The Skirt
The Inside Matches the Outside
Annamariah Knox
Curated by Adam Liam Rose
September 14 - December 14, 2024
Opening Reception Saturday, September 14th, 2024 5-8pm

Ortega y Gasset Projects is pleased to present The Inside Matches the Outside, the inaugural NY solo exhibition of Annamariah Knox, in our Skirt Space. Knox will present soft-sculpture and video installation of human gestures and large-scale fabric pieces. The exhibition is  curated by OyG co-director Adam Liam Rose, with an Opening Reception on Saturday, September 14th, 2024 from 5 - 8 pm.

The Inside Matches the Outside consists of a multimedia sculptural and video installation of gesticulating hands and feet projected onto fabric forms. Large abstract shapes of bleached, dyed, and patched fabric evoke the elements, boulders, and the forces that erode, shape, and transform a landscape.

Hands and feet move across fabric boulders, engage in movement modalities that include semaphore, sign language, clowning, and mime. As the projected limbs dance across fabric backgrounds, they spark associations: a fabric plinth—when stepped on—becomes a hole, a pool, a stage. Together, video and sculpture create an immersive passage. The boundaries of the human body and its surroundings blur, the forces moving through a body are evoked. Everything is alive; energy is visible.

The installation engages the viewer directly, integrating body, architecture, and image. Installed in the Skirt, viewers move through a passageway. Awareness is evoked of the shapes a body creates in space, the external lines of the body, the internal impulse of movement, the energy transmitted, and the porosity of these distinctions; the inside matches the outside.

Annamariah Knox is an interdisciplinary artist from New York City. Knox’s work uses soft sculpture and video of moving bodies to explore the connection to internal awareness accessed through the physical body, the locus of response to the world. In 2023, Annamariah Knox received an MFA from Cornell University, where she was the recipient of the Cornell Council of the Arts Grant. She holds a BA in Art History and Theater from Bowdoin College. Knox has been awarded several art residencies including Anderson Ranch (Snowmass, CO), The Soil Factory (Ithaca, NY), and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts (Gatlinburg, TN). Her work has been exhibited at the Millenium Film Workshop (Brooklyn, NY), Ortega y Gasset Projects (Brooklyn, NY), and The Soil Factory, (Ithaca, NY). She is currently based in Brooklyn, NY.

 Adam Liam Rose (Brooklyn, NY) is a Brooklyn-based curator and interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, installation, video and drawing. 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 the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), Fire Island Artist Residency, Triangle Arts Association, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Ox-Bow School of Art, A-Z West: Institute of Investigative Living, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Chicago Artists Coalition's HATCH Residency. 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 OyG as a co-director in 2019. He curated the exhibitions “The Displaced Image,” featuring the works of Anthony Peyton Young, Felipe Baeza, Ilana Harris-Babou, Joeun Kim Aatchim, Peter LaBier, Phoebe Osborne and Tommy Coleman (2021); “The Mother of Sighs,” a solo exhibition by Robert Hickerson (2021); “Take Root in the Air,” a solo exhibition by Darryl DeAngelo Terrell (2023); and “Study for a Scene,” a solo exhibition by Sara Stern (2024).