LABspace Closed January 1st + 2nd, HOLIDAY viewing on temporary pause

Installation view of Holiday at LABspace

LABSPACE IS CLOSED THIS WEEKEND, JANUARY 1ST + 2ND HOLIDAY viewing is temporarily paused

Hello friends, We hope that you are all doing well. With heavy hearts, and great caution, we have decided to keep the gallery doors closed this New Years weekend, January 1st + 2nd. Reports from friends, family, and experts alike are concerning— Folks are contracting Covid in record numbers. We do not wish to add to that risk, or to gamble with your health. Thank you for your understanding and patience while we figure out next steps. We may reopen by appointment soon, and potentially extend our Holiday exhibition by a few weeks to allow time for you all to view this joyful installation of 260+ artists. We hope that Covid cases will go back down as we all exercise a bit more caution in the coming weeks. We will update you once we have a plan. Sending love to you all and wishing you joy, peace, and good health in 2022! Happy crazy new year 💫 We look forward to seeing you all again very soon.

Be well and stay safe, our dear friends! xo Ellen Letcher + Julie Torres, LABspace co-directors

View our FULL Holiday Checklist HERE 👀  Please email us with inquiries, thank you!

HOLIDAY artists:  Yura Adams, Adina Andrus, Fern T Apfel, Susannah Auferoth, Ever Baldwin, Amanda Barr, Les Baum, Dasha Bazanova, Marc Bernier, Lee Betty, Jimbo Blachly, Annie Blazejack + Geddes Levenson, Pamela Blum, Irja Bodén, Martha Bone, Amanda Nolan Booker, Katherine Bradford, Laurén Brady, Judith Braun, Jenn Brehm, Farrell Brickhouse, Richard Britell, Joanne Brockley, Undine Brod, Sharon Broit, Berly Brown, Chris Buchakjian, Dina Bursztyn, Sharon Butler, Laura Cannamela, Kathy Cantwell, Melissa Capasso, Karlos Cárcamo, Susan Carr, Beth Caspar, Janice Caswell, Nurya Chana, Julie Chase, Willow Cheek, Sam Clayton, Ian Clyde, Melissa Cohen, John Colon, Jim Condron, Joyce Conlon, Janet Cooper, Jon Cowan, Karen Gonwa Culbreth, Brantner DeAtley, Pauline Decarmo, Colleen Deery, Douglas Degges, Penny Dell, Tasha Depp, Dan Devine, Astrid Dick, Carol Diehl, Abby DuBow, Peter Dudek, Katharine Dufault, Katherine Dykman, Jane Ehrlich, Georgia Elrod, Susan English, Julie Evans, Patricia Fabricant, Stuart Farmery, Jean Feinberg, Jeanette Fintz, Tristan Fitch, Mary Flinn, Audrey Francis, Matt Frieburghaus, Betsy Friedman, Iona Fromboluti, Marianne Gagnier, Ashley Garrett, Jared Gelormino, Sally Gil, Mimi Graminski, Gail Gregg, Joan Grubin, Guzman, Ken Habarta, Jenny Hankwitz, Marilu Datoli Hartnett, Erica Hauser, Kylie Heidenheimer, Allison Hester, Meg Hitchcock, Carter Hodgkin, Brece Honeycutt, Wayne Hopkins, Linda B Horn, Gloria Houng, Jane Hudson, Christine Hughes, Beth Humphrey, Will Hutnick, Marta Jaremko, Susan Jennings, Erick Johnson, Jennifer Johnson, Sue Johnson, Ellen Jouret-Epstein, Yasemin Kackar-Demirel, Martine Kaczynski, Shelley