SELVEDGE
curated by Lauren Klenow
June 21st - August 16th, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 21st 6-8PM
 
Ortega y Gasset Projects proudly presents our first curatorial open call exhibition SELVEDGE a group show  curated by Lauren Klenow
featuring the work of  Robin Crookall, Brynda Glazier, Miriam Jonas, Lauren Klenow, MaryKate  Maher, Caroline Sebilleau, Erin Shirreff, Alina Tenser, Allyce Wood.

SELVEDGE explores the imagery of portals and pathways across a collection of abstract sculpture, photography, and two dimensional works. The illusory spaces in these artworks recall the environments that are real and can be inhabited. They also imagine spaces yet to be visited. This allows for visual intersections of time, memory, and materiality.
Each artist in Selvedge approaches spatial perspective through a distinct lens, yet their works resonate through a shared visual language. This includes reciprocal patterns, structural echoes, layered surfaces, and shifts in color and contrast. Materials range from black and white photography, rigid forms of metal and concrete to soft inherited linen, ribbon and reflected fluorescent light. These are shaped into ambiguous entryways and sculptural corridors, where bound forms suggest the uncertainty of safe passage. Concentric circles ripple across paintings, photographs, and sculptures, creating a dialogue of light and form across mediums.

The works in Selvedge embrace organic textures and spontaneous boundaries. Torn paper edges and coiled threads become portals into imagined realms shaped by invisible walls, double visions, and warped dimensions. Materials are cut, bent, folded, woven, and fired in ways that reflect the layered, often contradictory nature of time—simultaneously fragmented and continuous, bounded and open.

Just as the fixtures of a room quietly suggest its purpose, the works in Selvedge offer subtle cues for orientation. Interlacing material and imagination to guide viewers through unfamiliar terrain. Like the selvedge edge of fabric that prevents fraying, these artworks hold together the abstract threads of our inner worlds, gently stitching boundaries that steady us amid the shifting contours of past, present, and possible futures.

Artist Bios
Robin Crookall is New York based artist whose work blends sculpture and photography. With a collage of elements, she creates scenes consisting of part fact and part aspect. She constructs architectural models which she photographs, and prints. The experience results in the viewer questioning the preexisting notions of reality, memory, and place. Crookall finds that photography is the ideal pedestal for these concepts, for its singular capacity for both depiction and deception. In 2024 Crookall completed an exhibition at Catskills Art Space in Livingston Manor, NY, a residency at Light Work in Syracuse, NY, a Fellowship at Lighthouse Works on Fishers Island, NY, and a solo show at Morris Adjmi Architects, in NY. Crookall is a 2021 finalist in The Print Centers, 95th Annual International Competition. In April 2021 she had a solo exhibition at Real Art Ways in Hartford CT. Fall 2020 she completed a residency and solo exhibition at Penumbra Foundation in New York City. Crookall is a 2019 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in photography from The New York Foundation for the Arts. Crookall has participated in exhibitions at Field Projects in New York, Candela Gallery in Virginia, Art Basel in Miami, Headlands Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Gallery 4Culture in Seattle, and Friesen Gallery in Seattle. Publications featuring her work include Artsin Square (2022), Musée Magazine (2021), Vast Magazine (2021), Real Art Ways Zine (2021), Indiefoto (2016), and The Seattle Times (2012). Crookall currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
 
Brynda J. Glazier is an artist and writer from Huntingdon PA, and Sheffield, UK whose work acts as an encoded journal of buried information, illumination through struggle, and the power of connection, conscious embodiment, and mutual vibration. Though rooted in ceramic sculpture and installation, her work ranges from painting to drawing, collage, photography, video, performance, light, and sound.
Glazier received her MFA from San Francisco Art Institute where she was granted the Dennis Patrick Gallagher Award for Excellence in Ceramic Sculpture. Her work was selected for Cream from the Top: The Best of Bay Area’s Emerging Artists and she was invited to present at SFMOMA’s Open Space Living Room Series. Glazier is also a published write and has presented her short stories throughout the Bay Area. She has exhibited andperformed nationally and internationally at galleries, museums, art fairs, and alternative spaces including The Center of Contemporary Art in Seattle, WA; Tacoma Art Museum iWA; Stifle Fine Arts/Oglebay Institute, WV; the Material Art Fair in Mexico City, and in spaces throughout the San Francisco Bay Area including 2 nd Floor Projects, Center for New Music, Incline Gallery, The Performance Art Institute of San Francisco, SFMOMA, and the San Francisco Art Fair. Her Work has been reviewed in The Examiner, San Francisco Art Beat, SF Gate, East Bay Express, KQED Arts, and The Stranger (Seattle).
 
