Ulijona Odišarija, David Roesing, Victoria Roth, Jessica Sanders, Keith J. Varadi, Owen Westberg

Show Room Gowanus is pleased to announce Leaning Steeples, a group show featuring six young artists whose work deals indirectly with city life and how it is a bit off. With a title based on city architecture, where an old leaning steeple can abut a new upright tower, the exhibition deals with the contrasts of the city and the experiences of humans within it, depicted here in painting, poetry and photography.

The small figurative paintings of Owen Westberg contain views of the city and his studio, handled in the New York School tradition of tender paint-handling and intimate perspective. Lithuanian photographer Ulijona Odišarija contributes a suite of pictures that document quirks in her surroundings or create new miniature environments via posed still-lives. Victoria Roth paints in abstractions that develop from pen drawings, occasionally including recognizable elements (like a highway or a bird’s legs). Jessica Sanders, for her Saturation Series, pours beeswax on to linen to create novel moments of tactile abstraction. David Roesing offers a set of paintings that mimic concrete inscriptions found on New York street-corners. The works will be punctuated by the poems of Keith J. Varadi, mounted alongside the artworks on aluminum panels, inscriptions of one consciousness in the flow of urban life.