Kaplan, Laura Kaufman, Leslie Kerby, Benjamin King, Bernard Klevickas, Henry Klimowicz, Peggy Klineman, Philip Knoll, Sarah McDougald Kohn, Ellie Kreischer (formerly Spangler), Niki Kriese, Carole Kunstadt, Emily Noelle Lambert, Barbara Laube, Zohar Lazar, Cary Leibowitz, Elisa Lendvay, Jeffrey Lependorf, LI, Amy Lincoln, Peter Long, Joel Longenecker, Patrice Lorenz, Sarah Lutz, Tia Maggio, Stephen Maine, Sascha Mallon, JJ Manford, Cynthia Mason, Suzi Matthews, David McDonough, Carol McMahon, Claudia McNulty, Catherine McTague, Eva Melas, James Menshenfriend, Elin Menzies, James Meyer, Susan Meyer, David T Miller, Lucy Mink, Donna Moylan, Chieko Murasugi, Ann B Murphy, Sue Muskat, Stephen Niccolls, Marsha Norman, Carolyn Oberst, Jill Odegaard, Sara Farrell Okamura, Lilja Olafsdottir, Mark Olshansky, Jerry Orter, Dorothea Osborn, Kathy Osborn, Barbara Owen, Brent Owens, Ruby Palmer, Samantha Palmeri, Caitlin Parker, Gail Peachin, Gelah Penn, Julie Pereira, Susan Petry, Vincent Pidone, Bradley Pitts, David Pollack, Elisa Pritzker, Susan Rabinowitz, Jon Reichert, Kelsey Renko, Eve van Rens, John van Rens, Allie Rex, Ron Ronan, Mandolyn Wilson Rosen, Laura Lee Ross, Adie Russell, Stefan Saffer, Margaret Saliske, Liz Sample, Renee Samuels, Karin Schaefer, Julia Schwartz, Susan Still Scott, Jo Ann Secor, Denise Sfraga, Julie Shapiro, Jackie Shatz, Carleen Sheehan, Claire Sherwood, Polly Shindler, Greg Slick, Marisa Slick, Barbara Slitkin, Kim Sloane, Andrew Small, Kara Smith, L Ryan Smith, Jessica Soininen-Eddis, Elisa Soliven, D Jack Solomon, Joseph Stabilito, Jeff Starr, Kurt Steger, Deborra Stewart-Pettengill, Linda Stillman, Lawre Stone, Carol Struve, Amy Talluto, Allyson Mellberg Taylor, Jeremy Taylor, Joy Taylor, Christina Tenaglia, Paul Theriault, Austin Thomas, Olafur Thordarson, Arlene Santana Thornton, Claudia Tienan, Leonard Titzer, Michael Tong, Shira Toren, Katharine Umsted, Kathleen Vance, Becca Van K, Christina Renfer Vogel, Guy Walker, Pamela J Wallace, Susan Walsh, Jeff Way, Christopher Werner, Michael Wetzel, Brian Wiggins, Eleanor White, Ian White Williams, Ellen Wineberg, Ann Wolf, Brian Wood, Priscilla Woolworth, Rachael Wren, Cathy Wysocki, Geoffrey Young, Brenda​ Zlamany, Deborah Zlotsky

HOLIDAY Annual big show of small, affordable work VIEWING HOURS TEMPORARILY PAUSED

LABspace 2642 NY Route 23, Hillsdale NY 12529 Inquiries: julielabspace@gmail.com Live exhibition checklist here Located below Crossroads Food Shop and Hillsdale General Store Down the road from Sylvan Motor Lodge, Egremont Village Inn, The Alander, and Swiss Hutte Inn 17 miles east of Hudson NY • 17 miles north of Millerton NY • 11 miles west of Great Barrington MA

Sharon Butler + Susan Carr in Conversation at LABspace: Sunday October 24th, 3-4pm

 

Susan Carr, In my grandmother’s scarf, 2021, oil on canvas, 17 x 12 inches. Susan will bring this new self-portrait for her talk with Sharon on Sunday.

