Space Case: Making a case for artist-run spaces
Opening Reception: Sunday February 16th, 3-5
On view February 16 - March 29, 2020
Saturdays and Sundays 1-5pm & by appt
LABspace
2642 NY Route 23, Hillsdale NY
Please join us for this journey through artist-run spaces of Chapel Hill and Raleigh NC, Chattanooga and Nashville TN... with a detour through Charlottesville VA!
We’ve (Curators: Julie Torres & Ellen Letcher) culled this show from our visits with artists who have founded and/or run uniquely situated and inventively programmed labors of love, exhibiting the work of fellow artists in attics, basements, sheds, faculty offices, former meat packing plants... and traditional white boxes, too.
Also on view are works from Drawing and Painting majors at the University of TN, Chattanooga who we met through Christina Renfer Vogel’s curatorial project Office Space, in which Vogel installs exhibitions in her faculty office and hallways. This initiative has inspired her students to devise their own artist-run projects and plans, so we’ve jumped at the chance to fan those flames.
LABspace was founded by artist Susan Jennings in 2014, and we took the reins in 2018. We met SJ in 2015 at DIY anti-fair ARTIST-RUN at Satellite Art Show in Miami (curated by Tiger Strikes Asteroid). Without TSA’s ARTIST-RUN project, we would not have met SJ or her wonderful space, which is now our curatorial home. We are so indebted to our own local community of artists who show, promote, and support fellow artists. Please come celebrate this necessary and enduring tradition!
Space Case at LABspace
UNIVERSITY OF TN, CHATTANOOGA:
Christina Renfer Vogel
Amanda Nolan Booker
Larkin Cook
Claudia Hoffer
Caitlin Kelley
Shannon McAllister
Hilary McWilliams
Dionna Moore
Victoria Sauer
Olivia Tawzer
Summer Tomes
VERSA, CHATTANOOGA:
Mirel Crumb
Dana Ortega
Chloë Shupe
Stephanie Loggans
Dylan Pew
Kirby Miles
STOVE WORKS, CHATTANOOGA:
Mike Calway-Fagen
LOG, CHAPEL HILL:
Maria Britton
April Childers
MY ROOM, CHAPEL HILL//LUMP, RALEIGH:
Amanda Barr
John Bowman
DRAWING ROOM/LUMP, RALEIGH:
Bill Thelen
ACID RAIN, CHAPEL HILL:
Jerstin Crosby
THE CONCERN NEWSSTAND, RALEIGH & CHAPEL HILL:
Orvokki Crosby
BASEMENT, CHAPEL HILL:
Laura Little
Mike Keaveney
Sarah Elizabeth Cornejo
Chieko Murasugi
John DeKemper II
ONEONEONE, CHAPEL HILL/GUTTER BOX, RALEIGH:
Louis Watts
LUMP/THE CONCERN NEWSSTAND VOLUNTEER:
Critter
UNREQUITED LEISURE, NASHVILLE:
Chalet Comellas-Baker
Clinton Sleeper
ELECTRIC SHED, NASHVILLE:
David Onri Anderson
DADU, NASHVILLE:
Jodi Hays
DAVID LUSK GALLERY, NASHVILLE:
Ameila Briggs
MITTEN, HARRISONBURG VA/FORMER TEAM LUMP, RALEIGH/CURRENTLY CHARLOTTESVILLE VA:
Allyson Mellberg Taylor
Jeremy Taylor
charlottesville
New Poster Giveaway by Lydia Moyer
Artist, Lydia Moyer has created a new poster, as a follow up to her much talked about: "Make America an Endless Expanse of Old Growth Forest with no Certain Borders Again," (which have all been dispersed). This new one, also newsprint, is two-sided with the words 'Melt Your Guns' on one side and 'Melt Your Sons' on the other. We are lucky to be giving them away with orders while supplies last.
Here is what Lydia had to say about this one:
" I live in Charlottesville where this year, on the anniversary of the Unite The Right rally which brought hundreds of gun-wielding young male white supremacists to town in 2017, there were checkpoints around the city where the police could take your knives and bats and paintball guns and water guns and pellet guns away but not your AK47 because open carry is legal in Virginia."
Note from the artist: If you don't want to hang them up, "they are also excellent fire-starters : )"
