Rose Nestler “Strange Business”

Ortega y Gasset Projects @ The Old American Can Factory

[Image: Rose Nestler "Control Tops, Beauty Mirth and Elegance" (2017) Fabric, thread, leather, wood, and polyfil, 46 x 34 x 24, 90 x 30 x 18, 50 x 44 x 23 in.]

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Ortega y Gasset Projects presents Strange Business, the first New York solo exhibition by multi-disciplinary artist . Strange Business brings together video, free-standing sculpture and wall pieces that focus on Nestler’s interest in simultaneously creating tension and humility between bodily and physical space. Nestler’s free-standing sculptures are totemic, soft, and somehow also humorous. Melding ideas of gender, play, and monuments, these sculptures stand taller than most of us in the gallery space and remind us of our mobility in their stoic state.

Nestler’s video work brings her sculptures to life in unusual ways. There is an uncanny and eerie quality to the videos Nestler creates which are informed by her psychological interest in objects taking on sexual and asexual overtones. We are confronted with her sculptures moving in real space, and are forced to re-evaluate how our own bodies take up space.

Rose Nestler, b. 1983 in Spokane WA, lives and works in Brooklyn NY. She received her MFA from CUNY Brooklyn College in 2017. Her work has been featured in group shows at Crush Curatorial, Couples Counseling, Bruce High Quality Foundation and NARS Foundation. Nestler has been an artist in residence at Byrdcliffe, NARS Foundation, and Chashama.