Sunday October 24th 3-4pm Sharon Butler in Conversation with Susan Carr

LABspace is thrilled to welcome artist, arts writer, and Two Coats of Paint founder Sharon Butler for a talk with Susan Carr this Sunday October 24th, 3-4pm They will discuss the paintings in Susan’s solo exhibition, Yonder, on view through November 14 at LABspace This talk is outdoors, free, and open to the public. We expect a sunny, brisk autumn day. We encourage visitors to dress warmly and to please bring a chair and/or blanket and join us in the LABspace courtyard. We will provide hot coffee and freshly baked pies from farm-to-table favorite, Crossroads Food Shop. Susan and Sharon will be available to meet and chat with visitors after the talk. Huge thank you to Sharon Butler, Susan Carr, Crossroads Food Shop, and to Hillsdale musician LI, who will mic the event for us. See you Sunday! XO El + Julie

Susan Carr, Strange flower, 2021, oil on wood, 22 x 12 x 3 inches. Susan will bring this new tabletop sculpture for her talk with Sharon on Sunday.

Sharon Butler in conversation with Susan Carr Sunday October 24th, 3-4pm LABspace 2642 NY Route 23, Hillsdale NY 12529

inquiries and exhibition checklist: julielabspace@gmail.com Located below Crossroads Food Shop and Hillsdale General Store Stay nearby: Sylvan Motor Lodge, Egremont Village Inn, The Alander, and Swiss Hutte Inn 17 miles east of Hudson NY • 17 miles north of Millerton NY • 11 miles west of Great Barrington MA

Susan Carr: Yonder is on view Saturdays + Sundays 1-5pm through Sunday November 14

Susan Carr, Self-portrait with turtleneck, 2021, oil on wood, 12 x 9 inches, currently on view in Yonder at LABspace.

Susan Carr attended The School of the Museum of Fine arts Boston at Tufts in 2003 with a semester at Radcliffe and achieved her MFA in Video and photography. She won the prestigious Fifth year Traveling Scholars Award at the same institution in 1995 for painting. Her bachelors award was also attained at The School of The Museum of Fine Arts Boston at Tufts in 1994. Susan works in many mediums including sculpture, painting, the written word, photography and collage. She recently published a small memoir in 2019 called Tensions, a book of prose, poetry, photography and paintings. She is also looking forward to her third solo exhibition at LABspace in Hillsdale New York called Yonder in the fall. Susan also had a successful solo exhibition at Borghi gallery in Southampton New York in the Spring of 2021. Being curious of most everything, Susan is a lifelong learner. She uses archetypes, metaphors, history, naivety and psychological ideas when pursuing her work. These motifs act like springboards for further investigation through medium and material. Susan stays grounded and has found joy through relationships with her family and children. Being a mother has been an indispensable and a vital part of her life and art practice. She has learned daily that life in its many spectrums is art. For Susan art is the totality of life, and that humility and love are crucial ingredients to making work. Art is a wonderful tool, best friend, and saving grace.

Sharon Butler, an American artist and arts writer, is widely known as the founder of Two Coats of Paint, a project which includes an influential art blog, Clubhouse conversations, a small press, and other initiatives. Her anti-heroic abstract paintings, based on daily drawings made in a phone app, are engaged with uncertainty, irresolution, and incompleteness– what, in a 2010 article in The Brooklyn Rail, she called Casualism. She has shown work nationally and internationally, including shows in New York at Theodore Gallery, Rick Wester Fine Art, a couple Art Fairs, Pocket Utopia. Upstate, she has shown with John Davis Gallery in Hudson, and Mattewan in Beacon. Over the years, she has received support from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, and the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. Sunnyside is her home, and, thanks to the generosity of the Two Trees Cultural Space Subsidy Program, her studio is down under the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridge overpasses in Brooklyn. You can catch Two Coats of Paint conversations in the Clubhouse app every Monday at 11:30 am.

Susan Carr: Yonder on view through November at LABspace

Susan Carr, I had a dream, 2021, oil on wood panel, 12 x 12 inches, please inquire for pricing details.

Susan Carr: Yonder opens Saturday, September 25th, 3-5pm

See you Saturday September 25th for Susan Carr: Yonder, a jam-packed exhibition of new paintings, painted wood constructions, ceramics, drawing, and soft sculpture. Email us to receive the full exhibition preview.

