The LAB (for installation + performance art) CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Posted on 06. Jul, 2011 by danikadruttman in Art at Roger Smith, Arts, Hotel, LAB Gallery, the LAB
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
DEADLINE: AUGUST 1st, 2011
The LAB (for installation + performance art) is currently accepting submissions for their 2012 program.
The LAB (for installation + performance art) is a New York based, converted storefront turned fishbowl producing 20+ fast paced performance art and installation exhibitions annually. Aimed at the furious midtown foot traffic, The LAB’s programming is designed to confront modern relationships between art and audience and seeks to force an interaction between the high energy, “outrospective” exhibitions it produces and the nearly 25,000 daily passersby. The LAB is located on the North East corner of 47th and Lex and is a Roger Smith Collaboration.
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UNCOVERING, A PERFORMANCE INSTALLATION BY LEIMAY: XIMENA GARNICA AND SHIGE MORIYA (Video Archive 10.06.11-24.06.11)
Posted on 06. Jun, 2011 by danikadruttman in Art at Roger Smith, Arts, Hotel, LAB Gallery, the LAB
June 10-24th, 2011 Part 1: June 10,11,13,14,15,16 4-8pm Part 2: June 19,20,21,22,23,24 4-8pm
Video: Part One By John Birdsong
Uncovering: In Rehearsal By John Birdsong
The LAB (for installation + performance art) is pleased to present Uncovering, a performance installation by LEIMAY, led by the creative duo Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya. Uncovering is an exploration into the paradox between fear and ambition; how it affects the individual and helps define society. This two part piece will take place over the course of a two week run on the corner of 47th and Lex.
For the first week, June 10-16, LEIMAY collaborates with Tijuana born, New York based draftsman and artist Hugo Crosthwaite and an international group of New York based performers and Butoh dancers. This is a durational dance-drawing-installation that will take place 4-8pm each night; reflecting on how society’s hierarchical views of success are dominated by fear of failure.
Through a series of daily performances, the residue of sweat and movement produced by the performers will gradually expose a large scale mural-engraving hidden behind white cloth sheeting. The performance will challenge the viewer to explore the confrontation between our collective values and individual self discovery, bringing to the forefront the ephemeral nature of life.
Performed by Yamasaki Ami, Taj Black, Ximena Garnica, May-Lee Hollis, Theresa Maragio, Liz McAuliffe, Denisa Musilova, Hiram Pines, Rachel Richman, Julie Spodek and Alex Vizzi.
For the second week of Uncovering, June 19-24, the space will once again be transformed by a daily five hour solo performance by Ximena Garnica. Exploring the innate struggle that exists between the creation of self-protective mechanisms, she will publicly confront the challenge of removing them. Each day, Garnica will go through the same process of shedding liquid latex skin-moulds of her body, letting them accumulate in the space, eventually leaving her exposed, naked and vulnerable.
Performers Part Two: Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya
Throughout both parts of the installation a collection of sound vignettes by Jeremy Slater and Roland Toledo will be played. They are based on recordings of the sounds generated during the production period of this piece.
Over the two weeks, Uncovering will progress from a collective confrontation of the many, struggling in a frantic society, to the single reconciliation of the individual who by exploring her personal fear, causes the revitalization of humanity.
