palladium/Athena Project / 100 Jewel St, Brooklyn, NY (cofounded by artists Theresa Daddezio and Greg Lindquist) is pleased to present its inaugural show Works on Paper, an immersive and sprawling snapped-to-a-grid salon-style installation of over 175 artists/works. Sourced by both an open call distributed by word of mouth and social media as well as solicited directly by p/AP’s social networks, the show reflects an urgency in creating inclusive spaces as our country becomes further entrenched in cultural division.

Fundamentally, a work on paper is made of simple means; it is the most rudimentary of visual arts practices and may be considered the starting point of an idea, or complete in and of itself.

A line is the beginning of an idea and is the basis for all inventions, propositions echoed in and a continuation of Benjamin Degen’s workshop “Drawing Practice” which was the first program p/AP hosted. This inaugural show displays a range of practices, from the most fundamental use of paper and pencil, to works incorporating multimedia, found paper objects fashioned into complex collages, photographic processes, and techniques of printmaking.

Working with–not against– the unique architectural details of a space for p/AP is paramount. Taking inspiration from Jennifer Bartlett's Rhapsody (1976), p/AP deploys the grid as the glue that binds its diversity of approach. It serves as the fundamental organizational structure and conceptual anchor. The grid provides a system of order against which p/AP introduces variety, narrative, and the unique subjective expression of over 150 artists.

This group of artists, on its face, have little more in common than being placed in conversation in December of 2025 in NYC (though the works have been sourced from the country and world at large, coming from as far as Berlin (Al Burian) and Tbilisi (Gio Sumbadze). They also have been generously contributed by artists of many generations, notably octogenarian landscape painter en plein air and MacArthur Genius Rackstraw Downes, widely celebrated painter of extraordinarily felt lunar cycles and the aviary Ann Craven, en ce moment influential abstract painter Erika Ranee and veteran artist-community-mapping painter and vlogger Loren Munk (aka James Kalm), painter Hope Gangloff who is known for her tender love-letter portraits of her peers, and rigorously inventive mark-maker painter-draftsman Benjamin Degen—whose studio workshop “Drawing Practice” echoes throughout the show— as well as an early Jackson Pollock-esque work by pioneering land artist Robert Smithson and Lindquist’s wűnderkind drawer nine year-old niece Sophie.

The phenomenological relation of each drawing is superior to experiencing this show in physical rather than virtual space (though you may view many works highlighted on our Instagram feed). Extending this embodied experience of seeing into lived experience, we are asking: What does it mean that galleries are closing in successive waves and for artists to be able to show work in the round, especially after the virtualization of art during pandemic times (as Judith Butler has written)? Isn’t it in the gathering of bodies in physical space where sociality actually occurs? Hasn’t art always been about creating enclaves and communities? How can we create a space for ideas to be exchanged, friendships to be made, and for concepts to be debated? How can we best support artists? How can we make this show an antidote to the Late Capitalist mechanisms of the Miami Beach art fairs running concurrently?

Perhaps the last question is the easiest for us to answer. In this inaugural show, we are pricing the works at a threshold of 1,000 USD or less that we hope makes it possible for artists to live with each other’s work (thus, making not deals but marriages) and extending 70% of every sale directly to the artist (30% to p/AP) after 10% is donated to Meals on Wheels to feed those in need. We feel the current administration’s desire to play cultural-political football with SNAP benefits is not only shamefully gross but a veiled mass starvation of the structurally disposessed.

palladium/Athena Project is a collaborative curatorial endeavor at the intersection of the ecological and mythological cofounded by artists Theresa Daddezio and Greg Lindquist. The at-large p/AP team includes: Mary Shah (senior curatorial advisor); Luke Poliseo (curatorial advisor); Nuohan Jiang (senior curatorial assistant); William Koppmann (curatorial assistant); Susu Yang (curatorial assistant).

SHARON L. BUTLER

SHARON L. BUTLER