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

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Few months ago we decided to re-launch the idea of expanding the arts outside Manhattan, so we started in Barcelona.

The chosen event was bARTcelona, an organized by a totally reconverted shopping mall in the city that has become a new cultural, technological and artistic meeting point in Barcelona.

Their idea for the event was to take New York to Barcelona (we all know it’s not easy…), but they are trying with new openings of Apple Store, Hollister CO, Guess, Starbucks…

Following with the Roger Smith commitment to arts, we found this event too exciting that we had to participate somehow.

The idea was to combine an open contest for worldwide artists for a showcase exhibition and art battles to put face-to-face street artists from Barcelona and New York.

For the first part of the event, more than 200 pieces of work applied, but only the 20 selected were showed in the shopping mall.

For the second, 4 selected artists from Barcelona and 4 selected artists from New York City were creating live their art, from a plane canvas to a completely deep painting.

It’s been really exciting having the opportunity of taking a close view of the artist’s evolution on the 3 weekends of the event that took place on late October 2010. The artists exchanged their experiences and even coming from very different art scenes, they both did an outstanding job and people loved their performances.

The winner of the Barcelona art battles group is going to enjoy a complimentary stay in one of the Deluxe Suites at the Roger Smith Hotel, as well as the winner of the raffle on the VIP night where many famous designers, like Javier Mariscal or Desigual, shared the stage with Spanish hip hop singers and dancers like Rafael Amargo.

We just can’t wait for the 2011 edition!!

Album with my photo selection

Video of the VIP soirée

Video of the 1^st art battle held on the street before they started on the shopping mall

Link for winners and showcased works

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August 14 – September 14
The Roger Smith Gallery
16th Floor Solarium @ the Roger Smith Hotel
501 Lexington Ave (@47th St).

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The source for this site-specific wall drawing was a pencil drawing done in Japan in 2001. The situation took place in Kid Ailack Hall in Tokyo where 40 performance artists were walking through their performances in a large stage area, identifying places where props were to be placed, where lighting technicians needed to place a spotlight, where and when technicians were to produce sound for each performance. O’Hara sat alone in the audience area and drew the movement of all these proceedings, tracking each person as he or she crossed and re-crossed the stage area. She made one large drawing of all observable movement for four hours in that space.

For this site, the 2001 stage-blocking drawing was photographed, downloaded into a computer, printed in sections, copied onto acetate and projected in sections onto the walls of the LAB using an overhead projector. The work progressed from left to right. Thirty volunteers from Fordham University, the School of Visual Arts, artsengine, LAB supporters, and occasional passersby assisted Morgan O’Hara with the painting. The modus operandi was to paint black the spaces between the lines, allowing the lines to emerge on their own from the white walls.

A site-specific wall drawing is a drawing which is done specifically for a particular space. Concept, scale, proportion and architectural elements must all be taken under careful consideration. This particular drawing was selected by O’Hara from among many possibilities as the best one for this particular space. In the nearby theatre district of New York as well as in the many concert halls not far from the Roger Smith Hotel, preparations for performance are taking place every day. It is hoped that this drawing will call attention to the many unnoticed backstage activities which support the performing arts.

Live Transmission is on view 24/7 at The LAB (for installation + performance art) thru May 7th, 2010.

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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

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Starting out as a kid in rural North Carolina, Jason Bryant turned a fascination with drawing into a love for painting. Previously working as an assistant for Kehinde Wiley, Jason’s work often explores the person we are, as well as the people we pretend to be. His newest pieces, featured in this exhibition, are challengingly familiar, in a way that can often be difficult to place. Maybe you’re certain who they’re meant to be… until you suddenly realize that you don’t know them at all!

Allison Edge carries a sense of nostalgia in her work. With her command of light, she creates a mood that feels like a memory, like a happy fiction now become fact. Previously working as an assistant for Jeff Koons and McDermott & McGough, Allison carries a great love for her craft, and fans of her solo show Crystal Days will certainly want to revisit her work here.

Quebec-born Ross Racine has shown extensively across the United States and Canada. His “digital drawings” are hand-drawn directly by computer, creating communities that could be taken from some otherworldly Mapquest. They are in no way photographs, yet still carry a convincing feel, leaving you with the assumption that someone, somewhere, has been to see these communities in person.

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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.

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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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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.

Kiki Valdes
RS Popup Shop

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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.

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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.

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