We the Structures February James, Andrew Kass, Baseera Khan

Ruttkowski;68 presents We the Structures, bringing together February James (b. 1977 in Washington, DC), Andrew Kass (b. 1991 in New York, NY), and Baseera Khan (b. 1980 in Denton, TX)—three distinct American artists who recast emotional, civic, and ceremonial architectures in image, form, and space.

Working across painting, installation, time-based media, and site-specific intervention, each artist approaches structure as both medium and subject. James renders the psychic blueprints of family, body, and interior life. Kass cuts into the city with site-specific interventions that reveal hidden frameworks of labor, time, and the built environment. Khan revisits ceremonial forms shaped by belief, ritual, and inherited patterns.

Together, the exhibition centers on a shared investigation of thresholds: points of entry and refusal, sites of passage and constraint, and the often invisible boundaries that shape how bodies move through the world.

In America’s 250th year, and alongside the 2026 Whitney Biennial, We the Structures stands as a reminder that art can still build what our structures struggle to hold. What emerges is a society that is fractured yet interdependent, vulnerable yet insistently alive, its surfaces layered with feeling and repair. It reads as an artist’s preamble to a more perfect union, still under construction.

 

Opening reception                  2026/04/10                6 – 8pm

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