NYAB Event - George Rush “Windows, Curtains, Wall, Painting”

George Rush “Windows, Curtains, Wall, Painting”

Ortega y Gasset Projects @ The Old American Can Factory

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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.

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. georgerushstudio.com

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. meksin.com