MARCH 2: Allyson Mellberg Taylor + Jeremy Seth Taylor

Allyson Mellberg Taylor and Jeremy Seth Taylor, Don't Stand So Close To Me, 2023, egg tempera and homemade watercolor and ink on paper, 14 x 11 inches. On view in One Day All Of This Will Be Yours, opening March 2.

SAVE THE DATE! Saturday March 2 1-5pm Allyson Mellberg Taylor + Jeremy Seth Taylor: One Day All Of This Will Be Yours 🐇

Hello friends, Please SAVE THE DATE for our March show! Join us on Saturday March 2nd, 1-5pm for the Opening Reception of One Day All Of This Will Be Yours, a two-person exhibition of new drawings and embroidered works from Allyson Mellberg Taylor and Jeremy Seth Taylor We can’t wait to share this work with you in two weeks In the meantime, HOLIDAY artwork pickups continue TODAY through WEDNESDAY, 2-6PM We are closed this weekend to travel to Charlottesville VA to visit with Allyson and Jeremy, and to bring their artwork back to the Hudson Valley We look forward to seeing you here soon! XO Julie + Ellen

HOLIDAY artwork pickups TODAY through WEDNESDAY: TODAY, MONDAY FEB 19TH, 2-6PM TOMORROW, TUESDAY FEB 20TH, 2-6PM WEDNESDAY FEB 21ST, 2-6PM Please note: WE ARE CLOSED THIS WEEKEND, SATURDAY FEBRUARY 24 + SUNDAY FEBRUARY 25

Allyson Mellberg Taylor, Bess Rider, 2024, egg tempera and homemade watercolor and ink on paper, 14 x 11 inches. On view in One Day All Of This Will Be Yours, opening March 2.

“No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.” Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

Allyson Mellberg Taylor and Jeremy Seth Taylor write: “One Day All Of This Will Be Yours” is an idea that is simultaneously ominous and optimistic. Building on our previous works, we explore a fascination and fraught relationship with nature and question our effect on the earth as humans. The insidious amount of waste and pollution generated in a capitalist culture humbles us as we push back against the relentless bombardment and challenge that over-consumption creates in our world. The human body as an embattled organism appears out of scale with elements of nature and animals, as a way to express vulnerability and humility. Physical struggle, revenge fantasies, dreamscape imagery, visualizations, all come together to create a personal symbolism when dealing with themes of chronic and environmental illness and oppressive external forces. We are continually recycling, foraging, growing food and artist materials, in an effort to leave a smaller footprint. However, there is an ever-present system surrounding us that challenges our efforts to heal and regenerate the soil and spaces around us. In our work we engage in visions of remediation and connection to ecosystems, and how we interact with nature. Allyson Mellberg Taylor is a drawer, painter, printmaker, sculptor, organic vegetable and pigment gardener, zine/artist book maker, science-fiction lover, and Art Professor at James Madison University based in Charlottesville, Virginia. Allyson’s work is rooted in dystopic sci-fi and the lovely/uncomfortable space we humans attempt to occupy in nature. She has exhibited her work extensively at the regional, national, and international levels in exhibitions at LABspace, SEPTEMBER, The Drawing Now Exhibition in Paris at the Carousel Du Louvre, The Outsider Art Fair with Galerie LJ in NYC/Paris, The Museo De Arte Contemporaneo De Monterrey, in Monterrey, Mexico, the Milwaukee Art Museum, The Bemis Center in Omaha, NE, The Fralin Art Museum at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA, SECCA in Winston Salem, NC, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Atlanta, GA, and Third Drawer Down in Victoria, Australia.  Allyson’s work has been featured in Juxtapoz, Hi-Fructose, Venus, Frankie, and Bust Magazines. Allyson has worked with the collective groups Booklyn (NYC), Cinders Gallery, and Team Lump (Raleigh). Jeremy Seth Taylor is a Charlottesville based painter, printmaker, designer, bio-intensive gardener, and Assistant Professor of Art at PVCC. His work is built from a strong reverence for animals and nature. Jeremy uses traditional forms that are reminiscent of Japanese block printing, children's book illustrations, comic books, and Flemish engravings. His work finds the space where these illustrative formats converge to slur ideas of innocence and experience; where fantasy merges with ominous realism. Jeremy received an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has exhibited his works at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), The Rose Museum in Boston, The Atlanta Contemporary Art Museum, La Maison Rouge in Paris, Booklyn in NYC, The Bemis Center, LABspace, Cinders Gallery, and at LUMP Gallery in NC.

Allyson Mellberg Taylor + Jeremy Seth Taylor: One Day All Of This Will Be Yours New drawings and embroidered works March 2-31, 2024 Opening Reception: Saturday March 2nd, 1-5pm On view Saturdays + Sundays 1-5pm and by appt

LABspace 2642 NY Route 23, Hillsdale NY 12529 Inquiries: julielabspace@gmail.com Full exhibition checklist coming soon

LABspace is located below Hillsdale General Store, and Cook & Larder 17 miles east of Hudson NY • 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. This April, we will celebrate our sixth year of programming since taking the reins, thanks to all of you and to SJ!