“The Displaced Image” Exhibition

Ortega y Gasset Projects @ The Old American Can Factory

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Ortega y Gasset Projects presents the opening of The Displaced Image, a group exhibition featuring the works of Anthony Peyton Young, Felipe Baeza, Ilana Harris-Babou, Joeun Kim Aatchim, Peter LaBier, Phoebe Osborne and Tommy Coleman, curated by OyG co-director Adam Liam Rose.

In The Displaced Image, artists explore various ways in which fragmentation persists in our contemporary lives. This might reference our collective moment of loneliness and distance, the depths of individual interiority, as well as the fragmentation and displacement of bodies by various powerful actors and systems. Collectively, the works in the exhibition imagine a means for using fragmentation as a subversive tool towards wholeness.

Works give reference to both the psychologically and physically splintered body. Through the use of layering and transparency, Joeun Kim Aatchim’s intimate and meticulously rendered silk paintings offer a quiet yet powerful look into the space between what is seen and what is recalled. Anthony Payton Young’s recent collages use fragmentation as a means to memorialize black and brown individuals murdered due to racial violence and police brutality, drawing our attention to the incomplete images left from lives lost. In Felipe Baeza’s series of small collaged works, hybrid figures are formed by overlaying pornographic magazine clippings with reproductions of mesoamerican figurative sculptures.

Some artists in the exhibition approach images and text through processing (cut and pasted, edited, overlaid, downloaded, degraded). Ilana Harris Babou’s installation combines layered sourced video and collage to explore the ways that wellness industries such as infomercial psychics and health gurus target individuals through media. In Tommy Coleman’s works, scraps of language are used as drawing, creating an effect that is simultaneously confrontational and humorous. Similarly, Peter LaBier’s large-scale paintings isolate subjects of the Western canon, including images of horses and columns, stripping them of their context and thereby challenging their dominance.

A closing performance by Phoebe Osborne titled Release the Horses (fka hydra) will take place online and in-person on June 6th. The work references a many-headed collective body in constant change - stay tuned for more information.

Anthony Peyton Young is a Boston based artist born and raised in Charleston, WV. Working primarily in painting, drawing, paper, and printmaking, Young’s work explores identity, history, and memorialization with heavy influences from Black Americana, film and his home state West Virginia. In his project They Have Names, he uses portraiture as a tool to memorialize the numerous black and brown individuals murdered due to racial violence, hate crimes, police brutality, and fears associated with racial stereotyping. He earned his BA from West Virginia State University and his MFA from School of the Museum of Fine Arts/ Tufts University.

Felipe Baeza is an artist born in Guanajuato, Mexico. Baeza’s practice is equal parts confrontation of violent pasts and a tribute to people whose sense of personhood is constantly litigated and defined by those in power. His “fugitive bodies” appear in different states of becoming and at times are even abstracted to the point of invisibility. He received his BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, and an MFA from Yale University. Baeza lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Ilana Harris- Babou is an interdisciplinary artist whose works span sculpture and installation while grounded in video. She speaks the aspirational language of consumer culture and uses humor as a means to digest painful realities. Her work confronts the contradictions of the American Dream: the ever unreliable notion that hard work will lead to upward mobility and economic freedom. She has exhibited throughout the US and Europe, with solo exhibitions at The Museum of Arts & Design, Larrie, 80WSE, and HESSE FLATOW in New York. Other venues include Abrons Art Center, the Jewish Museum, SculptureCenter, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the De Young Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

She has been reviewed in the New Yorker, Artforum, and Art in America, among others. She holds an MFA in Visual Art from Columbia University, and a BA in Art from Yale University.

Joeun Kim Aatchim - In search of transparency in vision and voice—a medium-independent artist Joeun Kim AATCHIM crafts contemporary relics and installs audiovisual essays. She is a self-directed lifelong learner of various ancient art, such as Korean silk paintings, silverpoint, mosaics, ceramics, fresco, intaglio, bookmaking, and ventriloquism. Her recent research focuses on her missing stereovision and the psychology of women. AATCHIM’s projects have shown internationally, namely at SBC Galerie d’art Contemporain in Montréal, Long March Space in Beijing, and 80 WSE Gallery, The Jewish Museum, and The Drawing Center, in which the Foundation of Contemporary Arts supported her project. She has received fellowships at Nida Art Colony in Lithuania, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Triangle Art Association, The Lighthouse Works, and Open Sessions at The Drawing Center. She earned her BFA in Studio Arts at New York University and MFA in Visual Arts at Columbia University.

Peter LaBier is an interdisciplinary artist working in painting, drawing, music, dance and performance. He is the founding member of the New York based band, Psychobuildings. LaBier’s work has been exhibited in New York, LA, Miami, Houston, and internationally in Berlin and Hamburg. LaBier received his B.A. at Vassar College and his MFA from Columbia University.

Phoebe Osborne is an artist and choreographer based in Brooklyn, NY. Their works have been presented across the US and Europe, including commissioned performances at Transmediale Berlin, La Caldera Barcelona, SFMoMA and Oakland Museum of California, and Lenfest Center for the Arts. They have exhibited at False Flag (Long Island City), Southern Exposure (San Francisco), The Boiler Pierogi Gallery (NY), E-flux Bar Laika (NY), and Jacuzzi (Amsterdam). Osborne received an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University and an MA in Choreography from DAS Graduate School at the Amsterdam University of Arts.

Tommy Coleman is a Florida grown, Brooklyn based artist whose investigations of language, confession, and intimacy lead to the creation of staunchly sincere albeit witty works of art that weed out the invasive moments in our lives and put them in the spotlight. Coleman received his BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, and an MFA in Sculpture from Yale University. His work has been exhibited internationally at The Museum of Art and Design (NYC), Homesession (BCN), UCLA, The Windor (MD), The Atlanta Contemporary.

Adam Liam Rose is an interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, drawing, video and installation. Born in Jerusalem and raised mostly in the United States, his works investigate the aesthetic systems of power embedded within architecture. Rose received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (‘12) and an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts (‘17). He joined as co-director at artist run gallery Ortega y Gasset Projects in 2019.