Opening March 11: VIROSA
VIROSA Presents:
Degenerate Cinema
Opening Saturday, March 11 from 2–5pm
The Mildred Complex(ity) Project Space, 37B Main Street, Narrowsburg, NY
VIROSA Presents:
Degenerate Cinema
Opening Saturday, March 11 from 2–5pm
The Mildred Complex(ity) Project Space, 37B Main Street, Narrowsburg, NY
In cinema, degeneracy creates new possibilities for storytelling. VIROSA works to reconfigure conventions of filmmaking, undermining longstanding barriers between cinema and the finer arts. VIROSA Presents: Degenerate Cinema shines a light on potentials beyond the event horizon of Hollywood.
Two short films are presented as part of the exhibition, Poor Magic (2020) and Fishbowl (2022). Poor Magic is VIROSA’s first narrative short, shot on location at Mildred’s Lane in winter 2020, on the cusp of the COVID-19 plague. The narrative concerns a precocious magician who tries to catch his shadow. VIROSA’s second short film is Fishbowl, named after the specimen lab at the LaBrea Tar Pits Museum in Los Angeles, where visitors observe scientists prepare remains extracted from the tar. In the film, a strange man sneaks into the museum by night to clean prehistoric specimens; his motives are unclear, as are those of an entity who watches him from the deep future.
The film screenings are interspersed by VIROSA Reels (2019-22) that showcase the collective’s moving image experiments. The exhibition also includes a new series of prints, Tar Pit Specimen (2023), featuring a 4-color silkscreen edition printed on plastic paper resembling oversize slide films. In addition to the edition is a limited series of unique, hand-painted prints that evoke the laborious process of colorizing black & white film. The print works invite reconsideration of “the screen” in expanded cinema.
Selected props from VIROSA productions are also on view. Film props are often treated as disposable material in conventional film productions, but VIROSA presents these objects as degenerate sculptures that outlive the filming process; as with radioactive decay, they are fragments emitted from an unstable center.
The costs are never-for-profit. You can make a donation through one of the following options. Every cent goes directly to supporting our most immediate needs towards establishing a land trust and becoming an official 501c3 organization that will allow Mildred’s Lane to thrive for generations to come.
Our Fiscal Sponsor (Creative Visions)
Thank you to The Silbert Foundation / The Goldman Foundation / and all supportive individuals who prefer not to be mentioned.
Photo credits / First image: FISHBOWL, 2022. Digital video, 10m 51s. Starring Austin Kase and Megan Zerga, with special thanks to the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, Los Angeles / Second image: Phantom at Mildred’s Lane, 2022. Digital c-print on cotton paper, 18 x 24 inches (framed).
To Mildred’s Lane, With Love - Opening Reception
Saturday Social / Reception / March 26 / 4 PM through 6 PM
37B Main Street / Narrowsburg / NY 12764
YEAR of SILVER
To Mildred’s Lane, With Love
The Mildred Complex(ity) Project Space presents
A Selection from the Collection of Gifts over the past twenty-five+ years.
Saturday Social / Reception / March 26 / 4 PM through 6 PM
37B Main Street / Narrowsburg / NY 12764
This YEAR of SILVER, Mildred's Lane shares a view of a few specimens gifted to us from friends and colleagues in the field. All societies do it – actors, philosophers, authors, artists – gifting builds collections.
Artists' gifting is a way of showing care and support for one another. The gift is making a statement of belonging to or in the society of – identifying with a given tribe. The gift is often a thank you or a trade. We sometimes give in respect to the context of a collection. The giver may even list the gift in the collections section of their CV. An Artist's gift of their artwork is highly personal – a gift of love – hence, treasured. Thank you all.
Francis Cape / Jorge Colombo / Gregory Crewdson / Moyra Davey / Mark Dion / Pablo Helguera / Athena Kokoronis / Julian Laverdiere / Monique Milleson / Matt Mullican / Michael Oatman / Claire Pentecost / James Prosek / J. Morgan Puett / Jason Simon / Samiha Tasnim / Robert Williams / Amy Yoes
Open / March 19 / Or by appointment
Saturday Social / Reception / March 26 / 4 PM through 6 PM
37B Main Street / Narrowsburg / NY 12764
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Mildred's Lane.
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The Labor Portraits in conversation with The Maslow Collection
The Labor Portraits of Mildred's Lane
J. Morgan Puett, Jeffrey Jenkins, Rebecca Purcell
and Fellows* of Mildred's Lane
in conversation with
The Maslow Collection*
The Maslow Study Gallery for Contemporary Art
at
Marywood University / Scranton, Pennsylvania
WORKSTYLES* of Mildred's Lane
Artist Talk / J. Morgan Puett / October 20, 2021 / 4:00 pm / Comerford Theater
Opening reception following.
Marywood University Art Department and The Maslow Collection present thirteen large-scale color photographs depicting some of the creative practices ongoing at Mildred's Lane, PA– WORKSTYLES – an active systems aesthetics created by J. Morgan Puett with countless collaborators convening over two decades in a working-living-researching project.
Overall, eighteen labors of Mildred's Lane attempt to reframe histories of women's work in the domestic environment for the twenty-first century. These photographic portraits on view were initially commissioned for an exhibition in Chicago titled A Proximity of Consciousness, (2014, Curator, Mary Jane Jacob.) Within the production, J. Morgan Puett's art installation is complexly titled HumanUfactorY(ng) Workstyles: Excerpts from the User's Guide to Mildred's Lane. A Costume Drama of the Everyday. The portraits are part (yet, independent of) a section of the installation referred to as The Hall of Labors. The Labor Portraits live amongst the collections/installations of Mildred's Lane and have traveled to multiple venues worldwide.