LEIMAY is the parapluie for Ximena Garnica art works, Shige Moriya art works and the collaboration work between these two artists at the intersection of dance, performance, and installation art. LEIMAY is currently in residency at HERE Arts Center. Their work has been developed in residencies at the Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center, the New Hazlett Theater, the National Museum of Dance, and Hanoi Contemporary Arts Center. They have received fellowships and grants support from the Ford Foundation, The Puffin Foundation, The Urban Artist Initiative (UAI/NYC), The Asian American Arts Alliance, and the Japan Foundation. Their work has been recognized with the Armani Design Award of the Watermill Center for Shige Moriya and the Bessie Schonberg Individual Choreographers Residency Award of the Yard and the prestigious Van Lier Fellowship for young hispanic directors in New York for Ximena Garnica. LEIMAY is a project of the experimental and contemporary art and performance space known as CAVE. www.leimay.org
The LAB (for installation + performance art) is a New York based, converted storefront turned fishbowl producing 20+ fast paced performance art and installation exhibitions annually. Aimed at the furious midtown foot traffic, The LAB’s programming is designed to confront modern relationships between art and audience and seeks to force an interaction between the high energy, “outrospective” exhibitions it produces and the nearly 25,000 daily passersby. The LAB is located on the North East corner of 47th and Lex and is a Roger Smith Collaboration. www.thelabgallery.com
For further information, images or to schedule an interview with the artist, contact Danika Druttman on 212.339.2092 or email rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
LISTINGS INFORMATION
Uncovering
By LEIMAY: Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya
The LAB (for installation + performance art)
501 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10017, 47th and Lexington (map)
Subway: E, 6, V to 53rd and Lexington or 4, 5, 6, 7 to Grand Central
June 10-24, 2011
Part 1: June 10,11,13,14,15,16 4-8pm
Part 2: June 19,20,21,22,23,24 2-8pm
All works of art and performances in The LAB are shown within the confines of the space, and are intended to be viewed by the audience from the sidewalk.
This event is free and viewable 24/7
New Show at The LAB: Billowing Beauty, by French Artist Anne Ferrer 05.13.11-06.03.11
Posted on 09. May, 2011 by danikadruttman in Art at Roger Smith, Arts, LAB Gallery, the LAB
The LAB (for installation + performance art) is pleased to present Paris based artist Anne Ferrer in her first exhibition in New York City. Rooted in the her experience of foreignness and the absence of an inherent sense of home, Anne’s nomadic, sensorial sculpture is an organically inspired installation that is transportable in a suitcase. Edward Rubin, the curator of Billowing Beauty, describes it as “a lush and sensuous, sensitive and bold, mysteriously animated, Parisian soufflé”. Comprised of five exuberantly colored, giant, hand-sewn modules; the installation, breathes, grows, and evolves in slow motion, to the ‘lighter than air’ music of Los Angeles based composer Carol Worthey. This ‘live ballet’ brings a continuous element of chaos, surprise and joy, like a floating bubble, or a shimmering shrine, to one of the busiest avenues in New York City.
Anne Ferrer who lives and works in Paris comes from a Catalan family and has grown up in small rural town in south France. She has studied in the US, receiving her BFA from Oklahoma University and her MFA from Yale (1988). Ferrer has shown at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2002), the Centre Pompidou (2005), France, the Blue Star, San Antonio Texas (2009), the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1996), the Ho Ham Museum in Seoul, la Casa de Americas in Madrid, the French Institute in Rome and Naples, etc, and has recently built a monumental installation for the Dumbo Art Festival in Brooklyn. She has collaborated with Perfumers (International Flavors and Fragrances) as well as pastry chef Jean Paul Hevin, for her multi-sensorial sculptures. Ferrer is currently busy preparing a show for this summer at Chateau d’Avignon, France. www.anneferrer.com
Composer Carol Worthey combines elements of classical, jazz and world music into an expressive, playful mix that soars and breathes with life and color. Inspired by family friend Leonard Bernstein Carol began composing at three and a half and had a piano work performed in Carnegie Hall when she was ten. Mentored by the likes of Darius Milhaud, Vincent Persichetti, Walter Piston and Otto Luening, she won First Prize in Composition at Columbia and expanded her dimensions at a jazz/arranging school. Her award winning music has been heard in England, Italy, France, Germany, China, Japan, Mexico, Canada, and throughout the United States. She lives in Los Angeles where she is writing a book on the art of composing. www.carolworthey.com
Edward Rubin, writer, curator, and artists, lives in New York City. His writings on art, culture, and entertainment, appear regularly in such publications as ArtNexus, ArtUS, D’art International, Flash Art, Hispanic Outlook, NYArts and Sculpture Magazines, as well as online at Artes Magazine, Huma3, and NY Theatre Wire. His photographs and collages have been exhibited at the Contemporary Art Museum in Baltimore, Aldrich Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut, and at numerous New York City galleries. Currently, his work, part of a group exhibition titled NYC/International Perspectives, has been traveling throughout Germany, Hungary, France and Russia. It opens this June at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art under the title New York – Then and Now. Rubin is on the boards of the International Association of Art Critics, and the American Theatre Critics Association. He is also a member of the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and PEN America Center. erubin5000@aol.com
