Refreshment : On the Aesthetics of Reawakening, Ocean | Roberta Gattel | Mary McGee
July 18 – August 3, 2025
37-39 Clinton Street, New York, Ny 10002
Opening Reception: Friday, July 18, 6-8 PM
Ocean | Roberta Gattel | Mary McGee
In the ever-accelerating cadence of contemporary life, where the infinite scroll competes with the finite breath, Refreshment unfolds not as escape but as an intentional return. It is a deliberate recalibration of vision, an exhibition that invites viewers to consider clarity not as immediacy but as something slow, bodily, and ritualistic. Featuring works by Ocean, Roberta Gattel, and Mary McGee, Refreshment turns away from spectacle and instead engages the quiet and rigorous labor of seeing—of feeling time, of reclaiming attention.
Each of the three artists comes to the exhibition from distinct geographies, life paths, and conceptual frameworks. Yet they converge through a shared fidelity to repetition, mark-making, and interior resonance. Their works move across mediums—drawing, text, mixed media—and yet speak in harmonic tones. They offer practices of vision as discipline, self-reclamation, and meditative endurance.