J. Morgan Puett and Ryan Ward (artist and curator of The Maslow Collection) make selections from The Maslow Collection in conversation with The Labor Portraits of Mildred's Lane. The Maslow Collection's featured artists' work includes; Berenice Abbott, William Bailey, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Harry Callahan, Mark Cohen, Robert Cumming, Hamish Fulton, Jane Hammond, Karla Knight, Wendell MacRae, Friedrich Meckseper, Will Mentor, Wright Morris, Joan Nelson, Ellen Phelan, Ed Ruscha, and Robert Smithson.
Additional to the salon installation, the gallery cases feature select ephemera, papers, cloths, and books from the archives of Mildred's Lane.
Note/ Importanly, there are other collaborating artists working on this ongoing project in more detail at www.mildredslane.com.
Installation view, 2021.
*About The Maslow Collection
The Maslow Collection is the largest and most comprehensive collection of contemporary art in Northeastern Pennsylvania, with over 500 works by 150 artists. The most significant part of the Maslow Collection is devoted to paintings by newly established or emerging artists working (or exhibiting) in New York during the late 1970s through the early 1990s. The Collection of Marilyn and Richard Maslow was housed initially at Intermetro Industries; it is now on long-term loan to Marywood University.
*From the Glossary of Mildred's Lane
Work•styles (short version) werk-stīls / noun or verb
1. the embodiment of any practitioners' work-live-research environment as a rigorous, aesthetic, intellectual, economic, and civic engagement with every aspect of life centered on new modes of being in the twenty-first century. 3. evoking social and political entanglement questioning our relationships to, a) the environment, b) people, c) systems of labor, d) dwelling, e) design apparatuses, f) inventive domesticating – composing ethics of comportment – being as practice.
Origin: neologism of Mildred's Lane. See Gesamtkunstwerk, (German: [gəˈzamtˌkʊnstvɛɐk],1827, literally "total artwork," frequently translated as "total work of art." A work of art that makes use of all or many art forms or strives to do so. The term is a German loanword accepted in English as a term in aesthetics; notes from Wikipedia.) See System Esthetics, Jack Burnham, Art Forum 1969. See The Discipline of DE, William Burroughs' The Exterminator! 1979, and film, Gus Van Sant 1982.
Top Image / from The Labor Portraits of Mildred's Lane / Land Steward / Archival Giclée, 24 X 34, 2014. Limited Edition.
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The Mildred Complex(ity) / 37b Main Street / Narrowsburg, NY.
Other News / THE MILDRED COMPLEX(ITY) Project Space
CURRENTLY ON VIEW / OCTOBER
Apicultural Curiosities from The Grafter's Shack at Mildred's Lane
UPCOMING / NOVEMBER
SILVER–IRON–LIGHT
Works on view from Fellows of Summer Sessions 2021 at Mildred's Lane.
Opening November 6, 2021
World Hope Forum 2021
We are proud to announce that Mildred's Lane will be represented at the World Hope Forum 2021.
The Fabric Workshop and Museum - Process and Practice: 40 Years of Experimentation
On view from December 15, 2017 to March 25, 2018, Process and Practice: 40 Years of Experimentation pairs evocative items from more than 100 Artist Boxes with the finished works produced in FWM’s Workshop. The selection is drawn from 371 boxes stacked floor to ceiling in the Museum’s archive and from the permanent collection of some 5,000 objects. Finished works too large for the exhibition will be represented by photographs. Videos drawn from FWM’s collection of artist interviews and documentation of artists at work will also be shown in the galleries.
Process and Practice: 40 Years of Experimentation
ICA/Boston,
Houser & Wirth
On view from December 15, 2017 to March 25, 2018, Process and Practice: 40 Years of Experimentation pairs evocative items from more than 100 Artist Boxes with the finished works produced in FWM’s Workshop. The selection is drawn from 371 boxes stacked floor to ceiling in the Museum’s archive and from the permanent collection of some 5,000 objects. Finished works too large for the exhibition will be represented by photographs. Videos drawn from FWM’s collection of artist interviews and documentation of artists at work will also be shown in the galleries.
The Land We Live In - The Land We Left Behind
The Labor Portraits of Mildred’s Lane and ten years of programs are a part of ‘The Land We Live In – The Land We Left Behind,’ an exhibition curated by Adam Sutherland at Hauser & Wirth, Somerset UK, exploring the contradictory nature of society’s relationship to the rural. Open until May 7, 2018.
HumanUfactorY(ng) Workstyles: The Labor Portraits of Mildred’s Lane
Jorge Colombo, Mark Dion, Jeffrey Jenkins, J. Morgan Puett, Rebecca Purcell, Natalie Wilkin and other Fellows in collaboration.
Group Show. Curator, Adam Sutherland
20 Jan – 7 May 2018, Hauser & Wirth Somerset
Opening: Friday 19 January 2017, 6 – 8 pm
Hauser & Wirth Somerset is delighted to announce ‘The Land We Live In – The Land We Left Behind’, curated by Adam Sutherland. This ambitious survey exhibition explores the contradictory nature of society’s relationship to the rural. The presentation features over 50 international artists and creatives, as well as works on loan, by artists working from the 1500s to the present day.