SPRING LAB: a wall drawing by Morgan O’Hara
Posted on 26. Mar, 2010 by DanielKalmar in Arts, LAB Gallery, the LAB
The LAB (for installation + performance art) is pleased to announce SPRING LAB, Morgan O’Hara’s latest large scale site-specific wall drawing, displayed April 2-23, 2010. O’Hara’s site-specific wall drawings are distilled abstractions of her “Live Transmissions” series, a collection of drawings she has been developing for over 20 years from thousands of subjects on five continents.
Live Transmissions” are made by a process in which O’Hara, with a pencil in each hand, records the left and right hand movements of an observed subject performing a task. Drawing methodically with multiple razor-sharp pencils and both hands, as time-based performance, O’Hara condenses movement into accumulations of graphite line.Such tasks have included knitting a sweater, a farmer’s wife digging up asparagus, a musician performing on piano and street pavers setting paving stones. The result is an abstracted map of the subject’s gestures.
The installation at The LAB will first involve the projection of a selected “Live Transmission” drawing done in New York, onto the walls and floor of the space. Then, the spaces between the lines will be painted, allowing the lines themselves to emerge from the white walls. Changes and distortions caused by parallax will be incorporated into the new drawing. The result will be a large-scale painted version of the original graphite drawing whose lines will be seen at different angles as passers-by move past the piece.
The installation will be
on view 24/7 at the corner of 47th St. and Lexington Avenue.
For more information, or to schedule an interview with the artist, please contact Danika Druttman 212.339.2092
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
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LISTINGS INFORMATION:
SPRING LAB, By Morgan O’Hara
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
April 2-23rd, on view 24/7
Free
212-339-2092
www.thelabgallery.com
Julia, a dog named Waffle & The Ghost of Roger Smith
Posted on 21. Jan, 2010 by BrianSimpson in Community
Last night in the Penthouse of The Roger Smith Hotel Matt Semler & Danika Druttman, of The Lab Gallery, along with Julia Kaganskiy (MoMA) hosted a gathering of arts and tech enthusiasts. The main purpose was the introduction of smART Camp, a weekend long event in March, that will bring together influential artists, social network professionals and a community of people looking at ways the two are utilized for the exposure, education and sales for the art world.
The hotel, as many of you know, has a mysterious energy that seems to bring out the storyteller in all of its visitors, last night was no exception.
If you are skeptical… don’t believe me, believe Julia, Michelle Adam and a dog named Waffle.
PURGATION OF NIKE a performance installation by ROBERT C. MORGAN
Posted on 22. Oct, 2009 by AdamWallace in Arts, LAB Gallery
The Lab (for Installation and Performance Art) was pleased to present the performance installation by Robert C. Morgan titled “The Purgation of Nike (1974-1984/2009)”. The piece is based on a 1984 professional studio recording of Morgan’s voice slowed down while reading excerpts from an old swim manual published in the late 1930s. The sound resembles a Tantric Buddhist chant and is the source that inspired the work.
PURGATION OF NIKE
by Robert C. Morgan
photographs by Adam Wallace
The space of the gallery was painted black, with a red glow in one corner and a large sand circle in the center. There was a steaming pot of water to one side, placed on an electric coil, lit with a halogen light. A rotating sequence of 20 digital images of the artists hands (photographed in 1974) were looped on two small monitors in the corner, and a large painting (1984) of a colossal leg rested against the adjacent wall, also lit by halogen.
The 30-minute performance took place Tuesday October 20, 2009 and involved the sound of the tape as Morgan marked the sand through a series of circular movements that constitute ideographic signs.
A collection of videos from the show:
For more information, or to schedule an interview with the artist, please contact Danika Druttman 212.339.2092
http://www.thelabgallery.com
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Kiki Valdes Debuts Pop Up Show in NYC
Posted on 22. Oct, 2009 by AdamWallace in Uncategorized
Oct 09 – New paintings from Miami artist Kiki Valdes appear for 5 days only at the Roger Smith Hotels new social media experiment, the Pop Up Shop. Reception will be on Thursday, Oct. 22nd 2009 with the artist creating a piece on sight. Time is between 7 – 9pm. It runs from Oct 20 – 25th. The mini show is curated by Melissa Gonzalez and produced by John Knowles & Panman Productions. Special thanks to everyone at the Hotel for making this possible.