The LAB (for installation + performance art) is a New York based, converted storefront turned fishbowl producing 20+ fast paced performance art and installation exhibitions annually. Aimed at the furious midtown foot traffic, The LAB’s programming is designed to confront modern relationships between art and audience and seeks to force interactions between high energy, “outrospective” exhibitions and the nearly 25,000 daily passersby. The LAB is located on the North East corner of 47th and Lex and is a Roger Smith Collaboration. http://www.thelabgallery.com
For further information, images or to schedule an interview with the artist, contact Danika Druttman on 212.339.2092 or email rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
Chutes and Tears, an Installation by Rachel Hayes and Jiha Moon
Posted on 08. Apr, 2011 by danikadruttman in Art at Roger Smith, Arts, Events, Hotel, LAB Gallery, the LAB
15 APRIL-6 MAY 2011, The LAB (for installation + performance art) is thrilled to present Chutes and Tears, a sculpture and painting installation by Rachel Hayes and Jiha Moon. The artists have been collaborating since 2007 when they met at Art Omi International Artists Residency, and are taking this opportunity at The LAB to collaborate for the first time in New York City.
Jiha’s bold and delicate brushstrokes will be painted and embedded within Rachel’s sculptural fabric and hanji paper panels. The two artists collaboration will be seeking a balance within the graphic structures, sewn grids and gestural mark-makings. This fluid form will create an abstract sculptural landscape; a flowing waterfall of color and fabric pouring down from the gallery ceiling and meandering across the space towards the street.
Rachel Hayes earned a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. She has had solo exhibitions and projects with BravinLee Programs/NYC Downtown Alliance – New York, Dolphin Gallery – Kansas City, MO, Shaw Center for the Arts – Baton Rouge, LA, Solvent Space – Richmond, VA, LAB Gallery – New York, and Roswell Museum and Art Center – Roswell, NM. Group exhibitions include the Sculpture Center, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapois Museum of Contemporary Art, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Grand Arts, and Fakespace LA. Awards and Residencies include Sculpture Space Residency, Art Omi International Residency, Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship in Sculpture. Most recently she was awarded the Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial Fellowship in Sculpture, which concluded with a solo show in Cornish, NH. Rachel Hayes currently lives and works in Kansas City, MO. Most recently Hayes was awarded a Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio Residency in NYC, which begins in September. www.rachelbhayes.com
Jiha Moon received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa in 2002. Her work has been showcased at premier New York venues including Asia Society and Museum, The Drawing Center, and White Columns. Her work has featured in Vantage Point VII: Turbulent Utopia, Jiha Moon at Mint Museum (Charlotte, NC 2008), and has been showcased in recent exhibitions at Mary Ryan Gallery , Moti Hasson Gallery and Miki Wik Kim Contemporary. She has been selected for international residencies at Art Omi, Acadia Summer Art Program, MacDowell colony and Singapore Tyler Print Institute through the Asia Society. Moon finished her one year residency project with the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philladelphia recently. Her works are on view at the museum’s show New American Voice II. Moon’s work is in the collections at Smithsonian Institute, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC; Asia Society and Museum, New York; Mint Museum, North Carolina; and the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Virginia. Jiha Moon currently lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. www.jihamoon.com
The LAB (for installation + performance art) is a New York based, converted storefront turned fishbowl producing 20+ fast paced performance art and installation exhibitions annually. Aimed at the furious midtown foot traffic, The LAB’s programming is designed to confront modern relationships between art and audience and seeks to force an interaction between the high energy, “outrospective” exhibitions it produces and the nearly 25,000 daily passersby. The LAB is located on the North East corner of 47th and Lex and is a Roger Smith Collaboration. www.thelabgallery.com
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QUICK INFO
Chutes and Tears
An Installation and Painting by Rachel Hayes and Jiha Moon
The LAB (for installation + performance art)
501 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10017, 47th and Lexington (map)
Subway: E, 6, V to 53rd and Lexington or 4, 5, 6, 7 to Grand Central
April 15-May 6th 2011
All works of art and performances in The LAB are shown within the confines of the space, and are intended to be viewed by the audience from the sidewalk.
