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Thursday 26 May - Sunday 29 May, 2022
Opening: Thursday 26 May, 18.00–20.00
Open hours: Thursday–Saturday 12.00–20.00, Sunday 12.00–18.00

Ortega y Gasset Projects is pleased to participate in Stockholm Independent Art Fair SUPERMARKET 2022. This art fair showcases art from artist-run initiatives around the world. 

For the presentation at the fair, OyG Projects has chosen a cross section of previously exhibiting artists and co-directors responding to the theme of Pleasure Tense. The show features works by Cameron Granger, Eric Hibit, Anastasia Komar, Leeza Meksin, Padma Rajendran, Adam Liam Rose, Winnie Sidharta, Kate Stone, and Lauren Whearty. 

Punning on the double meaning of "tense" as in verb tense and tense as in becoming stretched tight or rigid due to anxiety or nervousness, OyG Projects culls together a show of painting, drawing, video, textiles and sculptural works to highlight these contradictions. What is pleasure in the face of the disasters we're facing today? The works in Pleasure Tense activate the haptic sensuality of touch, while wrestling with the intensity, terror and tension that surrounds us right now everywhere we look.

Artist Bios:

Cameron A. Granger came up in Cleveland, Ohio alongside his mother, Sandra, inheriting both her love of soul music, and habit of apologizing too much. A video artist, he uses his work as both a site for memory making, and as means to strategize new ways of remembrance in our age of mass media.

Eric Hibit is a visual artist based in New York City. He has exhibited at Morgan Lehman Gallery; Deanna Evans Projects; Tiger Strikes Asteroid; Underdonk Gallery; Ortega y Gasset Projects; Field Projects; C24 Gallery, Anna Kustera Gallery, Max Protetch Gallery. Nationally, he has exhibited at Curator’s Office, Washington, DC; Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington; The University of Vermont; and Weatherspoon Museum of Art. He has taught studio art at Tyler School of Art; Hunter College; NYU; The Cooper Union; Suffolk County Community College; and 92NY. He is currently Co-Director of Ortega y Gasset Projects, an artist-run gallery based in Brooklyn. He attended the Corcoran College of Art + Design and Yale University School of Art.

Anastasia Komar (Kaliningrad, Russia) is an artist, architect, and designer in New York City. Her practice focuses on deconstructivist philosophies such as the fragmentation and manipulation of structure and surface and the merger of complex and improbable forms. Anastasia received an MFA from Moscow Architectural Institute. She has attended residencies at BF+DA Pratt and SVA Summer Residency Program (New York). Recent exhibitions and projects include her one-person exhibitions Nocturnal Formation at New Collectors Gallery (New York), "Material Control" at Asphodel Gallery (New York), group shows "Over The Structures" at CICA Museum (S Korea), "Reused & Recycled" at Site: Brooklyn Gallery (New York), among others.

Leeza Meksin is an interdisciplinary artist working in painting, installation, public art and multiples. Born in the former Soviet Union to Ukrainian and Uzbek Bukharian parents, she immigrated to the United States with her family in 1989. Her work investigates parallels between conventions of painting, architecture and our bodies. Meksin received a MFA in painting from Yale University, a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Joint BA/MA in Comparative Literature from The University of Chicago. In 2015 Meksin received the emerging artist grant from the Rema Hort Mann Foundation, and in 2021 she was awarded the NYSCA/NYFA artist fellowship in Interdisciplinary Work. In 2019 Meksin was the artist in residence at The Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas and in 2017 she was in the artist residency at The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Canada. Her work has been featured in Bomb Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, The New York Times, Hyperallergic, Chicago Tribune, and The Village Voice, among other publications. In 2013 Meksin co-founded Ortega y Gasset Projects, an artist-run gallery and curatorial collective in Brooklyn that she continues to co-direct. In 2021 Meksin joined the faculty at Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP).

Padma Rajendran was born in Klang, Malaysia. She studied at Bryn Mawr College and received her M.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design. She has exhibited at the International Print Center New York, Ortega y Gasset Projects (Brooklyn), Beers London (UK), Field Projects (New York), September Gallery (Hudson NY) , BRIC Arts Media (Brooklyn), Aicon Gallery (NYC) and most recently at Taymour Grahne Gallery (UK) . She lives and works in Catskill, NY. Her works on fabric experiment with the clash and combination of  patterning and storytelling. Her content rich compositions reference the duality and contradictions of culture and the multi-facetted definitions of universal heritage. Her work  has been featured in Chronogram Magazine, New American Paintings, Art Maze Magazine, and Maake Magazine.

