![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Untitled (Provisional Prop)](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/a81b3ab30edbfb386965cef0404ef099d8725183-3333x2500.jpg?w=800)
Bortolami Gallery is pleased to present its first exhibition of 2023 at 39 Walker Street, featuring five artists: Frieda Toranzo Jaeger, Duane Linklater, Virginia Overton, Kathleen Ryan, and Christopher Williams.
The artworks on view are contextualized within North American post- industrialization and its myriad socio-technical transformations, coalescing into a portrait of a world inherited without its major sites of local industry. These artworks function as both relics and futurist dreamscapes; not only a record of concerted changes in productivity, labor, and consumption throughout the continent prior the turn of the 21st century, but also a prescient vision of industry’s future. Major centers of production, from lumber to automotive fabrication, steeply declined in the post-war period affecting working class groups sharply yet unevenly, and opening up new areas for what stood as typical American work, while leaving behind a host of husked sites.
Works
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Untitled (Provisional Prop)](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/a81b3ab30edbfb386965cef0404ef099d8725183-3333x2500.jpg?w=800)
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Adapted For Use: Untitled Focal length: 210mm Aperture: f/11 Image ratio: 2.41:1 Distance lens to focal plane: 29.7cm Distance film layer to focal plane: 101cm Bellows extension: 50.6cm Depth of field: 1.289mm Studio Rhein Verlag, Düsseldorf November 20, 2016](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/d04c669137fa0a07a565a5d9e79c9b72f5f06cf4-3333x2500.jpg?w=800)
Adapted For Use: Untitled Focal length: 210mm Aperture: f/11 Image ratio: 2.41:1 Distance lens to focal plane: 29.7cm Distance film layer to focal plane: 101cm Bellows extension: 50.6cm Depth of field: 1.289mm Studio Rhein Verlag, Düsseldorf November 20, 2016, 2019
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled croatoan 1](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/e692bcb15c1164250afcd6cba09279561e654cdd-3333x2500.jpg?w=800)
croatoan 1, 2023
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Generator VI](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/62f3e8bb78b537e692ad5609cfbefdf982fa9c84-3333x2500.jpg?w=800)
Generator VI, 2022
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Quartered Log (Black Cherry I)](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/2c42930c6a247498c64b2407236d50546467998e-3333x2500.jpg?w=800)
Quartered Log (Black Cherry I), 2023
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Untitled (standard men’s insole) BÚFALO NATURE ALLROUND 46 2 Lagen Echtes Leder / Feuchtigkeitsbindend Inhalt: 1 Paar Art. 4035 BNS Bergal Nico & Solitaire Vertriebs GmbH, Rheinallee 96, Mainz, Germany 4035-BUF-1301 Studio Thomas Borho, Oberkasseler Str. 39, Düsseldorf, Germany October 3, 2019](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/7b6120b77d3f78ce36c02490f8c9518209477b15-3335x2500.jpg?w=800)
Untitled (standard men’s insole) BÚFALO NATURE ALLROUND 46 2 Lagen Echtes Leder / Feuchtigkeitsbindend Inhalt: 1 Paar Art. 4035 BNS Bergal Nico & Solitaire Vertriebs GmbH, Rheinallee 96, Mainz, Germany 4035-BUF-1301 Studio Thomas Borho, Oberkasseler Str. 39, Düsseldorf, Germany October 3, 2019, 2020
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled new_albion_1](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/b029e96ae9cf52e8b51feac6f1ef69d2480c8583-3334x2500.jpg?w=800)
new_albion_1, 2023
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Feminist review of the Oedipus Complex](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/048b8e92647172577c3acd1adbb1178ec299d45b-3334x2500.jpg?w=800)
Feminist review of the Oedipus Complex, 2022
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Quartered Log (Black Cherry II)](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/ffe48e5c1ee795e7aaee57d994e3d78a6399b1ea-3334x2500.jpg?w=800)
Quartered Log (Black Cherry II), 2023
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Untitled](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/9a24fff58e2b6069a0bda9e7cac09e93ec9e9e03-3333x2500.jpg?w=800)