NADA house 2021

Rose Nesler
Saturday, May 8 – August 1st, 2021

For NADA House's third edition, Projet Pangée is proud to present Allegory for the Muse, a solo exhibition by Rose Nestler in which the artist revisits four historical artworks to question the shackles of patriarchy and its effects on the appropriation of the female figure. Through her striking albeit comical sculptures and video work, the Brooklyn-based artist makes explicit the potential of power that resides in the materiality of textiles. By playing with scale, color, languages of sexuality and humor, and by blending craft-based sewing techniques with historical canons, Nestler subverts our reading of art history and the conventional, trite, feminine characteristics entrapped within it, presenting their revised, bold forms as attributes for liberty.

BIO

Rose Nestler (b. 1983 in Spokane, WA, USA) lives and works in Brooklyn. Nestler holds an MFA from Brooklyn College. Nestler has exhibited in the United States and internationally, including exhibitions at Projet Pangée (Montréal, Canada), Public Gallery (London, United Kingdom), Fisher Parrish (Brooklyn), and BRIC (Brooklyn). Upcoming exhibitions include a solo at Public Gallery (London, UK) in 2021 and Mrs. Gallery (NY, USA) in 2022.