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IN RETROSPECT

November 20th 2025 - January 8th 2026

A Group Show

Opening Reception: Thursday, November 20th 6-9 pm

At Marmalade Boutique in Williamsburg

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Shop Artworks

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Cleo the Project Space is pleased to present ‘In Retrospect’ with work by Esther Ruiz, Devin Rutz, Aliyah Salmon, Max Simon, Neal Hollinger, Marianna Peragallo, Domingo Ceramics, and Jaqueline Cedar. This exhibition marks the first Cleo's first show in NYC at Marmalade Boutique in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. We’re taking a look back at five years of Cleo and celebrating the kitsch spirit that built our programming with plenty of familiar faces from past exhibitions.

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​Esther Ruiz received a BA in Studio Art from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee in 2011. She was a recipient of the 2016 Artist Grant and Williamsburg Studio Lottery from SpaceWorks and the 2014 ArtBridge Urban Modulations Public Art Installation and Award. Her work has been exhibited in New York at Carvalho Park, CHART, yours mine

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& ours gallery, New Release Gallery, Regina Rex, Field Projects, Planthouse Gallery, ​Urban Glass, and Brooklyn Academy of Music, among other national exhibitions at Reynolds Gallery (Richmond, VA), Cross MacKenzie Gallery (Washington, D.C.), Platform (Baltimore, MD), Vox Populi (Philadelphia, PA), and the American Center for Physics (College Park, MD). Her work has been reviewed in publications including The Washington Post, Art News, VICE, The Wall Street Journal, The American Ceramic Society, Hyperallergic, The New York Times, and on National Public Radio (NPR).

​estherruiz.com / @esther__ruiz

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Devin Rutz graduated with a Masters in Architecture from Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA in 2008. He has exhibited at IRL Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, and 2021 Artist Registry, Whitecolumns, New York, NY plus attended residencies at Soaring Gardens in Laceyville, PA and Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT.

devinrutz.com / @devinrutz

 

Aliyah Salmon received a BFA in Textile Design from Savannah College of Art and Design. Abigail Ogilvy Gallery in Boston, MA, Crybaby Gallery in Toronto, CAN, and Hashimoto Contemporary in Los Angeles. She currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.

aliyahsalmon.com / @aliyah_salmon

 

Max Simon (b. Brooklyn, NY) holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Furniture Design from Rhode Island School of Design. His mobiles can be found at Pirela Atelier (New Jersey), Dobrinka Salzman (NYC) and Steffan Studio (London). He was recently featured in Architectural Digest with Sebastian Zuchowicki and M Magazine (Le Monde). He currently lives and works in Queens, NY.

​@breakfast_simon

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Neal Hollinger is an American painter and sculptor. He received his BFA from the School of Art and Design at Alfred University and his work has been featured at Bravin Lee, International Objects,  DDay, One Mile Gallery, and Garner Arts Center. He is currently based in upstate, NY.

@neal_lamps

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Marianna Peragallo (b. 1988) is a Brazilian-American artist based in New York, NY. ​​Peragallo has recently exhibited at Spring/Break Art Show in New York and LA, Bravin Lee Gallery (New York, NY), Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY), RegularNormal (New York, NY), Transmitter Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), A.I.R. Gallery (Brooklyn, NY). She has had solo exhibitions at Smith College (Northampton, MA), Here Arts (New York, NY), and Winston’s (Los Angeles, CA). Peragallo was an artist in residence at the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony (Woodstock, NY) in 2014, Mass MoCA’s Assets for Artists residency (North Adams, MA) in 2019, Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY) in 2019 and 2022, and Stove Works in 2023. She was in residence at the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program from 2021-2022. Marianna received a BFA from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, and an MFA from The School of Visual Arts, New York.

mariannaperagallo.com / @mariannamperagallo

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Domingo Ceramics is a design project of Ivanna Brenner, she makes porcelain & gold tableware that dialogues with her sculpture. Domingo means Sunday in Spanish, the day that in her native Buenos Aires people gather together with family and friends to share a meal.

domingoceramics.com / @domingoceramics

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Jaqueline Cedar was born in Los Angeles, CA and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. In 2009 she received an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University. Recent exhibitions include Long Story Short, New York (2023), Shelter Gallery, New York (2022), Shin Haus, New York (2022), Smoke the Moon, Santa Fe (2022), Ladies' Room, Los Angeles (2021), 11 Newel, Brooklyn (2021), Peripheral Space, Los Angeles (2021), Hesse Flatow, New York (2020), Drawer NYC (2020), Field Projects, New York (2020), Underdonk, Brooklyn (2018), and David Risley Gallery Velvet Ropes, Copenhagen (2018). Press includes Artnet, Hyperallergic, Huffington Post, Two Coats of Paint, New American Paintings, Gorky's Granddaughter, Painters' Table, and The Boston Globe. Cedar's paintings and drawings address uncanny scenarios where characters engage themselves and one another with sincerity and purpose. Moments of desire, selfreflection, and lack of control motivate postures filled with bravado and vulnerability. In October 2019 Cedar launched the curatorial exhibition program Good Naked Gallery. Projects hover around the intimate and awkward with a focus on work that engages tactility, humor, movement, and play. 

jaquelinecedar.com / @jaquelinecedar ​​​​​​

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