GUZMAN: Family/Values, May 4-June 30, 2024

GUZMAN, Woodheads, limited edition archival inkjet print. On view in Family/Values, opening this Saturday May 4. Inquiries: julielabspace@gmail.com. Full exhibition checklist here.

SATURDAY MAY 4 1-5PM Opening Reception GUZMAN: Family/Values Recent Photos and Kurt + Courtney

Advance copy of Family Values, snapshot courtesy GUZMAN. Book Signing at LABspace on Closing Day, SUNDAY JUNE 30th at 2PM. Pre-order here.

Hello friends! Please join us Saturday May 4th, 1-5pm for the Opening Reception of GUZMAN: Family/Values! We are excited for GUZMAN’s return to LABspace with a new exhibition of recent photographs in Gallery One Gallery Two will showcase outtakes from their famed 1992 Kurt + Courtney photo shoot for Spin magazine. These photographs will be available to purchase for the first time, at LABspace GUZMAN’s photobook of the rare Kurt + Courtney images, Family Values, comes out in June via powerHouse Books and Simon & Schuster. Forward written by Michael Azerrad Book Signing at LABspace on Closing Day: SUNDAY JUNE 30 at 2PM! We’ll have limited books available for purchase at the gallery, and you are welcome to bring your own copy Please also check out GUZMAN's feature in Upstate Diary Issue 18 Of their recent work, to be exhibited in Gallery One, GUZMAN write: Rather than confronting our thoughts and ideas directly, we choose to look at things a bit more obliquely. This approach can raise more questions than answers, and that is our preferred mode of working. We are two photographers who examine the state of the world with a sideways glance. Thank you Connie and Russell! See you here soon! XO Ellen + Julie

Advance copy of Family Values snapshot courtesy GUZMAN. Book Signing at LABspace on Closing Day, SUNDAY JUNE 30th at 2PM. Pre-order here.

GUZMAN: Family/Values  Recent Photos and Kurt + Courtney May 4-June 30, 2024 Saturdays + Sundays 1-5pm GUZMAN Family Values Book Signing at LABspace on Closing Day, SUNDAY JUNE 30th at 2PM GUZMAN featured in Upstate Diary Issue 18

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 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 sixth year of programming since taking the reins, thanks to all of you and SJ!

CLOSING WEEKEND of TWO SOLO SHOWS

2PM SUNDAY: Closing Day Conversation with Pearl Cowan and Jaqueline Cedar of Good Naked. Pearl Cowan, Don’t Wake Her Up… Not Yet, 2024, watercolor on paper, 9 x 11 inches, courtesy Good Naked. Inquiries: julielabspace@gmail.com. Exhibition checklist.

1-5PM SATURDAY Pre-Closing Party with SUSAN STILL SCOTT Solo Exhibition Arrows in my Quiver remains on view through Sunday 🌿 2PM SUNDAY PEARL COWAN in conversation with JAQUELINE CEDAR of GOOD NAKED Closing Day of Solo Exhibition Metamorphosis

1-5PM SATURDAY: Pre-Closing Party with Susan Still Scott. Exhibition remains on view Sunday 1-5pm. Susan Still Scott, Collaboration, 2024, acrylic and vinyl paint, acrylic polymer, canvas, florist’s tape, staples, wood, 11 x 11 x 1 inches. Inquiries: julielabspace@gmail.com. Exhibition checklist.

Hello friends! See you here CLOSING WEEKEND of both shows on view 1-5PM SATURDAY: Pre-Closing Party with artist Susan Still Scott to celebrate the final weekend of her solo exhibition, Arrows in my Quiver 2PM SUNDAY:  Closing Day Conversation with artist Pearl Cowan, and Jaqueline Cedar of Good Naked, to discuss the work on view in Pearl’s solo exhibition, Metamorphosis THANK YOU Susan, Pearl and Jaqueline! ❤️ Thank you also to Meg Hitchcock for her conversation with Pearl Cowan on her art blog, In Their Studios We will miss both of these shows so much See you here Saturday + Sunday! XO Ellen + Julie

Join us on Closing Day, THIS SUNDAY at 2PM, for a conversation with Pearl Cowan and Jaqueline Cedar of Good Naked gallery about Pearl’s solo exhibition, Metamorphosis.

