Take a seat, linger a little bit. You’re in a waiting space with many objects to befriend.
Take a seat, linger a little bit. You’re in a waiting space with many objects to befriend.
Collar Works is proud to present the Object Lounge: a three dimensional riff on the Flat Files conceived by Madison LaVallee and Yiyi Mendoza.
The lounge is a place for objects and viewers to share space together. Uncover unique and novel relationships created by the simple act of coming together and being close in time and space with an object. We welcome and witness with wonder the intimacy that arises from proximity.
This year, we invited the Material Girls to select the work.
Cameron Cameron (b. 1991 Texas, based in Los Angeles, CA) Cameron uses delicate interventions to interrogate how one's relationship to bugs, nature, and place corresponds within the quotidian our day-to-day. MFA from University of California Los Angeles (2018); BFA Studio Art from University of Texas at Austin (2014); American Austria Foundation Seebacher Prize (2018); Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2017); Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from Virginia Commonwealth University (2015)
Devra Freelander (b. 1990–d. 2019, was based in Brooklyn, NY)
Devra Freelander made sculptures and videos that explore climate change and geology from an ecofeminist and millennial lens. MFA Sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design (2016); BA Cum Laude Studio Art from Oberlin College (2012) Women’s Studio Workshop Studio Residency Grant (2018), The Arctic Circle Residency (2017), Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellowship (2017), Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Residency (2016-2017), ASMBLY Session #1 (2017), St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award (2016), Fjuk Arts Centre (2015); Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from Virginia Commonwealth University + Summer Studio Program (2013)
Hilliary Gabryel (b. 1991 Lynchburg, VA, based in Queens, NY )
Gabryel approaches the transcendence of social class through tropes of aspirational luxury and the embellishment of found objects. BFA Magna Cum Laude from Virginia Commonwealth University, Painting and Printmaking Major and Dance Minor (2013), Post Baccalaureate Certificate Sculpture + Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University (2013); Vermont Studio Center Fellowship (2017), ASMBLY Session #1 (2017), Wassaic Artist Residency (2017).
Claire Lachow (b. 1989 Queens, NY, based in Brooklyn, NY)
Claire Lachow maps connections between language, bodies, and ideologies, exploring how the resulting constellation is objectified and intensified in technology. BA Studio Art Cum Laude from Oberlin College, Art History minor with honors (2011); SACI College of Art & Design (2009). Red Bull Arts Detroit Residency & Fellowship (2019); Welcome to my Homepage Residency (2019); Visual Philosophies (2014). Recipient of a FST StudioProjects Grant (2021). Contributing writer to Jewish Currents (2019). Managing Editor & Contributing Writer to Foundations Magazine (2016)
Gracelee Lawrence (b. 1989 Sanford, NC, based in Troy, NY)
Lawrence’s work deals with relationships between food, the body, and technology. It is born in the transfigurative space between physical and digital reality, exploring the ways in which bodies are both gendered and metaphorically fragmented in terms of capitalist-driven material desires, physical sustenance, and the digital spaces we inhabit. MFA Sculpture + Extended Media from University of Texas at Austin (2016); Post Baccalaureate Certificate Sculpture + Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University (2012); BFA with honors Sculpture from Guilford College (2011). Currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University at Albany. Residencies at Vermont Studio Center (2018); Wassaic Artist Residency (2018); Bunker Projects Residency (2017); Visiting Artist in Residence at Chiang Mai University, Thailand (2016-17), Luce Scholars Fellowship (2016-17).
Rachael Starbuck (b. 1988 Miami, FL, based in Austin, TX)
In her practice Starbuck navigates how a body moves through space— negotiating touch, desire, intimacy and communication across distance. She makes fluid feeling objects that are sensitive to their environment. MFA Sculpture + Extended Media from University of Texas at Austin (2017); BFA with honors from Virginia Commonwealth University, Sculpture + Extended Media, Art History Minor with honors (2011) Lecturer, Dept. of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin (2017-2021), Vermont Studio Center (2015); Wassaic Project Artist Residency (2014); ACRE Projects Residency (2013)
This year’s artists:
Abel Guzman
Emma Rossoff
Caitlin McCormack
Jeff Slomba
Joanna Poag
Catherine Reinhart
Emmaline Payette
Emma Barnes
Sara Hubbs
Maria Dusamp
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Sidney Mullis
Ariel Wood
(Kai) Miller
Jasmine Chock
Grace Stott
Kenzie Wells
Leonora Loeb
This year, 25% of sales will go to benefit Ma’s House, a residency program for BIPOC artists on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation.
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