Ortega y Gasset Projects

TODAY! join the artist Leeza Meksin ( ), co-founder of Ortega y Gasset Projects and curator of Painting Deconstructed as she hosts a “Happy Hour with the Curator” to answer your questions and do a walkthrough of the exhibition! ✨🩷

Join us tomorrow, Wednesday, July 10 from 5-7 pm with the artist Leeza Meksin ( ), co-founder of Ortega y Gasset Projects and curator of Painting Deconstructed. Leeza will host a “Happy Hour with the Curator” to answer your questions and do a walkthrough of the exhibition.

Work information: (above) Morgan Hobbs, City Hall, 2023. oil and papier mache on panel, 8” x 8” x 2.” (below) Kari Cholnoky, Hardened Sight, 2023. Acrylic, collage, wire and paper pulp on steel, 9’’ x 24.5’’ x 3’’

Painting Deconstructed has been extended by a week, with a closing reception and book launch scheduled for Saturday, August 24, 4 - 6:30 pm, which will also be the last day of the show!

Additionally, please join us this Wednesday, July 10, 5-7 pm with the artist Leeza Meksin ( ), co-founder of Ortega y Gasset Projects and curator of Painting Deconstructed. Leeza will host a “Happy Hour with the Curator” to answer your questions and do a walkthrough of the show together.

Work information: Hilary Harnischfeger, Green Harlequin, 2024. paper, ink, dye, ceramic, wood, glass, hydrostone and green fluorite, 21” x 15” x 4.”

Please join us Wednesday, July 10, 5-7 pm with the artist Leeza Meksin ( ), co-founder of Ortega y Gasset Projects and curator of Painting Deconstructed. Leeza will host a “Happy Hour with the Curator” to answer your questions and do a walkthrough of the show together.

🚨 SAVE THE DATE: Painting Deconstructed has also been extended by a week, with a closing reception and book launch scheduled for Saturday, August 24, 4 - 6:30 pm, which will also be the last day of the show.

We are excited to announce the recipient of our 2024 Open Call In the Skirt Space for site specific works, Annamariah Knox ( ) ✨ Please save the date for the Opening on Saturday, September 14, 2024.

Annamariah Knox (b. New York City, NY), is a multidisciplinary artist primarily working with textiles, soft sculpture, video, and movement. She makes multimedia installations that integrate videos of body gestures with soft sculpture, to explore the connection to one’s spirit, as it is accessed through the physical body as the locus of responding to the world. She screen-prints, dyes, and bleaches fabric, sews moving blankets, and casts concrete to create large-scale interactive installations. Within and upon these forms, she projects video of moving bodies, engaging a variety of movement modalities including semaphore, sign language, clowning, and mime, to represent a human body’s life force as it manifests in the world. In 2023 she received an MFA from Cornell University, and has exhibited work in Ithaca, NY, and Brooklyn, NY. She is currently based between New York City, NY and Ithaca, NY.

Work information: Back Space, 2023, Experimental Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Thank you to and for mentioning our current exhibition, “Painting Deconstructed,” curated by OyG founder, co-director and artist in “The enduring elasticity of painting” / “After a lengthy stretch during which emerging painters have leaned into commercial preferences for the traditional, many seem to be breaking free from the market’s emphasis on imagery and narrative. Painters with a penchant for experimental, near three-dimensional approaches have bounced back into the conversation they commanded in the early 2010s. Three current exhibitions, all curated by artists, reflect various aspects of this phenomenon.” Link in bio for full article

We are excited to announce the recipient of our 2024 Open Call In the Main Gallery Hannah Parrett ( ) ✨Please save the date for the Opening on Saturday, September 14, 2024.

