A Complexity of Joys

A Crit Lab at MAPSpace Exhibition

The Crit Lab at MAPSpace


Curated by Patricia Miranda, founder of The Crit Lab, and Francine Weiss, head curator,

Newport Art Museum


Extended through July 16!

Join us for a closing party

Sunday, July 16, 1-3pm


June 3- through July 9 2023

In Person Reception

Saturday June 3, 3-5pm

open by appt all other times.

Email info@thecritlab.com to schedule an appt.


The exhibition features an In-Person and Online exhibition, virtual shop and exhibition catalog (coming soon).


The Crit Lab and MAPSpace are thrilled to present our second Crit Lab exhibition, featuring a selection of artists from the Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 Labs. The exhibition is a part of the first Port Chester Arts Fest, with many arts activities in the building and around town, including and Port Chester artists at Pearl Street, and at Ice Cream Social, a wonderful new art space, from 5:30 - 7:30 pm directly following our event.


See more about the Port Chester Arts Festival here.


Artists:

Mrinalini Aggarwal, Idil Barkan, Carol Bouyoucos, Lauren Bradshaw, Leah Caroline, Tracy Casagrande Clancy, Gwen Charles, Elizabeth Debethune, Alaina Enslen, Carolyn Ellis, Leslee Fiorella, Lisa Freeman, Deborah Freedman, Kathryn Geismar, Rima Grad, Sutton Hays, Carol Herd-Rodriguez, Eve Jacobs-Carnahan, Anne Johnstone, Karen Kalkstein, Bonny Leibowitz, Elizabeth Lindy, Donna Litke, Rita Maas, Caroline MacMoran, Cynthia MacCollum, Peggy McClure, Nilou Moochhala, Catherine Moylan, Tommy Muniz, Lisie S Orjuela, Deborah Peeples, Jill Parry, Allison Pottasch, Michele Randall, Laura Reeder, Michelle Robinson, Holly-Dale Shapiro, Priscila Stadler, Tessa Click Sargent, Rebecca Steiner, Sylvia Vander Sluis, Kim Svoboda, Mitchel Visoky, Teresa Waterman, Ylisa Young


Stay tuned for the A Complexity of Joys catalog premiering soon!

Image Carol Bouyoucos

Ylisa Young

A Childhood’s Journey,2023,Acrylic/mix media,12”x12"x1"on wood panel

Tessa Click Sargent

We started to shake things up and add things from the 20th century, 2023, color pencil, acrylic paint, flashe, foam, watercolor paper, and plastic envelope, 13" x 13" x 3" size variable

Tessa Click Sargent

I thought I saw a famous person, but maybe it was just a bird, 2023, color pencil, acrylic paint, flashe, foam, watercolor paper, and plastic envelope, 13" x 13" x 3" size variable

Teresa Waterman

D-Ceasing Time, digital print,11"x14" paper, image variable

Teresa Waterman

B-Ceasing Time, digital print,11"x14"paper, image variable

T-Bone Muniz

Waste/Time Capsule: Magenta Fade, 2022, 28"x20"x10”

Sylvia Vander Sluis

I’m Not Just One Thing, 2021, Mixed Media, 7.5" x 13" x 8”

Sutton Hays

Vessels and Blurbs, 2022, oil, canvas, 40" x 30"

Rita Maas

Lasdon Arboretum, Katonah NY, September 27, 2022;9:02-9:22am, 2022, 10"x8"

Rita Maas

Lasdon Arboretum, Katonah NY, July 5, 2022;12:41 - 12:57pm, 2022, 10"x8"

Rita Maas

Lasdon Arboretum, Katonah NY, September 21,2022;3:08-3:29, 2022, 10"x8"

Rita Maas

Somers NY, June 5 2022;8:31-8:51am, 2022,10"x8"

Rita Maas

Hammond Museum & Japanese Garden, North Salem, October 7 2022;1:27-1:33pm, 2022, 10"x8"

Rita Maas

Somers NY, November 5, 2022 9:37-9:58am, 2022, 10"x8"

Rima Graad

My Legs Are Perfect, 2021, Altered Family Photograph, 10"x20”

Rima Graad

'I Am Not Listening, 2021, Altered Family Photograph, 10"x20”

Rebecca Steiner

Poisson d’avril, 2022, collage constructed from cut-and-pasted printed paper, size: 10 7/8" x 7 3/4”

Priscila Stadler

03-sKin 24, 2023, Tree bark, pigment, 16” x 14” x 4”

Priscila Stadler

sKin 5, 2022, Tree bark, pigment, 9.5” x 7.5” x 3.75”

Priscila Stadler

sKin 2, 2022, Tree bark, pigment, 5” x 5.5” x 1"

Peggy McLure

Contagion, 2022, 11.5" x 11'"

Nilou Moochhala

Honoring This Way Of Life, 2023, Collage, 4" x 5”

Nilou Moochhala

Traversing Through This Indian Landscape, 2023, Collage, 4" x 5"

Mrinalini Aggarwal

FIELD [tapestry] grass bioplastic, honeysuckle, 72"x24"

Mitchell Visoky

Suspended I, 30"x22"

Michelle Robinson

Tethered, Hand built dollhouse furniture acrylic paint encaustic wax and thread, 3"x5.5"x3”

Michelle Robinson

Wound, Embroidery on muslin, 14"x11"x1”

Michelle Robinson

Valley House 31 Iteration 91, Embroidery on muslin and personally trained GAN AI, 12"x16"x1”

Michele Randall

Root Memory, 2023, encaustic, 10"x10"

Lisie Orjuela

Following the Line V-21, Charcoal, oil pastel, gouache on paper, 17"x15"

