The Lab for Installation and Performance Art

The Lab 2007 Archive

JAN 22-27: FIRE by Lisa Paul Streitfeld
This installation/performance presents Streitfeld's novel, Champagne Tango , and related mixed media evoking the "underground" experience, with Holly Crawford's "Male Geometry" paintings and Yuliya Lanina's installation "Eros, You Burn Me!"... (more)

JAN 29-FEB 2: DETAINEE by David Duckworth
David Duckworth, as a bound and blindfolded detainee, becomes the paintbrush with which interrogators paint the American flag on the floor of the gallery. Digital projections by Beverly Richey , painted walls by Max Yawney , and sound compositions by Patrick Todd augment this central action by creating an environment in which detached... (more)

FEB 5-17: SHOTGUN PROJECT by John Mclane Curated by John Knowles
The Shotgun Project , a multimedia art experience where painting, sculpture, film and photography are intertwined in one space and united around the concept of the shotgun as a means for abstract mark making. The artist John McLane developed the Idea in the fall of 2005 with filmmaker Nick Katzenbach and photographer Ben Rosenzweig... (more)

FEB 20 - MAR 10: Connectome by Lee Whitier
The Lab Gallery presents digital video artist Lee Whittier . In a site-specific installation of new work, the artist transforms the storefront at 47th and Lexington Avenue into a 24-hour display of light and movement, altering perceptions of the urban view shed and provoking response in the passerby. Through projected video, mirrors, and haze the artist manipulates the... (more)

MARCH 21-31: Flight of Fantasy by Yuliya Lanina With C. Eule Dance Company
The installation will consist of a window display composed of a variety of props and materials, including grass, trees, dolls, feathers, flowers and fabrics that would extend into a gallery space, creating a imaginative forest-like environment. An animation, projected on the back wall, will be continuously playing over the course of the show (accept for during the... (more)

APRIL 9-13: Underground Istanbul by Sukran Moral Curated by Enrico Pedrini
At The Lab Gallery, Moral will interact with people passing by, showing them small placards which read "for sale, sale item, end-of-season sale, artist for sale..." and so on. The artist also plans to improvise based on her creative dialogue with midtown Manhattan. The dual projection on the two walls behind her will be of Sukran’s first performance on these... (more)

April 23 - May 4: Cabinet of Curious Ties by Art Omi
The year 2006 brought thirty distinct individuals together for three weeks of community and creative interaction. A singular alchemy resulted this year. Some artists purposely brought no materials with them; others intentionally worked with media strange to them; surprising collaborations were formed; all were open to critique, spontaneity, and serendipity... (more)

May 6-12: The Alchemy of Love: Water by Lisa Paul Streitfeld
"The Alchemy of Love: A Novel in Five Elements"
Astrology meets Deprivation and Art in this Unique Exhibition and Literary Demonstration.

May 16-24: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Holly Crawford
New York installation of site specific installation and performance. Florence, Berlin, Valencia, London, California and New York! Thousands of black balloons massed into sculpture will fill the space and flow outside. Come destroy by popping the impermanent creation... (more)

May 25-26: Macromix by DJ Lightbolt
DJ Lightbolt (Nicky Enright) spins a mash-up journey around the globe as never before encountered, resulting in the live soundtrack to his accompanying video collages. Using the postmodern instrument called the mixer , he creates + manipulates his outer-national fusion of sound: from the gospel to the gangster; from the vital pulse to the polyrhythm... (more)

June 4-16: Parallel Time by Maureen Catbagan
Films and our memories move the past and the present with such fluidity that we take for granted the structure of the moment. Time's rigid linearity dissolves as we re/live the past while existing in the present. Despite the current unfeasibility of actual time travel, we experience its multiplicity through our mental and visual editing. Parallel Time creates a fissure, a... (more)

June 17-23: The Alchemy of Love, Part III: Earth by Lisa Paul Streitfeld
Whereas WATER retrieved the lost bride of the gospels from the collective unconscious, the third installation of THE ALCHEMY OF LOVE honors the dominance of the female in nature. In this element, the five chapters of the blog-novel track the new paradigm Great Round of life/death/decay/rebirth in the seasonal cycle... (more)

