TEMPEST GALLERY @ ONE EYED STUDIOS:
Upcoming Exhibition
It Must Be Nice To Fall In Love | A Group Exhibition
Tempest Gallery at One Eyed Studios is pleased to present It Must Be Nice To Fall In Love, a group exhibition of work by three artists working in weaving, embroidery, and installation.
Details
On View: October 9th, 2025 to November 1st, 2025
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 9th, 6-8pm
TEMPEST Gallery @ ONE EYED STUDIOS,
1639 Centre St, Studio 179,
Ridgewood, Queens, 11385.
Enter via Weirfield St
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
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Forged in the poetic trace of one of Raisa Kabir’s works which is absent from the show, a weaving currently held in The Whitworth collection in the UK titled It must be nice to fall in love…, TEMPEST will present work by three artists working in weaving, embroidery and installation. Katherine Earle’s weavings and embroidery explore the meditative interplay between text and textile, grid and sweeping gesture; an installation by Leila Seyedzadeh, brimful of drapery, suggests devotional subjects and romantic nature scenes in Persian miniatures; and a secret four leaf clover of poetic text is cunningly embedded within a duo of Kabir’s prodigious wefts – those who know to look will find it.
The titular weaving, elsewhere yet omnipresent, swims, luxuriates and emerges from within skeins of tangled red threads, a map of the South Asian sub continent; an undivided India, Pakistan, Kashmir and Bangladesh, which is both structurally and emotionally entangled in the threads of history. The trauma of fabricated borders, extractive climate destruction, man-made famine and genocide is never far from our thoughts as we live within the violence of empire. How nice it must be to never have to carry this, to simply fall in love.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Katherine Earle
Katherine Earle pulls the disparate threads of the universe back into some semblance of order, reorienting the chaos that is unsheathed upon us within a social order seemingly intent on disharmony. Invested in time-based processes such as weaving, embroidery and layered dye techniques, she embodies time in her practice in an effort to push back against harmful and extractive notions of efficacy and productivity. Using techniques such as weaving and embroidery, she engages highly conceptual forms of world creation present in decorative arts and craft traditions. Working with a diversity of materials: plastics, detritus, thread, cotton, silk, pattern and paint, she seeks to upend the hierarchies embedded in her own understanding of our existence. She is especially interested in what is left out of the stories we tell ourselves about our place in the world. She pushes against the mythology of progress, a narrative that has coerced us into a staggeringly precarious present. Earle is a fiber artist and multimedia sculptor based in New York. 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.
Raisa Kabir
Raisa Kabir is an interdisciplinary artist and weaver based in London. Kabir uses woven text/textiles and performance to materialise multiple concepts concerning the interwoven cultural politics of cloth. Kabir’s work draws on textile mobilities, embodied archives, and geographies of anti-colonial resistance. Kabir’s (un)weaving performances and tapestries are used to complicate structures of power, global production/extraction, and to call on the weaving knowledge systems and technologies’ potential, to transform, reimagine and reweave the current world structures we live under. Kabir has exhibited internationally at the Whitworth, Liverpool Biennial, Whitechapel Gallery, Raven Row, the Craft Council London, Glasgow International, India Art Fair, Asia Now Paris, Ford Foundation Gallery and Textile Arts Center in New York, Archive Books Berlin, and the British Textile Biennial. She has lectured and shared her research at Tate Modern, the V&A, and the Courtauld.
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 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 Visual Arts Grant from Brooklyn Art Council and Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant (2024). Her work has been featured in Impulse Magazine, Canvas, Tique, No NIIN, ArteEast, and the Museum of Non-Visible Art. Her recent solo exhibition, “Under the Sky, Above the Sea”, was on view at the Visual Art Center of New Jersey. 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, Untitled Art Fair, Ford Foundation, Dubai Art Fair, and Ahvaz Museum of Contemporary Art.
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