THE SKIRT: THE FOURTH WALL
A SOLO EXHIBITION by MINJUNG LEE
Curated by Annamariah Knox
March 7 - April 26, 2026
Opening Reception Saturday, March 7th, 2026, 6-8pm

Ortega y Gasset Projects is thrilled to present The Fourth Wall, a solo exhibition of work by artist Minjung Lee presented in the OyG Skirt and curated by co-director Annamariah Knox. An opening reception with the artist will be held on Saturday, March 7th, 6-8pm, and the installation will remain on view through Sunday, April 26th, 2026.

The Fourth Wall depicts the back sides of domestic furniture with spectacular, hand-drawn, lifelike accuracy. Made from densely-drawn color pencil and paper, these sculptural pieces bear an uncanny likeness to real objects. We see the backboards of an enormous cabinet with uneven screws, the uncovered battery on the back of a wall clock, and the white label residue on a dresser—all hand drawn with stunning realism.

Lee transforms The Skirt into a peripheral walkway around a room we can only look into from outside, viewing the backs of each furniture piece as we maneuver the space. Informed by her experiences as a foreigner, artist, and mother, Lee’s work makes visible that experience of marginal alienation from the comfort of a home—a place of belonging.

The pieces themselves are vibrantly textured and remarkable for their attendance to detail. Enormous backing boards of large furniture fill the space; the hand-drawn wood grains and size convey a sense of immediacy. Layers of dense pencil strokes create all of these surfaces, serving not only as a faithful rendering of texture but also as a bearing witness to the time spent living in this liminal zone, looking in. These meticulous depictions of texture, rendered by countless pencil strokes, reveal a life lived in an uncertain periphery. Lee simultaneously transforms The Skirt into both a negated auxiliary space, and also into its own domestic interior, lending a deeply empathic view of the experience of living on the outside.

Minjung Lee is a South Korean artist based in Brooklyn, New York. She creates theatrical trompe l'œil sculptures to examine the blurred boundary between the physical world and the realm of the mind, and the idea of narrative levels intersecting and sometimes dissolving into one another. She earned her BFA in sculpture from Seoul National University, Seoul, and her MFA in sculpture from Slade School of Fine Art, London. She has had solo exhibitions at Brooklyn Art Cluster, New York and Alternative Space Noon, Suwon, Korea. She attended Joshua Tree Highlands Residency. Her work has been exhibited in Massachusetts, New Jersey, London, and Seoul, and was featured in Maake Magazine, Sand Journal, and Manifest International Drawing Annual. https://www.leeminjung.com/

Annamariah Knox (b. New York City, NY), is an interdisciplinary artist working across textiles, soft sculpture, movement, and video. Her current work integrates videos of body gestures with fabric sculptures to explore the connection to one’s spirit, as it is accessed through the physical body. She received a B.A. in Art History and Theater from Bowdoin College, and a Masters in Fine Art from Cornell University. Recent exhibitions have been at Ortega y Gasset Projects in Brooklyn, NY, at Cornell University, in Ithaca, NY, and at the Soil Factory, in Ithaca, NY. Her show at Ortega y Gasset Projects was listed as a Must See in Artforum. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Soil Factory, Anderson Ranch, and Arrowmont School of Craft. She is currently based in New York City.