CLOSING WEEKEND 1-5PM SATURDAY, APRIL 27 PRE-CLOSING PARTY WITH SUSAN STILL SCOTT exhibition remains on view for Closing Day, Sunday April 28, 1-5pm 2PM SUNDAY, APRIL 28 CLOSING DAY CONVERSATION with PEARL COWAN and JAQUELINE CEDAR of GOOD NAKED exhibition on view both days: Saturday + Sunday 1-5pm Coffee and Baked Goods from Cook & Larder all weekend Sound and Pre-Event Music on Sunday by LI

LABspace 2642 NY Route 23, Hillsdale NY 12529 julielabspace@gmail.com 917-749-2857 Pearl Cowan in Conversation with Meg Hitchcock on In Their Studios 10 Exhibitions To See In Upstate New York on Hyperallergic, by Taliesin Thomas Hudson Valley Selected Gallery Guide on Two Coats of Paint, by Karlyn Benson

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. We are now celebrating our sixth year of programming since taking the reins, thanks to all of you and SJ!

Pearl Cowan in Conversation with Jaqueline Cedar at LABspace, Sunday April 28th, 2pm

Join us on Closing Day, NEXT SUNDAY APRIL 28 at 2PM, for a conversation with Pearl Cowan and Jaqueline Cedar of Good Naked about Pearl’s solo exhibition, Metamorphosis.

BOTH SOLO SHOWS ON VIEW TODAY 1-5PM 🌼 PEARL COWAN in conversation with JAQUELINE CEDAR of GOOD NAKED NEXT SUNDAY APRIL 28 2PM 📣

Click to read this wonderful and insightful conversation with Pearl Cowan, in Meg Hitchcock’s Art Blog Interview Series, In Their Studios. Thank you Pearl and Meg for this incredible read!

Hello friends! We look forward to seeing you Today 1-5pm for Pearl Cowan's and Susan Still Scott’s simultaneous solo exhibitions Please join us NEXT SUNDAY APRIL 28 at 2PM for a Closing Day Conversation with solo artist Pearl Cowan, and Jaqueline Cedar of Good Naked! Pearl and Jaqueline will discuss the work on view in Pearl’s solo exhibition, Metamorphosis, on the final day of the show THANK YOU Pearl and Jaqueline, we can’t wait! ❤️ Thank you also to Meg Hitchcock for her captivating conversation with Pearl in her Art Blog Interview Series, In Their Studios. It is a remarkably moving and illuminating talk. See you here 1-5 Today, and next weekend for the FINAL 2 DAYS of our two solo shows! XO Ellen + Julie

Join us on Closing Day, NEXT SUNDAY APRIL 28 at 2PM, for a conversation with Pearl Cowan and Jaqueline Cedar of Good Naked about Pearl Cowan’s solo exhibition, Metamorphosis. Installation view capturing both solo shows courtesy Alon Koppel Photography.

Pearl Cowan was born in 1982 in Temple, Texas. She attended The University of Texas at San Antonio where she earned a BFA in 2006. She has participated in recent exhibitions at Simuvac Projects, Brooklyn NY; Gray Contemporary, Houston TX; Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn NY; the Parlour Bushwick, Brooklyn NY; c2c projects, San Francisco CA; Ventana 244, Brooklyn NY; TSA New York, Brooklyn NY, LABspace, Hillsdale NY, and Drive-By Projects, Watertown MA. She lives and works in Brookline MA. Her work is represented by Good Naked, Brooklyn NY. Pearl Cowan: Metamorphosis exhibition checklist

Jaqueline Cedar was born in Los Angeles, CA and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. In 2009 she received an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University. Recent and upcoming exhibitions include Serious Topics, Los Angeles (2024), Shelter Gallery, New York (2023), Tappeto Volante, Brooklyn (2023), Long Story Short, New York (2023), Shin Haus, New York (2022), Smoke the Moon, Santa Fe (2022), Ladies' Room, Los Angeles (2021), 11 Newel, Brooklyn (2021), Peripheral Space, Los Angeles (2021), Hesse Flatow, New York (2020), Drawer NYC (2020), Field Projects, New York (2020), Underdonk, Brooklyn (2018), and David Risley Gallery Velvet Ropes, Copenhagen (2018). Press includes Artnet, Hyperallergic, Huffington Post, Two Coats of Paint, New American Paintings, Gorky's Granddaughter, Painters' Table, and The Boston Globe. Cedar's paintings and drawings address uncanny scenarios where characters engage themselves and one another with sincerity and purpose. Moments of desire, self-reflection, and lack of control motivate postures filled with bravado and vulnerability. In October 2019 Cedar launched the curatorial exhibition program Good Naked Gallery. Projects hover around the intimate and awkward with a focus on work that engages tactility, humor, movement, and play.

