2x4, curated by Joe Nanashe, March 25th-27th& April 2nd-3rd, 2011

Brilliant by Michael Scoggins

2x4

(too-bahy-fawr)

Jim Lee

Jamie Powell

Michael Scoggins

Carmen Tiffany

2x4: A timber measuring 2 x 4 inches in cross section when untrimmed: equivalent to 1 5/8 by 3 5/8 inches when trimmed. It’s a common construction material, a standard unit, a building block in an almost molecular level. Ubiquitous, common, lowbrow, it’s the material of the laborer. Jimmy Carter uses them to build houses. Termites gnaw holes into them. They warp when wet. You can also beat a person to death with one.

Each artist uses common material, vernacular imagery, slang, with a workman’s sensibility, to explore volatile, profane, and physical experiences. Individually they address the inherent meaning in their chosen material while investing in personal histories and their own experiences. 2x4: 4 artists with 2 works each.

Curated by Joe Nanashe

March 25-27 & April 2-3, 2011. Opening reception Friday March 25^th, 7 – 10PM. The gallery will be open from 1- 6PM on March 26^th, 27th, and April 2^ndand 3^rd.

The Laundromat is an artist-curated exhibition space located at 70 Wyckoff Ave, # 1J, in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

Alexa Hoyer and Walsh Hansen, Friday February 18th at the new Laundromat

Installation view, Walsh Hansen and Alexa Hoyer

Alexa Hoyer, Cats, 2004

Alexa Hoyer, (L) Subway, 2010 (R) Eavesdropping, 2010-11

Alexa Hoyer, Eavesdropping, 2010-11

Alexa Hoyer, video still from documentation of Eavesdropping performance

Actors: Oscar Montoya and Lorraine Cink

Camera: John Loughlin

Excerpt from Eavesdropping, text courtesy Alexa Hoyer

Walsh Hansen, Installation view: (L) The Fawn, 2010 (R) The Animals, 2009-11

The Fawn, video still courtesy Walsh Hansen

Walsh Hansen, The Fawn, 2010

Walsh Hansen, Badge and Gun, 2010-11

Walsh Hansen, The Animals, detail

Walsh Hansen, Duck and Squirrel, 2011

Press Release:

The Laundromat will feature new works by artists Alexa Hoyer and Walsh Hansen for our first exhibition in the new space on Wyckoff Ave. as part of Beat Night, Bushwick galleries stay open late.

Alexa Hoyer will present drawings, photographs and transcribed texts of conversations she overheard on the subway. She will also direct a performance based on these transcriptions. With the contribution of New York based actor and comedian Jen Kwok, a group of selected actors will be reenacting and reinterpreting these dialogues. In much of her work, Alexa Hoyer is concerned with the idiosyncratic elements of the mundane by highlighting unique quirks of the human experience.

Walsh Hansen will present two videos as well as several related drawings and sculptures. The characters in his videos include people and animals, both live and sculptural which interact in domestic spaces and urban landscapes. His work explores his own human tendency to anthropomorphize a representation in order to satisfy a base need for companionship. For the artist, the futility in this act and the inevitably unfulfilled need for reciprocity is evinced in a kitten’s contempt for its own sweater.

This will be a two day exhibition. The opening reception is Friday February 18th from 7-10PM, and we are open on Saturday the 19th by appointment.

Hansen was born in Missoula, Montana. He is a graduate of the University of Montana and the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, PA. He currently lives in New York City.

Born in Hamburg, Germany, Alexa Hoyer holds a BFA from Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri and an MFA in sculpture from Tyler School of Art. Hoyer has a permanent video installation at the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, and has also shown her work throughout the US and in Europe.

Cocktails and Dreams

I was standing under a loft bed watching a young crowd in front of a wall of bargain artworks (NOTHING PRICED OVER $100) when an exotic-looking blue cocktail held by a lady attracted my eye... .

- James Kalm

The Brooklyn Rail, Dec. 2010

Installation view.

Jonathan Allmaier

Liz Atzberger

Kimberly Brandt

Daniel Bruce

Daniel Bruce

Christopher Deo

Ben Godward

Walsh Hansen

Alexa Hoyer

Jake Lesher

Rebecca Litt

Sarah McDougald Kohn

SMK-Detail

SMK-Detail

Joe Nanashe

Installation view

Joe Protheroe

Carl Randall

Kevin Regan

Bob Scheib

maiko susu shioda

Rob Servo

Stephen Truax

Maria Walker

Cocktails and Dreams, a group show featuring small works and art- or artist-inspired cocktails by the following artists:

Jon Allmaier, Liz Atzberger, Kimberly Brandt, Dan Bruce, Christopher Deo, Ben Godward, Walsh Hansen, Alexa Hoyer, Ianthe Jackson, Jake Lesher, Rebecca Litt, Sarah McDougald Kohn, Joe Nanashe, Joe Protheroe, Carl Randall, Kevin Regan, Bob Scheib, maiko susu shioda, Rob Servo, Stephen Truax and Maria Walker

This will be the last show in The Laundromat’s current location before we move to a new space on Wyckoff Avenue. The show will feature a number of Laundromat alumni, while also introducing artists whose work we will show in the coming year.

