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THERE’S STILL TIME TO SIGN UP! Join us May 23 from 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM for a special workshop at OyG to make your own 6 pan watercolor set with artist @mikeambron of @paintmakersnotes

SIGN UP AT LINK IN BIO

Using a glass muller and palette knives, learn to transform dry pigments and resins into lush highly saturated watercolor paints. Choose up to 6 pigments to work with, ranging from Historic Minerals to Modern Synthetics.

We will cover the fundamentals of pigment behavior, surfactants, synthetic, and natural binders.

Participants will receive real time feedback throughout the session, so they can continue making paint on their own. We will also cover safe disposal practices and basic toxicity classifications according to Arts and Creative Materials Institute (ACMI) standards.

What you get:
• 3 hours of hands-on paint making instruction
• 6 full pans of custom watercolors
• Metal carrying case for paints
• The knowledge to safely handle, store, and dispose of raw materials
• The ability to make paint from scratch
• Greater independence in your artistic practice

What you should wear/bring:
• KN95 or N95 Masks or preferred respirator
• Paint clothes, smock, or apron
• Protective gloves
• Notebook and pen

Restrictions:
*Must be 18+ to attend. We kindly ask that all cancellations be made at least 24 hrs prior to the workshop to ensure other participants have a chance to attend

Open Saturday and Sunday from 1-6pm “I Happen to be Rock,” Featuring works by graduating artists in Cornell University’s M.F.A. in Creative Visual Arts. “I Happen to be Rock” brings together distinct practices that remain in dynamic conversation with one another. Material curiosity and conceptual range shape the exhibition, as the artists move through questions of identity, collectivity, visibility, repair, queer construction, memory, and the horizon of what might still be made possible.

Works by:
Marissa Cote @marissaella
Yun Hsiang Wang @yun.hsiang.wang
Faye Pamintuan @pamintuanfye
Onome Olotu @onome_daniella_olotu
Michael Morgan @mikemorganart
Carla Rangel Garcia @carla_havaux
Sheila Novak @sheila.studios

📸 @chanelmatsunami

Check out work by @mikemorganart up now in @cornellmfa_art exhibition “I Happen to be Rock” ✨🌸💞

Work information: Michael Morgan, It’s My Party 2: Moose-ifer, 2026, Oil on canvas

Exhibition Date: May 8-31, 2026
Gallery Hours: Saturday - Sunday, 1-6pm

Featuring works by graduating artists in Cornell University’s
M.F.A. in Creative Visual Arts, I Happen to be Rock brings together distinct practices that remain in dynamic conversation with one another. Material curiosity and conceptual range shape the exhibition, as the artists move through questions of identity, collectivity, visibility, repair, queer construction, memory, and the horizon of what might still be made possible.

Works by:
Marissa Cote @marissaella
Yun Hsiang Wang @yun.hsiang.wang
Faye Pamintuan @pamintuanfye
Onome Olotu @onome_daniella_olotu
Michael Morgan @mikemorganart
Carla Rangel Garcia @carla_havaux
Sheila Novak @sheila.studios

📸 @erichibit

Check out work by @mikemorganart up now in @cornellmfa_art exhibition “I Happen to be Rock” ✨🌸💞

Work information: Michael Morgan, It’s My Party 2: Moose-ifer, 2026, Oil on canvas

Exhibition Date: May 8-31, 2026
Gallery Hours: Saturday - Sunday, 1-6pm

Featuring works by graduating artists in Cornell University’s
M.F.A. in Creative Visual Arts, I Happen to be Rock brings together distinct practices that remain in dynamic conversation with one another. Material curiosity and conceptual range shape the exhibition, as the artists move through questions of identity, collectivity, visibility, repair, queer construction, memory, and the horizon of what might still be made possible.

Works by:
Marissa Cote @marissaella
Yun Hsiang Wang @yun.hsiang.wang
Faye Pamintuan @pamintuanfye
Onome Olotu @onome_daniella_olotu
Michael Morgan @mikemorganart
Carla Rangel Garcia @carla_havaux
Sheila Novak @sheila.studios

📸 @erichibit

Thank you to all who made our Opening last night for @cornellmfa_art exhibition “I Happen to be Rock” ✨🌸💞

Exhibition Date: May 8-31, 2026
Gallery Hours: Saturday - Sunday, 1-6pm

Featuring works by graduating artists in Cornell University’s
M.F.A. in Creative Visual Arts, I Happen to be Rock brings together distinct practices that remain in dynamic conversation with one another. Material curiosity and conceptual range shape the exhibition, as the artists move through questions of identity, collectivity, visibility, repair, queer construction, memory, and the horizon of what might still be made possible.

