JUNE 12 - JUNE 22

141 CANAL STREET, 3RD FLOOR NEW YORK, NY

In this group show, Fugue Gallery collaborated with Worlds Through Minds and Sunset Studios, to invite local NYC photographers to submit images to be installed on the ceiling at FUGUE Gallery. Taking inspiration from Roman frescos, we wanted to encourage viewers to see art and themselves from a new and fresh perspective.

Imaginary ceilings exist in our minds, communities, and the world around us. They are metaphorical barriers that keep us confined and limit our potential. Fugue Gallery invites photographers to give imagery to these invisible limits, using your lens to capture the barriers we strive to shatter and the spaces just beyond them we wish to explore.

Through this open call, we invite artists to submit new works that interpret the idea of the “ceiling” in all its forms: physical, psychological, emotional, or societal. Submissions may depict literal ceilings—be they walls, glass, sky—or figurative ones, such as social structures, personal fears, or conceptual constraints. The exhibition will be a collective exploration of the dreams and quiet struggles that fuel our ambition to move beyond what limits us.

Presenting Artists:

Nathan Smith

Rosemary Haynes

Nina Tanujaya

Kwate Quartey

Kunwar Prithvi Singh Rathore

Evan Bates

Semin Jang

Samantha Jensen

Tracy Dong

Tessa Belle Dillman

Alec Dai

Alma Egeskov

Shaohan Fang

Adam Choi Nordby

Roshan Jacob

Viktoria Feliciano

Florence Li

Tif Ng

Bella Blumenschein

Shirley Cruz

Katherine Pekala

Shirley Cruz

Alberto Serrano Calva

Vision Skye Jeudy

Anh Nguyen

Ha Neul On

Prisca Choe

Lin Wang

Hari Priya Vangaru

Riven Ratanavanh

Francisco Bengolea

Ziru Wang

Ana Rosa Marx

Laurel Golio

Special thanks to curators Macy Castaneda Lee and Mengwen Cao, and contributors Liz Wood (creative direction), and Nathan Smith (installation) and Andrew Kassman (installation)