Susan Carr, Heavens above, 2021, oil on wood, 20 x 16 inches, please inquire for pricing details.

Susan Carr: Yonder Opening Reception: Saturday September 25th, 3-5pm On view Saturdays + Sundays 1-5pm through November, 2021

Susan Carr, Rainbow thoughts, 2021, glazed ceramic, 8 x 5 x 5 inches, please inquire for pricing details.

LABspace 2642 NY Route 23, Hillsdale NY 12529 inquiries and exhibition preview: julielabspace@gmail.com Located below Crossroads Food Shop and Hillsdale General Store Down the road from Sylvan Motor Lodge, Egremont Village Inn, The Alander, and Swiss Hutte Inn 17 miles east of Hudson NY • 17 miles north of Millerton NY • 11 miles west of Great Barrington MA

Susan Carr, My happy place, 2021, oil on wood, 27 x 9 x 4 inches, please inquire for pricing details.

UPSTATE ART WEEKEND HAS BEGUN! EXTENDED HOURS FRIDAY—SUNDAY 12-6. MEET GUZMAN SUNDAY 1-3!

CLICKABLE GOOGLE MAP for Upstate Art Weekend, so you can easily navigate from one space to the next! 🚗

Click image for Sara Farrell Okamura’s essay on Kurt + Courtney in Art Spiel

Click to watch our fun segment with Lara Ayad of AHA! A House for Arts on local Albany PBS station WMHT

UPSTATE ART WEEKEND STARTS TODAY! FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY AUGUST 27, 28, 29TH, 12-6PM IT’S THE CLOSING WEEKEND OF KURT + COURTNEY! COME MEET GUZMAN SUNDAY 1-3PM 🎉

Friends, it’s time! We hope to see you for UPSTATE ART WEEKEND beginning TODAY. LABspace extended hours are 12-6PM Friday through Sunday. It’s also our CLOSING WEEKEND of GUZMAN’S Kurt + Courtney. After this crazy weekend, the exhibition remains on view for ONE FINAL DAY: Monday Aug 30, by appointment. There are lots of incredible spaces within minutes of Hillsdale, check out the Clickable Google Map above, or the illustrated map below. We are number 23! MEET Connie and Russell of GUZMAN on Sunday 1-3PM. Constance Hansen and Russell Peacock will be available to say hi and answer questions about their iconic photo shoots and behind-the-scenes adventures spanning 37 years of partnership and collaboration.

GUZMAN’s Kurt + Courtney exhibition is on view through August 30. UPSTATE ART WEEKEND: EXTENDED HOURS FRI—SUN, AUG 27—29TH, 12-6PM MEET GUZMAN ON SUNDAY AUG 29TH, 1-3PM FINAL DAY: THIS MONDAY, AUGUST 30, BY APPOINTMENT LABspace 2642 NY Route 23, Hillsdale NY 12529 julielabspace@gmail.com

Located below Crossroads Food Shop and Hillsdale General Store Down the road from Sylvan Motor Lodge, Egremont Village Inn, The Alander, and Swiss Hutte Inn 17 miles east of Hudson NY • 17 miles north of Millerton NY • 11 miles west of Great Barrington MA

Guzman, Kurt Cobain with Frances Bean, Los Angeles 1992. NFS

UPSTATE ART WEEKEND! Friday—Sunday 12-6PM at LABspace

 

UPSTATE ART WEEKEND IS HERE THIS FRIDAY + SATURDAY + SUNDAY AUG 27 + 28 + 29TH, 12-6PM IT’S ALSO THE CLOSING WEEKEND OF KURT + COURTNEY! COME MEET GUZMAN  SUNDAY 1-3PM 👋