Miriam Jonas is a Berlin-based artist whose interdisciplinary practice spans sculpture, installation, and object-based interventions. Her work explores the tension between discomfort and wellness, often challenging viewers' perceptions of the familiar. Utilizing a diverse range of materials and techniques, Jonas creates pieces that invite interaction, encouraging audiences to engage with the boundaries of their comfort zones. Her installations frequently incorporate elements that respond to movement or presence, blurring the lines between the artwork and the observer. Jonas received her Meisterbrief from Kunstakademie Münster and has taught there as a guest lecturer since 2017. She has exhibited internationally, with solo shows at Galerie Russi Klenner, Berlin, LWL Museum Münster, Kunstverein Greven, Skaftfell Art Center, Gocart Gallery Visby, Gotland, and Les Territoires, Montreal. Group exhibitions include Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Museé Regards de Provence, Marseille, and Kunsthaus Dahlem, Berlin. Her work has been supported by the Goethe-Institut Denmark, Neustart Kultur Scholarship, Kultur Rockt Prize, and recognized through nominations for the Karl-Schmidt-Rottluff Scholarship and the NRW State Art Prize. 
 
Lauren Klenow is a sculptor, curator, and educator who uses balance and asymmetry to show how materials shape our perception of space. Through precise arrangements and tactile forms in states of tension or alignment, her work examines how structural logic can be both followed and disrupted. Dedicated to translating creative ideas into temporal experiences, she has managed exhibitions and public programs at the Arts Center at Governors Island, Gage Academy of Art, and currently at MoMA PS1.Klenow received her MFA from New York University and her BA at the University of Washington. Her work has been exhibited at Soil Gallery in Seattle, La Galerie de la Rotunde in Paris, Les Territoires in Montréal, and alternative art spaces in Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan. Klenow has been an artist-in-residence at the Karl Hofer Gesellschaft in Berlin and Centrum Artist Residency in Port Townsend, WA. Her work has been supported by the Queens Art Fund, Artist Trust, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
 
MaryKate Maher was born in Philadelphia, PA. She received her MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and her BFA from Arcadia University. She also studied at the Glasgow School of Art, Scotland. Maher has received fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts, MacDowell, Yaddo, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Franconia Sculpture Park and Socrates Sculpture Park. 
Exhibitions have included Kaliner Gallery, NY; Hesse Flatow, NY; Gold/Scopophilia, NJ; JEFF, TX; MoCA Westport, CT; A.I.R. Gallery, NY; Tiger Strikes Asteroid, NY; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, PA; Triangle Arts Association, NY, with international exhibitions at Kunstwerk Carlshutte, Germany, Takt Berlin/Leipzig, Germany and CICA Museum, South Korea. Her work has been written about in Artsy, Brooklyn Magazine, Hyperallergic, L Magazine, BOMB, Art Zealous and ANTEmag. Maher lives in Brooklyn and is represented by Kaliner Gallery, NYC.
 
Caroline Sebilleau defines herself as an art worker to make her different practices coexist without hierarchizing them. She works mainly collaboratively in different contexts, using printed matter as a way to give a dedicated shape to ephemeral encounters. She also campaigns alongside unions and collectives for better working conditions for artists and access to unemployment benefits. She lives in Nîmes, France
 
Erin Shirreff’s diverse body of work, which includes photography, video, and sculpture, is united by her interest in the ways we experience three-dimensional forms in an age in which our perception is almost invariably mediated by still and moving images. Her work explores the gap between objects and their representations, and the materials (and materiality) of image-making. Recent solo exhibitions of her work have been held at the Milwaukee Art Museum (2025); SITE Santa Fe (2024); Clark Art Institute, Williamstown (2021-22); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2019); Kunsthalle Basel (2016); Buffalo AKG Art Museum (2016); and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2015). Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Dallas Museum of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The Museum of Modern Art, New York;  National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, among others. Shirreff earned an MFA in sculpture from Yale University in 2005.

Alina Tenser is a Ukrainian born artist currently living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Working across sculpture, performance, and video, she makes propositions that elicit physical activation and play. Utilizing industrial and domestic materials and processes she reimagines taken-for-granted social and material relations; mining the entanglements of her experience as an immigrant and parent. Tenser is currently an Assistant Professor at Lehigh University. Tenser’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, with recent solo exhibitions at KinoSaito in Verplanck, NY; Hesse Flatow and 17Essex Gallery in New York, NY; Konstepidemin in Gothenburg, SE; and Soloway Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been reviewed widely, with features in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, BOMB Magazine, Cultured Magazine, Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, and The Third Rail. She has participated in multiple artist residencies, including The Queens Museum Studio Program, Recess Activities, and Triangle Art. Recently, her work was included in the Phaidon survey Great Women Sculptors, a tribute to the contributions of 300 women sculptors from the Renaissance to today.
 
Allyce Wood lives and works in Seattle. Through the use of digital and handmade processes, Wood makes installations, works on paper, and textiles with a focus on digital jacquard tapestries. To her, the loom acts as a mediator between traditional and computerized technologies, offering a unique way to combine online and offline experiences into images in cotton and wool.Wood is a collector of technologies and threads. In the studio, she creates textiles on her mid-century Bergman floor loom, a passed-down marudai, and a knitting machine from the 1960s that she restored piece by piece. Every process tells a story of a different code system. Punch cards and graph paper are as vital as the bleeding watercolors she paints with. This passion for systems, for breakable rules, stems from a lifelong curiosity of reason and rule-bending.

Walls Wearing Worlds, a full color catalog is co-published by OyG Projects and Space Sisters Press with a curatorial essay by Eric Hibit and an interview with Jodi Hays and Leeza Meksin. Link to preorder.