vander Veen, Rachel Eulena Williams.
The exhibition is on view from May 18 to August 18, 2024. Please join us for the reception with the artists on Saturday, May 18, 6-8:30pm.
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