Future Fair

OCD Gallery proposes a focused two-artist presentation examining

the charged intersection of the industrial and the natural between a twoartist

presentation. Nadia Younes and Adriana Wynne Ronson both work

with industrial materials, steel, resin, conduit, bronze, glass, demolition

debris, but redirect them toward forms that register endurance and vitality.

Their practices do not illustrate politics or identity; they embed them in

material.

Younes produces hybrid painting-objects that collapse surface and

structure. She reconsiders the spaces we mute: ventilation shafts, barriers,

infrastructural seams, and lifts scenes from the background of urban life

onto canvas, bringing them to the forefront of perception. Resin, paint, and

construction fragments are fused into compressed environments that reveal

their own skeletons. Her works accept the industrial as part of our everyday

landscape, exposing the quiet architecture that shapes movement, access,

and containment.

Wynne Ronson, by contrast, reclaims industrial materials: bronze,

glass, steel and redirects them toward vitality and the anatomical. In her

sculptural works, she employs an Art Nouveau style inflection; Bronze

anchors paired with glass blooms. Beauty is empowered through utility:

light is not decorative but embodied and imposing, function extends

beyond visual pleasure into something tangible and empowered. Through

these works, she provides ornament with the assertive presence of

something structured and of tangible use.

The booth stages a dialogue between infrastructure and flourish,

between the highways and the gardens, the structural grid and the planted

edges. In New York, a city defined by density, labor, verticality, and

reinvention, this conversation feels immediate. The presentation positions

sculpture and expanded painting not as representations of experience, but

as sites where the pressures of contemporary life become form, where the

industrial and the organic coexist, contend, and hold.