Third Exhibition
Talk Shop 3.0
Featuring works by:
Laura Battle
Susan Chiappini
Elisa Lendvay
Ruby Palmer
Janis Stemmermann
Christina Tenaglia
On view October 5 - January 29, Talk Shop 3.0 includes sculpture, integrated mixed mediums, painted paper cut outs, line drawings, ceramics, and textiles created by renowned regional artist.
The collection is intentionally showcased in a series of domestic vignettes framed via VERSE’s ongoing inventory of astounding local modern makers and VERSE Vintage goods, curated by visual artist, Beka Goedde and VERSE Founder Vanessa Shafer. Ongoing works include locally made modern furniture and goods for the home and body. Come to see, shop, and be well versed in the bounty of contemporary work brewing today in the Hudson Valley region and a bit beyond.
Featured Artists
Laura Battle has spent several decades as an artist exploring the potential of geometry to offer an optically charged mental space in which to explore universal visual language. Her work is informed by diagrams of the universe, mathematical configurations, codes and symbols, maps and charts of all kinds, esoteric manuscripts, Arabic geometries, forces in nature like the ebb and flow of water, and by the work of innumerable artists. Battle looks at the work of untrained artists, of mystics, calligraphers and craftsmen.
The process of geometrically dividing the rectangle serves as a starting point for all of her work and offers a broad conceptual space for her obscure mental meanderings. Inherent in the rectangle are geometric forces that describe human experience. These forces are derived from the ways in which horizontals, verticals and diagonals intersect, height to width, corner to corner. The center pulls, triangles emerge, corners converse, grids and spirals show up seemingly out of the blue. Images emerge out of a back and forth between working both systematically and intuitively as she responds, one move to the next.
Susan Chiappini is a self taught quilt artist living and working from her home-studio in the Hudson Valley. Her quilt designs and color choices are influenced by traditional American folk art and craft. Believing that simple handmade items create an atmosphere of beauty and warmth in a home, her pieces are intended to be used and enjoyed as part of daily life. She finds great joy in watching a loose design idea solidify as a patchwork pattern is built out and take shape. Her artistic practice has been supported by residency time at the Penland School of Craft. She is a graduate of Duquesne University (1985) and the Medical College of Virginia (1991) holding a PhD in human physiology. When not sewing, Susan enjoys hiking, cooking, traveling, and spending time with her four grown children. In addition to quilt making Susan works seasonally as farm kitchen supervisor at Montgomery Place Orchards. She and her husband, Rocco, make their home in Rhinebeck.
Elisa Lendvay (born 1975) is an artist living and working in Poughkeepsie, NY since 2017. She received an MFA from The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, and a BFA from The University of Texas at Austin, and Bennington College. Lendvay’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions in NYC at Sargent’s Daughters Gallery, Underdonk, Jason McCoy Gallery, V&A Gallery and Moti Hasson, and in New Haven, CT, at Fred Giampietro Gallery. Her work was recently on view at Ratio 3 Gallery, San Francisco, The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY, the Albany International Airport, and the Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery at the University of Dallas, Form+Concept, Santa Fe and The Hudson House, Hudson, NY, curated by JAG projects.
Participating in group shows in New York including Klaus Von Nichtaggend Gallery, Kansas Gallery, Asya Geisberg Gallery, Daily Operation, Lesley Heller Gallery, TSA and throughout the US. She is the recipient of awards and residencies including Edward Albee Fellowship, Santa Fe Art Institute, Vermont Studio Center, The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Swing Space Residency, New York Foundation of the Arts Artist Fellowship, Sculpture Finalist, The Dallas Museum of Art’s Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Award and the Dallas Museum of Art’s DeGolyer Award. She teaches at Marist College and was a visiting art faculty member at Bennington College in 2017.
Ruby Palmer was born in Boston in 1969 and spent her childhood in rural Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. She received her BA in Painting and Drawing from Hampshire College in 1992. In 2000 she received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts. She’s exhibited her work most recently at Morgan Lehman Gallery in NYC, as well as Turley Gallery in Hudson, NY. Her work has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally.
Palmer’s work is part of many private collections as well as the corporate collections of Fidelity Bank and Capitol One.
Ruby has lived and worked in the Hudson Valley, New York since 2010.
Janis Stemmermann is a visual artist and designer whose interdisciplinary practice includes sculpture, textiles, ceramics and printmaking.
