ZINC contemporary is pleased to announce a new exhibition, GATHERING & EASING, featuring recent works by Gina Occhiogrosso, a contemporary artist based in New York. The artist has had a career-long interest in the processes of disassembly and realignment, and the incorporation of common everyday materials like muslin, thread and yarn. These activities allow her to explore anxiety, loss, humor and heroic femininity. Her bold artwork becomes a conduit for information that is disrupted and reinterpreted in compositions that suggest the fleeting nature of forces, figures, and time.

The artist developed much of the work from this exhibition amidst the chaos and disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter demonstrations while living in New York, in a makeshift studio in the garage of her mother’s home. In between caring for and giving company to her aging mother, the artist found comfort and inspiration in her studio, with the sewing practice of “gathering and easing” in mind.