September News
Hello there, Friends of Lost and Found Lab!
Hosting one-month residencies at Lost and Found Lab often feels like entering into a perpetual wrinkle in time. No sooner are we unpacking and digging in, when it seems moments later, we are wrapping up and offering well wishes and hopes for a return visit.
Such was the case with our June resident Marion Belanger. The Lab sends her our best wishes, and is very much looking forward to seeing where her subtle, silent and powerful images of the landscape will take us next. While at the Lab, Marion worked with the papers of Rachel Carson at the Beinecke Library, as well as selections from New York Public Library’s Picture Collection. We highly recommend her book Rift/Fault (Radius Books), with a forward by Lucy Lippard. Marion’s work is just stunning.
In July, SoHo Memory Project’s Yukie Ohta came to the Lab with an enticing array of art supplies and a focused intention of letting things unfold with ease. While at the Lab, Yukie worked with the Faber Birren Collection on color at Yale’s Haas Family Arts Library. Yukie wrote to us from Japan just days ago and shared: I think about my time at Lost and Found often and marvel at the fact that, since my stay there, I have felt lighter and less impatient for the next thing to come along. The Lab most certainly is imbued with light-filled stillness, and an open-ended sense of easeful possibility. Each resident has added to that palpable sense of possibility with their own moment in time here. We are all 'Works in Progress'.
Yukie Ohta in the studio
Yukie readies materials.
Yukie presents How To Draw A Bunny.
The summer season at the Lab came to a close with the dazzlingly bright light of visual artist, filmmaker, storyteller, and archivist-at-heart, Trina Robinson. Trina used her time at the Lab preparing for her upcoming show as a featured Emerging Artist at the Smithsonian’s Museum of African Diaspora scheduled to open this fall. Her visits to the Beinecke Library included multiple deep dives into the papers of Harlem Renaissance greats, Carl Van Vechten, Zora Neale Hurston and Roy Decavara. We look forward to seeing how these collections surface in Trina’s work in the future, and wish her well on her journey as she continues to create works of art inspired by the often hidden stories found within archival collections.
A visit to the Met rooftop with Trina Robinson.
Trina presents her film works in progress.
Trina takes a deep dive at Yale University's Beinecke Library.
There is so much more to come — as we prepare for the arrival of the Lost and Found Lab artists scheduled for the year ahead.
Until soon and with enthusiasm,
Janine St.Germain