Tightly Knit, Loose Fit

Curated together with Debora Faccion Grozki and the Artist Praxis podcast

Ortega y Gasset Projects, The Old American Can Factory, 363 Third Ave., Brooklyn, New York 11215

August 12 to 27, 2023

Opening reception: August 12, 4-7pm

Gallery hours: Friday-Sunday, 1-6pm

Tightly Knit, Loose Fit is an exhibition exploring the dynamics of language and artmaking as interconnected aspects of praxis. According to Paulo Freire, praxis describes the perpetual process of making something in the world and making meaning of it. This concept is fundamental to the mission of the Artist Praxis podcast, founded by the exhibition's curators, Debora Faccion Grodzki and Sarah Arriagada, and central to the conversations they conducted there with each exhibiting artist. The exhibition title, "Tightly Knit, Loose Fit," infers that the podcast interviews and artworks come together in this public event to connect thoughts, practices, and materials in a manner that resembles creative actions such as stringing, piecing, and weaving.

Tightly Knit, Loose Fit includes 38 artists from diverse backgrounds and artistic practices. Though based in the United States, Brazil, Cambodia, Germany, Scotland, England, and France, a majority of the exhibiting artists have their immediate roots elsewhere: in Russia, China, Ireland, Serbia, Mexico, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Türkiye, Vietnam, Slovakia, Ukraine, the African diaspora, and the First Nations of these lands. Adding to the multicultural, multilingual, and multipersonal conversations in the podcast, the exhibition honors the sovereignty of human creativity by bringing together artworks that show the gaps and pitfalls of language, the space in between the embodied and the materialized, and the pauses and discordances in artistic practices.

With the option to use the podcast episodes as audio guides, exhibition visitors become participants in the unfolding of praxis. This multisensory experience shines a light not only on the works on display, but also on what it means to make art today, and on the human dynamics involved in making sense of creativity as a global community.

Exhibiting artists: Anna Adler, Matthew Ballou, Ashlynn Browning, Rachel Burgess, Matthew Burrows, Barbara Campbell Thomas, Frank Chang, Madelaine Corbin, Oscar Rene Cornejo, Zachary Fabri, Debora Faccion Grodzki, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Fidencio Fifield-Perez, Manuela Gonzalez, Katarina Janečková Walshe, Yasemin Kaçkar-Demirel, Judy Glantzman, Michele Landel, Graham Lister, Sharon Louden, Jorge Lucero, Leeza Meksin, Natalija Mijatović, Tahila Mintz, Jean Gray Mohs, Sean Noonan, Helen O'Leary, Olivia von Pock, Erin Raedeke, Susanne Ring, Anne Schreiber, Angela Renee Shaffer, Mika Sperling, María Vargas Aguilar, Markus Vater, Rudy Vavra, Vuth Lyno, Lesley Wamsley.

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