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Fragile Face
A group exhibition organized by Sandra Ono

October 3 - November 2, 2024
faith****
ektor garcia
Andrew Sung Taek Ingersoll
Anne Libby
Quintessa Matranga
Ron Nagle
Grace Rosario Perkins
Theo Shure | Mascot Studio

Fragile Face operates within the interstices where the external meets the internal, making the unseen palpable. Here, artists navigate liminal interiority, actively participating in the unfolding of deeper truths.

The front of an object, often referred to as its “face,” is a natural place of vulnerability given its point of information exchange. A clear reference to one’s face, a meaningful material cue between you and the world, the face can often reveal more than words or body language combined; oftentimes not by choice.

If we consider vulnerability a force, its definition takes on the challenges associated with its raw transparency: varying levels of exposure, security, and finally, the ratio of risk and reward at play. Each work in Fragile Face subtly gestures toward the shifting boundaries between public and private, enacting a delicate choreography of revelation and concealment.

Fragile Face, organized by Sandra Ono, challenges the concept of saving face, by instead embracing a more radical vulnerability. The exhibition features work by faith****, ektor garcia, Andrew Sung Taek Ingersoll, Anne Libby, Quintessa Matranga, Ron Nagle, Grace Rosario Perkins, and Mascot Studio / Theo Shure.

Image: Anne Libby These Days, 90.02 (detail), 2022. Polished cast aluminum. 48 x 22 x 2 in. / 121.9 x 55.9 x 5.1 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Magenta Plains, New York. © Anne Libby.
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faith**** is a mixed media artist who lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Housing, New York, NY and Smart Objects, Los Angeles, CA. Select group exhibitions include Romance Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA; Et al., San Francisco, CA; Take It Easy, Atlanta, GA; Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA; Bridget Donahue, New York, NY and Jessica Silverman Gallery in San Francisco, CA.

ektor garcia lives and works nomadically. He received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014 and his MFA from Columbia University in 2016. He has had solo exhibitions at James Fuentes, New York (2023); Rebecca Camacho Presents, San Francisco (2022); Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich (2022); the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle (2022); Empty Gallery, Hong Kong (2021); and SculptureCenter, New York (2019); amongst others. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2024); the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston (2023); Lisson Gallery, New York (2023); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2022); Cooper Cole, Toronto, Canada (2022); and the Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia (2022); amongst others. He was artist-in-residence at the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle (2022); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2021); Progetto Residency, Puglia, Italy (2019); International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York (2019); and Cove Park, Argyll and Bute, Scotland (2018); amongst others.

Andrew Sung Taek Ingersoll is an artist working primarily in sculpture, mechatronics, and sonic installation. His work often engages found objects as points of reconciliation, meditating on their formal and material qualities as well as their potential to perform alternative functionalities. This engagement with the past probes our psychic and social relationships toward objects, our surroundings, and the physical world, animating what is often lost or unseen.

Anne Libby has had recent solo and two person exhibitions at Night Gallery, Los Angeles; Magenta Plains, New York; Del Vaz projects, Los Angeles; Soft Opening, London; Ribordy Thetaz, Geneva; The Downer, Berlin; Zak's Project Space, New York; Violet's Cafe, Brooklyn; and Metropolitan Structures, Baltimore. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Uncle Brother, New York; R & Company, New York; Et Al projects, San Francisco; Meredith Rosen Gallery, New York; Soft Opening, London; Josh Lilley Gallery, London; Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami among others. She has been featured in Artforum, Artsy, Mousse Magazine, and Emulsion Magazine, among others. She lives and works in Los Angeles.

Quintessa Matranga lives and works in San Francisco, CA. Recent solo exhibitions include What Pipeline, Detroit, Sandy Brown, Berlin, and Queer Thoughts, New York. Selected group exhibitions include Karma International, Los Angeles, Pilar Corrias, London, Carlos Ishikawa, London, and Bureau, New York.

Ron Nagle was born in San Francisco, where he currently lives and works. His first one-person exhibition took place in 1968, and since then he has had exhibitions at numerous museums, including the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, the San Diego Museum of Art, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, the Secession in Vienna, the Fridericianum in Kassel, and the Berkeley Art Museum. In 2013 his work was included in the exhibition “The Encyclopedic Palace” at the 55th Venice Biennale. Nagle is also a musician, and a deluxe edition of his acclaimed 1970 album Bad Rice was released on Omnivore Recordings in 2015.

Grace Rosario Perkins (Diné/Akimel O’odham) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and is a self-taught painter who has spent 15 years as an arts educator and most recently served as Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing at Mills College, Oakland, CA. Some recent sites of engagement include MOCA Tucson, Cushion Works, ONE Archives, Residency Art Gallery, Oakland Museum, Mills College, Cooper Union, The San Francisco Art Institute, and the University of New Mexico. Perkins has been nominated for a United States Arts Fellowship and SFMOCA’s SECA Award.

Mascot is a revolving curatorial project, focused on printed matter, film, and research-based practices. Founded by Lauren Ardis and Fennis Brown in Berkeley, California in 2017, its current iteration is run by Ardis in Los Angeles, CA.

Theo Shure (b. 1993) is a qualitative researcher by trade, and her practice stems from this same durational and ethnographic approach—observing, documenting, talking with and appreciating. Her work is deeply embedded in her home and community in Brighton Beach Brooklyn, and incorporates video, drawing, found & altered objects, and movement to capture time and place.

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Exhibition documentation by Michael Popp




Quintessa Matranga
Untitled, 2024
Ink on newsprint
Four individual drawings
9 x 6 in each
22.9 x 15.2 cm each


Ron Nagle
Untitled, 2022
Graphite and pastel on paper
Unframed: 9 x 12 in  / 22 x 31 cm
Framed: 13 x 16 in / 33 x 41 cm


Anne Libby
These Days, 90.02, 2022
Polished cast aluminum
48 x 22 x 2 in
121.9 x 55.9 x 5.1 cm



faith****
Hush, 2024
Cardboard, foil duct tape, duct tape, house paint, wood, acrylic medium, hot glue, aluminum, aluminum foil, copper lear, genuine silver leaf, nail polish, glitter, copper, DG Jamaican Kola Champagne Flavored Soda cap, ink on cotton, ink on paper, ArtForum art ad, miniature pots and pan, artificial tears, tap water, blessed water, magic, artificial pearls, glass beads, glass seed beads, plastic cowrie beads, plastic beads, butterfly pendant, rhinestones, found material, stickers, miniature watering can, silver bells, paint marker, metal paint, lambskin leather and wool thread
16.25 x 13.75 x 6.125 in
41.3 x 24.9 x 15.6 cm


Andrew Sung Taek Ingersoll
Tuner #3 (Breathing House series), 2023
Rice cooker, speaker, polyurethane insulation, radio receiver
11 x 11 x 11 in
27.9 x 27.9 x 27.9 cm


ektor garcia
Mecatl, 2018
Sisal rope, leather
102 x 41 x 2 in
259.1 x 104.1 x 5.1 cm 


Grace Rosario Perkins
Led Thru a Finger, Then Tangled in Brain, 2024
Acrylic, spray paint, flashe, glitter and sand on canvas
52 x 36 in
132 x 91.5 cm



Theo Shure
Take Altar, 2018-2024
Ink jet prints, acrylic
3 x 4 in each, overall dimensions variable