(hi)story labor(atory)

the (hi)story labor(atory) experiment concludes 12am August 1st

Thanks everyone for participating in and attending our exhibitions and performances.

 

Happy Lughnasadh!

Rachael Downing now on view at (hi)story labor(atory)!

Mixed media works by Rachael Downing now on view in the apothecary gallery. Melora Kuhn, Kahn/Selesnick and Julio Mosso remain on view through July 31.

Come visit (hi)story labor(atory) installations at NADA July 30-31!

http://newartdealers.org/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Melora Kuhn, "PASSAGES" opening SAT 7/2 6-8!

SATURDAY JULY 2, 6-8 pm

(hi)story labor(atory)

624 Warren street

hudson new york

 

MELORA KUHN: PASSAGES

paintings, works on paper, sculpture & installation

 

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MELORA KUHN

 

 

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Kuhn studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and received her Bachelor’s Degree of Fine Arts in 1994. She also studied painting in Florence. Her work has been shown in Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Munich, Finland, Florence and most recently Seoul, Korea. She lives and works in Germantown, New York.

 

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join (hi)story labor(atory)!

Retail store/gallery in Hudson, NY is open for a rent share/cooperation beginning August 1, 2011.

Collaborative and cooperative enterprise with different emphasis on 6-month cycles. Vilma Mare pays full rent August through December 2011, and you pay the full rent January - July 2012. You are fully responsible for the space and its opening hours January - July; the first 6 months of the term, you can introduce and sell your fall - winter production on consignment, or otherwise be involved in the shper mutual discussion, starting August 1, 2011. Rent is $1400 a month + wi-fi access, - electricity. 1200 square feet.'  Required 1st month deposit by July 1, 2011.

624 Warren st. Hudson, NY, 12516 current name is (hi)story labor(atory), a collaborative space contributing to the regional economy.  PLS. CONTACT: Vilma Mare vilmare@gmail.com 518 329 6414

(hi)story labor(atory) is in Hudson, NY

624 Warren Street

(at the corner of 7th Street)

Hudson, NY 12534

 

regular visiting hours: Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday 12-6

 

LOOKING FOR ANSWERS? TAROT INSIGHTS! frequently on weekends this summer

Next weekend: Friday-Saturday-Sunday, 1-6

Opening & Performance FRIDAY, JUNE 3

(RE)CREATION

- Paintings by Doug Padgett

-Multimedia installation & performances by Black Lake

FRIDAY, June 3^rd

Opening Reception, 6-8pm

Performance-Black Lake, 7:30pm 

— (hi)story labor(atory) is pleased to present the work of Douglas Padgett and Black Lake (Slink Moss and Susan Jennings) in (RE)CREATION. Celebrating the long relaxed days of the summer growing season, (RE)CREATION will present work in many media. On view Friday, June 3-Thursday June 30. Performances Friday, June 3rd and Saturday, June 25th at 7:30pm.

Never fully representational in intent, Douglas Padgett’s paintings often take on the feeling of images pulled from dreams. Their simplified representational style creates a tension between letting the paint dissolve into abstraction and making it represent something recognizable. This tension allows for a more open interpretation of even the most familiar objects.  For (RE)CREATION, Padgett will exhibit paintings of dart boards and a series of paintings of fake wood paneled recreation room walls with psychedelic posters and light switches.  Padgett’s conceptual approach to image making allows for a provocative musing, while also indulging the viewer in his impressive handling of paint.  

Also on view for (RE)CREATION will be a multi-media installation by the collaborative duo, Black Lake.  Slink Moss and Susan Jennings join creative forces to exhibit projected video, painting, collage and sculpture.  Black Lake, inspired by urban and rural nature, will also twice be performing within their installation a set of songs, spoken word, sounds, movement and shadows on the theme of summer, the time each year when the landscape is re-created.  These performances will occur at the opening of the exhibition on Friday, June 3rd at 7:30pm and again on Saturday, June 25th also at 7:30pm

Black Lake photos by s-e stroum.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

— (hi)story labor(atory) invokes as tutelary spirit the three-ring circus. Its collaborative and evolving environment of disparate and diverse elements—united by their devotion to the cultivation of aestheticism, community, accessibility, and experimentation—foments odd fusions and startling recontextualizations its collaborators find fertile and catalyzing for their practices.

 

(hi)story labor(atory) v.2 (February-August 2011): 

TRUPPE FLEDERMAUS: Royal Excavation Corps

EXHIBITION, PERFORMANCE & PROJECT SPACE: various

Healing Arts Clinic/Apothecary: Sarah Falkner, LMT

v.1  collaborator Vilma Maré will return in August 2011 with a new line of post-modern deconstructive fashions to launch (hi)story labor(atory) v.3  

 

— (hi)story labor(atory) is open Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday 12-6 and by appointment.

 

Press contact:  Sarah Falkner, 347.436.6725 & sarah.falkner@gmail.com

 

 

FRIDAY MAY 6! 8PM!

Music! Video! Friday May 6th!

Please join us at (HI)STORY LABOR(ATORY) v.2

for an intimate evening of music and video

Friday May 6th, 8pm!

