Perceptions
August 30th - October 11th, 2025
Haleigh Collins
Blake O'brien
Isaiah Schwartz
Ellie Lyn Cook
Cole Beaune
Odette Steinert
Odette Steinert, lead artist and curator:
“Perceptions” is a collection of painting, sculpture and writing that considers the push and pull between history and time, structure and disorder, hardness and tenderness. The works create frictions that expose how images, words, objects, and bodies mediate our relationships to one another, our pasts, and to the world around us.
The show, “Perceptions”, curated by Odette Steinert, is the third of three shows planned for this season in the downstairs space. Each exhibition is a group of early-career artists that associate with one another.
Last fall the artists Kathleen Kucka and Janis Stemmermann showed their work in the gallery. This exhibit was their second two-person show. The first was at PS 122 in the East Village in the early 1990’s. They have been art friends for over 40 years. An extraordinarily important aspect of being an artist is the close friends that you move through life with. Often these friends have seen almost all of your work. They are your backup memory. They give context and legitimize your history. They are witnesses to your agonies and your joys. They give you support when the process of being an artist is hard and unforgiving. When I am in my studio, and the world is not particularly interested in my personal experiments or thoughts, I think, “My friend is in their studio working on their art.” I have solidarity. I have community.
I asked Odette, who is Janis’s daughter, to bring her art friends into the gallery. My hope is that in 20, or 30, or 40, years they will show together again. My larger hope is that they find solace in one another.
Henry Klimowicz
August 30th - October 11th, 2025
Haleigh Collins
Blake O'brien
Isaiah Schwartz
Ellie Lyn Cook
Cole Beaune
Odette Steinert
Odette Steinert, lead artist and curator:
“Perceptions” is a collection of painting, sculpture and writing that considers the push and pull between history and time, structure and disorder, hardness and tenderness. The works create frictions that expose how images, words, objects, and bodies mediate our relationships to one another, our pasts, and to the world around us.
The show, “Perceptions”, curated by Odette Steinert, is the third of three shows planned for this season in the downstairs space. Each exhibition is a group of early-career artists that associate with one another.
Last fall the artists Kathleen Kucka and Janis Stemmermann showed their work in the gallery. This exhibit was their second two-person show. The first was at PS 122 in the East Village in the early 1990’s. They have been art friends for over 40 years. An extraordinarily important aspect of being an artist is the close friends that you move through life with. Often these friends have seen almost all of your work. They are your backup memory. They give context and legitimize your history. They are witnesses to your agonies and your joys. They give you support when the process of being an artist is hard and unforgiving. When I am in my studio, and the world is not particularly interested in my personal experiments or thoughts, I think, “My friend is in their studio working on their art.” I have solidarity. I have community.
I asked Odette, who is Janis’s daughter, to bring her art friends into the gallery. My hope is that in 20, or 30, or 40, years they will show together again. My larger hope is that they find solace in one another.
Henry Klimowicz
Odette Steinert
Isaiah Schwartz
Cole Beaune
Ellie Lyn Cook
Haleigh Collins
Isaiah Schwartz
Odette Steinert
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Blake O'Brien
Ellie Lyn Cook
Haleigh Collins
Isaiah Schwartz