(RE)CREATION
- Paintings by Doug Padgett
-Multimedia installation & performances by Black Lake
FRIDAY, June 3rd
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
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