John Yau in Conversation with Christina Tenaglia and Adrian Meraz: Saturday August 24 at 2pm

Please join us Saturday August 24 at 2pm for a Conversation with John Yau and artists Christina Tenaglia and Adrian Meraz to discuss 2 person exhibition, Elevation. Left: Christina Tenaglia and Adrian Meraz, photo courtesy of River Valley Arts Collective. Right: John Yau, photo courtesy John Yau.

John Yau Christina Tenaglia Adrian Meraz 🎤 In Conversation This Saturday August 24 2pm

Hello friends! Thank you for a wonderful opening weekend of Christina Tenaglia’s and Adrian Meraz’s two person exhibition, Elevation  Please join us This Saturday August 24 at 2pmto welcome our guest John Yau, who will lead a conversation with Christina Tenaglia and Adrian Meraz about their work The talk will be held in our courtyard, with baked goods and iced coffee courtesy Cook & Larder. Sound/music by LI If you are local, you may wish to bring a lawn chair in case we run out of seats Huge thank you to John Yau, Christina Tenagliaand Adrian Meraz We can’t wait, see you 2pm Saturday! XO Ellen and Julie

Elevation / Christina Tenaglia / Adrian Meraz, installation view courtesy Christina Tenaglia. Inquiries: julielabspace@gmail.com. Full exhibition checklist.

John Yau is a poet and art critic who has been publishing art since 1978. After serving as the arts editor of The Brooklyn Rail (2007-11), he began writing regularly for Hyperallergic in 2012. He was the recipient of the 2018 Jackson Poetry Prize. In 2021, Yau was awarded the Rabkin Prize for excellence in visual arts journalism. His books of art criticism include In the Realm of Appearances: The Art of Andy Warhol and A Thing Among Things: The Art of Jasper Johns, as well as monographs on Wifredo Lam, Thomas Nozkowski, Joe Brainard, Catherine Murphy, A.R. Penck, Richard Artschwager, Pat Steir, Liu Xiaodong, and Kim Tschang-yeul. Christina Tenaglia (b. Philadelphia, PA) is an artist living and working in Saugerties, New York. She received an MFA from Yale School of Art and was awarded fellowships for residencies at MacDowell, I-Park, and Catwalk. She is a recipient of the W.K. Rose Fellowship in the Creative Arts, a NJ State Arts Council Fellowship Award for Sculpture, and a purchase award grant from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in New York and elsewhere, including Thomas Park Gallery, New York and Seoul; the Al Held Foundation, Boiceville, NY with River Valley Arts Collective; NADA x Foreland, Catskill, NY with Heroes Gallery; Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY; Hesse Flatow, New York; LABspace, Hillsdale, NY; Tappeto Volante Gallery, Brooklyn; Collar Works, Troy, NY; Opalka Gallery, Albany; NY, Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, Tivoli, NY; Fridman Gallery, Beacon, NY; The Samuel Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, NY; Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY; and the Newark Museum, Newark, NJ among others. She has been reviewed and profiled in Hyperallergic, the Brooklyn Rail, Chronogram, Two Coats of Paint and other publications. Adrian Meraz (b. Los Angeles, CA), is a New York artist based in Saugerties. Meraz has had solo exhibitions at Black Ball Projects: Viewing Room, Santa Monica Museum of Art, and Leo Koenig (2-person). His work has also been in several group exhibitions including LABspace, Collar Works, Opalka Gallery, and 601Artspace. Meraz received a BFA from the Otis College of Art and Design and an MFA from Yale University, School of Art/Sculpture. He was awarded the California Community Fellowship Foundation Grant.

Elevation / Christina Tenaglia / Adrian Meraz Saturday and Sunday 1-5pm through September 29 John Yau in Conversation with Christina Tenaglia and Adrian Meraz: Saturday August 24 at 2pm LABspace 2642 NY Route 23, Hillsdale NY 12529 917-749-2857 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. In April 2024, we celebrated our sixth year of programming since taking the reins, thanks to all of you and to SJ.

Elevation / Christina Tenaglia / Adrian Meraz / Saturday August 17

Christina Tenaglia / Adrian Meraz, Untitled (shelf #4), 2024, wood, paint, metal, screws, 12 ¼ x 11 x 7”. On view in Elevation, opening Saturday 1-5pm. Exhibition preview by request.

Elevation Christina Tenaglia Adrian Meraz Opening Reception Saturday 1-5pm

Hello friends! We can’t wait to see you This Saturday, August 17th, 1-5pm for the Opening Reception of two person exhibition: Elevation / Christina Tenaglia / Adrian Meraz Please also SAVE-THE-DATE for a conversation with the artists led by John Yau, next Saturday August 24 at 2pm  Exhibition on view Saturdays and Sundays 1-5pm through September 29 Thank you Christina Tenaglia and Adrian Merazfor this incredible work See you here Saturday! XO Ellen and Julie

Thank you Karlyn Benson and Two Coats of Paint for featuring this work in your Hudson Valley Selected Gallery Guide for August. Adrian Meraz, warp/brown formation, 2024, wood, paint, screws, 11 ¼ x 15 x 1 ¾”. Inquiries: julielabspace@gmail.com.

