OyG Projects
Ortega Y Gasset Projects is an artist run space, founded in May 2013 in the Bushwick/Ridgewood neighborhoods of Brooklyn and Queens. Formed by artists living in California, Illinois, Ohio, Tennessee, Maryland, Pennsylvania and New York, O y G operated as a cross-country collective and incubator for dialog and artistic exchange.
ACTUALIZE at OyG Projects
featuring work by: Kianna Alarid & Ben Kinsley, Rachel Leah Cohn, James Juszczyk, Veranda Moot & the Los Angeles Meditation Ghostwriter’s Guild (L.A.M.G.G.), Mónica Palma, and Alexis Semtner
Curated by Jessica Langley
The act of meditation is a process and a subject within this exhibition. The artists collected in Actualize are present and mindful. They engage in highly focused, repetitive behavior both through meditation in their everyday life, and in the creation of artwork. They contemplate perception, the transference of energy, and the tangibility of materials ranging from colored pigment to voice to opinion. Actualize means “to become real,” and is a reference to both the artistic process of making, as well as to the holistic process of selfactualization, or to realize one’s full creative and spiritual potential. Actualize, featuring Kianna Alarid & Ben Kinsley, Rachel Cohn, James Juszczyk, Veranda Moot & the Los Angeles Meditation Ghostwriter’s Guild (L.A.M.G.G.), Mónica Palma, and Alexis Semtner, was on view at Ortega y Gasset Projects from January 11 February 15, 2014.
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O y G Projects was founded in 2013 by:
LAUREN ADAMS, Baltimore, MD
JOSHUA BIENKO, Knoxville, TN
CLARE BRITT, Chicago, IL
CARRIE HOTT, San Francisco, CA
JESSICA LANGLEY, Pittsburgh, PA
LEEZA MEKSIN, Brooklyn, NY
SHEILAH WILSON, Granville, OH
KARLA WOZNIAK, Knoxville, TN
![](http://jesslangley.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Cohn_Seance.jpg "Rachel Cohn, "The Seánce," Papier-mâché, chipboard, armature wire, acrylic paint, acetate, wood, hot glue, 2013")
![](http://jesslangley.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Cohn-Seance_detail2.jpg "Rachel Cohn, "The Seánce," Papier-mâché, chipboard, armature wire, acrylic paint, acetate, wood, hot glue, 2013")
![](http://jesslangley.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Semnter_dubb_duece.jpg "Alexis Semtner, "Hex," Acrylic on Panel , 2011")
![](http://jesslangley.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Palma_Song_No_Lyrics.jpg "Mónica Palma, "Song No Lyrics," Ink on paper, 2011")
![](http://jesslangley.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Juszczyk_trigrams.jpg "James Jusczyck, (Top Row), "Thunder," "Impossible Wind," "Mountain Spirit," (bottom row) "No Fear," "Lucky Lake," "Still Water," each Acrylic on Canvas, 2010-2013")
![](http://jesslangley.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Semnter_Hex.jpg "Alexis Semtner, "Dubbs Deuce," Acrylic on Panel , 2011")
![](http://jesslangley.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Palma_Cardinals.jpg "Mónica Palma, "Cardinal," Oil stick on paper, 2011")
![](http://jesslangley.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Cohn_Tape_Ghost_detail.jpg "Rachel Cohn, "Tape Ghost," tape, 2013")
Alexis Semtner, “Dubbs Deuce,” Acrylic on Panel , 2011
Alexis Semtner, “Hex,” Acrylic on Panel , 2011
Mónica Palma, “Song No Lyrics,” Ink on paper, 2011
Mónica Palma, “Cardinal,” Oil stick on paper, 2011
The Los Angeles Meditation Ghostwriters Guild: An Experimental Mediation Marathon by multiple authors published by Signify, Sanctify, Believe’s Library of Sacred Technologies designed by Tanya Rubbak 48pp. Pamphlet, 2011 & Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia // Mediation (Discussion Page, 29 December 2010 – 27 February 2011) by Veranda Moot published by Signify, Sanctify, Believe’s Library of Sacred Technologies designed by Tanya Rubbak 24 pp. Pamphlet, 2011
James Jusczyck, (Top Row), “Thunder,” “Impossible Wind,” “Mountain Spirit,” (bottom row) “No Fear,” “Lucky Lake,” “Still Water,” each Acrylic on Canvas, 2010-2013
Calling Occupants: A Paranormal Concert Series (Concert 5: Kianna Alarid) by Ben Kinsley & Kianna Alarid Video surveillance footage (b&w, NTSC), Sony Trinitron video monitor, speakers March 4, 2011
Rachel Cohn, “The Seánce,” Papier-mâché, chipboard, armature wire, acrylic paint, acetate, wood, hot glue, 2013
Rachel Cohn, “The Seánce,” Papier-mâché, chipboard, armature wire, acrylic paint, acetate, wood, hot glue, 2013
Rachel Cohn, “The Seánce (detail),” Papier-mâché, chipboard, armature wire, acrylic paint, acetate, wood, hot glue, 2013
Rachel Cohn, “Tape Ghost,” tape, 2013
Jessica Langley (b. 1981, USA) is a multimedia artist. She has exhibited her work internationally, and has been an artist-in-residence in numerous programs including Skaftfell Center of Visual Art in Iceland, Askeaton Contemporary Art in Ireland, the SPACES World Artist Program in Cleveland, and the Digital Painting Atelier at OCAD-U in Toronto. She was a recipient of the J. William Fulbright Scholarship for research in Iceland, and earned her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2008. She is an amateur mycologist, and her artwork and writing have been published in the New York Mycological Society Newsletter, New American Paintings, NPR, Hyperallergic, and Temporary Art Review.