Reality and Artifice Collide at Gowanus Open Studios

Collage was the process of choice at this year’s open studios, mashing up decades, styles, processes, and technologies across works.

by Alissa Guzman

October 23, 2018



"Building on this often messy and sometimes disjointed aesthetic were the crisp, almost painterly abstractions of Tegan Brozyna Roberts. Created with thread and paper cutouts and layered together like makeshift weavings, Roberts’s “Traverse Series” references futuristic and re-imagined world maps, optimistic in their color and clusters. At a time when lines seem to be constantly shifting — from rights to borders — these quiet pieces share a timely sensibility."

During Gowanus Open Studios 2017 I was selected by guest curator Steve DiBenedetto to be included on his Top 10 Can't Miss Studios.

Steve DiBenedetto was born in the Bronx, New York in 1958 and is a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Painting, and the Tiffany Foundation Award. He regularly shows his work in New York and around the globe.