TEMPEST GALLERY @ ONE EYED STUDIOS:

Cat's Cradle

Tempest Gallery at One Eyed Studios is pleased to present Cat’s Cradle, a device for pattern creation; becoming through meeting, fitting and inscribing upon each other. The exhibition is on view from March 14th-29th, 2025.

Cat’s Cradle.

Works by Katherine Earle, Clare Hu, and Leila Seyedzadeh.

March 14th-29th, 2025

Opening Reception: March 22nd, 6-9pm

TEMPEST Gallery @ ONE EYED STUDIOS,

1639 Centre St,

Studio 179,

Ridgewood, Queens, 11385.

Enter via Weirfield St

347 668 8411

Regular gallery hours are Wednesday-Saturday, 1-6pm. TEMPEST is open to scheduled visits outside of regular hours, please direct message us on Instagram @tempest.gallery

“In our childhood we have all doubtless enjoyed the fascination of the game of Cat’s-Cradle, and experienced a sense of being hopelessly baffled, when, after completing the series of familiar movements, we were at the end of our knowledge, and all our attempts to go on further ended in a complete tangle of the string.” -Caroline Furness Jayne, String Figures and How to Make Them; A Study of Cat’s Cradle in Many Lands, first published in 1906.

An intricate makeshift collage of 3 artist’s weavings and textile works, Cat’s Cradle is a proposal for how to dovetail in air, interlace and merge. We are, as ever, talking about Palestine, displacement, the housing crisis in America, the violent targeting of hardworking immigrants, and the indignities of the latest DEI purge, which seems hell bent on scrubbing any mention of our different identities. Then how to move forward? How can craft, mending, weaving and handmade objects be physical and psychological resistance to dehumanization?

Cat’s Cradle is a device for pattern creation; becoming through meeting, fitting and inscribing upon each other. It can be memorized and passed on. It’s a scrappy way to make a nest out of fragments or ruins.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Katherine Earle

Katherine Earle is a fiber artist and multimedia sculptor based in New York. Invested in time-based processes such as weaving, embroidery and layered dye techniques, she reorients chaos unsheathed upon us within a social order seemingly intent on disharmony. Her work has been shown in two-person and group exhibitions internationally including Copeland Gallery, Sculptors Alliance, Art Aqua Miami, Site:Brooklyn, The KUBE studios and Diagonale. She has participated in residencies in Canada and the United States, including 77Art, the ChaShaMa North Residency, and the Concordia FARR Residency. Katherine has a BFA in Fibres from Concordia University in Montreal, and is a recipient of grants from Joseph Robert Foundation and FST StudioProjects Fund.

Clare Hu

Clare Hu (b. 1996, Norcross GA) is a weaver and artist whose practice examines personal and familial experience within the broader framework of myths and narratives that make up the American South. Variations and adaptations of Overshot weaves, a weave structure prominent in the Appalachian region, and patchwork processes described to Hu by her mother are collapsed and folded together by way of installation. Hu is currently based in Brooklyn NY. Hu has recently exhibited at Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Greenville SC), Artists Space (New York NY), Chashama Project Space (New York NY), and the Gibbes Museum of Art (Charleston SC). Hu completed her BFA with a focus in Fiber and Material Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and is a current MFA candidate at Hunter College.

Bennett received a BFA from Kendall College of Art and Design in 2012 and an MFA from Michigan State University in 2016. He received the Stanley and Selma Hollander Graduate Fellowship in Studio Art in 2015 along with a Summer Research Development Fellowship from Michigan State in 2014. Bennett attended the Scoula International de Graficia residency in Venice, Italy in both 2012, 2016 and 2025 and ChaNorth Artist Residency in 2022. Recent exhibitions include: All Street (NYC), Strata Gallery (NM), Underdonk (NYC), Ann Marie Sculpture Garden (MD), Local Projects (NYC), and Equity Gallery (NYC), The Eli and Broad Art Museum (MI); Satellite Art Fair (FL), Ortega y Gasset (NYC), He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Leila Seyedzadeh

Leila Seyedzadeh is an interdisciplinary Iranian artist based in New York. Her practice explores the intersection of memory, landscape, and displacement, weaving together fragments of recollection into intricate, abstract terrains. Seyedzadeh holds an MFA in Painting & Printmaking from the Yale School of Art (2019) and a BFA in Painting from Tehran’s University of Science and Culture (2014). She is a recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant (2024), H. Lee Hirsche Prize (2019), and Soma Summer Scholarship at the Yale School of Art (2018). Her work has been featured in Canvas, ArteEast, Tique, No NIIN, Art Apart of cult(ure), Art Spiel, and the Museum of Non- Visible Art. Her current solo exhibition, “Under the Sky, Above the Sea”, is on view at the Visual Art Center of New Jersey through May 18, 2025. Previous solo exhibitions include shows at Peter Gaugy Gallery (Austria) and Dastan Gallery (Iran). She has also participated in major group exhibitions, including the Immigrant Artist Biennial, Arsenal Contemporary Art, Ford Foundation, Untitled Art Fair, and Dubai Art Fair.

ABOUT TEMPEST GALLERY

At TEMPEST, we want to talk about art in a maelstrom. We invite artists to be unafraid to broach difficult conversations and address colonial structures of violence through their practice in textiles, sculpture and installation. Our main desire is that each monthly show present layered themes where multiple cultural references intersect and tussle.

Launched in 2024, Tempest Gallery is located at Rockella Space’s One Eyed Studios in Ridgewood, Queens. Through our programming and events, we aim to create community and a space for gathering, presenting work and building relationships.

Please visit us at 1642 Weirfield Street, Ridgewood Queens, NY, during our regular gallery hours Wednesday-Saturday, 1-6pm.

We are open to scheduled visits outside of regular hours, please direct message us on instagram