This event is free and viewable 24/7
March at The LAB: Mark Dean Veca (3.18.11-4.8.11)
Posted on 24. Feb, 2011 by danikadruttman in Art at Roger Smith, Arts, LAB Gallery, the LAB
The LAB (for installation + performance art) is thrilled to present Impulse, a wall drawing by Mark Dean Veca.
Armed with few supplies and no preconceived design, between March 14th-18th, Veca will enter the enclosed gallery, and in full view of passersby, riff spontaneously, directly onto the walls, “leaving a trail of calligraphic breadcrumbs that lead only to the depths of my psyche”. It is an approach atypical of his oeuvre, pure monochromatic improvisation.
This will be virtually the only wall drawing in his body of work that’s not premeditated. The piece will be uniquely devoid of color; Veca intends to focus specifically on the gestural mark-making which is characteristic of his work.
“Mark Dean Veca is a purveyor of prehistoric magic: creating space on a two-dimensional plane with a few lines of charcoal, ink, or paint. He draws on paper, canvas or walls and uses simple black lines to manifest volume, space, and depth. He shares his illusionary worlds and characters to express the internal and external tension of the human condition as he experiences it. His work is visceral, carnal, with its depictions of organs and orifices and writhing tendons, arteries, and intestines. It is comic and unnerving with strong contrasting palettes and patterns and odd juxtapositions of historical and popular iconography often abbreviated, disfigured, or exposed. Whether large or small the work is intentionally spectacular and the artist wholeheartedly embraces his constructive affliction of horror vacui.” -Excerpted from Curator Meg Linton’s catalog essay for the publication Mark Dean Veca: Phantasmagoria published by the Ben Maltz Gallery/Otis College of Art and Design in conjunction with the Fall 2008 Jennifer Howard Coleman Distinguished Lectureship and Residency.
Mark Dean Veca attended Otis Art Institute (now Otis College of Art and Design). Veca is the recipient of New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in painting three times and has done residencies for institutions such as the Bronx Museum, the MacDowell Colony, and Villa Montalvo. Veca has exhibited throughout the United states, Europe, and Japan at institutions such as The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Bronx Muesum of The Arts, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. www.markdeanveca.com
The LAB (for installation + performance art) is a New York based, converted storefront turned fishbowl producing 30+ fast paced performance art and installation exhibitions annually. Aimed at furious midtown foot traffic, The LAB’s programming is designed to confront modern relationships between art and audience and seeks to force interaction between high energy, “outrospective” exhibitions and nearly 25,000 daily passersby. THE LAB is located on the North East corner of 47th and Lex and is a Roger Smith Collaboration. www.thelabgallery.com
Impulse will be on show at The LAB (for installation + performance art) March 18th-April 8th, 2011
For more information please contact Danika Druttman
on 212.339.2092 or email rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
INTERview @RSHotel : Danika on Community Building in NYC
Posted on 21. Jan, 2011 by Birdsong in Community, Hotel, the LAB
By John Birdsong
It was right at the end of the year when James Knowles and I conducted these interviews. They are in many ways an opportunity for people to reflect on the past year, but also a chance to look forward. Danika Druttman has been working at the hotel now for around two years now and is an integral component (along with Director Matthew Semler) to the operations and curation of The LAB Gallery and Roger Smith Arts. This is the first part of her interview series, and in this one she talks about looking forward in 2011 and the community building she has been a part of all along.
