Fitting In: A Panel Discussion on Self-Reinvention, the Body, and Control

Join us at Peep Space for Fitting In, a panel discussion presented in conjunction with Natale Adgnot’s solo exhibition, Reined In. Bringing together curators and arts professionals Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy, Amy Rosenblum-Martin, and Bailey Coleman, the conversation will consider self-reinvention, bodily discipline, materiality, identity, and the social pressures embedded in ideas of “fit.”

Adgnot’s ongoing Saddle Couturage series combines garments, horsehair, thermoplastic, and equestrian tack to explore fit as both a material condition and a social demand. Drawing from her experiences in Texas, France, Japan, and New York, the sculptures bring clothing and systems of bodily control into tension with autobiography, cultural belonging, transformation, and resistance.

The discussion will consider how bodies are shaped by social structures, how materials carry histories and expectations, and how artists can use clothing, craft, and embodied experience to reconsider the structures designed to contain us.

Panelists

Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy is an independent curator and writer of contemporary art and craft, advocating for underrepresented communities, stories, materials, and approaches. She has curated and juried exhibitions across the United States, including R & Company’s second triennial, Objects: USA 2024, and Funk You Too! Humor and Irreverence in Ceramic Sculpture at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York. Her book, New Women’s Work: Reimagining “Feminine Craft” in Contemporary Art, which highlights 38 contemporary artists continuing the legacy of women’s work, came out in 2024.

Bailey Coleman is a New York-based arts professional and Executive Director of Trotter & Sholer, where she oversees the gallery’s program, artist relationships, exhibitions, and operations. She holds an MA in History of Art & Curating from the University of London and a BA in Art History from Barnard College, Columbia University. Previously, Coleman served as Director of 5-50 Gallery in Long Island City, where she developed its exhibition program and curated projects including fèy palmis, Pillow Princess, Ardent Longing, and Insight. Alongside her gallery work, Coleman maintains an independent curatorial practice focused on contemporary painting, sculpture, installation, and multimedia. She is currently curating Between Wet Hands, a large-scale installation exhibition at Signature Theatre as part of the Hell’s Kitchen Alliance’s 2026 Culture Crawl.

Amy Rosenblum-Martin has built her career organizing exhibitions, events, and convenings that bring art-historical scholarship into dialog with embodied experience, community knowledge, and multiple epistemologies. Her work challenges dominant methodologies and asks how museums can become more participatory, polyvocal, and transformative. Her curatorial practice brings together theory, politics, poetics, museum pedagogy, spatial and design thinking, and relational practice. This methodology has taken many forms, including working with prison-impacted artists in Marking Time at MoMA PS1, bringing together artists, medicine women, mediums, and Indigenous cultural bearers at the Cuenca Biennial, convening Afro-Indigenous curators at Pérez Art Museum Miami, and incorporating museum neighbors into the curatorial process at The Bronx Museum and The Ringling.

Reined In is on view at Peep Space through November 1.