Troy Curtis Zaretsky-Kreiner | Vase, Vessel, Vestige

Curation is a central practice informing all other disciplines of Troy’s work. Though manifesting in a variety of outputs, curatorial practice often circulates on a theme that is then paired with artists and practitioners in novel contexts and environments.

(re)SOURCE

I co-taught a class called Exhibition Design with Jess Kuronen at The Cooper Union in the Art school during Fall/Winter 2025 semester. November 04-14 2025: (re)SOURCE brought together midterm projects from the studio, where each student began with a single source object as an anchor. Sources ranged from books and repatriated sculptures to family heirlooms and pieces of technology. Students then used space in Cooper Union’s colonnade to build collections, visual responses, and physical installations that reinterpreted or recontextualized their source. The resulting works are spatial experiments in narrative, layout, sequencing, framing, and display, and ask how meaning shifts through context.

Artists/ students in the exhibition: Adenosine, Annie Gao, Bambi Baez, Evy Ray, Gideon Ryan Jang, Jade Mar, Joan Moon, Julie Woods, Lee Caufield, Noah Pan, Satsuki Yasui, Somme Phillips, Sunniva Rockhill, and Taj Malik.

Role: Adjunct Professor

Photography: Natassia Kuronen

Visiting Critics: Rachel Zaretsky, David Johnson, Devin Kenny

Special Thanks: Adriana Farmiga and Doug Ashford

Year: 2025

title wall for group exhibition (re)SOURCE two wooden panels with exhibition text and credits.

Lee Caufield, 'Not For Human Eyes' 7'5" × 2'10" × 5'4" (Pine, polystyrene, metal fixtures, annealed aluminum, galvanizing spray, foamcore, FDM prints.)

Taj Hollis, 'Punkatasskett', video install

(Work in progress) Annie Gao, 'be·long', Dimensions variable, lithography, found objects, dollhouse furniture, printed matters.

Bambi Baez, 'I is another Part I, The Time Suicide Fantasy', dimensions variable, Found pictures, Vellum paper, Nails, Black chalk, Cardstock, Piece of board, Mirror, Found Objects

Presentation Series

March 27 – May 26 2020: A virtual presentation series hosted on Zoom during COVID-19 quarantine. The series was originated by Morgan Brennan and co-hosted by Troy Kreiner. The following people lead a presentation: Morgan Brennan, Griffin Snyder, Carlos Sandoval, Bryan Morello, Hosting Projects, Sam Shoemaker, Rachel Mendelsohn, Ana Velasco, Christine Jackson, Nina Sarnelle, Samuel Wylie, Yulia Zinshtein, and Henry Gruber.

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#10: Nina Sarnelle: A Close Reading of the Film Speed (1994): May 08 2020

#06: Sam Shoemaker : Mycology, Fungi, Terrestrial-Origins, Conspiracy, Enigma, Remediation, and Connective Tissue During End Times : April 11 2020

#04: Bryan Morello : Drawings & Containers : April 03 2020

Vase, Vessel, Vestige

December 07 2019: A group exhibition at a home in Mt. Washington, Los Angeles, featuring artworks by Jenny Campbell-Brooks, Alex Reed, Kelley Burnett, Amelia Lockwood, Quinn Kimsey-White, Griffin Snyder, BZIPPY & Co., Peter Sheldon, Amy Santoferraro, Eunbi; Flower arrangements by Harris Bauer.

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Group shot (left to right): BZippy, Kelley Burnett, Eunbi, Jenny Campbell-Brooks, Peter Sheldon, and Alex Reed.

Jenny Campbell-Brooks: Shadow, Clay, 12.5" x 12" x 6" 2019 (Arrangement by Harris Bauer)

Group shot (left to right): Peter Sheldon, BZippy, Alex Reed, Kelley Burnett, Quinn Kimsey-White, and Amelia Lockwood.

Driveway 327

After moving to Venice, California in 2014 and gaining access to a private driveway, that without a car had no normative utility, Driveway 327 began. Activating the space with sculpture, drawing, painting, screening and performance the driveway became an outdoor venue for exhibitions.

Driveway 327 engaged with an international roster of emerging artists. The exhibitions established a dialogue within a given framework of the space itself and a selected theme that strived to question established modes of production, material, and conventional cultures of display.

The documentation below is a selection of work from a variety of exhibitions since 2015. Driveway 327 was discontinued in 2020 and it's digital grave stone lives here.

Role: Curator & Director

Location: Venice, Los Angeles

Year: 2015–2020

Driveway 327: a narrow garden path between a blue shingled house and a wooden fence, lined with potted plants

The gigantic, yawning chasm of the universe

June 30 2019: A solo exhibition at Driveway 327 featuring artworks by Shun Kinoshita.

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installation of several chairs by Shun Kinoshita [Photo by Sergiy Barchuk]

'Chair 6' Silver, epoxy, ink, plaster, cloth, paper, metal 2019

'Mesh 1' Metal, sweet gum balls, paint, epoxy, plaster, cloth, paper 24 x 31 x 50cm 2019 [Photo by Sergiy Barchuk]

'Vase 1' Epoxy, ink, plaster, cloth, paper, ceramic 2019 [Photo by Sergiy Barchuk]

'Chair 3' Silver, epoxy, ink, plaster, cloth, paper, wood 2019

Once solid and mutable

Nov 4 2018: A group exhibition at Driveway 327 featuring artworks from Amelia Lockwood, Caroline David, Sophia Bennett Holmes, Sharif Farrag.

