Chapter NY is excited to present Misshape, a group exhibition of abstract paintings and sculptures by Willa Nasatir, Erin Jane Nelson, Douglas Rieger, and Carrie Rudd.

Each artist deconstructs their subjects through various material processes that convey tactile evidence of their own lived experiences.  They break down references to mechanical and everyday objects, literature, and the natural world, transforming them into anthropomorphic compositions with uncanny bodily presence.

Willa Nasatir (b. 1990, Los Angeles, CA) lives and works in New York. She received her BFA from Cooper Union in 2012. She has had solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Chapter NY, New York; Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles; Gaylord Apartments, Los Angeles; and White Columns, New York, among others. Her work has also been included in exhibitions at the New Museum, New York; Hester, New York; David Zwirner, New York; Del Vaz Projects, Los Angeles; Company Gallery, New York; and Drei, Cologne, among others.

Erin Jane Nelson (b. 1989, Neenah, WI) lives and works in Atlanta. She received her BFA from The Cooper Union in 2011. She has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta; Chapter NY, New York; DOCUMENT, Chicago; and the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, among others. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the New Museum, New York; the Moss Art Center, Virginia Tech; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Aspen Art Museum, Aspen; the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden, NLD; and La Galerie, centre d’art contemporain, Noisy-le-Sec, among others. In May 2024, her work will be included in an exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.

Douglas Rieger (b. 1984, Pittsburgh PA) lives and works in New York. He received his MFA from Yale in 2016 and BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2008. Rieger’s work has been exhibited at  Capsule Shanghai (Shanghai, China), Helena Anrather Gallery (New York, NY), Thierry Goldberg Gallery (New York, NY), 67 Ludlow Gallery (New York, NY), New Discretions (New york, NY) and Fahrenheit (Madrid, Spain). His works has been featured in Bomb Magazine, Art in America, Artforum, Artsy, The New Yorker and FAD Magazine.

Carrie Rudd (b. 1994, Hastings on Hudson, NY) lives and works in New York. She received her MFA from Hunter College in 2021. Her work has been included in exhibitions Polina Berlin Gallery, New York; Hunter College, New York; Hauser & Wirth, New York; and the Wellin Museum of Art, Clinton, NY.