Works by:
Marissa Cote @marissaella
Yun Hsiang Wang @yun.hsiang.wang
Faye Pamintuan @pamintuanfye
Onome Olotu @onome_daniella_olotu
Michael Morgan @mikemorganart
Carla Rangel Garcia @carla_havaux
Sheila Novak @sheila.studios

📸 @erichibit

Thank you to all who made our Opening last night for @cornellmfa_art exhibition “I Happen to be Rock” ✨🌸💞

Exhibition Date: May 8-31, 2026
Gallery Hours: Saturday - Sunday, 1-6pm

Featuring works by graduating artists in Cornell University’s
M.F.A. in Creative Visual Arts, I Happen to be Rock brings together distinct practices that remain in dynamic conversation with one another. Material curiosity and conceptual range shape the exhibition, as the artists move through questions of identity, collectivity, visibility, repair, queer construction, memory, and the horizon of what might still be made possible.

Works by:
Marissa Cote @marissaella
Yun Hsiang Wang @yun.hsiang.wang
Faye Pamintuan @pamintuanfye
Onome Olotu @onome_daniella_olotu
Michael Morgan @mikemorganart
Carla Rangel Garcia @carla_havaux
Sheila Novak @sheila.studios

📸 @erichibit

We’re installing today! 🎁 Join us Friday, May 9th, 6:30 - 8:30 pm for the opening of “I Happen to Be Rock”, a group exhibition by the 2026 Cornell MFA candidates in Creative Visual Arts.

“I Happen to be Rock” is a culminating exhibition featuring the work of Marissa Cote, Michael Morgan, Sheila Novak, Onome Olotu, Faye Pamintuan, Carla Rangel García, and Yun Hsiang Wang. Across painting, sculpture, printmaking, installation, writing, and expanded material practices, the exhibition gathers seven artists whose work insists on persistence, relation, transformation, and becoming. The title suggests contingency and endurance; something accidental and elemental, arrived at and borne through. It evokes a condition of having taken form under pressure, of becoming matter, presence, witness.

Featuring works by graduating artists in Cornell University’s M.F.A. in Creative Visual Arts, “I Happen to Be Rock”brings together distinct practices that remain in dynamic conversation with one another. Material curiosity and conceptual range shape the exhibition, as the artists move through questions of identity, collectivity, visibility, repair, queer construction, memory, and the horizon of what might still be possible. The exhibition is funded in part by Cornell Council for the Arts.

Works by:
Marissa Cote @marissaella
Yun Hsiang Wang @yun.hsiang.wang
Faye Pamintuan @pamintuanfye
Onome Olotu @onome_daniella_olotu
Michael Morgan @mikemorganart
Carla Rangel Garcia @carla_havaux
Sheila Novak @sheila.studios

@cornellmfa_art

THERE’S STILL TIME TO SIGN UP! Join us May 23 from 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM for a special workshop at OyG to make your own 6 pan watercolor set with artist @mikeambron of @paintmakersnotes

SIGN UP AT LINK IN BIO

Using a glass muller and palette knives, learn to transform dry pigments and resins into lush highly saturated watercolor paints. Choose up to 6 pigments to work with, ranging from Historic Minerals to Modern Synthetics.

We will cover the fundamentals of pigment behavior, surfactants, synthetic, and natural binders.

Participants will receive real time feedback throughout the session, so they can continue making paint on their own. We will also cover safe disposal practices and basic toxicity classifications according to Arts and Creative Materials Institute (ACMI) standards.

What you get:
• 3 hours of hands-on paint making instruction
• 6 full pans of custom watercolors
• Metal carrying case for paints
• The knowledge to safely handle, store, and dispose of raw materials
• The ability to make paint from scratch
• Greater independence in your artistic practice

What you should wear/bring:
• KN95 or N95 Masks or preferred respirator
• Paint clothes, smock, or apron
• Protective gloves
• Notebook and pen

Restrictions:
*Must be 18+ to attend. We kindly ask that all cancellations be made at least 24 hrs prior to the workshop to ensure other participants have a chance to attend

Join us May 23 from 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM for a special workshop at OyG to make your own 6 pan watercolor set with artist @mikeambron of @paintmakersnotes

SIGN UP AT LINK IN BIO

Using a glass muller and palette knives, learn to transform dry pigments and resins into lush highly saturated watercolor paints. Choose up to 6 pigments to work with, ranging from Historic Minerals to Modern Synthetics.

We will cover the fundamentals of pigment behavior, surfactants, synthetic, and natural binders.

Participants will receive real time feedback throughout the session, so they can continue making paint on their own. We will also cover safe disposal practices and basic toxicity classifications according to Arts and Creative Materials Institute (ACMI) standards.

What you get:
• 3 hours of hands-on paint making instruction
• 6 full pans of custom watercolors
• Metal carrying case for paints
• The knowledge to safely handle, store, and dispose of raw materials
• The ability to make paint from scratch
• Greater independence in your artistic practice

What you should wear/bring:
• KN95 or N95 Masks or preferred respirator
• Paint clothes, smock, or apron
• Protective gloves
• Notebook and pen

Restrictions:
*Must be 18+ to attend. We kindly ask that all cancellations be made at least 24 hrs prior to the workshop to ensure other participants have a chance to attend

Final Weekend to check out The Fourth Wall, a solo exhibition of work by @leeminjung_studio in the Skirt! curated by OyG co-director @annamariahknox . Come check it out Saturday and Sunday from 1-6pm 📚

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.