CLOSING DAY NEXT SUNDAY APRIL 28TH, 2PM   ARTIST TALK with PEARL COWAN and JAQUELINE CEDAR of GOOD NAKED Coffee and Baked Goods from Cook & Larder Sound and Pre-Event Music by LI

LABspace 2642 NY Route 23, Hillsdale NY 12529 julielabspace@gmail.com 917-749-2857 10 Exhibitions To See In Upstate New York on Hyperallergic, by Taliesin Thomas Hudson Valley Selected Gallery Guide on Two Coats of Paint, by Karlyn Benson

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. We are now celebrating our sixth year of programming since taking the reins, thanks to all of you and SJ!

Susan Still Scott in Conversation with Kianga Ellis at LABspace, Saturday April 20th, 1pm

Join us This Saturday, April 20th at 1pm for a conversation with Susan Still Scott and Kianga Ellis about Susan’s solo exhibition, Arrows in my Quiver.

ARTIST TALK THIS SATURDAY APRIL 20 1PM 🎙️ SUSAN STILL SCOTT in conversation with KIANGA ELLIS

Join us This Saturday, April 20th at 1pm for a conversation with Susan Still Scott and Kianga Ellis of Kianga Ellis Projects.

Hello friends, Please join us This Saturday April 20th at 1pm for a conversation in the LABspace courtyard with solo artist Susan Still Scott, and guest speaker Kianga Ellis of Kianga Ellis Projects! We are thrilled for Susan and Kianga to discuss the work on view in Susan’s solo exhibition, Arrows in my Quiver See you here 1pm Saturday for a lively outdoor conversation, and freshly baked muffins + coffee courtesy Cook & Larder THANK YOU Susan Still Scott and Kianga Ellis! Please stay tuned for an upcoming talk with solo artist Pearl Cowan, details to be announced soon! XO Ellen + Julie

Susan Still Scott, Seated Painting, 2022, oil, acrylic and vinyl paint, rabbit skin glue, canvas, wood, maple veneer, staples, 16 x 8.5 x 8 inches. On view in Arrows in my Quiver through April 28. Inquiries: julielabspace@gmail.com. Full checklist here.

Rooted in the tradition of abstract painting, Susan Still Scott makes constructed paintings that explore how materials communicate, and how formal relationships develop into narratives. Urgency is expressed in quick repairs, ripped edges, and parts that do not quite meet. Colorful exteriors belie an undercurrent of anxiety by reanimating used, neglected or otherwise damaged materials. Structures are covered and revealed by layers of paint, tape and cloth. Scott posits that the presence of a painted object is felt within the body. Through her work, she reflects the contradictory emotional and physical states that shape our lives and decisions. Susan Still Scott was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and currently lives and works in the Hudson Valley, New York. She has a Bachelors of Fine Art from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and attended Tyler School of Art in Rome, Italy. Scott received a Masters of Fine Art from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. Scott’s first solo exhibition in New York City was at Heskin Contemporary in 2011, entitled Corporeality and Other Things of Grace and Beauty. The title references her ongoing visual play with materials combined with carefully considered responses to modern painterly abstraction. She has exhibited throughout the United States and in Europe. Recently she has shown at several galleries and arts organizations in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and New York. She is the recipient of residency fellowships at Yaddo and The MacDowell Colony. Susan Still Scott: Arrows in my Quiver exhibition checklist

Kianga Ellis, of Kianga Ellis Projects, is an Art Evangelist and creator of the Harbinger Art Trust. We met Kianga 15 years ago in the early days of the Bushwick art scene. It has been wonderful to reconnect with her in the Hudson Valley this past year, and we are thrilled to welcome Kianga for her first talk at LABspace.

SATURDAY APRIL 20TH, 1PM ARTIST TALK WITH SUSAN STILL SCOTT AND KIANGA ELLIS

LABspace 2642 NY Route 23, Hillsdale NY 12529 julielabspace@gmail.com 917-749-2857 10 Exhibitions To See In Upstate New York on Hyperallergic, by Taliesin Thomas Hudson Valley Selected Gallery Guide on Two Coats of Paint, by Karlyn Benson

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. We are now celebrating our sixth year of programming since taking the reins, thanks to all of you and SJ!