Hannah Parrett is an artist and educator based out of Cincinnati, OH whose work explores the malleable boundaries of perception through expanded painting practices. Raised in South Dakota, Hannah relocated to the midwest in 2017 and has lived there for the past seven years. During her time in central and southern Ohio she finished her masters degree at Ohio State University where she taught as a lecturer from 2020-2022, and co-founded Dream Clinic Project Space, an artist-run gallery that operates out of a shared studio collective in Columbus, OH. She was the recipient of the Greater Columbus Arts Council Fellowship in 2021 and has exhibited locally and nationally at galleries that include the Pizzuti Collection through the Columbus Museum of Art, the Louise Underwood Hopkins Center for Contemporary Art, Lubbock TX, and The Neon Heater, Findlay OH. She attended residencies at the Hambidge Center for the Arts in 2022, Vermont Studio Center in February of 2024, and was the artist in residence at Visible Records in Charlottesville VA in January of 2024. She has an upcoming solo show at Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery in Cincinnati in 2025 and will be attending ACRE residency the summer of 2024. Her work can be seen in the Midwest Editions #155 #167 of New American Paintings

Work information: A Vision in the Night, Oil on panel, foam, basswood, dyed leather, plastic grapes. 48.5” x 76” x 6” , 2024.

2024 Open Call Recipients - https://mailchi.mp/oygprojects/opencall2024recipients
Hannah Parrett and Annamariah Knox

"Painting Deconstructed" reviewed in The New York Times - https://mailchi.mp/oygprojects/painting-deconstructed-reviewed-in-the-new-york-times-and-more

.koestenbaum in “Painting Deconstructed,” curated by OyG founder, co-director and artist 📽️🖼️ Open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 1-6pm!

Work information: Welcome to the House of Atreus, 2023. hand-altered 16mm film, scanned and digitized, and then combined with a digital video of an improvisatory performance, 5 min 17 sec.

Graft #2 (Thigmomorphogenesis,) 2023, wood, foam, plaster, oil paint, silk, latex, rubber, vinyl, screen print, hardware, 48” x 48” x 2” in “Painting Deconstructed” open today from 1-6pm!

Check out today’s for a review by of our current show “Painting Deconstructed” curated by Oyg founder and co-director ⚡️🎉 congratulations to all the artists! LINK IN BIO

Open Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 1-6pm 🖼️“Painting Deconstructed”, curated by OyG co-founder and co-director .

“Painting Deconstructed” takes over the main gallery, the project space, The Skirt, and a bonus gallery, creating a single largest exhibit at Ortega y Gasset Projects since the gallery’s inception in 2013.

Painting Deconstructed features works by 


baras

















lee.jones
koestenbaum









is.drawing











The show is on view from May 18 to August 18, 2024.

Painting Deconstructed received support from The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and The Andy Warhol Foundation. A catalog designed by Gretchen Kraus of Space Sisters Press will accompany the exhibition, to be launched at the closing event in August.

Exhibition photography:

Open Today and Sunday from 1-6pm! “Painting Deconstructed”, curated by OyG co-founder and co-director

“Painting Deconstructed” takes over the main gallery, the project space, The Skirt, and a bonus gallery, creating a single largest exhibit at Ortega y Gasset Projects since the gallery’s inception in 2013.

Work information: [Left]: , that’s amore, 2024, mixed media, 22” x 19” x 3.5” ; [Right]: , Lick yuh face, 2021, Pigments and paper pulp, 40” x 16” x 1”

in “Painting Deconstructed” curated by OyG co-founder and artist

Work information: A Baton’s Passing Into the Suspended Deep, 2024. Moss, bark fragment, beeswax covered clay and painted gel medium skin, painted ceramic and fabric on stretcher, 52 x 25 inches.

work in “Painting Deconstructed,” open today from 1-6pm!

Work information: Plastic Surgeon, Fitness Trainer, Geneticist series, 2017-2020, Oil paint, acrylic paint, urethane resin, epoxy, fiberglass, powder-coated aluminum frame, 37”x 23.5” x 2”

Open Today, Saturday and Sunday from 1-6pm! “Painting Deconstructed”, curated by OyG co-founder and co-director .

“Painting Deconstructed” takes over the main gallery, the project space, The Skirt, and a bonus gallery, creating a single largest exhibit at Ortega y Gasset Projects since the gallery’s inception in 2013.

Painting Deconstructed features works by 


baras

















lee.jones
koestenbaum









is.drawing











The show is on view from May 18 to August 18, 2024.

