Painting Deconstructed

Sónia Almeida, Polly Apfelbaum, Lisha Bai, Yevgeniya Baras, Gina Beavers, Hannah Beerman, Chris Bogia, Rosanna Bruno, Susan Carr, Kari Cholnoky, Liz Collins, Mark Joshua Epstein, Ada Friedman, Hilary Harnischfeger, Jen P. Harris, Jodi Hays, Valerie Hegarty, Eric Hibit, Morgan Hobbs, Cate Holt, Sacha Ingber, Erin Lee Jones, Lucy Kim, Wayne Koestenbaum, Saskia Krafft, Julia Kunin, Dianna Molzan, Pol Morton, Dona Nelson, Howardena Pindell, Nickola Pottinger, Erika Ranee, Jean Rim, Mariah Robertson, Rita Scheer, Gyan and Kathleen Shrosbree, Kianja Strobert, Emily Tatro, Denise Treizman, Kevin Umaña, Zahar Vaks, Lee Vanderpool, Scott Vander Veen, Rachel Eulena Williams Ortega y Gasset Projects is proud to present Painting Deconstructed, a group exhibition curated by OyG co-founder and co-director the artist Leeza Meksin. 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 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. 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.