June 25-29: Healing by Kata Mejia
Healing is a performance-installation which represents a breaking point with life caused by sudden, violent death. Symbolic, ritual actions expressing the pain and chaos this wrenching of life creates will be performed along with those expressing transcendence and healing of the departed soul and the loved ones who remain... (more)

July 2-12: The Sweet Hereafter by Gosia Koscielak curated by Raul Zamudio
The Sweet Hereafter is one-person exhibition of the Polish multimedia artist Gosia Koscielak. While the exhibition's title is both a reference to the film by director Atom Egoyan as well as a euphemism for death, The Sweet Hereafter is neither morbid nor does it concern itself with cultivating an aesthetic of fatality. Rather, it is a visually poetic meditation on the... (more)

July 13-14: Macromix by DJ Lightbolt
DJ Lightbolt (Nicky Enright) spins a mash-up journey around the globe as never before encountered, resulting in the live soundtrack to his accompanying video collages. Using the postmodern instrument called the mixer , he creates + manipulates his outer-national fusion of sound: from the gospel to the gangster; from the vital pulse to the polyrhythm... (more)

July 15-20: “Inside-Out” by Mark Wiener
There are moments that you wish you can get inside, then out again, then inside one more time, these moments are what "Inside Out" is all about. Using all surfaces of the Lab, I will explore my visual language past the edges of the canvas, in a 3-dimensional environment . Working “inside out” will bring the layers and dimensions built into my single-surface... (more)

July 23-27: B&B by Anindita Duta
"B&B evolves a space of complications arising out of willing and unwilling 'consumption of sex'. The installation introduces metaphor of bed with a 'feminine' identity wherein the bolsters (pillows) with their enhanced presence create a nightmarish disturbance. Materials, which are sourced from an organic base specifying an 'unrefined' quality, are responses that... (more)

August 6-17: Internal Unrest by Jodi Rockwell
Accomplished Seattle-based artist Jodi Rockwell presents a ten-day installation at The Lab Gallery. In Rockwell's latest time-based installation, Internal Unrest, the sublime activity of snowfall threatens the pristine interior of a Victorian sitting room. Rockwell, known for her intimate investigations into autobiography, created a room-sized flour sifter with... (more)

September 3-8: "Improvised Cinema" by Potter-Belmar Labs
A performance and installation by Leslie Raymond and Jason Jay Stevens
Performaces nightly from 6-10PM
San Antonio-based artists Leslie Raymond and Jason Jay Stevens present "Potter-Belmar Labs at the Lab," a performance and installation that will immerse the Lab at Roger... (more)

September 8: Macromix by DJ Lightbolt
DJ Lightbolt (Nicky Enright) spins a mash-up journey around the globe as never before encountered, resulting in the live soundtrack to his accompanying video collages. Using the postmodern instrument called the mixer , he creates + manipulates his outer-national fusion of sound: from the gospel to the gangster; from the vital pulse to the polyrhythm.

September 12-21: Trinacria an installation by Filippo Amato Sciascia
Sciascia has over the past two years created several object/images that employ various distinct media, including charcoal, gesso, paint, objects of various kinds, wax, rolled canvas, and blackboard. These disparate elements --while holding semiotic values within Sciascia’s allegorical narrative-- are collectively titled "Trinacria" in reference to the Homeric... (more)

September 23-29: The Alchemy of Love/Air (Sublimatio) by Lisa Paul Streitfeld
The Alchemy of Love, a multimedia blog-novel/installation, presents layered images as doorways to a deeper reality. The geometry of AIR, the fourth chapter of the series, depicts a prose style in which the novelist incorporates the planets as co-creators in a unique... (more)

October 1-13: Chamber of Dreams by Mary Ting
Figures, animals and strange organic forms converge in an abstract narrative that transforms the LAB Gallery into an aquarium of the night. The installation, Chamber of Dreams combines sculptural, cut paper and moving elements. The work is layered in literary references, cultural metaphors, and the influence of dioramas and wonder cabinets.