Painting Deconstructed received support from The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and The Andy Warhol Foundation. A catalog designed by Gretchen Kraus of Space Sisters Press will accompany the exhibition, to be launched at the closing event in August.

Exhibition photography:

.baras in “Painting Deconstructed,” curated by OyG co-founder and artist open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 1-6pm

Work information: “Untitled YBR-010,” 2010-2024, Oil and Mixed Media on Linen, 19 x 23 inches

Thank you and for naming “Painting Deconstructed” one of “10 Art Show to See in NYC This June” ‼️💥 follow the link in bio to read the full list. The exhibition runs through August 18th, 2024.

“Frame Branch Elegy,” 2019. Wood, wire, foil, epoxy clay, acrylic paint, 20” x 12” x 4.” Up now in “Painting Deconstructed” curated by OyG co-founder and co-director

“Painting Deconstructed” takes over the main gallery, the project space, The Skirt, and a bonus gallery, creating a single largest exhibit at Ortega y Gasset Projects since the gallery’s inception in 2013. The exhibition is open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 1-6pm

in “Painting Deconstructed,” curated by Oyg co-founder and curator 🩷 open Fridays, Saturday and Sundays from 1-6pm

Work information: East Coast Dinner on West Coast Time, #1, 2023. Acrylic on artist-made panel, 14 x 23 inches.

Thank you to all who joined our book launch and conversation celebrating the publication of Tara Ward’s ( ) “Appreciation Post.” The conversation was moderated by , Oyg co-founder and curator of our current exhibition “Painting Deconstructed” on view through August 18th 2024.

Join us TODAY for a book launch celebrating the publication of Tara Ward’s Appreciation Post: Towards an Art History of Instagram, from 4-6pm.

Please join us for a lively conversation between artist and art historian Tara Ward and OyG’s co-director, the artist Leeza Meksin. We are excited to introduce Tara Ward’s work to our community in anticipation of Ward’s essay for the exhibition catalog of Painting Deconstructed, currently on view at Ortega y Gasset Projects.

Appreciation Post offers the first art historical account of Instagram and how it influences our visual culture. Instagram alters how and what people see and therefore what people can imagine aesthetically. Using the exhibit Painting Deconstructed as their point of inspiration, Ward and Meksin will discuss how both painting and Instagram can expand or diminish what viewers understand art to be. Why stop at painting? Let’s deconstruct Instagram, too!

Join us to discuss how Instagram, like painting before it, has historically limited what and who can be represented and to imagine ways artists and other creatives might reconceive it. A book signing after the conversation will take place at the gallery. As an additional bonus, OyG co-directors Eric Hibit and Leeza Meksin will also have their recent books Color Theory for Dummies and Turret Tops and Before (respectively) available at the signing. Refreshments will be served.

Open Today, Saturday and Sunday from 1-6pm! “Painting Deconstructed”, curated by OyG co-founder and co-director . And don’t forget to join us on Sunday, June 2, 4-6pm for the book launch celebrating Tara Ward’s new publication: “Appreciation Post: Towards an Art History of Instagram”

“Painting Deconstructed” takes over the main gallery, the project space, The Skirt, and a bonus gallery, creating a single largest exhibit at Ortega y Gasset Projects since the gallery’s inception in 2013.

Painting Deconstructed features works by 


baras

















lee.jones
koestenbaum









is.drawing











The show is on view from May 18 to August 18, 2024.

Painting Deconstructed received support from The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and The Andy Warhol Foundation. A catalog designed by Gretchen Kraus of Space Sisters Press will accompany the exhibition, to be launched at the closing event in August.

Exhibition photography:

Appreciation Post Book Launch: Tara Ward in Conversation with Leeza Meksin Sunday, June 2, 2024, 4-6pm - https://mailchi.mp/oygprojects/tara-ward-in-conversation

Ortega y Gasset Projects is pleased to present a book launch celebrating the publication of Tara Ward’s Appreciation Post: Towards an Art History of Instagram, on Sunday, June 2, 4-6pm.

