The LAB Gallery - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for The LAB Gallery. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Raylene Gorum "Camero(o)n’s Line"
"Camero(o)n’s Line" is inspired by a dramatic geological event that occurred 440 million years ago yet profoundly influences modern NYC. Cameron’s Line fault runs along the east side of Manhattan and...More »
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Bill Shannon "Once Upons"
"Once Upons" merges contemporary urbanity and fairytale archetypes in a retro-future-tech sculptural video installation and performance hybrid. The installation consists of sixteen channels of video that...More »
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LEIMAY "Untitled" presented by Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya
In this performance installation by LEIMAY, led by the duo Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya. this piece explores the modern search for personal identity, juxtaposed with society ideals, pseudo realities...More »
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BabySkinGlove "The Engagement of the Orsidyte Lineage Settlement"
Before Peter Minuit spent his last glass coins in 1614 purchasing what is now known as New York City, the Orsidyte Lineage inhabited 400 square feet of earth at the intersection of 57th Street and Lexington...More »
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Will Corwin "Bull in a China Shop"
Corwin’s installation comprises of a labyrinth of shelves, on them placed vast stacks and collections of abstract plaster objects, running wild and rampant,. They take over the nooks they have been neatly...More »
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Brent Birnbaum “The bureau of apology”
Subscribing to the belief that the contemporary artist is an entrepreneur, Brent Birnbaum channels the infamous and legendary traditions of snake oil salesmen and street psychics, in his performative installation,...More »
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dEmo "Bear Forest"
An installation by the Spanish artist, dEmo, consisting of 30 over-sized bear sculptures of different colors and different sizes.More »
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Pat Badt and Scott Sherk "Intersection"
Curated by Creighton Michael, "Intersection" is a sound-based, site-specific installation by Pat Badt and Scott Sherk. Badt and Sherk's creative practice involves cultivating awareness of the qualities...More »
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Carol Mickett and Robert Stackhouse "Breath of Water"
"Breath of Water" is part of the artist’s on-going exploration into the representation of water both two-dimensionally and three-dimensionally. Their work is framed by the ideas of two Presocratic philosophers:...More »
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"Project 101: AMBruno" Video Installation
The London based group of artists, AMBruno, presents an installation of 101 individual film works by 40 artists. All the pieces are silent and of exactly 101 seconds (1' 41") duration, these will be screened...More »
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Kata Mejia "Apology"
"Apology" is a performance installation that questions the meaning, effects and repercussions of both asking for, and being asked for forgiveness. Through physical actions that transcend the spoken, written...More »
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Jongil Ma and Elizabeth Winton "Passing a Bunch of Beetles Preparing their Gracious Dinner Party"
In his second show at The LAB Gallery, Jongil Ma will be collaborating with Elizabeth Winton to create a forested enclave that will transform The LAB into a real life illustration as if `from a children’s...More »
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Helen Dennis "Projected Drawings"
The show "Projected Drawings," will unite the notions and essence of photography into a single large scale installation, filling the entire space of The LAB Gallery. Dennis will be hand drawing a mirrored...More »
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Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya "Uncovering" Performance Installation
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...More »
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Anne Ferrer "Billowing Beauty"
The LAB (for installation + performance art) presents Paris based artist Anne Ferrer in her first exhibition in New York City. Rooted in her experience of foreignness and the absence of an inherent sense...More »
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Rachel Hayes and Jiha Moon "Chutes and Tears"
"Chutes and Tears," a sculpture and painting installation by Rachel Hayes and Jiha Moon, combines Jiha’s bold and delicate brushstrokes painted and embedded within Rachel’s sculptural fabric and hanji...More »
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Mark Dean Veca "Impulse"
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...More »
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Verónica Peña Martinez "Without Name"
"Without Name" is a reconstruction of an ephemeral installation/performance created in 2008 in response to the loss of the artist's father. In order to feel closer to him, Verónica Peña Martinez creates...More »
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Eva Perrotta and Sophie Bortolussi "The Dressing Room"
"The Dressing Room" is a duet created by Nu dance Theater in collaboration with the architects Eva Perez De Vega Steele and Ian Gordon. Trying to reconnect with themselves and each other, two women face...More »
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Yeon Jin Kim "All Intellectual Animals are Dangerous"
"All Intellectual Animals are Dangerous" is a multi-media installation offering the viewer a more intimate experience than usually found with public art projects. The windows of the gallery will be whited-out...More »
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Kristina Skovby "Shopping for Life"
