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Seeing What Isn’t There Opening Reception
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Seeing What Isn’t There Opening Reception
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3RD ST.
FEBRUARY 1 - 26, 2025
SEEING WHAT ISN’T THERE
Curatorial Team
Ciaran Short
Victoria Gray
Ciaran Short
Victoria Gray
Exhibiting Artists
Breanna Martins
Cassie Taylor
Eden Chinn
Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov
Irem Gürel
Lynne Breitfeller
Matt Rosenbaum
Mishal Junaid
Onaje Grant-Simmonds
Peter Shellenberger
Ryan Ketterer
Sylvie Mayer
Terra Keck
Travis Childers
Breanna Martins
Cassie Taylor
Eden Chinn
Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov
Irem Gürel
Lynne Breitfeller
Matt Rosenbaum
Mishal Junaid
Onaje Grant-Simmonds
Peter Shellenberger
Ryan Ketterer
Sylvie Mayer
Terra Keck
Travis Childers
Opening Reception
February 1, 6pm - 9pm
February 1, 6pm - 9pm
Seeing What Isn’t There underscores how art can act as a form of alchemy, using physical materials to conjure the metaphysical. Blurring the boundaries of what is real and what is imaginary, the works on view trouble our perceptual capacities through amorphousness, disjunction, and the uncanny, producing a simultaneous sense of wonder and unease. Central to the exhibition is an exploration of dualities, particularly in representations of the human form, where proximity and distance, closeness and isolation, tenderness and tension coexist.
For instance, Onaje Grant-Simmonds’ The Holidays portrays two contrasting interior spaces. The figures within the composition, marked by both realistic details and impressionistic faces, evoke simultaneous sensations of connection and detachment. The painting’s gestural qualities provoke fleeting memories, balancing the impermanent with the timeless. Despite the mundanity of its subject matter, the mood and ambiguity of the scene suggest that there is more beneath the surface than meets the eye.
Onaje Grant-Simmonds, The Holidays, 2024.
Oil on canvas. 32 x 72 inches.
Similarly, Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov’s sculptures hold both corporeal and otherworldly qualities. These works act as metaphors for the body, functioning both as protective coverings and as sites of deformation. Through soft textures and distorted forms, Fedotov-Fedorov explores themes of masking and societal roles, and the complex relationship between identity and the materials that shape our perceptions.
Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov, Prom Mask, 2023.
Textile sculpture. 9 x 9 x 11.8 inches.
Breanna Martins’ large-scale watercolor What Waits on Opposite Shores further expands on bodily distortion, creating unsettling yet sentimental imagery. Her depiction of ephemeral figures set against a fluid, dreamlike landscape evokes a sense of nostalgia for forgotten places and unrealized experiences. The work’s melancholic mood—imbued with emotions of love, loss, familiarity, and alienation—evokes a poignant tension between innocence and impending danger.
Breanna Martins, What Waits on Opposite Shores, 2023.
Watercolor on paper, mounted on canvas. 54 x 39 inches.
Watercolor on paper, mounted on canvas. 54 x 39 inches.
As with Martins' piece, many works in the exhibition evoke a longing for places never visited and experiences never had. The show presents a delicate balance of lightness and darkness, inviting the viewer into a world where dreamlike possibilities emerge from ambiguous imagery, all while subtly questioning our ability to perceive the truth of what is directly before us.
Seeing What Isn’t There challenges us to reconsider how we engage with the world around us, particularly when faced with the limitations of perception. The works on view prompt reflection on how art functions as both a mirror and a distortion of our reality—where what is absent or unclear can speak just as loudly as what is present. In this way, the exhibition invites a deeper exploration of the spaces between certainty and doubt, and the ways in which art allows us to see the unseen. Through visual ambiguity, these artists offer new ways of looking and new possibilities for understanding the complexity of human experience.
