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Ortega y Gasset Projects is pleased to present  No Time, an exhibition of recent work by New York-based artist Michael Ambron in the gallery鈥檚 main  space. The exhibition runs from February 17th - March 17th 2024, with a reception for the artist on Saturday, February 17th from 5-8pm. No Time, curated by OyG Co-Directors Zahar Vaks and Lauren Whearty, is the artist鈥檚 first solo show, including both recent works and paintings slowly developed over years. In conjunction with the exhibition, the artist will hold a paint-making workshop at OyG Projects (event details forthcoming).  

Ambron鈥檚 wildly experimental approaches to painting include working with found substrates, collaged fabrics and packaging materials, surprising additives to his handmade paints, and unconventional tools and applications of various media. Michael Ambron not only uses paint to achieve the mark of a color, but to investigate paint鈥檚 materiality and broad possibilities. Ambron describes his paintings as being, 鈥渄ozens of layers deep and composed of hundreds of drawings. Their surfaces are compressed skins whose protruding contours reveal points of contact with once visible forms.鈥� As a professional paint maker, Ambron is both an artist and a chemist, experimenting and playing within the confines of each material鈥檚 limits and properties. Colors bounce and vibrate off of one another on surfaces that vary from smooth matte paint to raw burlap, or paint thick with ground stone, soil, or diamond dust.  Ambron鈥檚 varied and layered paintings are rich with crags, crevices and scrapes, yet they maintain an openness and lightness even as we recognize these textured, heavy, and collaged materials. Ambron鈥檚 use of 鈥渆rasure, removal, and blocking out of various elements creates a tension between that which is familiar and present and that which is absent or past.鈥