Elevation / Christina Tenaglia / Adrian Meraz In their first two person show together, Adrian Meraz and Christina Tenaglia work separately and together, integrating ideas of influence, of commingling; and of entanglement. Acknowledging the inevitable transference that enters a shared studio space, Meraz and Tenaglia highlight the use of collaboration as an additional conversation and shared space within their practice. The work in this exhibition is loosely structured around the ‘shelf’ as site and as a collection machine. These collaborations are versions of place, each one a microcosm, whereas to transmit, alter, expand, reference, trick and play with the language of each other. Appendix (notations on a shelf): Shelves as carriers, as holding places. As sites for intermingling, for mixing unlike and like, for storytelling, as paragraphs and lists, support structures, tools. Shelves as open baskets, as outward hands, as way stations.  As platforms, as a stage, a performance, an arrangement.  As memory. A table, a bench, a shelf, an incident, a perch, a plank, a receptacle, a site as an invitation device.

Christina Tenaglia (b. Philadelphia, PA) is an artist living and working in Saugerties, New York. She received an MFA from Yale School of Art and was awarded fellowships for residencies at MacDowell, I-Park, and Catwalk. She is a recipient of the W.K. Rose Fellowship in the Creative Arts, a NJ State Arts Council Fellowship Award for Sculpture, and a purchase award grant from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in New York and elsewhere, including Thomas Park Gallery, New York and Seoul; the Al Held Foundation, Boiceville, NY with River Valley Arts Collective; NADA x Foreland, Catskill, NY with Heroes Gallery; Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY; Hesse Flatow, New York; LABspace, Hillsdale, NY; Tappeto Volante Gallery, Brooklyn; Collar Works, Troy, NY; Opalka Gallery, Albany; NY, Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, Tivoli, NY; Fridman Gallery, Beacon, NY; The Samuel Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, NY; Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY; and the Newark Museum, Newark, NJ among others. She has been reviewed and profiled in Hyperallergic, the Brooklyn Rail, Chronogram, Two Coats of Paint and other publications. Adrian Meraz (b. Los Angeles, CA), is a New York artist based in Saugerties. Meraz has had solo exhibitions at Black Ball Projects: Viewing Room, Santa Monica Museum of Art, and Leo Koenig (2-person). His work has also been in several group exhibitions including LABspace, Collar Works, Opalka Gallery, and 601Artspace. Meraz received a BFA from the Otis College of Art and Design and an MFA from Yale University, School of Art/Sculpture. He was awarded the California Community Fellowship Foundation Grant.

LABspace 2642 NY Route 23, Hillsdale NY 12529 917-749-2857 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. In April 2024, we celebrated our sixth year of programming since taking the reins, thanks to all of you and to SJ.

Pauline Decarmo Closing Party and Save-the-Date

Pauline Decarmo, spaces, 2024, acrylic on wood panel, 24 x 24 inches. Image courtesy Thomas Cawson. Exhibition Checklist. Inquiries: julielabspace@gmail.com.

Last Chance! PAULINE DECARMO: ins and outs and ups and downs 🥊 Extended Hours for Hillsdale Arts Walk Saturday 10am-5pm 🎉 Closing Party  with Pauline Decarmo Sunday 1-5pm

Hello friends, We look forward to seeing you here for the FINAL WEEKEND of Pauline Decarmo: ins and outs and ups and downs! Extended Hours Saturday: 10am-5pm for Hillsdale Arts Walk Closing Party with Pauline Decarmo: Sunday 1-5pm Thank you to Taliesin Thomas of Hyperallergic, Sara Farrell Okamura of Art Spiel and Karlyn Benson of Two Coats of Paint for recommending Pauline Decarmo’s solo exhibition as a show to see   HUGE THANK YOU to Pauline Decarmo for this extraordinary work See you this weekend! XO Ellen + Julie

Christina Tenaglia / Adrian Meraz, Untitled (shelf #1), 2024, wood, spoon parts, paint, metal, nails, screws, 15 ½ x 11 x 3 ½. On view in Elevation, opening August 17. Exhibition preview: julielabspace@gmail.com.

SAVE-THESE-DATES for upcoming two person exhibition: Elevation / Christina Tenaglia / Adrian Meraz Opening Reception with the artists: Saturday August 17th, 1-5pm John Yau in Conversation with Christina Tenaglia and Adrian Meraz: Saturday August 24 at 2pm Read more about the exhibition below We can’t wait, thank you Christina Tenaglia and Adrian Meraz!

