LABspace is
pleased to present Alternate Gravity, a 3-person installation of new works by
Nicole Cherubini, Meg Lipke and Patrick Purcell . The show runs from Thursday August 11th through Saturday, October 1st There will be a reception for the artists on Sunday,
August 14th from 5-7pm
All the artists divide their time between Columbia County and
in/near New York City and conceptually challenge notions of craft and materials
and function in their work.
Cherubini
(b.1970, Boston) has exhibited extensively in the US and abroad, most recently
at Samson Projects in Boston and at Retrospective Gallery in Hudson, NY. Lipke (b.1969, Portland) has exhibited paintings and painted
objects most recently at Freight and Volume in New York and with Jeff Bailey
in Hudson. Purcell (b. 1969 St Louis was trained as a potter and makes wheel
thrown objects that conflate sculpture and functional ceramics. Purcell has throughout
the United States. A recent exhibition at Dodge Gallery in New York had him
marked as a “trend to watch” in Art News.
polished in your pocket
expanded and sewn.
Vessels that withstood
gravitational pull returned.
Six-sided silica, water, stone.
Coded remnants become newly entire
crossed atoms, functions, redrawn
the inside of the world
known, realigned, unknown.
-Meg Lipke
When you investigate the matter further it
will be found that the quartz crystal in the mountains was formed with the help
of silicic acid at a specific time when our Earth’s development was under the
general influence of etheric and astral forces. That is when you will see such
etheric and astral forces emanation form the area around the Earth and working
to help build up the quartz crystals in the silica. You can find them everywhere
out in the mountains- those wonderful quartz crystals, six-sided constructions.
What you see in those quartz crystals is the same as you will see in the bee
cells in the beehive, except that these are empty chambers at first. The bee
extracts from the plant the very substance that was once there to help create
the hexagonal quartz crystals. The bee extracts this from the flower and within
its own body creates replicas of the quartz crystals. What happens between the
bee and flower is similar to what once happened out there in the macrocosm.
-Rudolph Steiner
Jon Piasecki’s
outdoor sculptures will be featured in the courtyard.
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 2462 NY RT 23 just west of NY RT 22 in Hillsdale, NY. Gallery hours are Thursday and Friday from 1-5 and Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 5p.m., or by appointment via labspaceart@gmail.com.
LABspace is located at 2462 NY RT 23 just west of NY RT 22 in Hillsdale, NY. Gallery hours are Thursday and Friday from 1-5 and Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 5p.m., or by appointment via labspaceart@gmail.com.
Images: Meg Lipke, Holes in the Ocean,2016, muslin, plaster, fabric dye, acrylic, polyfil and cement
Nicole Cherubini, There is a Fountain, 2016, ceramic
Patrick Purcell, Tall Pitcher, 2016, porcelain, steel, paint
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