Please join us for a lively conversation between artist and art historian Tara Ward and OyG’s co-director, the artist Leeza Meksin. We are excited to introduce Tara Ward’s work to our community in anticipation of Ward’s essay for the exhibition catalog of Painting Deconstructed, currently on view at Ortega y Gasset Projects.

Appreciation Post offers the first art historical account of Instagram and how it influences our visual culture. Instagram alters how and what people see and therefore what people can imagine aesthetically. Using the exhibit Painting Deconstructed as their point of inspiration, Ward and Meksin will discuss how both painting and Instagram can expand or diminish what viewers understand art to be. Why stop at painting? Let’s deconstruct Instagram, too!

A book signing after the conversation will take place at the gallery. As an additional bonus, OyG co-directors Eric Hibit and Leeza Meksin will also have their recent books Color Theory for Dummies and Turret Tops and Before (respectively) available at the signing. Refreshments will be served.

OyG will be CLOSED today and tomorrow for Memorial Day Weekend. Please rejoin us again next week to view “Painting Deconstructed”, curated by OyG co-founder and co-director

The show takes over the main gallery, the project space, The Skirt, and a bonus gallery, creating a single largest exhibit at Ortega y Gasset Projects since the gallery’s inception in 2013.

Work information: (on left) , This House I Own, 2023. glazed ceramics, chiffon, cotton, thread, wood, 25.5” x 35.5” (on right) , Tropho, 2024. glazed ceramics, wood, paint, found wood, 45 x 53 x 17.75”.

Painting Deconstructed features works by 


baras

















lee.jones
koestenbaum









is.drawing











The show is on view from May 18 to August 18, 2024.

Painting Deconstructed received support from The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and The Andy Warhol Foundation. A catalog designed by Gretchen Kraus of Space Sisters Press will accompany the exhibition, to be launched at the closing event in August.

“Painting Deconstructed”, curated by OyG co-founder and co-director is open TODAY from 1-6pm, and closed Saturday and Sunday for Memorial Day weekend!

The show takes over the main gallery, the project space, The Skirt, and a bonus gallery, creating a single largest exhibit at Ortega y Gasset Projects since the gallery’s inception in 2013. 🩷💥

Work information: , Memorial for Babe, 2023. Oil paint, blue mirrored plexiglass, plastic cat noses, Babe’s favorite ballies, paper pulp, nail polish, Babe’s hair, Wimsey’s hair, and Poirot’s hair on canvas. 20” x 16”

Painting Deconstructed features works by 


baras

















lee.jones
koestenbaum









is.drawing











The show is on view from May 18 to August 18, 2024.

Painting Deconstructed received support from The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and The Andy Warhol Foundation. A catalog designed by Gretchen Kraus of Space Sisters Press will accompany the exhibition, to be launched at the closing event in August.

THANK YOU to all who made it to “Painting Deconstructed”, a group exhibition curated by OyG co-founder and co-director . The show takes over the main gallery, the project space, The Skirt, and a bonus gallery, creating a single largest exhibit at Ortega y Gasset Projects since the gallery’s inception in 2013. 🩷💥

Painting Deconstructed features works by 


baras

















lee.jones
koestenbaum









is.drawing











The show is on view from May 18 to August 18, 2024.

Painting Deconstructed received support from The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and The Andy Warhol Foundation. A catalog designed by Gretchen Kraus of Space Sisters Press will accompany the exhibition, to be launched at the closing event in August.

Thank you for listing our next exhibition - Painting Deconstructed - as a ‘must see’. We agree! Please join us to celebrate this exciting show curated by OyG co-founder and co-director, the artist ❤️ The show will take over the main gallery, the project space, The Skirt, and a bonus gallery, creating a single largest exhibit at Ortega y Gasset Projects since the gallery’s inception in 2013. Full Press Release on our website!

Painting Deconstructed features works by 


baras

















lee.jones
koestenbaum









is.drawing











The show is on view from May 18 to August 18, 2024.

Painting Deconstructed received support from The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and The Andy Warhol Foundation. A catalog designed by Gretchen Kraus of Space Sisters Press will accompany the exhibition, to be launched at the closing event in August.