Ortgea y Gasset Projects opens the fall 2015 season with two concurrent exhibitions. A joint reception will be held on Friday, September 11, 6-9pm.
 
On view in the gallery vestibule, Leeza Meksin curates Windows, Curtains, Wall, Painting, a site-specific installation by George Rush. The piece will be on view throughout the Ortega y Gasset fall/winter exhibition program. Rush’s painted wall depicts an imagined modernist interior that both disrupts the existing architecture of the gallery’s entrance and provides a ghostly, apocryphal context for his painting,
Couple with a Dog. The piece was inspired by  the wall painting of Pompeii and Herculaneum and decorative wall frescoes from Roman Renaissance and Baroque interiors.

On view in the main gallery, Eric Hibit curates Color Against Color, featuring works by Andy Cross, Benjamin Degen, Alyssa Gorelick, Hein Koh, Ben Pederson, David Scanavino, Richard Tinkler and Nichole Van Beek. The exhibition runs until Sunday, October 18. The word "colorful" is broadly used to describe many things that have color. However, in many aesthetic and utilitarian applications, color is often interspersed with black, white and neutrals to achieve “balance”. The works in this exhibition forgo such measures and force the viewer to confront color against color, without the breathing room normally provided. When these works are placed in context, the potential for further color clash is exponential. Working within traditions of painterly abstraction, Gorelick, Scanavino, Tinkler and Van Beek explore color as conveyed via the plasticity of paint (in the case of Gorelick’s work, printer ink; in Scanavino’s, paper pulp). The bodily implications within these abstract works are highlighted by the overtly figurative and innuendo-laden works of Degen, Koh and Pederson. In situ, the works in this exhibition enact titillating narratives of caress, body heat, wetness, pressure, and touch.

George Rush has been exhibiting in the United States and Europe since 2001. He received an MFA from Columbia University and a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art. He is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Grant and a NYFA fellowship in painting, and is currently an Assistant Professor and chair of graduate studies in the Department of Art at The Ohio State University. More information can be found here.

Eric Hibit is a visual artist and painter based in New York. He received his BFA from Corcoran College of Art + Design (1998), and Yale University School of Art (2003). Hibit has exhibited his work at Zurcher Gallery, C24 Gallery, Field Projects, Anna Kustera Gallery, Curator’s Office, Momenta Art, and Geoffrey Young Gallery. His work has been reviewed in The Village Voice and The Washington Post. Hibit has taught studio art at Temple University, New York University, Hunter College, and Cooper Union. Hibit joined Ortega y Gasset Projects in 2014. More information can be found here.
 
Leeza Meksin is an interdisciplinary artist, who makes paintings, installations, public art and multiples. She received a MFA from The Yale School of Art (2007), a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2005) and a joint BA/MA in Comparative Literature from The University of Chicago (2000). Meksin has exhibited her work at Regina Rex Gallery (2011, 2014), Airplane Gallery (2014) and Thomas Erben Gallery (2009). She has created site-specific public art installations at Brandeis University (2014), the former Donnell branch of the New York Public Library (2011), and in a National Endowment for the Arts funded project in New Haven, CT (2012). Her work has been featured in BOMB magazine, TimeOut, Chicago Tribune and many other publications.  In 2015 Meksin was appointed to the faculty at Columbia University School of Art. More information can be found here.
 
Ortega y Gasset Projects is a gallery curated projects space in the Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn. Comprised of artists currently living in Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, and Tennessee, OyG operates a cross-country collective and an incubator for dialogue and artistic exchange.

For more information contact Eric Hibit.

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Ortega y Gasset Projects
The Old American Can Factory
363 Third Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11215