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NOT ATTENDING CRAFT CULT-Hello! I have two Ridgewood markets coming up Sunday 7/12 and Saturday 7/18! I hope you can make it to one or both! I have a lot of new tarot cards as well as evil eyes, goblets, and loon cups!
@tinyartssupply @queenofswords.nyc @gottscheerhall @craftcult.nyc taken in Ridgewood - Queens NY by @mstrawsy

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@mstrawsy will be at Midsummer Craft Cult! come shop their amazing collection of ceramic goods! Handmade with love and the raddest designs 🫶❤️‍🔥

#craftcult #summermarket #ridgewood #makersgonnamake taken in Ridgewood by @mstrawsy

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Hey All! Come out this Saturday to see some new things, meet some new artists and eat pizza! @waltlshamelgarden @brooklynceramicartstour @hanakyle @fruitpocalypse @constance_ceramics @jennifercalandra @tigtucker @maja_bee taken in Walt L. Shamel Community Garden by @mstrawsy

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Civil Art, in partnership with N+ Projects (@nplus_projects), presents Rings of Saturn, a group exhibition at Nick + Sons Bakery (@nickandsonsbakery ) in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Rings of Saturn is a group exhibition curated by Civil Art’s 2025-2026 Art House Cohort. This curatorial project serves as a platform for artists to position themselves as leaders within their community, providing opportunities and resources for a broader community of artists and friends.

Drawing on the narrative structure of W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn, this exhibition reflects on accumulation as a universal condition of experience rather than a singular point of origin. Like the slow growth of a tree, form and meaning develop incrementally, layered with traces of what came before. The works gathered here operate through a similar logic: gestures, materials, and images recur through variation within repetition, illuminating the subtle shifts that emerge as ideas move across time, space, and medium. This gradual, accretive growth extends to human life as well, as each person carries a lifetime of stories, gathering memories in layers like the rings of a tree.

Join us on May 16 from 6 - 8 PM for the opening reception.

Rings of Saturn
Nick + Sons Bakery
892 Lorimer St, Brooklyn, NY 11221
Saturday - Thursday 7:30 AM - 2 PM

Image:
Sona Lee (@sssonalee)
Gravity (2024)
Oil on Canvas
16 (H) x 20 (W) IN

Ahyun Jeon (@_ahyunjeon)
Aliza Katzman (alizakatzman)
Antonio Vidal de Lascurain (@antonio.vidal.l)
Char Russ-Martinez (@char.russmartinez)
Devon Chen (@devonpinyuchen)
Erol Scott Harris (@erolscottharris)
Hafsa Nouman (@hafsa.noumanq)
Jam Yoo (@jam.yoyoyo)
Jee Eun Lee
Liz Schneider (@lizschneiderrr)
Maya Strauss (@mstrawsy)
Minji Seo (@seoup.seoup)
Peilin Hsu (@pforpeilin)
Phoebe Kalm Choi (@phoebekalmchoi)
Sona Lee (@sssonalee)
Suzanne Watters (@watterssuzanne)
Tae Rim Kim

Rings of Saturn was curated by Ji Woo Kim (@jiweowmeow) and Rayer Ma (@ruuiermeh)

Curatorial Committee: Herok (@herok), Hyun (@paintingbyhyun), In June Park (@injunee), Joanne Ji Young Kim (joannekimie), Rayer Ma, and Wenfei Quan (@wenfeiquan) taken in Nick + Sons Bakery by @mstrawsy

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Introducing Maya Strauss (@mstrawsy), one of the artists featured in 𝑪𝒂𝒏'𝒕 𝑻𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝑴𝒚 𝑬𝒚𝒆𝒔 𝑶𝒇𝒇 𝒀𝒐𝒖 opening May 8th (reception 7-9pm) in Port Chester at @thelinenfactory181 during Open Studios Weekend throughout the building!

𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟴 (𝟳-𝟵 𝗽𝗺)
𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼𝘀: May 8, 4-8 pm & May 9, 12-5 pm
❗️Heads-up: this is our last show for the programming year until the Fall! Our itty-bitty team takes a break for Summer to recharge and reform.