Meet Danika. Gallerist. Londoner. New Yorker. Roger Smith.
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December at The LAB: “Without Name” by Verónica Peña
Posted on 25. Nov, 2010 by danikadruttman in Arts, Events, Hotel, LAB Gallery, the LAB
WITHOUT NAME
A Performance Installation
by Verónica Peña
Curated by Creighton Michael
Performance in collaboration Moira Williams and Shizu Homma
December 10-31 2010 Performance every Thurs & Fri at 6pm
The LAB (for installation + performance art) is thrilled to present “Without Name”, a re-incarnation of a performance installation originally created by Veronica Peña in 2008. The show is inspired by her desire to experience the union between the absent and the present, in response her father’s passing in 2007.
For the show’s installation, Peña will cover The LAB with a thin layer of plastic, which will be painted red as part of the performance. Peña will then fill the space with large masses of grouped paper and string, rearranging them until the materials begin to convey a sculptural presence. Covered in a thin skin of plastic and red paint the performer will seek to blend in with the installation creating a living sculpture among the lifeless string and paper shapes. The performer’s eyes will be covered, rendering them blind, able only to hear. “Hearing is the last sense we loose when we are dying” says Peña, “I will build the space and wait for my father, for the absent, to come join me”.
Verónica Peña is an interdisciplinary artist from Spain, currently living and working in New York City. She received her BFA in Painting from The Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain) and her MFA from Stony Brook University (New York) with a focus on installation/performance and video. Peña work has been exhibited in Spain, Italy, and the United States. In New York her work has been featured in “Spain In The City” at the Armory Show 2010 (Gabarron Foundation), in “A Book About Death” at the Queens Museum of Art, in the “13th DUMBO Art Under The Bridge Festival” at the DUMBO Arts Center and The Parrish Art Museum (Long Island). In Spain, her work has been exhibited at Casa de America (Madrid), Fundacion Antonio Saura (Cuenca), Museo Orus (Zaragoza), Fundacion Caja Rioja (La Rioja), and The Polytechnic University of Valencia (Valencia). Peña has been a recipient of the Socrates-Erasmus Grant, the Juan Genoves Universidad Complutense de Madrid Fellowship, and a candidate for the Dedalus Foundation Grant. She has recently published The Presence Of The Absent, a thesis about her body of work.
Creighton Michael received his MA in art history from Vanderbilt University and a MFA in painting and multimedia from Washington University in St. Louis. He is a recipient of a Pollack Krasner Foundation grant, a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in sculpture and a Golden Foundation for the Arts award in painting. His work is in various public and private collections including the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Brooklyn Museum, and Denver Art Museum.
Michael has had solo exhibitions at numerous galleries and art centers in New York City and throughout the United States, including The High Museum of Art (Atlanta); Katonah Museum of Art (Katonah NY) and the Queens Museum of Art at Bulova Corporate Center (Queens NY). He has also shown internationally, in Copenhagen, Montreal and Reykjavík. In the November 2010, Tangible Marking: The Dimensional Drawings of Creighton Michael, will be on view at The College of Saint Rose (Albany New York). Michael has been a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Hunter College, New York City since 2005 and is a member of American Abstract Artists and the International Sculpture Center, where he was recently elected to the Board of Directors.
The LAB (for installation + performance art) is a New York based, converted storefront turned fishbowl producing 30+ fast paced performance art and installation exhibitions annually. Aimed at furious midtown foot traffic, The LAB’s programming is designed to confront modern relationships between art and audience and seeks to force interaction between high energy, “outrospective” exhibitions and nearly 25,000 daily passersby. THE LAB is located on the North East corner of 47th and Lex and is a Roger Smith Collaboration. www.thelabgallery.com
QUICK INFO
Without Name
A Performance Installation by Verónica Peña
The LAB (for installation + performance art)
501 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10017, 47th and Lexington (map)
Subway: E, 6, V to 53rd and Lexington or 4, 5, 6, 7 to Grand Central
December 8-31st 2010
Performances: every Thursday and Friday at 6pm
All works of art and performances in The LAB are shown within the confines of the space , and are intended to be viewed by the audience from the sidewalk. This event is free.