October 15-26: colLABorations by Peter Dudek
From October 15th to the 26th Peter Dudek and 6 other artists from wildly varying aesthetic backgrounds will join together to infuse the space of the Lab gallery with a passionately discordant environment... (more)

October 29 – November 2: Homage to a hero by Kata Mejia
''Homage to a Hero'' is the third performance of three and commemorates
the one year anniversary of the artist’s youngest brother being murdered.
It is a performance installation to pay homage to his life which he sacrificed
to save his loved ones. The second and third performances of the three were conceived after his death yet all are related... (more)

November 8th: Lilly invites you to come watch the sunset with her
by Lilly Mcelroy
On November 8th at 5:13pm, Lilly invites you to come watch the sunset with her. Please join her in New York City at the corner of Lexington and 47th Street. There will be refreshments.

November 12-30: Reservoir by Paul Rice
Water is the canvas. Light is the medium. Viewed from the city streets outside the gallery, artist Paul Rice harnesses two of nature's strongest elements. In collaboration with filmaker Rob Hall, "Reservoir" explores the unique possibilities in transforming water and light into an abstract visual experience.

The Lab 2006 Video Archive

	JANUARY 05-14 SYNTHETIC AESTHETIC CURATED BY CHRISTOPHER CHAMBERS WITH BRUCE MOORE . PETER SORIANO . DOREEN MCCARTHY . CHRISTOPHER CHAMBERS . BERND NABER MICHAEL ZANSKY . JEAN BLACKBURN . CASSANDRA LOZANO Synthetic Aesthetic comprises innovative current sculptures and bas-reliefs focusing on the use of tangible synthetic new media such as plastics, epoxies, and the like to create an abstracted and futuristic art that stylistically draws on many sources; from current industrial design to modernism in general.
	JANUARY 19-28 ICONS OF THE 21ST CENTURY CURATED BY LISA PAUL STREITFELD . WITH VINCENT BALDASSANO. MIKE BIDLO. ABRAHAM BREWSTER. LAUREL JAY CARPENTER . ARTURO CUENCA . RICHARD HUMANN . BAPTISTE IBAR . ANTON KORUBSKY KANDINSKY . MARNI KOTAK . PETER KREBS . YULIYA LANINA . D. DOMINICK LOMBARDI ABRAHAM LUBELSKI . RANAN LURIE . SOPHIE MATISSE . REUBEN NAKIAN . OLU OGUIBE KEVIN ROBINSON. GAE SAVANNAH. DONNA SHARRETT. ANITA STECKEL. MARGARET TSIRANTONAKIS. SUSAN WEINREICH. FRED WILSON. MYKOLA ZHURAVEL. Icons of the 21st Century presents a new movement in which contemporary artists explore the forms of the hieros gamos, or sacred marriage of the opposites. The exhibition seeks to extend the dialogue between Wolfgang Pauli and C.G. Jung, who believed this emerging archetype to be the icon of the 21st century.
	FEBRUARY 02-11 SPEAKING IN STRINGS CURATED BY D. DOMINICK LOMBARDI WITH KEN BUTLER AND KURT COBLE These artist/musicians challenge the definitions of musical art and instruments with a provocative and animated dialogue between “hybrid” instrument sculptures and an automated “robotic jukebox” of strings and percussion. Function and form collide and transform in a charged audio-visual environment of hyperactive hardware.
	FEBRUARY 16-25 MANIPULATING THE FOUND BODY CURATED BY KEVIN MUTCH WITH ADAM KLINE . KEVIN MUTCH . ALEX RADAR . SHANE SWANK One of the hallmarks of digital art has been the explosion of strategies it has allowed for manipulating images. Manipulating the Found Body examines the work of four artists using digital imaging to radically reimagine found images of the body and its surroundings. Using varied sources (comic books, software, pornography) and imaging techniques (collage, distortion, corruption) these artists all attempt to disrupt the flow of images by which we picture ourselves.
	MARCH 02-11JILL CORSON: PHOTOGRAPHS CURATED BY ELIZABETH STEVENS PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH YELLOW BIRD GALLERY Jill Corson walks New York's streets peering into shop windows. Her multi-layered, jewel-toned photographs juxtapose the bustling activity of crowded streets with luscious window displays. Her message is as clear as the panes of glass she shoots through: advertising seduces us into believing we need to acquire more.
