NEW YORK, NY.- Offline, a new gallery powered by the digital art platform
SuperRare, announces New Skin for the Old Ceremony, a sculpture exhibition curated by India Price and Jess Reytblat. Bringing together an intergenerational group of contemporary artists, including Kenny Schachter, Maya Man, Louis Osmosis, Nico Tovar, Paulina Moncada, Ashley Zelinskie, A. L. Bahta, Josh Rabineau, and Amanda Atria, the exhibition reimagines the possibilities of sculpture in the digital era, where the physical, spiritual, and virtual converge. Borrowing its title from Leonard Cohen’s 1974 record, New Skin for the Old Ceremony evokes a spirit of renewal and experimentation, reflecting the artists’ engagement with contemporary materials and digital-age narratives.The exhibition will be on view at Offline Gallery from September 3–16, 2025, with an opening night performance by Quori Theodor, a founding member of Spiral Theory Test Kitchen (with Precious Okoyomon and Bobbi Salvör Menuez).
A. L. Bahta, Shawty (post-fertility figure). 15 4/5" x 11 4/5" x 6". Bronze, Al.
In an age defined by hyper-connectivity and digital mediation, New Skin for the Old Ceremony explores how contemporary artists use sculpture to navigate embodiment, memory, and material transformation. The exhibition reflects a spectrum of responses to the digital condition—some artists embrace computational tools, AI, and digital archives, while others intentionally return to handcraft and analog processes. Across these diverse approaches, each work grapples with how inherited symbols, rituals, and forms can be re-coded for the present moment.
“Sculpture has always been a language of the body and the world it inhabits,” says curator India Price. “In this exhibition, artists are translating that language for an age where physicality is constantly refracted through screens and networks. Each work embodies a negotiation between touch, memory, and code.”
Ashley Zelinskie, Mariposa, 2020. Watercolor, 3d printed nylon, butterflies, mixed media, 9 x 9 x 14 in.
Highlights from the exhibition trace the many ways sculpture becomes a site of translation in the digital age. Nico Tovar’s They’re All Outta Here (2024) encases a 2020 tabloid in resin, transforming a fleeting headline into a permanent sculptural time capsule of New York’s collective memory, linking personal biography to the city’s cultural narrative. Ashley Zelinskie’s Mariposa (2020), developed in collaboration with scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, reflects on the aesthetics and ethics of genetic manipulation, turning CRISPR data and butterfly wing patterns into a poetic meditation on mutation, control, and beauty. Amanda Atria’s Matter of Fact (2025) reimagines industrial objects and solidified motor oil as carriers of memory and labor, revealing how mass-produced materials hold traces of human presence. Josh Rabineau’s sculptural works, informed by his residency at the UAP foundry, explore the expressive potential of metal and casting processes, capturing moments where materiality feels both heavy and suspended in time.
Other works extend the exhibition’s inquiry into the intersections of digital and physical space. Maya Man brings her background in code, video, and performance to create sculptures that embody the repetition and control of internet-age femininity and AI systems. A. L. Bahta, also known as musician Quiet Luke, integrates AI-driven design and sound into sculptural forms that oscillate between meticulous detail and intuitive spontaneity, meditating on post-human experience. Louis Osmosis presents works that examine the symbolic residue of urban life, while Paulina Moncada offers a material investigation that merges the tactile with the conceptual. Kenny Schachter is presenting a new body of work inspired by Rudolf Stingel’s impressions, channeling primitive ritual, absurdity, and innocence. Chickens, children, and foundry bronze come together in an unexpected collaboration, resulting in tender, uncanny, and quietly irreverent reliefs.
Nico Tovar, They're All Outta Here, 2024. Resin, newspaper and string, 13.7 x 13.7 x 4.7.
Co-curated by India Price, the exhibition reflects her ongoing interest in artists who challenge inherited systems, technological, mythological, and material. A New York–based curator and art advisor at Amanda Schmitt Art (ASA), Price specializes in contemporary and digital art, often working closely with artists to develop exhibitions, commissions, and cross-disciplinary projects that bridge physical and virtual space. She has held positions at Christie’s, David Zwirner, Pace Gallery, Gazelli Art House, and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, and has curated shows across New York and London with a focus on sculptural, time-based, and web-native practices. Her writing has appeared in Taschen and Right Click Save, and she has spoken widely on the intersections of art and technology at institutions including Sotheby’s Institute, the VCA Residency, and the New Museum’s NEW INC program.
