Rose Nestler’s Cohort Artists

This Cohort of Artists were accepted to the 2023 Canopy Program year. For three consecutive semesters,
they worked together and with their Faculty Mentor, Rose Nestler, to develop their studio practice.

Tangential Splinters

December 9th - December 17th

Opening Reception: Saturday, December 9th, 4 - 7 pm 
Closing Reception: Sunday, December 17th, 2 - 4 pm 

Ortega y Gasset Projects, 363 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11215

Tangential Splinters is a group exhibition featuring artists participating in a year-long cohort (NYC Crit Club, Canopy Program led by Rose Nestler). The exhibition explores how individual practices have influenced and diverged during this entanglement. The works presented contemplate the transformation of objects through human and elemental intervention. Binding, weaving, washing, and firing imbue new narratives onto everyday items: mirrors are made of flesh, flowers are bound in embalming thread, and wagons become chariots. 

Each artist’s approach to transfiguration differs. Inanimate objects transform into figural forms, digital landscapes manifest into tangible space, and artifacts of performance become totems. Together, the body of work explores interwoven ideas about essence as material.  

The proximity of these tangential practices, tethered by a year-long dialogue, become conduits of emotional and energetic sensitivities.

Guest Speakers + Visiting Critics

Each semester, Rose Nestler’s Cohort received Artist Talks, Lectures, Workshops
and Visiting Critiques from an esteemed roster of Guest Artists + Speakers.