The Linen Factory
181 Westchester Ave, Port Chester, NY
Unit 306D (3rd floor)

Maya Strauss is an interdisciplinary painter. She lives in Alphabet City in Manhattan. Everyday, she takes photographs and collects objects and surfaces that seem to have a visual uniqueness. Often the subjects she choses are things that are being overlooked because of their seeming banality, but that she believes hold a specific history within them. She received a BFA from The Cooper Union, and an MFA from the Yale School of Art. Strauss has attended multiple residencies including the Vermont Studio Center, and the Byrdcliffe Guild. She has been included in art exhibitions at Studio e Gallery in Seattle, Warbling Collective in London, MoMa PS1 in Queens and NADA Ceramics in Manhattan. She has had solo exhibitions at Bob’s Gallery and Sweet Lorraine Gallery.

The exhibition also features work by @sadafazadehfar @benjamin.dimock @yokosnoopy Adrian Gray @amadeo_mf @artelliemurphy @katequarfordt @joanreutershan @streetmax21

Slide #1 portrait 📸 by @flaneur_shan taken in New York, USA by @mstrawsy

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Opening Friday! I’m very excited for this show! Can’t take My Eyes Off You” curated by Neptune in June, at the Linen Factory in Port Chester, New York (Metro North stop!)
@thelinenfactory181 @neptuneinjune.ny
@sadafazadehfar
@benjamin.dimock @amadeo_mf
@artelliemurphy @katequarfordt
@streetmax21 @joanreutershan @yokosnoopy taken in Port Chester, New York by @mstrawsy

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Ah! I am so excited to be a part of this show curated by Alex Delaney! Link in Bio! Please check it out!

Love what he wrote!:

“Maya’s ceramic works exist on a wide spectrum of functionality, stopping at every possible point between pure form and pure function. But regardless of where exactly they land, there is a fantastic note of playfulness in all of them, and it’s not a playfulness or charm that could be easily replicated in a commercial manner. It exists solely in the singular object she’s created, amongst the flaws and the overlapping strokes of glaze and the wonky edges and the imperfect lettering. I have a totally theoretical dinner party in my head where every guest sits down to a piece from Maya on their plate.”

@alex_delany @platformart_com by @mstrawsy

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Hello! I’m currently in a show Upstate! Come on by! The work included is all based on poems that were presented as prompts in a class taught by John Yau through Yellow Chair.

I hope you can make it!

Mid-Show Reception Saturday 5/2 5-8PM
Closing Reception Saturday 5/9 5-8PM

100 Main Street Philmont, NY

1. “A Farmer Throws Down His Pillow”, 2025, watercolor on handmade paper, 11 x 8.5, $50. Response to poem “Country Fair” by Kyra Simone.
2. “In The Morning You Hum Before Showering”, 2025, watercolor on handmade paper, 8.5 x 11, $50. Response to the poem “Oasis” by Arthur Sze.
3. “Sunrise Makes Lakes Between Clouds”, 2025, watercolor on ledger paper, 9 x 16, SOLD Response to the poem “Oasis” by Arthur Sze.
4. “Sometimes”, 2025, Oil on wood, $50. Response to the poem “No Preference: for Jasper Johns” by John Phillips.
5. “WITH IN (After Robert Duncan)”, 2025, 83 x 14 inches, oil on burlap, canvas and panel, $80 each or $500 for the set.
6. “My Friend Said a Woman Should Pee in Every Story”, 2025, oil on panel with doll’s leg, 10 x 8 inches, $300. This piece is based on the poem “Tryst” by Billie Chernicoff. I took an online class, through Yellow Chair, with the poet John Yau. Each session he read a poem by a different author and we were instructed to respond to these poems. All of these pieces were produced in this class. A lot of my work is about responding to found objects and creating conversations between objects and images that I have seen. For this piece, I combined a doll’s leg with an image relevant to the descriptions in the poem of lichen and wet wood. @frenproductions @yellowchairsalon @bekagoedde taken in Philmont, New York by @mstrawsy

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6 months ago

SOLD “Dancing Sugar Bowl”, glazed ceramic by @mstrawsy

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SOLD “Toys Sugar Bowl”, glazed ceramic by @mstrawsy

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SOLD “Aggie’s Book”, glazed ceramic, (requests for other books welcome!) by @mstrawsy

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