Thursday, Oct 22nd 2009
47th Street and Lexington Avenue, Midtown NYC
6pm – 9:45pm
Kiki Valdes was born in Miami. FL at the same downtown hospital Bob Marley passed away just a month after in 1981. He attended the New World School of the Arts high school along with other ambitious classmates Jessica Sutta of Pussycat Dolls and paper artist Jen Stark. He later attended Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. During this time he published with his brother Humby a punk rock, culture and humor underground zine called OpenZine (which later became http://www.facebook.com/l/bc279;www.OpenZine.com, a site where anyone can publish web magazines) During the evenings Kiki would paint in his studio and later on pass out the newsprint publication at mostly punk venues such as CBGB’s in New York and Churchill’s in the inner city of Miami.
Molly Barnes Brown Bag Lunch, September 10-11, 2009 Watch Here LIVE! on Ustream @ 12:00pm est sharp!
Posted on 09. Sep, 2009 by AdamWallace in Art at Roger Smith, Arts
Molly Barnes Brown Bag Lunch
Thursday, September 10th, 12pm
Helen Harrison – Director of the Pollock/Krasner house in East Hampton, NY will talk about Jackson and Lee, as well as the recently produced Tenessee Williams play about Pollock’s death: “A Day in Which a Man Dies.”
Friday, September 11th, 12pm
Kent Twitchell - Renowned artist, muralist, and founder of the “L.A. Fine Arts Squad,” will talk about his career, as well as his suit against the U.S. Government for the destruction of two of his 6 story-high murals depicting Ed Rusha and Steve McQueen.
Tommonlino at the Roger Smith Hotel
Posted on 07. Sep, 2009 by AdamWallace in Art at Roger Smith, Arts, Community
On Thursday August 20, 2009 Damon Tommolino opened his art exhibit that embodies the concentration of time and space of sequential motion.
Artist Statement:
The common link between the thoughts behind my work is that I am extremely interested in the ongoing argument between Creationism vs. Darwinism vs. Intelligent Design vs. The Ancient Mystery vs. Who we really are today.
The point of my paintings is to provoke as much thought as possible. I try hard not to overly point a viewer in any one specific direction. I don’t believe this is my job as an artist. I would much rather present several ideas or options or paths for any viewer to take throughout any given piece. Therefore, I purposely leave a certain amount of ambiguity in the work. At its best, viewers will be able to make connections between the characters I paint and their own lives.
I strive to bring awareness to the way in which we live. My paintings reflect our society, our nation, and our most intimate relationships. Is there room for improvement or growth in our lives?
Love the Art. Molly Barnes and Damon talk about artist etiquette , and the nature of collectors in an art market.
Tommolino, Salvador Dali’s “Un Chien Anadalou” and The Morning Pages (LIVE)
Posted on 19. Aug, 2009 by AdamWallace in Arts, Community
On Thursday August 20, 2009 join us for a very special evening of great art, film and music. Damon Tommolino opens the evening with an art exhibit that embodies the concentration of time and space of sequential motion.
Tommolino’s solo exhibit is followed by the 1929 short film “Un Chien Adalou,” written by Salvador Dali.
Closing the night, The Morning Pages play live what Time Out NY writes, “Rootsy combo the Morning Pages is based in Brooklyn but delivers a pleasingly vintage, warm, country-rock sound that’s far more suggestive of Nashville. ”
6 PM Tommolino Opening Reception
9 PM Special Screenig of “Un Chien Andalou” written by Salvador Dali (16 minutes)
10 PM Live Music by The Morning Pages
The event will be held in the 16th floor Solaruim of the Roger Smith Hotel, 501 Lexington Ave. (at 47th st).
Suggested donation of $5
4222 Studio Visits: Tommolino
Posted on 12. Aug, 2009 by AdamWallace in Arts
Tommolino said that he would let me do the studio visit under two circumstances: one, that we drink a bottle of fine brandy together, two, we play chess. Being an obligatory creature I had no objections to Damons clauses. Then he smiled. Thats what Damon Tommolino is like: a morsel of truth encased in an even finer casing of truth, which is always humor, the heart of the Universe. There was an even more exacting truth all of this that I was aware of. If I stood to produce any coherent work myself I would need to seek out the visionary eye of somebody who I trusted. Thats where Abi Prince came in. Abi is a Panman Production colleague, but more importantly a visionary filmmaker and editor that I knew could handle the surreal nature of this encounter. Regardless we were not about to take any chances so Damon made sure to keep filling Abis glass with fine African Shiraz. What was recorded that evening was the delicate, unadulterated, result(s) of the incident of three artists coming together to make sense of the world around them through each others eyes. – Marlo L. Brown, film maker
Roman Scott, New York Painter
Posted on 12. Aug, 2009 by admin in Arts
Roman Scott is a New York artist known for his night paintings. His use of obscure light sources such as the reflections from a misty, rainy, or snowy night provide a colorful outlook to the this dark hard city. The Roger Smith Hotel has a great collection of Roman Scott paintings that you can see throughout the hotels public spaces.