$5-10 sliding scale

Music by Alexander Turnquist
Video by Megan Michalak
Video Performance by Jen Harris

Alexander Turnquist (http://www.alexanderturnquist.com/) is a Hudson-based musician/composer and visual artist. His third full length solo album on VHF records  entitled "Hallway of Mirrors" will be out on May 17th.

Megan Michalak (http://meganmichalak.com) is a queer interdisciplinary artist who lives between Brooklyn and Buffalo where she teaches in the Visual Studies Department at SUNY Buffalo. Her work has been exhibited internationally at the Moscow Biennale for Young Art, Galarie Titanik in Finland, Fonds Regional D’Art Contemporain Frac Languedoc-Roussillon, in Montpelier France, and the International Festival of Choreography in Paris. She has screened performance-based works in film video festivals in France, Spain, Mexico, and Brazil.
Within the US she has exhibited at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Art Interactive, Artists Space, and Smack Mellon gallery.

Jen P. Harris (http://www.jenpharris.com) is a Hudson-based, conceptual/representational visual artist working primarily in painting and works on paper. Her recent project, American Kiss, subverted the familiar, rich tradition of romantic (love) imagery in painting and popular imagery to upend commonly held expectations about gender and sexuality. In April, Jen was awarded a grant from the Astraea Visual Arts Fund, which promotes the work of contemporary
lesbian visual artists. This event will mark Jen's second ever live drawing-projection performance, during which she will bring an image from the elusive to the embodied, in real time and space.


(hi)story labor(atory)
624 Warren St.
Hudson NY
www.historylaboratory.net

And on view: visual art and installations by: Jack Millard, Sara E
Worden, Adam Hurwitz, Tad Flynn, Phillip Patterson & Laura Glazer,
Sarah Falkner, Kahn Selesnick, Dennis Herbert and others!

Group exhibition opening Saturday, April 30th 6-8

On view through May 31 - images in post below this one:

- Recent paintings by Tad Flynn

- THE SERENITY OF KNOWING Photographs by Laura Glazer & Handwriting by Phillip Patterson

- BODIES OF WORK: Paintings by Adam Hurwitz

 - Recent paintings by Jack Millard

-  Installation by Alexander Turnquist

- DORMANCY: Installation by Sara E. Worden

 

— Tad Flynn: “I was born in Boston and now live in upstate NY. I had some painting classes in college and the Boston MFA, but I'm mostly self-taught. These small paintings show some threads of my interests, that is: machinery represented in an organic or painterly style, and also representative of a certain nocturnal mood.”

 — Adam Hurwitz is an artist who lives and works in New York City.

 “Bodies of Work” is an ongoing series of small paintings intended to be seen grouped as an installation. As a group, the paintings become a morphological study in exhibitionism. Patterns emerge, and connections are made. The paintings are based on images of people displaying their tattoos -- without the tattoos. The images come from tattoo magazines and sites of tattoo enthusiasts on the internet. With the tattoos gone, the intention of the original image is subverted and the subjects are left exposing seemingly random areas of naked flesh (with varying degrees of modesty). As well as being memorials to the unadorned skin, the paintings raise questions of authorship, ownership and self expression. Their titles describe the absent tattoos."

— Jack Millard lives and paints in Chatham, NY. He has shown in Hudson, NY at Time & Space Limited; the Hudson Opera House; Columbia County Council on the Arts Gallery.

“Furry brush strokes in primary colors enliven a rectilinear Greek key motif in these reent paintings.  Reminiscent of primitive tribal creations of feathers or fur, they also conjure geometric abstract art albeit distressed, frayed, flayed."

— Laura Glazer and Phillip Patterson collaborate on the ongoing project The Serenity of Knowing. Phillip began hand copying the bible in August 2007, taking two years to finish writing and binding the first five books of Moses. He grew up hearing bible stories "but I came to discover there was more in the bible than I had been told. The only way to find out what was in it was to sit down and write it."  Laura photographs Phillip at work and  together they document the project on the blog http://lauraglazer.blogspot.com/ Laura also hosts the Capital District radio show Hello Pretty City Sunday nights 8-10pm on WEXT 97.7FM/ www.exit977.org. 

 — Alexander Turnquist is an artist and musician. In addition to his installation in the left window of (hi)istory labor(atory), he will perform during an evening of film and performance the first week of May.

 — Sara E Worden is an interdisciplinary artist and farmer living in the Hudson River Valley. She makes sculptures, installations, and performances using foraged materials and living entities which bridge agriculture, conceptual art, and natural history. Sara’s art is influenced by her work in horticulture and farming and serves to engage local flora/fauna, food systems, and the exploration of potential relationships between humans and the natural environment. 

Dormancy, installed in the right window of (hi)istory labor(atory), is a sculpture exploring winter habitat and patterns of rest and emergence. Materials include burlap, wool, embroidery, sticks, acorns, pine needles, and salt. Embellished cocktail hats, oil paintings, and two drawings based on the agricultural lectures of Rudolph Steiner have also been included. Sara wishes to thanks (hi)story labor(atory) and Millay Colony for the Arts for supporting her work!  www.saraworden.blogspot.com