Hollow Body
Kate Stone
Curated by Clare Britt
BARELY FAIR
23 APR - 11 MAY
CHICAGO, IL
VISITING HOURS
23 – 27 APR, 11 AM – 4 PM
3 – 4 MAY, 12 – 5 PM
10 – 11 MAY, 12 – 5 PM

Ortega y Gasset Projects is pleased to participate in BARELY FAIR 2025, presenting Hollow Body, an installation by Kate Stone. Stone works across installation, sculpture and animation to imagine the ways that our minds and bodies are reflected in the spaces we occupy. She sees architecture as a recording device - a structure for the accumulation of history, a repository for the things we leave behind and an extension of ourselves. Her work draws from American suburbia - its aesthetics as well as its cultural role as a site for ambient dread and anxiety. Her work explores the cognitive dissonance that occurs when we consume the horrors of the external world from the (dis)comfort of our living room sofas. Her sculptures employ carpet, found furniture and other household materials to imagine a process in which domestic space absorbs so much residue of life that it is animated into a living organism. Drawing inspiration from science, mythology, human anatomy and horror tropes, Stone builds worlds that exist between interior and exterior, reality and superstition, architecture and the body. They are psychological spaces in the midst of transformation, being overtaken by supernatural forces that represent the anxiety that world events bring into our personal lives and private spaces.

Artist Bio

Kate Stone is a Brooklyn-based artist working across installation, sculpture and animation. Stone received a BA from Bard College and an MFA from Parsons the New School for Design. She has been awarded the Tierney Fellowship, The Lotos Foundation Prize, an FST StudioProjects Grant and a Kone Foundation Grant. She has attended residencies at NARS Foundation, Artists Alliance LES Studio Program, Kone Foundation, MASS MoCA and Mudhouse Residency. Her work has been exhibited at 601Artspace, Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space, Dinner Gallery, FiveMyles, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Practice Gallery, Spring Break Art Show, South Bend Museum of Art, Transmitter Gallery and Union Hall Denver among others.

Curator Bio

Clare Britt (she/her) joined OyG Projects in 2013 as a founding co-director. She curated the first solo exhibition of photographic work with Chicago artist Kelly Kaczynski Yes; Or As If. She co curated the group exhibition Code Switch with co-director Lauren Whearty, curated the group show Shadow of the Gradient, and co curated the exhibition entitled Apparitions with artist Alicia Smith and co-director Eleanna Anagnos. Clare has been instrumental in creating virtual content for the gallery including starting the YouTube Channel and creating content for the virtual space.  She spearheaded Rendezvous, an interactive virtual experience that serves as a platform for creative exchange between artists with co-director Tiffany Smith. Clare interviews artists in the Flat File Program in a casual studio visit on Friday’s on OyG’s Instagram Live channel. Clare is a freelance photographer and lives in Chicago, IL and works all over the country creating art and NFTs and telling stories of the people she encounters along the way.