	MARCH 16-25 CHRONICLE CURATED BY RICHARD ROTH WITH SIEMON ALLEN . ROYCE HOWES . RICHARD ROTH The newspaper has been a source for artists at least since Picasso and Braque adhered scraps of newsprint to their paintings. The three artists in this exhibition approach the newspaper from a variety of directions: socio-political critique, poetic exploration of image, and as source material for curating micro-exhibitions. These artists rescue the delicate pages of aging newsprint from oblivion and find meaning in the mundane.
	MARCH 30 – APRIL 08 A QUANTUM INSTALLATION MAURIZIO BOLOGNINI CURATED BY ENRICO PEDRINI Since the 1980s Maurizio Bolognini has programmed hundreds of computers to produce inexhaustible flows of random images, leaving them to function indefinitely, usually without monitors. His unique research, which has been presented all over the world, is based upon installations generating out-of-control processes, and combining programming and communication devices. This research not only represents an original development in the art language, but also helps us to understand the complexity and potential of the neo-technological environment.
	APRIL 13-22 I.D. CHECK CURATED BY MATTHEW GARRISON WITH GEORGE BOLSTER, ROBERT CONGER, LINDA DENNIS, MATTHEW GARRISON, GEORGE KIMMERLING, TIM LAUN, KATE TEALE, JONATHAN THURSTON, PAN XING LEI ID Check approaches the idea of identity as an outward projection of oneself defined by memories, imagination and experiences. Art has the potential to radically change one’s identity. This phenomenon takes on an even greater significance in our time of heightened security. Together the nine artists in ID Check establish identity as a malleable concept open to interpretation
	APRIL 27- MARCH 06 BEYOND THE THRESHOLD A PERFORMANCE INSTALLATION BY KATA MEJíA BEYOND THE THRESHOLD will explore the human crisis of separation, the experience of moving through and beyond the crisis, and the process of reaching toward the discovery of a stable center. The 10 day performance will involve the physical transformation of both performer and space through re-enactments of the structures and habits of everyday life, ultimately arriving at a new beginning beyond the limenal state.
	MAY 11-20 CUT IT OUT CURATED BY CLINT BROWNFIELD WITH ANITA SEAY . ANDREAS KOCKS . HENRY SANCHES . LAURA BREITMAN BERNICE SOKOL KRAMER Preschoolers do it. Matisse did it. They simply cut it out. Five top collage artists join together to exhibit their works using everything from paper and fabric, to metal-coated plastic and found objects.
	MAY 25–JUNE03 MIDTOWN MEDITATIONS AN INSTALLATION BY DANIEL ROTHBART CURATED BY ENRICO PEDRINI The business district of midtown, with its broad avenues, stately architecture, entrepreneurs, office workers and tourists serves as inspiration for this multimedia installation. The show will be made up of sculpture derived from vines, artifacts and refuse culled from a ten-block radius of the Roger Smith Hotel and video projections of performance work from midtown streets.
	JUNE 08-17 THE FEMALE FORM: THREE VISIONS CURATED BY DANIELLE MAILER WITH ILISHA HELFMAN . DANIELLE MAILER . AMELIA DE NEERGAARD These three exceptional artists interpret the female body, exploring issues of sexuality, race, mythology, fashion, modesty and exhibitionism through out their work. Using various mediums, and a handful of materials each, the works in this exhibition serve as a reminder of the resilience of the human spirit.
	JUNE 22 – JULY 01 KAMOKU CURATED BY RIEKO FUJINAMI WITH KEIKO NAKAMURA . ERI MIZUNO . JUNJI YAMADA . RIEKO FUJINAMI KAMOKU: a japaneese word which describes an attitude of speaking less in order to express more; a space for silence between persons, meant to elicit a deeper, more subtle understanding. This show seeks to expose artists with very different motifs, styles and techniques, but all of whom have a sensitivity for “the silence before, and after, speaking”. Each one makes their art slowly and carefully, with many layers between their inner world and the outside, between existence and situation, between subject and object.
