CORTNEY ANDREWS

SOFT PROOF

OPENING THURSDAY MARCH 5, 6:00 -8:00 PM

THROUGH MARCH 29, 2026

PRESENTED WITH MARINARO, NYC

Fierman and Marinaro are pleased to present Soft Proof, a new exhibition by Cortney Andrews. The exhibition brings together photographs and mixed-media works in which cameras, screens, and images become stand-ins for the body.

Throughout the exhibition, the camera appears as an active structure that frames and contains. This framing echoes across the works — in viewfinders, an iPad, wallpaper edges, and a garment rack. Bodies appear caught within these structures or replaced by them entirely, creating a feedback loop in which subject and apparatus exchange roles.

The body appears in fragments, as reflections in mirrors, views through ground glass, and re-photographed images, suspended between surfaces and apertures. In one photograph, Double Exposure, an iPad displays an exchange of erotic self-images between two people, so that desire itself circulates through the photograph as a proxy body, sent and returned across distance.

The exhibition’s title refers to the photographic proof: a preliminary print used to evaluate exposure, color, and detail before final production. A soft proof exists in a provisional state — adjustable, correctable, not yet fixed. Andrews extends this technical term into a metaphor for perception itself, where seeing is mediated and vulnerable to distortion.

In Soft Proof, Andrews positions photography as a site of pressure — distinctions between subject and apparatus collapse, suggesting a space in which looking is a form of capture and the image a kind of cage.

Cortney Andrews (b. 1983, Emporia, Kansas) is an artist working in photography and video installation. She received her MFA in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2014. Andrews has staged performances at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Jack Hanley Gallery, and Marinaro. Her work is included in the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art and her  exhibitions have been reviewed in Artforum and The Brooklyn Rail, among others. Andrews  is the recipient of the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.