Elevation / Christina Tenaglia / Adrian Meraz In their first two person show together, Adrian Meraz and Christina Tenaglia work separately and together, integrating ideas of influence, of commingling; and of entanglement. Acknowledging the inevitable transference that enters a shared studio space, Meraz and Tenaglia highlight the use of collaboration as an additional conversation and shared space within their practice. The work in this exhibition is loosely structured around the ‘shelf’ as site and as a collection machine. These collaborations are versions of place, each one a microcosm, whereas to transmit, alter, expand, reference, trick and play with the language of each other. Appendix (notations on a shelf): Shelves as carriers, as holding places. As sites for intermingling, for mixing unlike and like, for storytelling, as paragraphs and lists, support structures, tools. Shelves as open baskets, as outward hands, as way stations.  As platforms, as a stage, a performance, an arrangement.  As memory. A table, a bench, a shelf, an incident, a perch, a plank, a receptacle, a site as an invitation device.

LABspace 2642 NY Route 23, Hillsdale NY 12529 917-749-2857 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. In April 2024, we celebrated our sixth year of programming since taking the reins, thanks to all of you and to SJ.

Closing Party with Pauline Decarmo: Sunday August 11th, 1-5pm

Thank you Taliesin Thomas for including Pauline Decarmo’s solo exhibition in 8 Shows to See in Upstate New York on Hyperallergic.

Final 2 Weekends! 🏃🏻‍♀️ Closing Party Sunday August 11 1-5pm 🎉 PAULINE DECARMO: ins and outs and ups and downs  Saturdays + Sundays  1-5pm  through August 11  🥊

Hello friends! See you these FINAL 2 WEEKENDS of Pauline Decarmo: ins and outs and ups and downs Closing Party with Pauline Decarmo: Next Sunday August 11th, 1-5pm Thank you to Taliesin Thomas of Hyperallergic, Sara Farrell Okamura of Art Spiel and Karlyn Benson of Two Coats of Paint for recommending Pauline Decarmo’s solo exhibition as a Hudson Valley show to see before it closes  HUGE THANK YOU to Pauline Decarmo for this extraordinary work Read more about the exhibition below  Thank you everyone! See you here SOON, XO Ellen + Julie

Installation view of Pauline Decarmo: ins and outs and ups and downs, courtesy Kristen Palazzo. Exhibition Checklist. Inquiries: julielabspace@gmail.com.

ins and outs and ups and downs: As Hudson NY artist Pauline Decarmo began work for her second solo exhibition at LABspace, she experienced a severe flare up of chronic lymphedema, a result of cancer treatment in late 2017. This painful condition makes it impossible for Pauline to paint with her dominant hand. Fearing that she would have to postpone the show indefinitely, Pauline set out to paint the entire exhibition with her left hand. She had attempted this method of working for about three months in early 2018, while healing from a mastectomy. The resulting work is powerful, life affirming and triumphant. Pauline Decarmo has created a suite of paintings that spans the breadth of human emotion. Of this new body of work, Pauline writes: These paintings are self portraits. But they can also be a portrait of anyone— Perhaps the viewer.

Installation view of Pauline Decarmo: ins and outs and ups and downs, courtesy Kristen Palazzo. Exhibition Checklist. Inquiries: julielabspace@gmail.com.

Born in Guyana, South America and raised in Queens NY, Pauline Decarmo has lived and worked as an artist in Hudson NY for 13 years. Decarmo has exhibited with John Davis Gallery, Hudson Eye, Window on Hudson, LABspace, Circle 46 Gallery, Hudson Milliner Art Salon, Time & Space Limited, and she has participated in Hudson Open Studios and Hudson’s efforts to support Black Lives Matter.  Pauline Decarmo’s artwork was featured on the cover of July 2020’s Chronogram Magazine. She has received generous support from CREATE Council on the Arts, the 405 Project, the Heart Hudson Award, and she was selected for a residency in Rome Italy through the Rome Art Program Scholarship. Decarmo earned her BFA at Parsons School of Design and her BA at City College of New York. She currently teaches painting and drawing at City College.   Pauline Decarmo writes, I’m motivated to create art by things that move me, thrill me, and anger me. I look forward to continuing to support and promote creativity and culture in the Hudson Valley.

Pauline Decarmo:  ins and outs and ups and downs Solo Exhibition Saturday and Sunday 1-5pm through August 11 Closing Party with Pauline Decarmo: NEXT SUNDAY, AUGUST 11TH, 1-5PM Exhibition Checklist

LABspace 2642 NY Route 23, Hillsdale NY 12529 917-749-2857 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. In April 2024, we celebrated our sixth year of programming since taking the reins, thanks to all of you and to SJ.