SOFT STRUCTURES

curated by catherine ashley
2026

The Makers’ Space Gallery, March 10-April 10.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY.



  Don’t / Walk, Elizabeth Kaiser. Photo: Angel J. Rivas, Lutriz Studios. 

Imagine home as something practiced rather than possessed. Soft Structures features works born from spaces gentled through cultural tradition, repetition, and care: a song passed down, a meal improvised, a room rearranged again and again. Here, shelter is not permanent, but carried in gestures, habits, and shared rhythms.

In this context, softness is not passive; but is a method of endurance to carve out spaces inside hard systems. Home emerges as an ongoing act of making space where none is guaranteed. Together, Soft Structures celebrates moments of rest and belonging that persist, even when stability is conditional.


Yasmeen Abdallah       Josh Lambert
Karen Blandon               Sadie Levine
Patricia Colmenero      Katherine Miranda
Jennica Drice                 Anna Pinkas
Zoe Gras                           Leo Pontius
Alissa Green                   Ethan Shoshan
Takashi Harada             Avital Zemel
Elizabeth Kaiser


THE MAKERS SPACE GALLERY






PHOTOS: Sophia Nelson, Angel J. Rivas, Lutriz Studios