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Caroline David, Hollow Standing Flower 4, ceramic 13" x 3" x 13" 2018

Sophia Bennett Holmes, Envelope 1, ceramic 7.5” x 5.5” x .5” 2018

Sharif Farrag, Hubcap (Mariana) Stoneware, glaze 16” x 2” 2018

Sophia Bennett Holmes, Double sided soccer goal, ceramic 10.5” x 9.5” x 4.5” 2017

Caroline David, shepherd in the fields of Lesser Men, ceramic 14" x 7" x 13" 2018

Amelia Lockwood, 62. Threaded Porcelain, Glaze, Thread 6.7”x 10”x 4.5” 2018 & 66. Pushy Cushy Porcelain, Glaze, Foam Pillow 6”x 8.25”x 2” 2018

Nasim Hantehzadeh

May 13 2018: A solo exhibition at Driveway 327 featuring artworks by Nasim Hantehzadeh.

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Nasim Hantehzadeh, Untitled, Paper Mache on Cardboard 43” x 17” x 2” 2017

Nasim Hantehzadeh, The Babe, Paper Mache Clay on Styrofoam 82” x 62” x 2” 2018

Nasim Hantehzadeh, Untitled, Oil Pastel and Graphite on paper 42”x26” 2018

Recount truths and prophesies

Oct 1 2017: A group exhibition at Driveway 327 featuring artworks from Ida Badal, Alex Ito, Tarik Garrett, Shasha Dothan, Nicole Reber.

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Ida Badal, Infinite Parkway, 2017, 19" x 18"x 5" Plywood, oil paint Price upon request

Alex Ito, Autumn of the Patriarch, 2017, Taxidermy mouse, glass, magazine, chair Dimensions Variable

Nicole Reber, The Salon, 2017, 48" x 72" Vinyl, Plastic, and Aluminum

sensual victim

Oct 1 2017: A group exhibition at Driveway 327 featuring artworks from Tom Król, Alice Sparkly Kat, Amanda Kyle, Krista Mary Martin, Brian R. Broker, Nathan Bockelman.

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Amanda Kyle, POWER HUNGRY, 2016, custom sign

Krista Mary Martin, Untitled (Inevitable Pig) and Untitled (Horseshit), 24" x 36" x .88", Digital print on paper and metal frame

Tom Król, ruf mal an, 2016, pine wood post, oil-based paint, brass chains, 23" x 50"

Tom Król, erotica text, 2016, canvas acrylic, oil-based paint, pigment marker, paper and receipt, 48" x 48"

genius loci

July 30 2016: A group screening at Driveway 327, co-curated with Theo Triantafyllidis, featuring videos from Maximilian Schmoetzer, Micah Hesse, Jan Brož + Barbora Kleinhamplová, Kim Laughton, Zak Tatham, Ryan Trecartin, Keiichi Matsuda.

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Micah Hesse, Lobbyless, 2016, video 7min and 15 sec.

Keiichi Matsuda, Hyper-Reality, 2016, video 6 min. and 15 sec.

Zak Tatham, Doorcuts, 2016, video 5 min. and 50 sec.

Kim Laughton, INSIGHT, 2015, video 2 min. and 1 sec.

Jeremy Couillard, The Pristine Purlieu with Robert Hamburger, 2013, video 4 min. and 27 sec.

Maximilian Schmoetzer, Preliminary Material for 2022, 2016, video 9 min. and 20 sec.

Ryan Trecartin, Item Falls, 2013, video 25 min. and 45 sec.

stitch, woven, interlocking

Aug 9-23 2015 + Jan 6-Jan 31 2016: A group exhibition at Driveway 327 that traveled to Kunstverein Letschebach in Karlsruhe, Germany. The group exhibition included: Olga Jakob, Erin Jane Nelson, Sam Shoemaker, Boryana Petrova, Patrick Woody, and Tina Kolhmann.

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Documentation from the exhibition that traveled from Driveway 327 to Kunstverein Letschebach in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Olga Jakob, sleeve 53" x 47" 2014 pigmnet on pleather

Tina Kohlmann, Raphael 45 x 18 x 13 cm 2014 cord, plastic

Erin Jane Nelson, Eart Anima 29" x 35" 2015 Inkjet on cotton, cotton batting, silk ribbon

Sam Shoemaker, untitled 39" x 57" 2015 Plexiglass, vinyl, cotton rope, rope, metal bolts, model scenery, plaster, plywood

Patrick Braden Woody, As for me & my home we shall serve the Lord 44" x 54" 2015 thread in canvas

Patrick Braden Woody, Dear Mom SD single channel video 2016

Sam Shoemaker, Untitled Cardboard, toilet paper, joint compound, plywood, paracord, hydrocal, construction paper 2016 16" x 8" x 1.5"

corps

Apr 17 - May 1 2015: A group exhibition at Driveway 327 featuring artworks from Brian Khek, Stefanie Leinhos, Patrick Ballard, Simon Henrich, and Brian Getnick.

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Brian Khek, Straw Man (Los Angeles 2) 2016 silk skirt suit, silk blouse, card board, palm leaves, rinds, and husks 42 x 60 x 47 inches

Simon Henrich, untitled 2016 dyed canvas, clay, latex, worbla, spraypaint 141cm/ 50cm/ 70cm

Brian Getnick, chorus 2016 silicone, fabric, wood, plaster dimensions variable

Stefanie Leinhos, you, me, infinity 2016 shirts, textile printing, clothespins dimensions variable

silhouette at the paper-mill, the Vatican in a popes mind

Feb 8 – 15 2015: A group exhibition at Driveway 327 featuring artworks from Isabel Alicia, Bryan Morello, Ian Swanson, Brandon Ndife, Leslie Baum, and Malte Zenses.

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