Screen Shot: Saskia Fleishman & Guillermo Garcia Cruz
Armory NY Presents Section Booth P36 September 4 - 8, 2025
KATES-FERRI PROJECTS is excited to announce its participation at The Armory Show with the duo exhibition “Screenshot”, presenting paintings and sculptures by Saskia Fleishman and Guillermo Garcia Cruz. Located in the Presents Section (Booth #P36), the exhibition will be on view from September 4th to 7th at the Javits Center (429 11th Avenue, NYC 10001).
In a world dominated by digital image manipulation and the constant interaction with screens, the two artists engage critically with how technology shapes our perception of the world. Both artists utilize the vertical rectangle—an increasingly familiar format tied to how we experience images on our smartphones—as a metaphor for the limited, mediated view of reality that modern technology provides.
Fleishman’s work – presented in the side walls of the booth – captures the fleeting beauty of landscapes through digital photography, but she resists the idealization common in this type of imagery. Her out-of-focus snapshots, printed on transparent chiffon, evoke an ethereal quality that highlights nature's fragility. The vertical rectangle, used prominently in this new series of paintings, reflects the narrow, confined view we have of the world through our devices. By layering sand and paint onto the prints, Fleishman contrasts the ephemeral nature of virtual images with tangible, physical materials, offering a sensory experience that challenges the limitations of the screen.
Garcia Cruz, in contrast, explores the exponential multiplication of information through a visual language of fragmentation, captured though a variety of mediums. On view in the back wall a black painting with multiplying screens is juxtaposed to, and echoed by, corresponding works on paper, with the effect magnified by glitched frames. In the center of the booth, corten steel sculptures, shaped like construction blocks but placed in an interconnected manner, metaphorically represent the shifting nature of non-linear thought in our digital age.
Conceived for this art fair, the proposed booth prompts viewers to engage critically with the pervasive influence of rapid technological advancements and the unrelenting tide of information, examining how these forces disrupt and reconfigure our understanding of reality in the contemporary moment.
Guillermo Garcia Cruz: (1988, Montevideo, Uruguay). Professor of Visual Arts by IPA, Montevideo, Uruguay. He has been part of Washington Studio School and Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, Washington, USA. His work has been presented at group and solo exhibitions in Montevideo, Sao Paulo, Lima, Buenos Aires, Mexico, Miami, Washington DC, New York, Madrid, Barcelona, Timisioara, Lisbon and Tianjin. Among other articles and mentions, in 2019 he has been highlighted globally among the 12 artists in the focus of the next generation, by the Ibero-American site Arte Informado. He currently lives and works in the city of Dubai, UAE, developing an interdisciplinary body of work, made of painting, photography, action, and installation, exploring a contemporary approach to the geometric question and the different conceptual interpretations that stem from its formal disruption.
Saskia Fleishman (B. 1995, Baltimore, MD), graduated Rhode Island School of Design in 2017 with a B.F.A. in painting. She has been an artist in residence at The Jentel Foundation, Tongue River Artist Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Wassaic Project, PADA Studios, ChaNorth and Trestle Studios, and a curator in residence at Otis College of Art and Design. Saskia has had recent solo exhibitions at Kates-Ferri Projects (New York, NY), Galleri Urbane (Dallas, TX), Red Arrow (Nashville, TN) and Pentimenti Gallery (Philadelphia, PA). Saskia’s work has also been included in group shows at Baker—Hall (Miami, FL), David B. Smith Gallery (Denver, CO), Dinner Gallery (New York, NY), Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery (Berlin, DE), Goucher College (Baltimore, MD), Peep Projects (Philadelphia, PA), and The Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington (VA), among others. Her work has been featured in Visual Art Source, The Denver Post, Make Magazine, ArtMaze, Root Quarterly, Friend of the Artists, and Galerie Magazine. Saskia is based in Philadelphia, PA.