Closing Party Sunday June 29th, 1-5pm

Susan Meyer: Group Chat Installation View. Exhibition checklist. Final Weekend!

CLOSING PARTY SUNDAY 1-5PM 🎉 On View Saturday 1-5pm Susan Meyer: Group Chat Carlton Davis: Humble Beauty FINAL WEEKEND

Carlton Davis: Humble Beauty Installation View. Exhibition checklist. Final Weekend!

Hello friends, Hope you are all staying cool this summer! We look forward to seeing you here this FINAL WEEKEND of both solo exhibitions: Susan Meyer: Group Chat Carlton Davis: Humble Beauty Please join us for a CLOSING PARTY with both artists on SUNDAY 1-5PM Exhibitions are on view Saturday 1-5pm If you are planning to attend the opening at The Campus on Saturday, we are located just 13 miles east Huge thank you to Susan Meyer and Carlton Davis for their exquisite work, and everyone who has visited us these past two months See you here this weekend for your last chance to see both shows! XO Ellen + Julie

Susan Meyer: Group Chat Solo Exhibition of Mixed Media Sculpture Full exhibition checklist FINAL WEEKEND! Saturday 1-5pm Closing Party with Susan Meyer: This Sunday, June 29th, 1-5pm Group Chat, a solo exhibition of new work by Susan Meyer, brings together a number of quasi-figurative sculptures of varying shapes and sizes and material compositions. Like the text-based conversations that pepper our contemporary discourse, the sculptures seem to communicate with one another in ways both fluid and disjointed. Referencing popular culture, utopian communities, scholar’s rocks, architecture, and mid-century playground/park structures, the works evoke a range of tenuous relationships – between the natural world and the built environment, growth and decay, aspiration and failure. Susan Meyer’s work has been featured in solo and group shows across the United States, including the Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs NY; Flinn Gallery, Greenwich CT; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver CO; The Korean Cultural Center, NY NY. She has held residencies at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village CO; Sculpture Space, Utica NY; Ucross, Clearmont WY. Meyer received a BS in art from Skidmore College and an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. She teaches at Monmouth University in New Jersey and lives and works in Hudson NY.

Carlton Davis: Humble Beauty Solo Photography Exhibition Full exhibition checklist FINAL WEEKEND! Saturday 1-5pm Closing Party with Carlton Davis: This Sunday, June 29th, 1-5pm With this selection of photographs, Carlton Davis features seemingly mundane grocery items such as fruit, botanicals, eggs, and chickens. With a focus on composition and mood, Davis elevates these humble subjects and encourages contemplation of the photographs individually, and in conversation with one another. Through these images, Davis inconspicuously explores concepts of power, diversity, beauty, and equanimity. Carlton Davis (b. Philadelphia) is a New York-based photographer known for his ability to uncover extraordinary beauty in the ordinary. His work, spanning both commercial and personal creative practices, highlights the essential and often overlooked elements of his subjects, inviting viewers to slow down and see the world anew. In his art practice, Davis focuses on the richness of the quotidian world. The depth and complexity of humble subjects are revealed through Davis’ rigorous attention to composition and light. Davis employs the same approach in portraiture. Intentionally simple backdrops and minimal to no color allow Davis to pare down distractions and create images that offer viewers space for thoughtful focus, visual exploration, and contemplation. Davis’ photography transforms the familiar into something timeless, encouraging a quiet, deliberate appreciation for objects and moments that sustain us. Carlton Davis writes: The botanical images included in ‘Humble Beauty,’ my solo exhibition at LABspace May 3rd-June 29th 2025, are part of a series inspired by the oil paintings of Charles Ethan Porter (b. Hartford, CT 1847- 1923). Reimagining Porter’s work offers me a vehicle to explore ideas of imperfection, the passage of time and the effects of aging. I convey the beauty and elegance of these themes through the depiction of fruits and flowers. To make a visual connection between our bodies of work, I chose to restage a selection of Porter’s paintings. However, many of the photographs are entirely my own design. For these works, Porter’s images are only source material used to explore my own contemporary aesthetic. Porter’s influence is significant not only because we share the same hometown, but more importantly because we are both African American artists working in still life. Similarities in our professional trajectories provided the crucial point of departure that sparked this project.

LABspace 2642 NY Route 23, Hillsdale NY 12529 Inquiries: julielabspace@gmail.com

LABspace is located below Hillsdale General Store, and Cook & Larder 17 miles east of Hudson NY 13 miles east of The Campus 17 miles north of Millerton NY 11 miles west of Great Barrington MA LABspace was founded and directed by artist Susan Jennings 2014-2018, and has been the curatorial project of artists Ellen Letcher and Julie Torres since April 2018. We are now celebrating our seventh year of programming since taking the reins, thanks to all of you and to SJ!