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JAN 22-27: FIRE by Lisa Paul Streitfeld
This installation/performance presents Streitfeld's novel, Champagne Tango , and related mixed media evoking the "underground" experience, with Holly Crawford's "Male Geometry" paintings and Yuliya Lanina's installation "Eros, You Burn Me!"... (more) |
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JAN 29-FEB 2: DETAINEE by David Duckworth
David Duckworth, as a bound and blindfolded detainee, becomes the paintbrush with which interrogators paint the American flag on the floor of the gallery. Digital projections by Beverly Richey , painted walls by Max Yawney , and sound compositions by Patrick Todd augment this central action by creating an environment in which detached... (more)
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FEB 5-17: SHOTGUN PROJECT by John Mclane Curated by John Knowles
The Shotgun Project , a multimedia art experience where painting, sculpture, film and photography are intertwined in one space and united around the concept of the shotgun as a means for abstract mark making. The artist John McLane developed the Idea in the fall of 2005 with filmmaker Nick Katzenbach and photographer Ben Rosenzweig... (more) |
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FEB 20 - MAR 10: Connectome by Lee Whitier
The Lab Gallery presents digital video artist Lee Whittier . In a site-specific installation of new work, the artist transforms the storefront at 47th and Lexington Avenue into a 24-hour display of light and movement, altering perceptions of the urban view shed and provoking response in the passerby. Through projected video, mirrors, and haze the artist manipulates the... (more)
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MARCH 21-31: Flight of Fantasy by Yuliya Lanina With C. Eule Dance Company
The installation will consist of a window display composed of a variety of props and materials, including grass, trees, dolls, feathers, flowers and fabrics that would extend into a gallery space, creating a imaginative forest-like environment. An animation, projected on the back wall, will be continuously playing over the course of the show (accept for during the... (more)
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APRIL 9-13: Underground Istanbul by Sukran Moral
Curated by Enrico Pedrini
At The Lab Gallery, Moral will interact with people passing by, showing them small placards which read "for sale, sale item, end-of-season sale, artist for sale..." and so on. The artist also plans to improvise based on her creative dialogue with midtown Manhattan. The dual projection on the two walls behind her will be of Sukran’s first performance on these... (more)
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April 23 - May 4: Cabinet of Curious Ties by Art Omi
The year 2006 brought thirty distinct individuals together for three weeks of community and creative interaction. A singular alchemy resulted this year. Some artists purposely brought no materials with them; others intentionally worked with media strange to them; surprising collaborations were formed; all were open to critique, spontaneity, and serendipity... (more)
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May 6-12: The Alchemy of Love: Water by Lisa Paul Streitfeld
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May 16-24: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Holly Crawford
New York installation of site specific installation and performance. Florence, Berlin, Valencia, London, California and New York! Thousands of black balloons massed into sculpture will fill the space and flow outside. Come destroy by popping the impermanent creation... (more)
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May 25-26: Macromix by DJ Lightbolt
DJ Lightbolt (Nicky Enright) spins a mash-up journey around the globe as never before encountered, resulting in the live soundtrack to his accompanying video collages. Using the postmodern instrument called the mixer , he creates + manipulates his outer-national fusion of sound: from the gospel to the gangster; from the vital pulse to the polyrhythm... (more)
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June 4-16: Parallel Time by Maureen Catbagan
Films and our memories move the past and the present with such fluidity that we take for granted the structure of the moment. Time's rigid linearity dissolves as we re/live the past while existing in the present. Despite the current unfeasibility of actual time travel, we experience its multiplicity through our mental and visual editing. Parallel Time creates a fissure, a... (more)
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June 17-23: The Alchemy of Love, Part III: Earth by Lisa Paul Streitfeld
Whereas WATER retrieved the lost bride of the gospels from the collective unconscious, the third installation of THE ALCHEMY OF LOVE honors the dominance of the female in nature. In this element, the five chapters of the blog-novel track the new paradigm Great Round of life/death/decay/rebirth in the seasonal cycle... (more)
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June 25-29: Healing
by Kata Mejia
Healing is a performance-installation which represents a breaking point with life caused by sudden, violent death. Symbolic, ritual actions expressing the pain and chaos this wrenching of life creates will be performed along with those expressing transcendence and healing of the departed soul and the loved ones who remain... (more) |
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July 2-12: The Sweet Hereafter by Gosia Koscielak curated by Raul Zamudio