"Shopping for Life" is a performance piece driven by Conscious Consumerism, a social movement based around increased awareness of the impact of purchasing decisions on the environment and the consumers...More »
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Daniel Rothbart and Maia Anthea Marinelli "Soundstorm"
'Soundstorm' is a kinetic installation by Daniel Rothbart and Maia Anthea Marinelli. This work explores a dialogue between art and nature, using sculptural elements that move according to the barometric...More »
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Fred Forest "The Trader's Ball"
"The Trader's Ball" is an installation by French artist Fred Forest. With his trademark over the top irony, Forest rubs salt in the wounds of the free market banking industry , mocking their response to...More »
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Ga Hae Park "Space Rhythm Drawings-Flowers"
This work will consist of 200 cut paper drawings on the floor and walls of the gallery. Park's work fuses the raw material of music into visual, emotional and intellectual forms by drawing with cut...More »
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Morgan O'Hara "Spring Lab"
Morgan O'Hara's latest large scale site-specific wall drawing. O'Hara's site-specific wall drawings are distilled abstractions of her "Live Transmissions" series, a collection of drawings she has been...More »
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"SMartCAMP" Conference
SMartCAMP is a “survey” conference spanning some of the most important topics in social media as it relates to the cultural sector. It is designed to help those who are new to or skeptical of social media...More »
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Kaz Maslanka "A Spectrum of Jewels"
Curated by Robert C. Morgan, "A Spectrum Of Jewels" will feature what Maslanka calls a 'Dodecaorthogonal Space Poem.' This type of 'mathematical poem' is constructed with twelve 'orthogonal space poems'...More »
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"La Incubadora" Grimanesa Amorós
The LAB, in association with SLAG Gallery, has been converted by Grimanesa Amorós into "LA INCUBADORA" which will be featuring "You Cannot Feel It... I Wish You Could" A sculpture lighting installation...More »
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Kata Mejía "Forty Weeks"
"Forty Weeks" is a performance-installation that celebrates the miracle of life and the act of giving birth. It represents the time a mother carries her child during pregnancy and explores various aspects...More »
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Robert C. Morgan "The Purgation of Nike
The Lab (for Installation and Performance Art) presents performance installation by Robert C. Morgan titled "The Purgation of Nike (1974-1984/2009)". The piece is based on a 1984 professional studio recording...More »
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Olek & Carrie Ahern "Covers" Performance Installation
This new collaboration between visual artist Olek and choreographer Carrie Ahern entitled, "Covers,” is a morphing crochet installation presented to the Midtown-Manhattan passersby from within the fishbowl...More »
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Pete Beeman and Heidi Cody "Mutiny Aboard the Cutty Sark"
“Bear witness to the villainous Mutiny Aboard the Cutty Sark!! Treacherous Cap’n Morgan and his thievin’ Chips Ahoy pirates have seized the mighty Cutty Sark Whiskey Clipper, and are commandeerin’ her...More »
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Jongil Ma "Site Specific Installation With Inner and External Spatial Tensions"
The Korean born Jongil Ma is interested in the site-specific expansive sculptures by wooden pieces with a dynamic tension. His works present three-dimensional drawing between the existing architecture...More »
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"A Conversation with Sebastian Chan of the Powerhouse Museum" Talk
Sebastian Chan is currently the Head of Digital Services & Research at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia. His web team is responsible for the Museum's online presence, a large suite of experimental...More »
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"SHIFTwork: Live Akshun Performance" Andre Stitt and Fritz Welch
Stitt and Welch will have a live akshun performance within the space where they will dismantle, cut-up, and construct new works from the debris of the paintings they were just working on for distribution...More »
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"SHIFTwork" Andre Stitt and Fritz Welch
SHIFTwork is a collaborative installation/performance that will investigate the perceptions of the artist’s method of production as “work” and the artist as a cultural worker. The space becomes a public...More »
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"Places We Go" Performance
"Bitesize New York City culture for evening commuters." Attempting to define vulnerability, 3 people explore intimate acts in the confines of a fishbowl gallery space in Midtown rush hour traffic. More »
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"Audience to Audience" Performance
Playing on the ambiguity of a commerce space that does not sell goods and cannot be entered into by the public, Sophie Loss and Veronika Spierenburg (a.k.a. Loss & V) take the idea into the domain...More »
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Lutz Rath "Ur Sonate"
Performer and world renowned cellist Lutz Rath will perform "Ur Sonate" from inside the LAB Gallery's glass box. Originally "composed" by German DADA painter Kurt Schwitters between 1922 and 1932, "Ur...More »
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"Wave" Janet Bellotto
As pirates have taken to the streams of the Internet and Art appears to be migrating around the globe, almost seamlessly, the stability of our environment becomes evermore important. The space between...More »