Creating immersive environments of individual, modular works, Stemmermann explores how objects move between—and are recontextualized by—natural and domestic spaces.
Stemmermann received a BFA in sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Recently she has exhibited work at Planthouse Gallery in New York, NY, Tanja Grunert Gallery in Hudson, NY, and Furnace Art on Paper Archive in Falls Village, CT. Her work has been supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig in Ireland.
Based in Brooklyn since 1988, she now divides her time between Williamsburg, Brooklyn and Sharon, Connecticut.
Christina Tenaglia (b. 1975, Philadelphia) received an MFA from Yale School of Art. She has received fellowships for residencies at The MacDowell Colony, I-Park, and Catwalk and is a recipient of the W.K. Rose Fellowship in the Creative Arts, a NJ State Arts Council Fellowship Award for Sculpture, and a purchase award grant from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Her work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in New York and elsewhere, including the Al Held Foundation, Boiceville, NY with River Valley Arts Collective; Thomas Park Gallery, New York and Seoul; NADA x Foreland, Catskill, NY with Heroes Gallery; Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY; Hesse Flatow, New York; Underdonk, Brooklyn; LABspace, Hillsdale, NY, Collar Works, Troy, NY; Opalka Gallery, Albany; NY, Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, Tivoli, NY; White Pines, Byrdcliffe, Woodstock, NY; Fridman Gallery, Beacon, NY; The Samuel Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, NY; Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY; Newark Museum, Newark, NJ; and Field Projects, NY among others. She has been reviewed and profiled in Hyperallergic, the Brooklyn Rail, Chronogram and other publications.
Tenaglia lives and works in Saugerties, NY.
Ongoing Works By
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Eric Conroe / Finding Form Design
Inspired by a deep range of historical forms, Finding Form is about designing and making furniture and goods that have durability, function - and the inherent beauty found therein.
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Elisa Finoli / Aglaia Jewelry
Hudson Valley jewelry designer dedicated to ethical, contemporary kewelry. Aglaïa jewels are wearable reminders of the power of beauty. The secret is in their highly crafted sculptural simplicity.
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Ken Landauer / FN Furniture
Zero-Waste, body-fit, durable furniture designed and made in the Hudson Valley.
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Liza McLaughlin / LB Felt
Exceptional felt works, derived from the tutelage of Kiki Smith, McLaughlin’s affinity for felt-work began on the streets of NY, working with wool batting, friction, and water from an open fire hydrant, she magically trod woolen blankets into existence. McLaughlin is an artist, jewelry designer, fabricator and arts educator.
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Muriel Norman / Down Under Faux
Muriel Norman is an Australian/British Decorative painter and plaster artist now living in Upstate New York. A unique collection of concrete vases and sculptural pieces are on view with Talk Shop.
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New York Heartwoods
New York Heartwoods (NYH) is a woman-owned and operated fabricator of fine solid wood furniture, using sustainable wood milled from fallen and urban Hudson Valley trees. Founded in 2011 out of their love of forests and desire to create both beautiful timeless designs and environmental and economic solutions for their community, they impeccably craft unique heirloom-quality furniture.
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Julianne Swartz
Julianne Swartz creates immersive, multi-sensory installations, sculptures, and photographs. Her work synthesizes sound and light into ephemeral, participatory, performative, and social experiences.
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Swish & Hammer
Traci Pinczes, a Hudson Valley Native, is dedicated to creating highly crafted art, jewelry and decor integrating up-cycled materials and masterfully tedious technique. VERSE showcases a robust line of her beaded jewelry and hand-dyed silk tapestries.
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Allison Toepp / Ethel Leather
Leatherwork studio in the village of Red Hook. Toepp’s objects are functional works of art, handmade from materials that are dear to her. This is her way of celebrating her cows and her community.
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Emi Winter
A multi-disciplinary artist versed in printmaking, drawing, painting, and textiles had a desire to translate her exploration of color and texture from custom woodblock prints into wool. This exploration led Winter back to her hometown of Oaxaca, Mexico where she began working with local weavers. The experiment resulted with a series of rugs that are open editions, intended to be functional objects in people’s homes.
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Withers Studio
Withers Studio (formerly Withers & Grain) is a bespoke design and build studio based in Red Hook, NY with a Williamsburg retail storefront. They produce exquisitely crafted furniture for residential and commercial clients.
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