	JULY 06-15 501 LEXINGTON CURATED BY MCKENDREE KEY WITH MICHAEL CATALDI, CATARINA LEITAO, MARIE LORENZ 501 LEXINGTON presents works by 3 artists whose work all addresses the idea of adventure or escape in an urban setting. Michael Cataldi, Catarina Leitåo and Marie Lorenz create site-specific pieces that speak to the notion of the urban journey.
	JULY 20-29: WANDERINGS CURATED BY DEBRA DREXLER WITH CALVIN COLLINS .KAREN GOINS. PUNI KUKAHIKO. JULIE WOODDELL LAYMON. MARK MARESCA. ISAAC PARKER. BEN PFISTER DIETER RUNGE. KILEY SMITH. WILL WILLIAMS III Through the deconstruction of maps these 10 artists from Hawai’I examine their own relationship to place and interrogate the concept of mapping. The process was begun through a collaborative “Exquisite Corpse”. Subjects investigated include; memory, globalization, anthropology, shifting weather patterns, nationalism, colonialism, racism, and Hawaiian cultural heritage and history.
	SEPTEMBER 7-16 SCAPES: A BOLD NEW WORLD CURATED BY D. DOMINICK LOMBARDI WITH Joseph Ari Aloi aka JK5, Saul Becker, Toc Fetch, Ron Johnson, Michael Perrone, Liza Phillips, Kent Rush, Patricia Smith, Alejandra Villasmil. Landscapes and seascapes are two of the oldest genre of the visual artist. Over the years, through Modernism and now in Contemporary Art, artists represent our world through perspectives that lean to the psychological, where relative proportion can become a political statement, and individual features metaphor. For this show, Lombardi will select some of the most intriguing artists which illustrate these current trends.
	OCTOBER 05–10 GLORIA GARFINKEL– OBI PAINTINGS CURATED BY PAUL SHARPE & PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH PAUL SHARPE CONTEMPORARY ART Gloria Garfinkel combines color and pattern in a powerful way that David Butler of the Ulrich Museum of Art has likenened to Matisse. Her work is inspired loosely on the culture and color of Japan and South East Asia. When she first saw a small Hiroshige print, her visual world became entranced with layering, mystifying, taking apart, and revealing. Garfinkel’s art is both beautiful and entrancing… always offering the eye new delights while challenging the brain and soul to see more and to live more with each encounter. Gloria Garfinkel’s work is presented courtesy of Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art, New York
	OCTOBER 19-28 COLOR CORRECTION CURATED BY MATTHEW GARRISON WITH JOEL CARREIRO . MARY CARLSON . NICHOLAS GAFFNEY . MATTHEW GARRISON . STACY GREENE . YUKO ODA . Research shows that behavior and perception are directly linked to the presence of color. The six artists in Color Correction investigate the exaggerated and enhanced colors of the new millennium. In turn, this exploration of contemporary esthetics reshapes perceptions of nature, history and current events.
	NOVEMBER 16-25 EELight AN INSTALLATION BY BILL FITZGIBBONS & CREIGHTON MICHAEL EELight, the premiere collaboration of sculptors, Bill FitzGibbons and Creighton Michael, transforms The LAB Gallery into an underwater sea inhabited by forms, which suggest the whimsical descendants of a distant union between eels and humans. A continuous, computerized light program that mimics the flow and density of seawater helps to create this aquatic illusion. Viewers, like visitors to an aquarium, may experience this other world only by looking through the glass.
	NOVEMBER 30 – DECEMBER 09 URBAN ALCHEMY SCULPTURE AND INSTALLATIONS BY ROBERT DELL Now powered by Consolidated Edison’s steam and powered previously by geysers in Iceland and Yellowstone National Park, these works have audible mammalian hot water circulation systems that make electricity directly from the temperature difference with the microclimate. This creates visual ballads of brilliant LEDs, laser light and color where changes occur in a slow, rhythmic, turtle - time cadence.
	Metaphysics and the Virtual Dec 14-23 This exhibition focuses on two artists that deal with the rehabilitation of metaphysics and the virtuality of the information age.