between shape and schema
Jana Marie Cariddi, Srishti Dass, Rochelle Voyles
Curated by Lauren Hirshfield
Opening: Thursday Oct 29th, 2026 / 6-8pm
October 29 - December 5, 2026
Field Projects is pleased to present Between Shape and Schema, curated by Lauren Hirshfield, which brings together painting, drawing, collage, and shaped wood sculpture by Jana Marie Cariddi, Srishti Dass, and Rochelle Voyles. The three artists share a visual language of construction and an interest in architecture and infrastructure, both as physical structures and as metaphors for how things are organized, connected, and held together. Architecture here is less a subject than a method; the artists borrow the logic of how something is built, such as how a room is framed, how a mark repeats, or how a part meets a whole, and apply it to invented worlds that sit between the grown and the manufactured. Surfaces are built slowly by hand or assembled from parts, and the edge of each work is as deliberate as what it contains. Throughout the exhibition each artist reframes the systems she investigates, whether civic, spiritual, bodily, or imagined, into composite compositions of her own invention.
Structure appears here at several scales. Dass’s paintings and drawings move between rigid, calculated compositions and soft, painterly passages that loosen the architecture she builds. Her current work grew out of a desire to imagine an environment without people, a speculative place that doubles as a personal refuge. Vaulted corridors, thresholds, and glowing orbs stack into symmetrical interiors that read as both mystical interiors and drafting diagrams, and their crisp, planar forms show a clear affinity with hard-edge abstraction.
Voyles approaches collage as both a craft and a language. Textile templates are transformed into looping, curved works that become their own symbology akin to glyphs, and, alongside a newer “shrapnel” series informed by collage cast-offs, offer the duality of composite making in these abstract constructions. Their imagery layered onto the pieces in this show are abundantly architectural, shaping in turn the final structure as much as it fills it, piling into impossible, imagined cityscapes.
Cariddi’s works, while similarly fragmented in composition, reflect much more the infrastructure of the body. Her shaped panels join airbrushed gradients, resin, and milled edges into jointed, pipe-like assemblies that hover between the anatomical and the mechanical. The selection of small graphite drawings build a vocabulary of soft-edged symbols that behave like cells, ribs, and branches. Her handling of paint, color, and composition mirrors Dass’s in pointing to hard-edge abstraction as well as a deep lineage to the Chicago Imagists, and her mixed-media surfaces are as invested in the formal questions of abstract painting as in the curiosity of constructed shape.
Across all three practices, an order emerges that can be observed but not quite translated, inviting viewers to fall into the nooks, gaps, and crevices of the artists’ edifices. Here, a system is not rigid but porous, a place where bodies, buildings, and images trade parts. Moving from built environments to bodily systems and back again, the works treat the moment when a structure starts to behave like an organism as a place to linger rather than resolve.
JANA MARIE CARIDDI
Jana Marie Cariddi (b. New Jersey, USA, 1993) is an artist whose practice moves between painting, drawing, and sculpture. Her hybridized paintings function simultaneously as relic-like objects and spatial meditations. Cariddi’s work has been exhibited internationally and across North America, including a solo exhibition at the Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art, and has been published in New American Paintings. She has participated in various artist residencies including the Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency, Arts Southeast, GlogauAIR, and Artist in Aso, among others. In summer 2027, she will be a fellow at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, New Mexico. She earned her fully funded MFA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and her BFA in Painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Cariddi has lived in New Jersey, Savannah (GA), New Orleans (LA), Berlin (DE), Madison (WI), Tallahassee (FL) and is currently a Windgate Visiting Artist Fellow in Jackson, Mississippi.
SRISHTI DASS
Srishti Dass (b. New Delhi, India, 1999) is a visual artist whose practice seeks to bridge her inner anxieties with her lived environment - where people, places, colors, and nature influence the intricate pattern-making and symbols in her paintings and drawings. Dass has exhibited globally, most recently with Morgan Lehman Gallery and The Painting Center (both in New York). She has participated in numerous group shows including with 550 Gallery, Stairwell Space, LAS Contemporary, Silvermine Gallery in Connecticut, and the India Habitat Center in Delhi. Other notable presentations include participation in the SPRING/BREAK Art Show Los Angeles with Ely Center of Contemporary Art, and a billboard exhibition in Detroit, MI with SaveArtsSpace. In 2025 she completed a twelve drawing commission, Body as a Microcosm, for a private collector in Dubai. Dass has been featured in several publications: I Like Your Work, Arts To Heart, Platform Mag, and The Curious Publishing. She has also shared her insights as a visiting artist at Lehman College at CUNY, engaging with new and younger audiences. In addition, she has received notable residencies and fellowships from the Wassaic Project, Vermont Studio Center, and SVA Destinations in Oaxaca, Mexico.Dass graduated from the School of Visual Arts with a BFA in Fine Arts (2021) and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
ROCHELLE VOYLES
Rochelle Voyles (b. 1989, Toledo, Ohio) is a Brooklyn based multi-disciplinary artist whose works explore the cyclical nature of humanity’s patterns and the underlying impulses that drive behavior. Mining historical textile diagrams and found images, Voyles arranges fragments of different moments meticulously in collage on-wood cut sculpture. Voyles received her BFA in Fine Arts/Printmaking from Pratt Institute. Her debut solo show Unreliable Narrators at 81 Leonard was featured as a March 2026 Editors’ Select in IMPULSE Magazine, and as an editorial feature on Art Rabbit. Additionally, the show received favorable reviews in Art Spiel and White Hot Magazine and was interviewed on Brainard Carey’s Yale Radio podcast. Her work has been presented in group exhibitions at Below Grand (New York), 81 Leonard Gallery (New York), Show Up Gallery (Boston), Satchel Projects (New York), Peninsula Art Space (New York), Field of Play Gallery (Brooklyn) and Collarworks (New York). She has received residencies with Wassaic Project, The Peter Bullough Foundation, Byrdcliffe Arts Colony and the ChaNorth Residency. Voyles’ work has been additionally written about in blogs and online publications including Collé, Shoutout LA, Paradice Palase, and The Jealous Curator.
(pc: Jeff Barnett-Winsby)