Winter Open Studios 2026

Winter Open Studios
Thursday, February 5th
6-8 PM

20 Jay St, Suite 318
Brooklyn NY 11201

Featuring our Artists-in-Residence:

Andrew Ordonez, Jie Shao, Chang Yuchen, and Camila Galaz

Jie Shao is an artist based in New York and Shanghai. Informed by the experience of displacement, he redirects his questions of identity into an ongoing observation of physical materials—how they are deformed, standardized, and consumed to adapt and respond to the shifting cultural and geographic landscapes. This transformation of material echoes the condition of individuals, drifting within the forces, infrastructures, and systems of the contemporary world. Jie’s sculpture and installation often combine construction materials including wood and metal, incorporating both hand sculpting and manufacturing processing, to further reflect the tension between handcrafting and standardization. He also integrates field notes and textual annotations, tracing the silent narratives of material across cultural and economic contexts. 

Camila Galaz is a multimedia artist, filmmaker, writer, and researcher based in New York. Through her work she reconsiders and uncovers underrepresented narratives in digital culture and media archives. Her projects have engaged with institutions such as the Media Archaeology Lab, New Museum, Nieuwe Instituut, National Communications Museum, MIT, and Rhizome, combining experimental storytelling, archival research, and a semiotic visual lens to create personal and critical dialogue about technology’s role in shaping memory, identity, and culture. From 2021–2024 she co-hosted the tech history podcast "Our Friend the Computer" and in 2024 co-founded the “Superkilogirls” creative research lab exploring histories of marginalized tech labor and connections to modern computing infrastructures.

Chang Yuchen works in an interdisciplinary manner -- writing as weaving, drawing as translation, teaching as hospitality, commerce as social experiment (see Use Value) and publishing as a dandelion spreading its seeds. She has received fellowships and grants from the New York Public Library Picture Collection, the Queens Art Fund, and the Poetry Project. Her work has been shown or performed at the Walker Art Center, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Beijing Commune, Carnegie Museum of Art, Amant, Artists Space, and Para Site. Residencies include Smack Mellon, Asymmetry Art Foundation, the Museum of Arts and Design, and the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop.

Andrew Ordonez (b. 1991, Fort Worth, TX) is a New York City–based visual artist working across sculpture, installation, and video. He employs aggregate assemblage to investigate processes of disintegration and the shifting role of the artifact. Through acts of material preservation and erasure, he draws upon—and subverts—systems of archaeology to examine the physical and spiritual manifestations of time. Ordonez develops a visual lexicon that explores fossilization, hauntology, and queer ecology. His work engages the politics of humor and horror to unsettle the logics, loops, and lineages of the human and post-human condition.