Tangential Splinters

Lesley Bodzy, Ash Hagerstrand, Lydia Kern, Katie Kotler, Kasia Latos, Hodaya Louis, Lauren May, Duff Norris, Kate Skakel, Lauren Skelly Bailey Tangential Splinters is a group exhibition featuring artists participating in a year-long cohort (NYC Crit Club, Canopy Program led by Rose Nestler). The exhibition explores how individual practices have influenced and diverged during this entanglement. The works presented contemplate the transformation of objects through human and elemental intervention. Binding, weaving, washing, and firing imbue new narratives onto everyday items: mirrors are made of flesh, flowers are bound in embalming thread, and wagons become chariots. Each artist’s approach to transfiguration differs. Inanimate objects transform into figural forms, digital landscapes manifest into tangible space, and artifacts of performance become totems. Together, the body of work explores interwoven ideas about essence as material. The proximity of these tangential practices, tethered by a year-long dialogue, become conduits of emotional and energetic sensitivities. The Canopy Program is a year-long mentorship program, providing artists access to work exclusively with a Faculty Mentor and an intimate cohort of artist peers for three semesters. Cohorts are available virtually via Zoom for artists based across the world, in-person cohorts are available for artists living in the New York City area. Artists meet regularly throughout the program’s year for critiques, discussion and resource building in professional practices and art history lectures. Each cohort receives the opportunity to engage in special workshops, lectures and critique with Guest Speakers, Visiting Artists + Critics. Each cohort culminates in a pop-up group show with an opening reception in New York City at the end of the program.