WinterSpace, New York, NY, 917 549-7285

AutumnSpace (see p.2), Randers, Denmark.

While creating Winter and AutumnSpace, I
formed a Seasonal Coalition with Jo Q.
Nelson and Nikki Schiro, based on our
mutual interest in mixing up public,
private and functional aspects of
exhibition spaces. We operate
autonomously, seasonally and
independently produce a section for a
shared post-exhibition catalogue.

link to Jo Q. Nelson and SpringSpace

link to Nikki Schiro and SummerSpace

1998 article on 104th St. Garden  

First exhibition at WinterSpace: A Lot
of Possibilities, 2009.

As the curator, I decided to make an exhibition that mirrors one room’s view of a communal garden. Participating artists - Nanna Debois Buhl, Laura Fayer, Sandra Eula Lee, Sandra Mack-Valencia, Mark Inglis Taylor and Jonathan Velardi - made their interpretations of a theme of transplantation and transformation in "interior lots" at WinterSpace.

link to Nanna Debois Buhl

Nanna Debois Buhl’s video installation,
"Travelling Plants," is a subtle
meditation on cross-fertilization,
colonial history and cultural records.

link to wall text  

link to Laura Fayer

link to Sandra Mack-Valencia
detail

Responding to how the 104th St. Garden
seems to remind its gardeners of where
they grew up - however different these
locales might be - Laura Fayer and
Sandra Mack-Valencia made 'Alumbrados,'
a wall collaboration. The work is a
celebration of Medellin, Colombia, where
Sandra grew up surrounded by her
father's murals. Whereas the city is
mostly known to foreigners as the home
of drug cartels, Sandra's and Laura's
experience, during a visit in 2008, was
one of a city transformed and visionary
city-planning. Christmas fireworks
(polvora) and the city's illuminated
lights on both river banks (alumbrados)
inspired their imagery.

link to Sandra Eula Lee

For her mixed media installation,
"Request a Street Tree," Sandra Eula Lee
photographed trees and pavements of New
York City, reflecting both on
city-dwellers' innate need for nature,
as well as their preconceived notions of
'nature' - and the occasionally
tragicomic results.

link to Kenneth Rasmussen

Kenneth Rasmussen's large linoleum
prints depict interactive diversity -
actual species coexisting with those of
his imagination and communication taking
place via his native Danish language, an
invented language and interspersions of
English profanity. His irreverent utopia
includes an enormous knitted bikini and
spine, hung from ceiling, for the 104th
St. Garden itself.

link to Mark Inglis Taylor

From San Francisco, Mark Inglis Taylor
mailed drawings he made (and culled from
personal archive) in response to my
description of the 104th St. Garden. The
drawings are open to interpretation and
facilitation and served as props during
my telling the story of the garden to
the show's visitors.

link to Jonathan Velardi

Jonathan Velardi’s proposal for the
104th St. Garden fuses his research of
urban gardens and garden designers with
his interest in patterns and public art.
His wall installation is inspired by the
garden's flamingos and the decorative
window bars at WinterSpace. His proposal
includes an obelisk kit, to be assembled
by the gardeners themselves.

link to Ladies of the Press

First page for the WinterSpace section
of the post-exhibition catalogue -
"Revisiting the 104th St. Garden, a
Graphic Documentary" - published by The
Ladies of the Press.