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Leeza Meksin: The Skirt: Walls Wearing Worlds
Ortega y Gasset Projects is pleased to present Walls Wearing Worlds, a site-specific exhibition in The Skirt by OyG Co-Director and Co-Founder, the artist Leeza Meksin. The opening reception is on Saturday, January 18th, 6-8pm. The exhibition continues until March 16th, 2025.
Walls Wearing Worlds is a unique moment at OyG Projects because typically the organization does not feature solo exhibitions by its Co-Directors. For almost a dozen years, OyG Projects has provided artists in the wider creative community with a platform to experiment and test the possibilities of their medium. Meksin鈥檚 passion for site-specific work was at the root of creating The Skirts鈥� programming in addition to the main space gallery shows. Given her decade-long commitment to other artist鈥檚 site-specific exhibitions in the space, it feels appropriate to highlight Meksin鈥檚 own artistic practice at this time.
Leeza Meksin鈥檚 work is characterized by an interest in the body: its shapes, sizes, and how it does (or does not) conform to the things it wears and the spaces it inhabits. In lieu of conventional figuration, Meksin alludes to the body by stretching yards of spandex mesh over the walls of The Skirt, in some cases, from floor to ceiling. This transformation of architecture into bodily evocations sets the stage for her painting (on canvas, wood panel, and neoprene), to appear on top of, behind, and in-between the transparent fabric. Meksin鈥檚 paintings offer further plot-twists of materiality and innovation, combining paper pulp, fabric, paint, found objects, sundry trimmings, and other (sometimes curious) incidentals. Like magnets for the flotsam of the world, Meksin鈥檚 paintings suck up the material richness of the consumerist landscape, re-rooting these potentially forgotten items into a new aesthetic and personal relevance.
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Ortega y Gasset Projects is pleased to present Walls Wearing Worlds, a site-specific exhibition in The Skirt by OyG Co-Director and Co-Founder, the artist Leeza Meksin. The opening reception is on Saturday, January 18th, 6-8pm. The exhibition continues until March 16th, 2025.
Walls Wearing Worlds is a unique moment at OyG Projects because typically the organization does not feature solo exhibitions by its Co-Directors. For almost a dozen years, OyG Projects has provided artists in the wider creative community with a platform to experiment and test the possibilities of their medium. Meksin鈥檚 passion for site-specific work was at the root of creating The Skirts鈥� programming in addition to the main space gallery shows. Given her decade-long commitment to other artist鈥檚 site-specific exhibitions in the space, it feels appropriate to highlight Meksin鈥檚 own artistic practice at this time.
Leeza Meksin鈥檚 work is characterized by an interest in the body: its shapes, sizes, and how it does (or does not) conform to the things it wears and the spaces it inhabits. In lieu of conventional figuration, Meksin alludes to the body by stretching yards of spandex mesh over the walls of The Skirt, in some cases, from floor to ceiling. This transformation of architecture into bodily evocations sets the stage for her painting (on canvas, wood panel, and neoprene), to appear on top of, behind, and in-between the transparent fabric. Meksin鈥檚 paintings offer further plot-twists of materiality and innovation, combining paper pulp, fabric, paint, found objects, sundry trimmings, and other (sometimes curious) incidentals. Like magnets for the flotsam of the world, Meksin鈥檚 paintings suck up the material richness of the consumerist landscape, re-rooting these potentially forgotten items into a new aesthetic and personal relevance.
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