Tuesday, August 20, 2024

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, ElevationLeft: 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


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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 YauChristina Tenagliaand Adrian Meraz

We can’t wait, see you 2pm Saturday!


XO Ellen and Julie



Christina Tenaglia, Untitled, 2024, stoneware, glaze, screws, 3 ½ x 3 ½ x 4 ½“

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



Elevation / Christina Tenaglia / Adrian Meraz



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.

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