Adam Liam Rose (b. 1990) is an interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, installation, video and drawing.  Born in Jerusalem and raised mostly in the United States, his works investigate the aesthetic systems of power embedded within architecture. Exploring the politics of "safety" in Israel / Palestine and the United States, Rose's practice looks to structures of separation and control whose intentions either manifest outright, or slither beneath the surface. Rose was a fellow at the Bronx Museum of the Arts' AIM Program, The Drawing Center’s Viewing Program, and the Art & Law Program. He was awarded artist residencies at Triangle Arts Association (Brooklyn, NY), Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (Omaha, NE), Ox-Bow School of Art (Saugatuck, MI), A-Z West: Institute of Investigative Living (Joshua Tree, CA), the Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT) and the Chicago Artists Coalition's HATCH Residency (Chicago, IL).  Rose's publication 'Between the Bars' (Genderfail Press, 2021) is in the artists' book collection of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, PRATT Institute and The Frick Fine Arts Library in Pittsburgh. He received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago ('12) and an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts (‘17). Rose joined as co-director at artist-run gallery Ortega y Gasset Projects in 2019. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

Winnie Sidharta is a painter based in Queens, New York. Born and raised in East Java, Indonesia. Winnie has exhibited in galleries and museums in Indonesia, Beijing, California, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York City. She studied Visual Communication Design in Indonesia and Oil Painting in Beijing, China. In 2010, she received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from The Ohio State University and later taught there before settling in New York City in 2014. Winnie’s works investigate subjects of collective cultural experiences such as immigration and assimilation through the mediums of collage, painting, drawing and site-specific installation. In her installation at Ortega Y Gasset Projects in Brooklyn, New York, she explored methods of printing, stamping and carving as extension of her collage practice, while examining the history of Batik textile and architectural storytelling. Her recent work and artist interview were featured in issue 10 of Maake Magazine, a non-profit artist-run publication. She recently collaborated with Philadelphia’s Mural Arts Commission to create a site-specific project for Philadelphia’s Indonesian and South East Asian immigrant community. She’s currently working on a new body of work exploring handmade paper, raw pigments and sculptural substrates.

Kate Stone is a Brooklyn-based artist working across photography, sculpture, installation and animation. Her work explores the language of architecture and imagines narratives of the domestic uncanny. Kate received a BA from Bard College and an MFA from Parsons the New School for Design. She has been awarded the Tierney Fellowship, The Lotos Foundation Prize, an FST StudioProjects Grant and a Kone Foundation Grant. She has attended residencies at NARS Foundation, Artists Alliance LES Studio Program and Mudhouse Residency in rural Greece. She has upcoming residencies at the Lauttasaari Manor in Finland in Fall 2022 and Mass MoCA in Spring 2023. Her work has been exhibited at 601Artspace, bitforms gallery, Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space, Dinner Gallery, FiveMyles, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Rubber Factory, Spring Break Art Show, South Bend Museum of Art, The Museum of Broken Relationships and Transmitter Gallery, among others.

Lauren Whearty is an artist, educator, and curator living and working in Philadelphia, PA. She received her MFA from The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH), and her BFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University (Philadelphia, PA) and has been a Co- Director at Ortega y Gasset Projects, an artist run curatorial collective and non-profit in Brooklyn, NY since 2017. Lauren has attended residencies such as Yale’s Summer School of Art through the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship, The Vermont Studio Center, Soaring Gardens, and the Golden Foundation. She has recently received an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant. Her work has been exhibited at The Delaware Contemporary (Wilmington, DE), The State Museum of PA (Harrisburg, Pa), The Woodmere Museum (Philadelphia, PA), Gross McCleaf Gallery (Philadelphia, Pa), Vox Populi (Philadelphia, PA), Bridgette Mayer Gallery (Philadelphia, PA), Center for Emerging Visual Artists (Philadelphia, PA), Satellite Contemporary (Las Vegas, NV), Monaco (St Louis, MO), The Painting Center (New York, NY), Ortega y Gasset Projects (Brooklyn, NY), Underdonk (Brooklyn, NY), and Deanna Evans Projects (Brooklyn, NY). Lauren currently teaches at The University of the Arts and Tyler School of Art & Architecture in Philadelphia. 

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