Painting Deconstructed
Ortega y Gasset Projects is thrilled to present Painting Deconstructed, curated by OyG co-founder the artist Leeza Meksin. This show takes over the main gallery, the project space, The Skirt, and a bonus gallery space, creating a single largest exhibit to take place at Ortega y Gasset Projects since its inception in 2013.
Painting Deconstructed explores ideas and motivations behind the concept of deconstructed painting, and the vital role that women, immigrants, LGBTQA artists and POC artists play in questioning, rethinking and restructuring what painting can be, what counts for painting. Working across sculpture, photography, ceramics, painting and installation, while employing fiber, paint, ceramics, film, paper pulp, fur, plaster, hydrocal and many other materials, the artists in this show examine and transgress the various conventions of painting such as the rectilinear shape of the support, flatness, continuity, framing, verticality, the use of only paint and having an individual maker for each painting. Although not all artists in this show insist on being painters their practices and strategies are often in reference to, inspired by, or painting-adjacent, exhibiting the tremendous elasticity of painting and the sheer ingenuity with which contemporary artists are testing its limits.
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Ortega y Gasset Projects is thrilled to present Painting Deconstructed, curated by OyG co-founder the artist Leeza Meksin. This show takes over the main gallery, the project space, The Skirt, and a bonus gallery space, creating a single largest exhibit to take place at Ortega y Gasset Projects since its inception in 2013.
Painting Deconstructed explores ideas and motivations behind the concept of deconstructed painting, and the vital role that women, immigrants, LGBTQA artists and POC artists play in questioning, rethinking and restructuring what painting can be, what counts for painting. Working across sculpture, photography, ceramics, painting and installation, while employing fiber, paint, ceramics, film, paper pulp, fur, plaster, hydrocal and many other materials, the artists in this show examine and transgress the various conventions of painting such as the rectilinear shape of the support, flatness, continuity, framing, verticality, the use of only paint and having an individual maker for each painting. Although not all artists in this show insist on being painters their practices and strategies are often in reference to, inspired by, or painting-adjacent, exhibiting the tremendous elasticity of painting and the sheer ingenuity with which contemporary artists are testing its limits.
Artists on show
- Ada Friedman
- Cate Holt
- Chris Bogia
- Denise Treizman
- Dianna Molzan
- Dona Nelson
- Emily Loamy Tatro
- Eric Hibit
- Erika Ranee
- Erin Lee Jones
- Gina Beavers
- Gyan Shrosbree
- Hannah Beerman
- Hilary Harnischfeger
- Howardena Pindell
- Jean Rim
- Jen P. Harris
- Jodi Hays
- Julia Kunin
- Kari Cholnoky
- Kathleen Shrosbree
- Kevin Umana
- Kianja Strobert
- Lee Vanderpool
- Lisha Bai
- Liz Collins
- Lucy Kim
- Mariah Robertson
- Mark Joshua Epstein
- Morgan Hobbs
- Nickola Pottinger
- Pol Morton
- Polly Apfelbaum
- Rachel Eulena Williams
- Rita Scheer
- Rosanna Bruno
- Sacha Ingber
- Sanford Biggers
- Saskia Krafft
- Scott Vander Veen
- Sonia Almeida
- Susan Carr
- Valerie Hegarty
- Wayne Koestenbaum
- Yevgeniya Baras
- Zahar Vaks
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