Please join us today in Gowanus for the catalog launch and closing reception of Spine at Ortega y Gasset Projects! A review by the Brooklyn Rail is now online.

Come meet the curators, artists, writers and publisher involved with this expansive and beautiful exhibition. Poetry readings by Mònica de la Torre and Wayne Koestenbaum will illuminate the gallery at 4:30 pm.

My broadsheet, Enter Stage Left (Monday’s image, v. 1), is on view and will be available for purchase at the gallery, and via Space Sisters Press.

Closing reception: Sunday, December 9, 2018
3:00 pm: Walk-through with The Skirt's exhibition artist Adam Liam Rose.
4:30 pm: Poetry reading by Wayne Koestenbaum and Mònica de la Torre

Reception to follow | Catalogs will be for sale at the event.

Ortega y Gasset Projects
363 Third Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11215

SPINE:

curated by Suzanne McClelland and Leeza Meksin
October 20 - December 9, 2018

SPINE is a group exhibition curated by artist Suzanne McClelland and OyG Co-Director and artist Leeza Meksin, featuring works by Cati Bestard, Lisa Blas, Sonia Louise Davis, Shoshana Dentz, Anne Eastman, Jenny Monick and Anne Vieux.

SPINE explores the mental and physical structures of a book and questions what is legible, optical, physical, emotional or cerebral. Reading is viewing and occurs any time anyone engages with visual art but it also happens when we’re handling and engaging with books as objects. Printed media lives in the realm of the physical and the private with a spine functioning as an interruption, an intersection, a fulcrum and a central structure, often simultaneously. The works presented in this exhibition question what is shared when the private act of reading becomes public.

Please join us Saturday, October 20th, for the opening of Spine, at Ortega y Gasset Projects, in Gowanus, Brooklyn!

Ortega y Gasset Projects
@ The Old American Can Factory
363 Third Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11215
NOTE: Enter at Third Avenue

Opening reception with the artists: Saturday, October 20, 6-9 pm
Gallery: Saturdays & Sundays 1-6 pm and by appointment

The opening coincides with the Gowanus Open Studios.
Spine is featured in the Hyperallergic Fall Art 2018 Guide.

SPINE

October 20 - December 2, 2018 | Curated by Suzanne McClelland and Leeza Meksin

Ortega y Gasset Projects is pleased to present SPINE, a group exhibition curated by artist Suzanne McClelland and OyG Co-Director and artist Leeza Meksin, featuring works by Cati Bestard, Lisa Blas, Sonia Louise Davis, Shoshana Dentz, Anne Eastman, Jenny Monick and Anne Vieux.

Opening at OyG on Saturday, October 20, 2018, during the weekend of Gowanus Open Studios, SPINE explores the mental and physical structures of a book and questions what is legible, optical, physical, emotional or cerebral. Reading is viewing and occurs any time anyone engages with visual art but it also happens when we’re handling and engaging with books as objects. Printed media lives in the realm of the physical and the private with a spine functioning as an interruption, an intersection, a fulcrum and a central structure, often simultaneously. The work presented in the exhibition questions when does the private act of reading become public and what is shared.

SPINE brings together a wide range of media, including drawing, photography, sculpture, video, fiber, multiples and artist books. Please join us for the opening with the artists and curators on Saturday, October 20th, 6 - 9pm. The exhibition will be on view October 20 - December 2, 2018.

For press inquiries, please contact:
Leeza Meksin, Co-founder and Co-director, Ortega y Gasset Projects
leeza.meksin@gmail.com