ODESSA STRAUB

2019 - 2020

Odessa Straub was born in Brooklyn, New York where she currently lives and works. She received her B.F.A. from The Cooper Union, New York. Over the last five years, she has participated in solo and group exhibitions in the US and abroad. In 2019, she published a zine with innen Zines, Zürich, Switzerland.

Earthly, a group exhibition featuring work Straub, is currently on view at Esther Massry Gallery, Massry Center for the Arts, The College of Saint Rose, in Albany, NY.

Straub’s most recent solo exhibition There’s my chair I put it there at SEPTEMBER in Hudson, New York was reviewed in Artforum and The Brooklyn Rail.

“There’s a sort of performative aspect to my work where I don’t physically want to be seen doing this, but there’s a maintenance that’s required to keep the works running.

The sculptures have sewn elements that take a long time, and also are like another sort of element of performance — it took me about fifteen hours to sew each piece together.

That’s important because it’s sort of a meditation on the piece — it kind of imbues it with all the things  I was thinking about while I was working on it. I think that level of care for detail reflects that element of care for the piece in and of itself.”

- Odessa Straub in The Brooklyn Rail’s Weekend Journal