Lisie Orjuela

Following the Line V-16, Charcoal, oil pastel, gouache on paper, 17"x15"

Lisie Orjuela

Following the Line V-18, Charcoal, oil pastel, gouache on paper, 17"x15"

Lisa Lee Freeman

Oh My Heart, 2023, mixed media on paper, 42” x 42”

Elizabeth Lindy

Baptism Capsule 2, Photograph printed on Hahnemühle with archival inks: Relief object with mulberry paper, turmeric, walnut, and cochineal inks, and water, 2023, 19" × 13" / 13" × 7"

Elizabeth Lindy

Baptism Capsule 1, Photograph printed on Hahnemühle with archival inks: Relief object with mulberry paper, turmeric, walnut, and cochineal inks, and water, 2023, 19" × 13" / 13" × 7"

Leslee Fiorella

Perspective No.4, 2023, Woven Cotton and Linen, 10"x10"x.75"

Leah Caroline

Integrations/Mirrors, 2023, archival print on Epson paper, 8.5"x8.5” printed area, 10"x10”

Leah Caroline

Integrations/Mirrors, 2023, archival print on Epson paper, 8.5x8.5” printed area, 10"x10”

Leah Caroline

Integrations, 2023, ink, pen, colored pencil and image transfer on giclee print, 8.5"x8.5” printed area, 10"x10”

Lauren Bradshaw

Ischium, 2021, Earthenware, glaze, pantyhose, polyester fiberfill, 6"x12"x6”

Laura Reeder

Cultivator 1.8.2022.14860: Eileen, Maureen, Joan, & Claude, 2022, unframed photo of 6-mile snow "cultivator" drawing, 36"x48"

Kim Svoboda

Covid Burial Ground 2020-2023, stitched fabric collage, 22"x11"

Kathryn Geismar

OP 81, 2022, acrylic, tape, photo transfer, and marker on book page, 12"x9"

Kathryn Geismar

OP 85, 2022, acrylic, tape, and marker on book page, 12"x9"

Kathryn Geismar

OP 80, 2022, acrylic, tape, photo transfer, and marker on book page, 12"x9"

Karen Kalkstein

Vest, 2020, Knitted raffia, twine, stick, bark, 14"H x 10”W

Karen Kalkstein

Forest Fashion, 2020, Bark, feathers, garbage bag strips, wasp nest, twine, 25”H x 19”W x 3”D

Jill Parry

FC-12, 2020, Mixed Media, 14"x11"

Eve Jacobs Carnahan

Narrow Vision, 2006, handspun wool and mohair yarns, wire, wood, 4" x 8" x 8”

Idil Barkan

Barkan, 2023, Encaustic on wood, 9”

Idil Barkan

Barkan, 2023, Encaustic on cactus wood, 7”

Holly-Dale Shapiro

Committee Lady, 2023, Collage of mixed printed materials and ink, 10"x8"

Carol Herd-Rodriguez

Pondering, 2022, acrylic, graphite, pastel on paper, 12"x9"

Gwen Charles

Uterus Slingshot, 2021, Routed wood & polymer tourniquet, felted wool, Approx. 12” x 8”

Elizabeth De Bethune

MaryJane on Voter Engagement, acrylic gouache and paint marker on paper, 11" x 14”

Elizabeth De Bethune

Annie with Striped Overalls, 2022, acrylic gouache on paper, 14" x 11"

Donna Litke

Working Hands, 2023, cast handmade paper, bark, natural dyes, 22" x 13" x 2"

Deborah Peeples

Portrait 14, 2023, encaustic on panel, 8"x8”

Deborah Peeples

Portrait 9, 2023, encaustic on panel, 8"x8”

Deborah Peeples

Portrait 13, 2023, encaustic on panel, 8x8”

Deborah Peeples

Portrait 12, 2023, encaustic on panel, 8"x8”

Deborah Freedman

About a Pond #2. 2023 Oil on Yupo. 26" x 40"

Tracy Casagrande Clancy

Love's Watermark, 2023, Cold Wax Mixed Media, 12" x 12" x 2”

Tracy Casagrande Clancy

My Gypsy Blood (framed), 12" x 12" x 2"

Cinthya MacCollum

Abis balsamea-Asplenium montanum, 2022, Watercolor and ink on paper, 24"x16”

Cinthya MacCollum

Week of January 6, 2023, Watercolor and graphite on paper, 22"x30”

Catherine Moylan

Installation view, 2022, Acrylic, Duralar, paper, Polyester, wire, string, glitter, variable

Carolyn Ellis

Becoming Visible: Ecstasy, 2022, Paper Thread AcrylicWash, 9"x9"x3/8", Edition of 10

Caroline MacMoran

Do You Care?, 2023, Found objects and rope, vegetable netting, synthetic discarded fabric, wire, embroidery floss, 41"x30"x3"

Carol Bouyoucos

Shroom Dream, 2023, digital new media print, 20x16x1”

Carol Bouyoucos

Land Of Milk And Honey, 2023, digital new media print, 20"x18"x1"

Bonny Leibowitz

Phantom Wing, 2020,Wonderflex, 30"x12"x5"

Bonny Leibowitz

Her, 2021, Branch, Tyvek and ink,10"x10"x10"

Anne Johnstone

Hands in the Clouds, 2022, crayon/gouache/cray-pas/pencil/ink, 15" x 11".

Anne Johnstone

So Much to Say, 2022, crayon,gouache,crayon,pas,pencil, ink, 15" x 11"

Allison Pottasch

Disclosure, 2023, Analogue collage on board, 11"x14"

Alaina Enslen

Parting Veils, 2023, Encaustic and fabric, 30"x30"x1.5”