Laps(e)
June 11, 4-7pm
Shanti Grumbine with Rita Leduc and Sarah E. Brook
Visual Artist, Shanti Grumbine, will be presenting a new solo project at the outdoor shed at Glasshouse, comprised of video, textile and original text. In “Portraits and Repetition”, Gertrude Stein wrote, “And so let us think seriously about the difference between repetition and insistence.” She felt that sentient beings exist through insistence rather than repetition due to the inevitable variability of emphasis.
In Laps(e), the mundane, repetitive back and forth motion of weaving, swimming laps, reading and writing becomes that hum of insistence that quietly tethers us to meaning. The word ‘lapse’ points toward failures of concentration, memory or judgment, as well as toward an interval between moments in time. Grumbine is interested in the kind of possibility that is housed in moving between points, yet never arriving.
Laps(e) will be accompanied by site specific responses to the land at Glasshouse by multimedia artists Rita Leduc and Sarah E. Brook. All three artists utilize transparent materials to navigate discrepancies between interior experience and the exterior world.
This event is part of our 15th season, titled: The Captive Spectator- Performing The Otherhood in Motherhood
This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson
BIOS:
Shanti Grumbine is a New York-based multi-media artist. She has been an artist in residence at the Millay Colony, Ucross, Yaddo, Vermont Studio Center, Saltonstall Foundation, Wave Hill Winter Workspace Residency, Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder Residency, Artist in the Marketplace (AIM), Women’s Studio Workshop, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, BRIC Workspace and the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program. Fellowships and grants include the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts, the Santo Foundation Individual Artist Grant, RVAC Money and Materials Grant, Arts Mid-Hudson Individual Artist Grant,Taking Care Fund, A.I.R Gallery Fellowship and the LABA Fellowship at the 14th Street Y. Select exhibition venues include The Bronx Museum, Dorsky Gallery, Dorsky Museum, CCA Sante Fe, Love Apple Art Space, Magnan-Metz Gallery, Fridman Gallery, Planthouse Gallery, PS 122, Smack Mellon, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey and IPCNY. Shanti received an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Sarah E. Brook is a Brooklyn-based sculptor and installation artist from the Nevada high desert. Brook explores the relationship between external and internal (psychic) vastness through the use of translucency, layering and color gradients to morph architectural structures into perceptual experiments. They are particularly interested in the way perceptual experience can align marginalized identities. Their solo exhibitions include Mark (con) Me In (sec) This Moment (rate) Whole, Open Source Gallery, Brooklyn, 2021; If Yes, Then Everything, Sweet Lorraine Gallery, Brooklyn, 2020; Offering, The Vanderbilt Republic, Brooklyn, 2015; and Necessity, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, 2014. Brook has also exhibited at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, Lesley Heller, Field Projects, Re:Art, the (un)Scene, NARS, Ground Floor Gallery, The Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art (NY) and was included in the 2019 BRIC Biennial in Brooklyn. They have been awarded the 2019-2020 Leslie-Lohman Museum Fellowship (NY), the 2018 Media Arts Fellowship from BRIC (NY) and residencies from Marble House Projects, I-Park, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Jentel Foundation, Playa and Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Public art sculptures include Open Shelter (Prospect Park, NY, 2016), Viewfinding, a year-long installation and collaboration with queer poets (Riverside Park, NY, 2018-2019), Align (permanent installation, Crystal Park, NY, 2019), WISHFUL: how (where) do i see and WORTHY: how (who) do i stand (indoor and outdoor semi-permanent companion works at Poly Prep Academy, Brooklyn, NY, 2021) and a forthcoming permanent piece at the new City Harvest Hub, a food justice organization in New York.
Raised on the outskirts of New Jersey’s Pine Barrens, Rita Leduc is an interdisciplinary artist now based in New York’s Hudson Valley. Motivated by overarching interests in process and relationship, her artistic practice visually and conceptually investigates understanding gained through a shared existence between self, subject, and time: a "process of acquaintance." She is currently exploring these themes as Artist-in-Residence at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in collaboration with Oika, in The Museum of the White Mountains' exhibition, Watching the Seasons Change, and at Art.Earth's conference, Sentient Performativities. Select previous exhibitions include Mount Saint Mary College (NY), Wells College (NY), Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Art (Russia), Project 59 at Governors Island (NY), RAW Miami (FL), and Ortega y Gasset Projects (NY). Past residencies include i-Park Foundation, PLAYA, Tofte Lake, Vermont Studio Center, and White Pines Bird Language Retreat. She has received support from Oika, NYFA, the Jerome Foundation, Atlas Obscura, Broto: Art+Climate+Science, the Wells College Scholar-in-Residence Program, and Rutgers University, among others. Her work has been featured on the cover of Signal House Edition as well as in unpsychology magazine, Artis Natura, A+E Collective, and 100days100women. Leduc received her MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and BA from the University of Pennsylvania. She is director of GROUNDWORK, an interdisciplinary creative research retreat, and currently teaches at William Paterson College of New Jersey, Ramapo College, and Rutgers University.