For more information please contact Danika Druttman at rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com or 212.339.2092
November at The LAB: “Into Me See” An Installation/ Performance
Posted on 25. Oct, 2010 by danikadruttman in Arts, Events, Hotel, LAB Gallery, the LAB
By e+i Architecture and Nu Dance Theater
November 8-26th, 2010
Performances: Monday to Friday 6:30pm
Preview: In Rehearsal with Nu Dance Theater, October 2010
Clip from November 8th 2010 performance
The LAB (for installation + performance art) is thrilled to present Into Me See, a duet created by Nu Dance Theater (Eva Perrotta and Sophie Bortolussi) in collaboration with the architects Eva Perez De Vega Steele and Ian Gordon of e+i Architecture.
Trying to reconnect with themselves and each other, two women face their own shadows in an endless effort to find intimacy. Tearing apart the many layers resisting vulnerability, together they travel through an invisible maze of unspoken beliefs and opinions. The fish bowl environment of The LAB offers an inherent and incredibly rich tension to the exploration of intimacy, how to transgress the unspoken, publicly and openly, without only provoking, but more importantly going beyond our stigma of sexuality and gender differentiations.
The cloud like installation, constructed of 80,000 feet of hanging nylon string of varying densities and lengths, aims to build an intimate world of soft layers, evoking a sense of mist and condensation.The work interfaces the exposed nature of The LAB creating secluded and hidden zones where dancers moving in and around the installation can appear and disappear, thus shaping an ambiguous ‘in between’ zone where exterior [audience] and interior [dancers] meet. The limits of the space are visually dissolved though the layered strings, giving both audience and performers a sensation of an endlessly enveloping and boundary-less inner world.
Nu Dance Theater was created in 2006 by Artistic Director, Eva Perrotta. Sophie Bortolussi, the founding dancer, became Artistic Associate of the company in 2009. The work of the company has been presented at the Puffin Room, La Guardia High School of Performing Arts, Merce Cunningham Studio Theater, Dumbo Dance Festival, Dance New Amsterdam (RAW Material), Boston University Theater (MA), The Outlet Dance Project (NJ), The Goose Route Festival (WV), The Theater for the New City and Triskelion Arts. The company’s residencies include Spoke the Hub in Brooklyn in 2008 and SILO residency (PA) in 2010. Following Hinterland (2009) a Site Specific itinerant piece created for a former Synagogue renovated into a four story house , Nu Dance Theater has been invited to create “Si seulement Si” (2010) a site specific work for the 6BC botanical garden in the East Village and “Into me see” (2010) for the LAB Installation + Performing art at the Roger Smith Hotel in NYC.
e+i architecture was founded by architect/choreographer Eva Perez de Vega Steele and architect Ian Gordon, forming an interdisciplinary architecture practice also involved in interior design, product, set design and choreography. The work of e+I has been exhibited in New York (AIA Center for Architecture, Van Alen Institute, RIVAA Art Gallery) as well as internationally, in Milan, Venice Rome, Madrid, Stockholm and Seoul.
For further information about Into Me See or The LAB please contact Danika Druttman at 212.339.2092 or email rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
The LAB (for installation + performance art) is a New York based, converted storefront turned fishbowl producing 30+ fast paced performance art and installation exhibitions annually. Aimed at furious midtown foot traffic, The LAB’s programming is designed to confront modern relationships between art and audience and seeks to force interaction between high energy, “outrospective” exhibitions and nearly 25,000 daily passersby. THE LAB is located on the North East corner of 47th and Lex and is a Roger Smith Collaboration.
