Melhop Gallery and artists are pleased to announce the opening today of

Out of Line

an Online Exclusive Exhibition for the

Artsy Art Fair

Women Led Galleries and the Women Artists they Champion

6 – 31 March 2026

Installation view of *6359, 8718, 11284, 4531, 9143* by Katie Lewis. Thread, dimensions variable

Out of Line brings together fifteen artists, all women whose practices expand drawing beyond the page, challenging the notion of the line as obedient boundary or preparatory act. Featuring work by Lisa Jarrett, Jennifer Garza-Cuen, Julia Schwadron Marianelli, Miya Hannan, Eunkang Koh, Jean Brennan, Frances Melhop, Claire Scully, Hanako Miyamoto, Sophie Scott, Megan Winegardner, Victoria Wagner, Katie Lewis, Barbara Holmes and Kelly Chorpening, the exhibition foregrounds drawing as material, action, and spatial intervention.

Across media including fiber, installation, performance, digital processes, ink, and architectural intervention, these artists activate the line as structure, gesture, trace, and presence. Thread becomes duration. Graphite becomes index. Light becomes form and sculpture becomes fragile and skeletal on the verge of collapse. Rather than treating drawing as a preliminary step toward another medium, the works on view position it as a fully realized and critically charged practice in its own right.

By enlarging, interrupting, layering, and recontextualizing the mark, Out of Line questions inherited hierarchies that have historically constrained the definition of drawing. The exhibition reframes the medium as elastic and porous, capable of occupying walls, bodies, and space itself. What emerges is not a single expanded definition but a dynamic range of approaches that assert drawing as a site of experimentation, resistance, and embodied inquiry.

View "Out of Line" exhibition on Artsy here