Walls Wearing Worlds by Leeza Meksin
7 × 9.75 in
80 pages
Soft Cover
Walls Wearing Worlds 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.
Leeza Meksin’s work is characterized by an interest in the body: its shapes, sizes, and how it does (or does not) conform to the things it wears and the spaces it inhabits. In lieu of conventional figuration, Meksin alludes to the body by stretching yards of spandex mesh over the walls of the exhibition space, in some cases, from floor to ceiling. This transformation of architecture into bodily evocations sets the stage for her painting (on canvas, wood panel, and neoprene), to appear on top of, behind, and in-between the transparent fabric. Meksin’s paintings offer further plot-twists of materiality and innovation, combining paper pulp, fabric, paint, found objects, sundry trimmings, and other (sometimes curious) incidentals. Like magnets for the flotsam of the world, Meksin’s paintings suck up the material richness of the consumerist landscape, re-rooting these potentially forgotten items into a new aesthetic and personal relevance.
Leeza Meksin is an interdisciplinary artist working in painting, installation, public art, and multiples. She is a co-founder and co-director of Ortega y Gasset Projects, an artist-run gallery and curatorial collective based in Brooklyn, NY. Meksin divides her time between Brooklyn and Ithaca, NY.
7 × 9.75 in
80 pages
Soft Cover
Walls Wearing Worlds 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.
Leeza Meksin’s work is characterized by an interest in the body: its shapes, sizes, and how it does (or does not) conform to the things it wears and the spaces it inhabits. In lieu of conventional figuration, Meksin alludes to the body by stretching yards of spandex mesh over the walls of the exhibition space, in some cases, from floor to ceiling. This transformation of architecture into bodily evocations sets the stage for her painting (on canvas, wood panel, and neoprene), to appear on top of, behind, and in-between the transparent fabric. Meksin’s paintings offer further plot-twists of materiality and innovation, combining paper pulp, fabric, paint, found objects, sundry trimmings, and other (sometimes curious) incidentals. Like magnets for the flotsam of the world, Meksin’s paintings suck up the material richness of the consumerist landscape, re-rooting these potentially forgotten items into a new aesthetic and personal relevance.
Leeza Meksin is an interdisciplinary artist working in painting, installation, public art, and multiples. She is a co-founder and co-director of Ortega y Gasset Projects, an artist-run gallery and curatorial collective based in Brooklyn, NY. Meksin divides her time between Brooklyn and Ithaca, NY.
7 × 9.75 in
80 pages
Soft Cover
Walls Wearing Worlds 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.
Leeza Meksin’s work is characterized by an interest in the body: its shapes, sizes, and how it does (or does not) conform to the things it wears and the spaces it inhabits. In lieu of conventional figuration, Meksin alludes to the body by stretching yards of spandex mesh over the walls of the exhibition space, in some cases, from floor to ceiling. This transformation of architecture into bodily evocations sets the stage for her painting (on canvas, wood panel, and neoprene), to appear on top of, behind, and in-between the transparent fabric. Meksin’s paintings offer further plot-twists of materiality and innovation, combining paper pulp, fabric, paint, found objects, sundry trimmings, and other (sometimes curious) incidentals. Like magnets for the flotsam of the world, Meksin’s paintings suck up the material richness of the consumerist landscape, re-rooting these potentially forgotten items into a new aesthetic and personal relevance.
Leeza Meksin is an interdisciplinary artist working in painting, installation, public art, and multiples. She is a co-founder and co-director of Ortega y Gasset Projects, an artist-run gallery and curatorial collective based in Brooklyn, NY. Meksin divides her time between Brooklyn and Ithaca, NY.