Home and Work
For many years, TSL has offered community service to the city of Hudson. Many artists live in this area. Along with the bookshop and the theater, the inclusion of an art gallery at TSL supports the continual vision of community by Linda Mussmann and Claudia Bruce. Being artists themselves, they’re proponents of home and work meeting the public.
The fact that the gallery is a sitting room for the theater and the bookshop is exciting and amusing, Home and Work is the essence of TSL. I invited Maximilian Goldfarb and George Liu to join me in this exhibit, all home and work — local Hudson artists. We have worked together in the group presentations called WOLF. At TSL we will be presenting work separately, but we are still interested in a group conversation. This is both a group show and not a group show.
-Nancy Shaver
Nancy Shaver
Using the imperfection of ‘almost-square’ as boundaries, I mix fabrics to counter limitations for women existing in dress fabrics from big box retailers. They are combined with textiles from non-western sources and the ubiquitous American T-shirt. This is what we look like.
George Liu
After pouring pasta water down the sink too fast, my pipe dislodged. I will present PVC pipes outfitted with crochet. Desire and necessity, draining and sponging. Will it hold or not. Will it explode or not. This is a response to the vulnerability of our daily infrastructure, and the extreme expanse of belief and doubt it elicits.
Maximilian Goldfarb
The modular workstation as a design typology is applied as a framework for a set of images. Images that document far away events, incidental but affective, standing for the different interfaces in which we receive the world. The workstation, the perpetual workplace, turns the home—the space of our interior world—inside out.