📸: @chanelmatsunami @gidrastudios

Final Weekend to check out The Fourth Wall, a solo exhibition of work by @leeminjung_studio in the Skirt! curated by OyG co-director @annamariahknox . Come check it out Saturday and Sunday from 1-6pm 📚

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.

📸: @chanelmatsunami @gidrastudios

Final Weekend to check out The Fourth Wall, a solo exhibition of work by @leeminjung_studio in the Skirt! curated by OyG co-director @annamariahknox . Come check it out Saturday and Sunday from 1-6pm 📚

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.

📸: @chanelmatsunami @gidrastudios

Final Weekend to check out The Fourth Wall, a solo exhibition of work by @leeminjung_studio in the Skirt! curated by OyG co-director @annamariahknox . Come check it out Saturday and Sunday from 1-6pm 📚

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.

📸: @chanelmatsunami @gidrastudios

Final Weekend to check out The Fourth Wall, a solo exhibition of work by @leeminjung_studio in the Skirt! curated by OyG co-director @annamariahknox . Come check it out Saturday and Sunday from 1-6pm 📚

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.

📸: @chanelmatsunami @gidrastudios

Final Weekend to check out The Fourth Wall, a solo exhibition of work by @leeminjung_studio in the Skirt! curated by OyG co-director @annamariahknox . Come check it out Saturday and Sunday from 1-6pm 📚

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.

📸: @chanelmatsunami @gidrastudios

Final Weekend to check out The Fourth Wall, a solo exhibition of work by @leeminjung_studio in the Skirt! curated by OyG co-director @annamariahknox . Come check it out Saturday and Sunday from 1-6pm 📚

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.

📸: @chanelmatsunami @gidrastudios

Thank you @brooklynrail and @jchsanford for reviewing our exhibition Penumbra: Beyond the Uncanny Valley, co-curated by @proudfamilythemesong and @p.ete.rk.ell.y

Penumbra: Beyond the Uncanny Valley brings together ten works spanning over four decades, plumbing the iconic oeuvres of seminal artists like Beverly Buchanan, Robert Gober, and Greer Lankton. The exhibition title references the 1970 musical sexploitation film Beyond the Valley of the Dolls-the official-turned-unofficial surrealist sequel-turned-parody of the iconic 1967 film, The Valley of the Dolls, as well as the penumbra-an astronomical term referring to the partially shaded outer region of a shadow cast by an opaque object.

“Uncanniness derives from uncertainty-the potential present in seeing something that could be living or pulseless,” Joshua Chee Sanford (@jchsanford) writes in @brooklynrail ArtSeen section. “These artists don’t bank on uncertainty; they assuredly move beyond it toward sounds, forms, and worlds that are impossibly human.”

You can read Chee Sanford’s full review linked in our bio! And you can see Penumbra: Beyond the Uncanny Valley on view at Ortega y Gasset Projects (@oygprojects) through this Sunday, April 26th! Stop by TODAY for a chance to meet co-curator @p.ete.rk.ell.y between 1:00-6:00pm

Image: Greer Lankton, Jesus’s Cha Cha Heels, 1986. Acrylic paint, papier-mâché, metal, wood, 7 × 7 × 4 inches. Courtesy Ortega y Gasset Projects. Photo: Chanel Matsunami ( @chanelmatsunami @gidrastudios )

#oygprojects #Penumbra

Inviting you all to our MFA Exhibition in New York City at Ortega y Gasset Projects @oygprojects opening this coming May 8-31, 2026!

Opening Reception: Friday, May 8 from 6:30-8:30pm

Exhibition Date: May 8-31, 2026
Gallery Hours: Saturday - Sunday, 1-6pm

Featuring works by graduating artists in Cornell University’s M.F.A. in Creative Visual Arts, I Happen to be Rock brings together distinct practices that remain in dynamic conversation with one another. Material curiosity and conceptual range shape the exhibition, as the artists move through questions of identity, collectivity, visibility, repair, queer construction, memory, and the horizon of what might still be made possible.

Works by:
Marissa Cote @marissaella
Yun Hsiang Wang @yun.hsiang.wang
Faye Pamintuan @pamintuanfye
Onome Olotu @onome_daniella_olotu
Michael Morgan @mikemorganart
Carla Rangel Garcia @carla_havaux
Sheila Novak @sheila.studios

We hope to see you there!

Open today and tomorrow from 1-6PM - The Fourth Wall, a solo exhibition of work by @leeminjung_studio in the Skirt! curated by OyG co-director @annamariahknox ✨ The installation will remain on view through Sunday, April 26th, 2026.

Installation photography 📸 @chanelmatsunami @gidrastudios

This paper sculpture is part of the installation The Fourth Wall curated by OyG co-director @annamariahknox in the Skirt at @oygprojects On view through April 26th!🌂☔️

Misty Land
2025
colored pencil on hand-shaped mat board and paper
41.5x6.5x4 inches

This paper sculpture is part of the installation The Fourth Wall curated by OyG co-director @annamariahknox in the Skirt at @oygprojects On view through April 26th!🌂☔️

Misty Land
2025
colored pencil on hand-shaped mat board and paper
41.5x6.5x4 inches