Point A: Chapter One
Solo Exhibition: Katya Grokhovsky
Opening: Sept 10th 5-8pm
September 10th – October 9th 2022
Performance: September 25th 4:00 pm

Regular open hours are Saturdays and Sundays from 1 – 6pm, with special viewing by appointment.

Katya Grokhovsky: Point A Chapter One Closing and Artist Talk

Closing: October 9th 2022 3-6pm

Q an A with Zahar Vaks 4pm

You are invited to the Closing of Katya Grokhovsky's solo exhibition Point A: Chapter One, which investigates memory, place and origin, via sculpture, video, and painting. Katya will discuss the work on view, her practice, process and inspiration in a Q and A with co-director of Ortega y Gasset Projects, Zahar Vaks.

Ortega y Gasset Projects proudly presents Point A: Chapter One, a solo exhibition by Ukrainian born Brooklyn based artist, Katya Grokhovsky. A reception for the artist will be held September 10th 5-8pm.

Brooklyn, NY (August 29, 2022) — Ortega y Gasset Projects proudly presents Point A: Chapter One, a solo exhibition by Ukrainian born Brooklyn based artist, Katya Grokhovsky. A reception for the artist will held September 10th 5-8pm.

Reflecting on Grokhovsky’s experience of growing up in Ukraine and double migration, Point A: Chapter One is a mixed-media exhibition, which investigates memory, place and origin, via installation, sculpture, video, painting and performance. By excavating childhood recollections, reimagining and reconstructing fragments of images, places and objects, a collage of absences and fragmented moments is staged. The presence of melancholy, nostalgia and longing, alienation and anxiety is explored as a space of existence for the inner ghost of pre-migration identity at the time of war and global health crisis

Exploring migration, cultural identity, labor, gender, history and the self through research, material experimentation and autobiographical experience, Grokhovsky weaves the personal and political together. Building worlds and personas, which examine stereotypes, prejudices, and trauma, emphasizing the absurd and the uncanny in the everyday, her work reclaims the body through pleasure, chaos and refusal, residing in the space of the critical Capitalist grotesque, whilst occupying a 21C Dadaist Garage-Band Feminist Punk territory. Concurrently, with the main-gallery exhibition, Giancarlo Montes’ installation IIegando a tierra (fantasy island) will be opening in The Skirt the same evening.

Artist Bio
Born and raised in Ukraine, Katya Grokhovsky is a New York-based artist and educator. Grokhovsky received an M.F.A from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a B.F.A from Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University, Australia and a B.A (Honors) in Fashion from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia. Grokhovsky’s work has been supported through numerous residencies including The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (EFA) Studio Program, Sculpture Space, Tiger Strikes Asteroid NYC STAR Residency, SVA MFA Art Practice AIR, Pratt Fine Arts Department AIR, The Museum of Arts and Design Studio Program, BRICworkspace Residency, Ox-BOW School of Art Residency, Wassaic Artist Residency, Atlantic Center for the Arts AIR, Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts Fellowship AIR, Studios at MASS MoCA, NARS Residency Fellowship, Santa Fe Art Institute Residency, Watermill Center, and more. She has been awarded the New American Fellowship, Brooklyn Arts Council Grants, NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship, ArtSlant 2017 Prize, Asylum Arts Grant, Australian Council for the Arts Grant, and Freedman Traveling Scholarship for Emerging Artists, among others. Past exhibitions and performances include Smack Mellon, BRIC Biennial, FLUX factory, EFA Project Space, Equity gallery, Queens Museum, MAD Museum and more. Grokhovsky is a Founding Director of The Immigrant Artist Biennial (est.2019).

https://www.katyagrokhovsky.net/