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.