QUICK INFORMATION:
Into Me See
An Installation and Performance by e+i Architecture and Nu Dance Theater
The LAB (for installation + performance art)
501 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10017, 47th and Lexington
Subway: E, 6, V to 53rd and Lexington or 4, 5, 6, 7 to Grand Central
November 8-26, 2010
Performances: Monday-Friday 6:30pm
All works of art in The LAB are shown within the confines of the gallery , and are viewed by the audience from the sidewalk. This event is free
Phone: 212.339.2092
Email: rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
www.thelabgallery.com
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A full schedule for Fall 2010 can be found on www.thelabgallery.com/calendar
Fashion Night Out @ RS POP Shop & Lab Gallery- September 10th!
Posted on 25. Aug, 2010 by melissagonzalez in Events, fashion, RS Pop, the LAB
RS POP will be participating in this seasons Fashion Week and FNO shopping extravaganza!
Special guest Ricardo Rojas and his salon crew will be POPPING UP to style
along with Denise Mojica of Makeup by Mojica (http://www.makeupbymojica.com/) and Jing Ai Cosmetics
with a 6pm Runway with Animated Closet
Yummy Snacks and Sips Provided by POP Chips, Sprinkle Splash Bakery & IZZE Sparkling Juice at RS POP
And RICARDO Punch Drink Specials at Lily’s Bar.
A little more about Ricardo…. In his fifteen year career, Ricardo has worked with a multitude of celebrities day to day and in preparation for red carpet events including the Oscars, Grammy’s, movie premieres, charity galas and more. His celebrity clientele includes such luminaries as Cher, Marisa Tomei, Angela Bassett, Jane Seymour, Sharon Stone, Gina Gershon, Liv Tyler, Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, Heidi Klum, Amber Valetta, Gisele Bündchen, Bar Rafaeli, Mischa Barton, Rossy De Palma, Paris Hilton, Aimee Osbourne, Natasha Bedingfield, Carmen Kass, and Donna Karan. In addition, Ricardo spent eight years as the personal stylist for Donatella Versace.
Join us in person or via ustream.tv at 6pm to see the live show!
See more at www.rspopshop.com
Soundstorm: A Kinetic Installaion
Posted on 24. Jun, 2010 by danikadruttman in Arts, Events, Hotel, LAB Gallery, the LAB
By Daniel Rothbart and Maia Anthea Marinelli
July 9-30th, 2010
June 15th, 2010 The LAB (for installation + performance art) is pleased to announce ‘Soundstorm’, a kinetic installation by Daniel Rothbart and Maia Anthea Marinelli. This work intends to create a dialogue between art and nature, using sculptural elements that move according to the barometric pressure in New York City, at any given time. Isobars are represented by a shifting motorized web of pulleys and ropes that envelope the gallery and produce metallic noise. These sounds will be piped outside the gallery to complete the tableau vivant.
Daniel Rothbart’s work looks at the relationship between nature, urban postmodern identity and metaphysics. Rothbart holds an M.F.A. from Columbia University and won a Fulbright grant to Naples, Italy in 1990. His work can be found in public and private collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Recent projects include exhibitions at the Andrea Meislin Gallery, Exit Art and the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in Peekskill. His latest European exhibition took place at Galerie Depardieu in Nice in June 2010.
Maia Anthea Marinelli’s work explores themes of women in relation to their cultural environment through conceptual strategies with sculpture, land art, photography, performance and interactive installations.Marinelli holds a B.F.A. from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence Italy, and an M.F.A. from New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. Her work has been exhibited at the Biennale of Mediterranean Artists, the International Studio & Curatorial Program in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Genoa, Italy.
For more information please contact Danika Druttman on 212.339.2092 or email rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
The LAB (for installation + performance art) is a New York based, converted storefront turned fishbowl producing 30+ fast paced performance art and installation exhibitions annually. Aimed at furious midtown foot traffic, The LAB’s programming is designed to confront modern relationships between art and audience and seeks to force interaction between high energy, “outrospective” exhibitions and nearly 25,000 daily passersby. THE LAB is located on the North East corner of 47th and Lex and is a Roger Smith Collaboration in Art. www.thelabgallery.com
Soundstorm: Video Interview with Daniel Rothbart
Soundstorm: Video Interview with Maia Anthea Marinelli