The Sweet Hereafter is one-person exhibition of the Polish multimedia artist Gosia Koscielak. While the exhibition's title is both a reference to the film by director Atom Egoyan as well as a euphemism for death, The Sweet Hereafter is neither morbid nor does it concern itself with cultivating an aesthetic of fatality. Rather, it is a visually poetic meditation on the... (more)
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July 13-14: Macromix by DJ Lightbolt
DJ Lightbolt (Nicky Enright) spins a mash-up journey around the globe as never before encountered, resulting in the live soundtrack to his accompanying video collages. Using the postmodern instrument called the mixer , he creates + manipulates his outer-national fusion of sound: from the gospel to the gangster; from the vital pulse to the polyrhythm... (more)
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July 15-20: “Inside-Out” by Mark Wiener
There are moments that you wish you can get inside, then out again, then inside one more time, these moments are what "Inside Out" is all about. Using all surfaces of the Lab, I will explore my visual language past the edges of the canvas, in a 3-dimensional environment . Working “inside out” will bring the layers and dimensions built into my single-surface... (more)
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July 23-27: B&B by Anindita Duta
"B&B evolves a space of complications arising out of willing and unwilling 'consumption of sex'. The installation introduces metaphor of bed with a 'feminine' identity wherein the bolsters (pillows) with their enhanced presence create a nightmarish disturbance. Materials, which are sourced from an organic base specifying an 'unrefined' quality, are responses that... (more) |
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August 6-17: Internal Unrest
by Jodi Rockwell
Accomplished Seattle-based artist Jodi Rockwell presents a ten-day installation at The Lab Gallery. In Rockwell's latest time-based installation, Internal Unrest, the sublime activity of snowfall threatens the pristine interior of a Victorian sitting room. Rockwell, known for her intimate investigations into autobiography, created a room-sized flour sifter with... (more) |
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September 3-8: "Improvised Cinema" by Potter-Belmar Labs
A performance and installation by Leslie Raymond and Jason Jay Stevens
Performaces nightly from 6-10PM
San Antonio-based artists Leslie Raymond and Jason Jay Stevens present "Potter-Belmar Labs at the Lab," a performance and installation that will immerse the Lab at Roger... (more) |
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September 8: Macromix by DJ Lightbolt
DJ Lightbolt (Nicky Enright) spins a mash-up journey around the globe as never before encountered, resulting in the live soundtrack to his accompanying video collages. Using the postmodern instrument called the mixer , he creates + manipulates his outer-national fusion of sound: from the gospel to the gangster; from the vital pulse to the polyrhythm. |
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September 12-21: Trinacria an installation by Filippo Amato Sciascia
Sciascia has over the past two years created several object/images that employ various distinct media, including charcoal, gesso, paint, objects of various kinds, wax, rolled canvas, and blackboard. These disparate elements --while holding semiotic values within Sciascia’s allegorical narrative-- are collectively titled "Trinacria" in reference to the Homeric... (more) |
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September 23-29: The Alchemy of Love/Air (Sublimatio) by Lisa Paul Streitfeld
The Alchemy of Love, a multimedia blog-novel/installation, presents layered images as doorways to a deeper reality. The geometry of AIR, the fourth chapter of the series, depicts a prose style in which the novelist incorporates the planets as co-creators in a unique... (more) |
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October 1-13: Chamber of Dreams by Mary Ting
Figures, animals and strange organic forms converge in an abstract narrative that transforms the LAB Gallery into an aquarium of the night. The installation, Chamber of Dreams combines sculptural, cut paper and moving elements. The work is layered in literary references, cultural metaphors, and the influence of dioramas and wonder cabinets. |
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October 15-26: colLABorations by Peter Dudek
From October 15th to the 26th Peter Dudek and 6 other artists from wildly varying aesthetic backgrounds will join together to infuse the space of the Lab gallery with a passionately discordant environment... (more) |
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October 29 – November 2: Homage to a hero
by Kata Mejia
''Homage to a Hero'' is the third performance of three and commemorates
the one year anniversary of the artist’s youngest brother being murdered.
It is a performance installation to pay homage to his life which he sacrificed
to save his loved ones. The second and third performances of the three were conceived after his death yet all are related... (more)
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November 8th: Lilly invites you to come watch the sunset with her
by Lilly Mcelroy
On November 8th at 5:13pm, Lilly invites you to come watch the sunset with her. Please join her in New York City at the corner of Lexington and 47th Street. There will be refreshments. |
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November 12-30: Reservoir by Paul Rice
Water is the canvas. Light is the medium. Viewed from the city streets outside the gallery, artist Paul Rice harnesses two of nature's strongest elements. In collaboration with filmaker Rob Hall, "Reservoir" explores the unique possibilities in transforming water and light into an abstract visual experience. |