Painting Deconstructed is the exhibition catalog for the eponymous 2024 show at Ortega y Gasset Projects curated by Leeza Meksin. The catalog includes essays by art historian Tara Ward, and the artist Kati Gegenheimer, as well as an introductory essay by Leeza Meksin.  

The exhibition explored ideas and motivations behind the concept of deconstructed painting, and the vital role that women, immigrants, LGBTQA artists and POC artists play in questioning, rethinking and restructuring what painting can be, what counts for painting. Working across sculpture, photography, ceramics, painting and installation, while employing fiber, paint, ceramics, film, paper pulp, fur, plaster, hydrocal and many other materials, the artists in this show examine and transgress the various conventions of painting such as the rectilinear shape of the support, flatness, continuity, framing, verticality, the use of only paint and having an individual maker for each painting.

Painting Deconstructed, the catalog, is published by Ortega y Gasset Projects and Space Sisters Press.

Painting Deconstructed features works by Sónia Almeida, Polly Apfelbaum, Lisha Bai, Yevgeniya Baras, Gina Beavers, Hannah Beerman, Sanford Biggers, Chris Bogia, Rosanna Bruno, Susan Carr, Kari Cholnoky, Liz Collins, Mark Joshua Epstein, Ada Friedman, Hilary Harnischfeger, Jen P. Harris, Jodi Hays, Valerie Hegarty, Eric Hibit, Morgan Hobbs, Cate Holt, Sacha Ingber, Erin Lee Jones, Lucy Kim, Wayne Koestenbaum, Saskia Krafft, Julia Kunin, Dianna Molzan, Pol Morton, Dona Nelson, Howardena Pindell, Nickola Pottinger, Erika Ranee, Jean Rim, Mariah Robertson, Rita Scheer, Gyan and Kathleen Shrosbree, Kianja Strobert, Emily Tatro, Denise Treizman, Kevin Umaña, Zahar Vaks, Lee Vanderpool, Scott Vander Veen, Rachel Eulena Williams.