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About the Artists:
Breanna Cee Martins is a Latina artist living and working in New York. Known for her large-scale watercolors mounted on canvas, her ghostly paintings of phantom people and children evoke faded photographs or half-forgotten memories. Her work explores the fluidity and spontaneity of the medium, where the final results are revealed after the pieces dry. Martins has exhibited both domestically and internationally and received her MFA from the New York Academy of Art in 2011.
Cassie Taylor is a mixed media artist and painter based in Brooklyn, New York. Her practice spans mixed media, printmaking, drawing, and oil painting to explore themes of life, love, beauty, and emotional contradiction. Taylor’s work questions the existence of definitive answers, welcoming ambiguity and sparking imagination. She graduated from Skidmore College in 2019 with a Bachelor's in Studio Art.
Eden Chinn is an artist, curator, and educator whose work examines the performance of femininity and self-construction through media. Utilizing photography, installation, and bookmaking, her art explores how media shapes identity and self-expression. She is an adjunct faculty member at NYU Tisch and a youth arts educator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, where she leads teen programs that explore contemporary art and identity.
Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York, exploring themes of queerness, human ecology, and body metamorphosis. His work employs video, installation, sculpture, and painting to dismantle social constructs that obstruct self-identification outside the realm of normality.
Irem Gürel is an emerging artist working in photography, sculpture, and painting. Drawing inspiration from pioneers of photography, her work challenges the technical limits of the medium and explores the evolution of the photograph as an art form.
Lynne Breitfeller is a New Jersey-based photographer whose work examines memory, loss, and human relationships. Her series After the Fire:Water Damaged explores how the impermanence of possessions and memories reshapes our understanding of the past.
Matt Rosenbaum explores his father’s complex childhood through a psychological lens, using rich textures and symbolism to probe how familial trauma echoes across generations. His work draws from depth psychology and meditation, transforming latent psychic data into physical forms.
Mishal Junaid is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her paintings reflect themes of heritage, memory, and identity, blending cultural influences with an interdisciplinary approach informed by writing and architecture. She examines the tension between intimacy and distance through the unreliable nature of memory.
Onaje Grant-Simmonds explores psychological oppositions, such as love and pain, through oil painting. His work blends illusionism and expressive mark-making, often drawing from religious and spiritual themes to explore the isolation of the modern subject.
Peter Shellenberger is a photographer and filmmaker based in Maine, known for his alternative techniques and exploration of light. His recent work uses Queen Anne’s Lace as a metaphor for contemporary issues like climate change and social strife, offering both a critique and a sense of hope.
Ryan Ketterer is an artist and art historian based in New York. Their work, which spans various mediums, explores personal trauma and bodily autonomy. Using long-exposure photography, Ketterer addresses vulnerability and the unseen, emphasizing what is hidden beneath the surface.
Sylvie Mayer is a Boston-based painter whose work explores loss, memory, and family histories through domestic interiors. Influenced by 19th-century spiritualism, her paintings evoke a conversation between the living and the dead, inviting reflection on our connections to the past.
Terra Keck is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work, which has been featured in Hyperallergic and The Art Newspaper, uses a reductive process of erasing graphite and watercolor to explore themes of UFOs and the cosmic unknown. Her art invites reflection on our uncertain future and the potential for connection beyond Earth.
Travis Childers transforms everyday materials into thought-provoking art that challenges conventional usage. His work explores human nature and memory, encouraging viewers to reconsider the meaning of the mundane and find new possibilities in the ordinary objects that surround us.
Curatorial team:
Ciaran Short
Victoria Gray
About All Street NYC:
Founded in 2018, All Street NYC is a gallery and platform for emerging and underrepresented artists whose work focuses on social engagement and community empowerment. Initially created as an artist collective and grassroots protest organization, All Street NYC is driven by its roots in the city’s creative community. The gallery’s mission is to use art as a means of protest, resistance, and social change, highlighting voices that challenge the status quo. After opening its first location on East Third Street in the East Village, All Street NYC expanded in 2023 with a second space at 119 Hester Street. Both locations continue to provide a platform for artists whose work addresses important social and political issues.
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