Cocktails and Dreams invites artists to draw inspiration from the art world to create an affordable, consumable, conceptual art experience in the form of a mixed drink.

The artwork on display will be priced at or below $100 to encourage collectors and to help raise funds for the upcoming exhibition season at the Laundromat.

The show will coincide with Work that Beat, a night of openings at Bushwick galleries.

Friday October 22nd, 2010

7-10PM

Takayuki Kubota at Thierry Goldberg Projects

Laundromat alum Takayuki Kubota will be included in an upcoming group exhibition titled Unspecific Objects at Thierry Goldberg Projects from March 11th - April 18th, 2010.

Takayuki Kubota, Trois Preludes, 2008. Magnetic tape, acrylic panel, wood panel, glue, hair, oil and air.

The Laundromat Flat File: Now at Storefront

The Laundromat is pleased to announce the loan of our Flat File, which will be temporarily housed at Storefront until the end of the summer while our exhibition program is on hiatus. Storefront is a new space opened by Norte Maar director Jason Andrew with artist Deborah Brown, located at 16 Wilson avenue in Bushwick.

The Flat File contains 30 drawers that are each 9"W x 12"D x 3"H. Each drawer contains artwork(s) by a single artist. There are sculptures, paintings, drawings, installation, video, and even performance pieces that the viewer is invited to engage with.

The 30 artists represented are from the US, Germany, Denmark, the UK and Japan. They are: Lauren Carbone, Sarah McDougald Kohn, Jonathan Allaier, Maria Walker, Chris Deo, Tim Belknap, Joe Protheroe, Audra Wolowiec, Patrick Cuffe, Daniel A. Bruce, Kaoru Sakurai, Ianthe Jackson, Loie Hollowell, Scott Wilson, Liz Atzberger, Bram Arnold, Lars Rasmussen, Amy Lincoln, Jesse Bercowetz, Suzanne Goldenberg, Juliane Zelwies, Ryan McCartney, Emily Blaskovich, Walsh Hansen, Eleanna Anagnos, Brian Ravenholt Jepsen, Ben Godward, Helena Wurzel, Michael Eudy, Carl Randall and Kevin Andrew Curran.

Please visit us at Storefront, Saturday and Sunday 1-6pm.

Click here to read about the Laundromat on the art blog Hyperallergic.

Got questions? Contact the Laundromat: laundromatgallery@gmail.com

Takayuki Kubota, December 12th 2009 at the Laundromat.

Installation View

La Plus Que Lente, from the Literature series.

Journal Series, Installation view.

Histories of Art, Installation View.

Vincent van Gogh, Shoes. 2009, oil on canvas. From the series Histories of Art.

Paul Cezanne, View of the Domaine Saint-Joseph

Detail.

The Laundromat is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by Japanese artist Takayuki Kubota.

Kubota will present two bodies of work at the Laundromat. In one, using tape recordings, the artist creates minimalist-looking objects with contents that exist only in the viewers imagination. In the other, Kubota playfully engages ideas of art history and authorship through paintings of museum labels.

Kubota records sounds on magnetic tape and then mounts the tape horizontally on wood panels. For example, in the Literature series the artist records himself reading aloud from novels such as Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. The viewer is given a hint, but must forge his own connection between what is present visually in the panel and what he imagines its audio contents to be.

In the series Histories of Art Kubota makes paintings of exhibition labels for famous paintings. These are the same size as the original works they describe. The use of oil on canvas, as well as selecting paintings from famous museums such as MoMA or the Met plays with issues of art historical authority.

Takayuki Kubota was born in 1985 in Kobe, Japan and currently lives and works in Tokyo. His interest in art began in early childhood. He received a BA in Art and Asian Studies from Temple University, Japan Campus in 2008. His 2006 exhibition at Gallery Q in Tokyo, Noisy Surface, was reviewed by FlashArt magazine in January 2007.

Takayuki Kubota

December 12, 2009

By appointment from 12PM.

Reception 6 - 9PM

Laundromat Gallery

238 Melrose Street

4th Floor

Brooklyn NY 11206