Katherine Gressel
Images, from left to right:
1) Land Markings exhibit at the Old Stone House (2022), featuring artists Dennis RedMoon Darkeem, Jeremy Dennis, Ella Mahoney, & Natasha Smoke Santiago, co-curated with RedMoon Arts. Photo credit Etienne Frossard.
2) Environmental Empathies exhibition at St. Francis College (2019), featuring artwork by Mary Mattingly (top), Tara Deporte and Rachel Schragis (bottom) plus other artists. Photo credit Nate Dorr.
3) The Old Stone House exhibit No More Water (2019) featuring site-specific artwork by Tahir Carl Karmali and Justin Sterling. Photo credit Etienne Frossard.
4) Artistic Developments: Artists and the Language of Real Estate (2016) at NARS Foundation, as the winner of their 2015 Emerging Curator open call. Image shows work by (L-R): Lisa Dahl, Martin McCormack, Sam Holleran, Becky Brown. Photo credit Etienne Frossard.
5) Multilocational exhibit at the OSH (2017), featuring artwork by Cecile Chong and Natalia Nakazawa. Photo credit Etienne Frossard.
Images, from left to right (continued):
6) 2012 Interactive Sculpture Garden on Governors Island, co-curated with Chris Jordan, featuring artwork by Zaq Landsberg (top) and Asha Ganpat (bottom)
7) Outdoor and indoor installations from the show Brooklyn Utopias: 2020 at the Old Stone House. Photo credit Etienne Frossard.
8) 2023 Picturing the Constitution show at Old Stone House, Photo credit Etienne Frossard.
9) Katherine with artists Pamella Allen, Qiana Mestrich, and Dara Oshin from the group show Mother Nature, Human Nurture and co-curator Grace Freedman of Why Not Art? Photo credit: Michael James Freedman
Katherine Gressel is a New York City-based independent curator focused on site specific and participatory art in nontraditional spaces. She is currently the Contemporary Curator at the Old Stone House & Washington Park (OSH), where she oversees artists and guest curators realizing ambitious solo projects and thematic group shows responding to the history and design of this historic house and local park. In addition to organizing over a dozen major exhibitions to date at OSH, Katherine has curated and produced artist projects for Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Arts Gowanus, Established Gallery, Smack Mellon, FIGMENT, No Longer Empty, St. Francis College, and Brooklyn Historical Society. She was the 2016 NARS Foundation emerging curator and an Independent Curators International (ICI) 2015 Curatorial Intensive participant. Her work has been recognized by the New York Times, Hyperallergic, Time Out NY, and CBS News. Katherine has written and presented on art and social impact for Americans for the Arts and Public Art Dialogue, among others. Katherine also served as Programs Manager at Smack Mellon Gallery from 2010-2014, and has worked and consulted for diverse nonprofits. Katherine is also an award-winning live event painter, creating customized paintings of weddings and other celebrations worldwide for over 15 years through her business Event Painting by Katherine." She earned her BA in art from Yale and MA in arts administration from Columbia.
Photo credit: Michael James Freedman