Friends! Join our corner of the upstate art universe for UPSTATE ART WEEKEND this Friday through Sunday, 12-6PM! It’s CLOSING WEEKEND of GUZMAN’S Kurt + Courtney. After this weekend, the exhibition remains on view for ONE FINAL DAY: Monday Aug 30, by appointment. There are several wonderful spaces within minutes of Hillsdale, check out the circled section of our map— we are number 23! ❤️ MEET Connie and Russell of GUZMAN on Sunday 1-3PM.  Constance Hansen and Russell Peacock will be available to say hi and answer questions about their iconic photo shoots and behind-the-scenes adventures spanning 37 years of partnership and collaboration. They have the best stories. AND— Don’t miss 500 extraordinary watercolor portraits by Brenda Zlamany at The Re Institute (Millerton’s must-see art barn on a farm), a 15-min drive from LABspace. PLUS you can schedule ahead for Brenda to paint your portrait this weekend only. A few appointments are still available via TheReInstitute@gmail.com.

Constance Hansen and Russell Peacock of GUZMAN will chat with you this Sunday Aug 29th 1-3pm at LABspace. Photo courtesy Oskar Peacock.

Brenda Zlamany at The Re Institute, Millerton NY— Henry Klimowicz’s beloved artist-run space. 15 minutes from LABspace off Route 22. Number 52 on the map. Photo courtesy The Re Institute.

See you upstate this weekend! xo Julie + Ellen + Connie + Russell

GUZMAN’s Kurt + Courtney exhibition is on view through August 30. UPSTATE ART WEEKEND: EXTENDED HOURS THIS FRI + SAT + SUN, AUG 27 + 28 + 29TH, 12-6PM MEET GUZMAN ON SUNDAY AUG 29TH, 1-3PM FINAL DAY: THIS MONDAY, AUGUST 30, BY APPOINTMENT LABspace 2642 NY Route 23, Hillsdale NY 12529 julielabspace@gmail.com

Located below Crossroads Food Shop and Hillsdale General Store Down the road from Sylvan Motor Lodge, Egremont Village Inn, The Alander, and Swiss Hutte Inn 17 miles east of Hudson NY • 17 miles north of Millerton NY • 11 miles west of Great Barrington MA

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Join us for a TALK with GUZMAN on Saturday August 14th, 3PM

 

Connie Hansen and Russell Peacock of photography duo GUZMAN will share behind-the-scenes stories of their Kurt + Courtney photo shoot and 37-year career Saturday August 14 at LABspace. Photo courtesy Oskar Peacock.

Come hear the stories behind the images  SAT AUG 14TH at 3PM  with GUZMAN 📸

Join us for a candid conversation with Connie and Russell of GUZMAN, chronicling their iconic photo shoots and behind-the-scenes adventures spanning 37 years of partnership and collaboration. Constance Hansen and Russell Peacock will speak freely with us, and answer visitor questions about their work.  Please feel free to bring a blanket or chair and join us in the garden for what promises to be a special afternoon.

Constance Hansen with visitors at GUZMAN’s exhibition at LABspace. Photo courtesy Oskar Peacock.

Russell Peacock at the opening of GUZMAN’s current exhibition at LABspace. Photo courtesy Oskar Peacock.

TALK with GUZMAN SAT AUG 14TH, 3PM LABspace 2642 NY Route 23, Hillsdale NY 12529 GUZMAN’s Kurt + Courtney exhibition is on view through August 30 Gallery Hours: Saturdays + Sundays 1-5pm, and by appointment

UPSTATE ART WEEKEND: FRI-SUN, AUG 27-29, 12-6PM Located below Crossroads Food Shop and Hillsdale General Store Down the road from Sylvan Motor Lodge, Egremont Village Inn, The Alander, and Swiss Hutte Inn 17 miles east of Hudson NY • 17 miles north of Millerton NY • 11 miles west of Great Barrington MA julielabspace@gmail.com for inquiries

Guzman, Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love & Frances Bean, Los Angeles 1992, 15 Polaroids, Type 665, 13 x 16.25 inches, framed, NFS. Currently on view in Kurt + Courtney at LABspace through August.