LABspace is pleased to present
“The Lonely Surfer” a two person show by Susan Meyer and Jeff Starr. The shows open on Saturday, May 14th
with a reception for the artists from 5-7 and run through Saturday, June 4th.
Susan Meyer and Jeff Starr, an artist-couple, share an interest
in visual accumulation and vernacular imagery, with somewhat obsessive results.
They will install their work at LABspace as you might find it in their
overlapping studios, with an inevitable commingling of ideas and imagery.
The title, The Lonely Surfer, an
instrumental by Jack Nitzsche, suggests a shared fascination with transcendence
and the mundane. Random cultural sparks play a role In each artist's work;
sparks found in thrift stores, on the radio, or within that time conflating
behemoth, the internet. The title also conjures the artist in her or his studio
as the lonely surfer of inspiration and creation.
Susan Meyer who is predominately a sculptor makes work that
alludes to architecture, the figure and landscape. Her pieces suggest overbuilt
architectural concoctions: part shrine, part commune, part scholar’s rock, part
disaster waiting to happen. She is interested in landscape and architecture as
catalysts for our desires and aspirations.
Jeff Starr is a painter whose work is packed with imagery. One
might say the work reflects the apparent increase in our daily visual/digital
stimuli. Painted photographic images in the work are gleaned from popular
sources: fashion magazines, album /CD covers, and obscured with an over-lay of
doodles using archival water-based ink pens.
Meyer and Starr live together in Hudson, NY
LABspace was founded and is directed by the artist Susan Jennings.
The gallery is dedicated to experiments in curation, exhibiting
category-busting and/or materially surprising contemporary art, and hosting
performance art, screenings, readings and music that push the boundaries of
categorization, participation and/or experience.
LABspace is located at 2642 NY Route 23 just west of NY Route 22 in Hillsdale, N.Y. After May 14th the gallery will be open Thursday and Friday from 1-5
and Saturdays from 11 a.m. to
5p.m., or by appointment via labspaceart@gmail.com.
For further information or high resolution images please contact labspaceart@gmail.com
http://labspaceart.blogspot.com/
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