Ross + Kramer is pleased to present “Claudine’s House”, a group exhibition inspired by the 1922 eponymous novel by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. The exhibition includes work by Katherine Auchterlonie, Anders Hamilton, Peter Hoffmeister, Athena LaTocha, Masha Morgunova, Taylor Marie Prendergast, and Dominik Tarabanski. 

The exhibition’s curator, Director of Ross + Kramer New York, Cielle Hart, states:

“With Claudine’s House, I’ve set out to capture the emotional timbre of Colette’s writing—the quiet ache of remembering, the vibrancy of youth, the sacredness of place. I find in Colette’s writing qualities that are often unique to visual art. She rarely assigns overt emotion, instead relying on precise, sensorial description to evoke feeling. 

Colette observes the world with a delicate, meditative detachment. Her prose lingers on the details of everyday life—furniture bathed in afternoon sun, the scent of damp earth, the rhythm of rural routines, the affairs of the cats, dogs, insects and other animals that were as much kin to her as her own mother and father—and through this careful rendering, emotion emerges naturally. The reader experiences whispers of their own memories, nostalgia, the preciousness of life, the sting of longing, not because Colette tells them to, but because the scenes she paints are so vividly alive that they resonate unescorted by a prescription of emotion. This restraint gives her work a contemplative, almost impressionistic quality, inviting us to feel more deeply, more precisely, because she never forces us to. Writing and visual art may not always be such natural friends but the two disciplines converge here—existing as a free-flowing translation of experience, an act of unadulterated remembrance. We can often find the most sincere meaning and beauty in works of art that express with tender abandon, works that do not, by virtue, designate their own fixed message. In this way, we engage with the artwork not just as observers but as collaborators in meaning-making, shaping the work as it shapes us.”

“Claudine’s House” will be on view at Ross + Kramer New York July 10th through September 13, 2025. The gallery is located at 515 W 27th Street, New York, NY and is open to the public Monday through Friday, 11am to 6pm. Please contact for more information.

Katherine Auchterlonie (b. 1999, Portland, OR) is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in New York, NY. Auchterlonie’s work is heavily rooted in her study of systems of notation and symbology. Through her artwork and research, Auchterlonie develops her own evolving, organic abstract notation system which she employs throughout her work to transmute layered experiences from an omniscient point of view. Auchterlonie worked as an early childhood arts education teacher for a number of years following her studies in Art History at Austin Community College, Willamette University, and Texas State University. Her work has recently been exhibited at Charmoli Charmoli (New York, NY); Sitting Room Gallery (New York, NY); Spy Projects at Brooke Alexander Gallery (New York, NY); and Ross + Kramer Gallery (New York, NY).

Anders Hamilton (b. 1992, Everett, WA) was raised in Fargo, North Dakota and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Hamilton received his BFA from the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN) in 2015. He is a studio director at BKLYN CLAY (Brooklyn, NY) and a designer for the BKLYN CLAY Made line. He has exhibited most recently at MOTHER (Manhattan, NY), MOTHER (Beacon, NY) and the Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY). In 2024, his work was included in “A Garden of Promise and Dissent” at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.

Peter Hoffmeister (b.1985, Long Island, New York) works with a variety of materials in his works to understand the present by examining historical places and events, incorporating a site-responsive approach; the architecture and history of a location models the evolution of his work. He received a BFA in studio art from the Fashion Institute of Technology, and an MFA in Studio Art from Hunter College, where he currently runs the university’s MFA sculpture facilities and is adjunct faculty. Hoffmeister is a recipient of numerous awards, including NoMAA Creative Grant, Frank Shapiro Memorial Award, and Bronx Museum AIM Fellowship. His work has been exhibited internationally in venues such as NADA House (Governors Island, NY); Walter Elwood Contemporary (Amsterdam, New York); Dinner Gallery (New York, NY); Smack Mellon (New York, NY); Galerie Christine Mayer (Munich, Germany); MAMA Projects (New York, NY); and Ross + Kramer Gallery (New York, NY). Hoffmeister is currently completing a studio residency at Mana Contemporary.

Athena LaTocha (b. Anchorage, Alaska) is an artist whose works on paper explore the relationship between human-made and natural worlds, in the wake of Earthworks artists from the 1960s and 1970s. The artist incorporates materials such as ink, lead, soils and wood, looking at mark-marking and displacement of materials made by industrial equipment and natural events. Her works are informed by her upbringing in the wilderness of Alaska. LaTocha’s process is about being immersed in these environments, while responding to the storied and, at times, traumatic histories that are rooted in place.

LaTocha’s work has been shown at MoMA P.S.1 in Long Island City, New York; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia; IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, New Jersey; Smack Mellon, The Green-Wood Cemetery, and BRIC House, Brooklyn, New York; CUE Art Foundation and Artists Space, New York City; South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, South Dakota; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana; the International Gallery of Contemporary Art in Anchorage, Alaska.

Masha Morgunova (b. 1998, Saint-Petersburg, Russia) is a New York City-based visual artist whose work centers around impermanence, dreams, and womanhood. Morgunova graduated with honors in Studio Art from Earlham College (Richmond, IN) and was awarded residencies at La Macina Di San Cresci (Tuscany, Italy), SVA: Contemporary Arts Practices (New York, USA), Cuttyhunk Island Artist Residency (Town of Gosnold, MA), Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT), and Mineral School (Mineral, WA). Her work has been exhibited internationally at MAMA Projects (New York, NY), Contemporary Cluster (Rome, Italy), Ross+Kramer Gallery (New York, NY),  Moosey Art (London, UK), and Future Fair (New York, NY), amongst others.

Taylor Marie Prendergast is a Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary artist who works in painting, drawing, video and performance. Born and raised in Southern California, she studied at CalArts (2013) and the San Francisco Art Institute (2012). Prendergast is mostly known for her monochromatic palette, vigorous gesture, and direct depictions of her subjects. Her work explores themes of peril—both domestic and psychological—and often provokes a complex response. Since 2018, Prendergast has exhibited paintings and drawings in solo and group exhibitions with Carlye Packer (Los Angeles, CA); Half Gallery (New York, NY); and Diane Rosenstein (Los Angeles, CA); Stems Gallery (Paris, FR); and LVL3 (Chicago, IL), among others.

Dominik Tarabanski is a Polish born photographer, currently living and working in New York, NY. Tarabanski’s work has been exhibited at 6x7 Gallery Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland) and WSA (New York, NY), and has been the subject of institutional exhibitions at The Gallery of National Philharmonic Hall (Szczecin, Poland) and Zitadelle Spandau Centre for Contemporary Art (Berlin, Germany).

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