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Mrs. is thrilled to present works by Elizabeth Atterbury and Fabienne Lasserre for NADA Foreland 2023, in Catskill, NY during Upstate Art Weekend. The exhibition will be open to the public Friday, July 21 through Sunday, July 23 at 111 Water Street, Catskill, New York.  For this event, the gallery will present two sculptures: Atterbury’s Second Island, 2021, and Lasserre’s Cold Dream, 2021.

Lasserre’s sculptures, geometric, steel frames with painted, clear vinyl windows that resemble stained glass, invite and obstruct sight through and around them. Hung from the ceiling, they slowly twist with the energy of the room. The framed, familiar sunrise gradient of Cold Dream, a translucent pale pink melting into light blue, exists as an object itself while also acting as a filter through which the viewer gains a new perspective of the space. While the transparent centers of Lasserre’s works speak to an “excluded middle,” the part that is left out when things are divided into categories, Atterbury’s Second Island holds the weight of that middle. The terrain of the sculpture is a rough mix of beach sand, paper, and glue.  Second Island is a dense, compact amalgamation of personal memory, material, and time, all packed into an eleven-inch sphere. At Foreland, the gallery will exhibit these two round objects together; one haloing the other, their gravities pulling them into orbiting planet and moon.

Elizabeth Atterbury (born 1982, West Palm Beach, FL) lives and works in Portland, Maine. Recent solo and group shows include Mrs., Maspeth; Kate Werble Gallery, New York; The Portland Museum of Art, Portland; The Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville; kijidome, Boston; DOCUMENT, Chicago; Western Exhibitions, Chicago; The Luminary, St Louis; Et al. Etc., San Francisco; Pulaski Park Field House, Chicago; Able Baker Contemporary, Portland; Ida Schmid, Brooklyn; TSA, Brooklyn; Bodega, Philadelphia/New York; KANSAS, New York; and The ICA at Maine College of Art, Portland, among others. She received her BA from Hampshire College and her MFA from MassArt.  Recent exhibitions include Mirages, a three person show between Atterbury, Strauss Bourque-Lafrance and Katy Cowan at the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum at Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL and Spatial Relations, a group exhibition with Gordon Hall and Anna Hepler at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME. Atterbury's third solo exhibition with Mrs. was held in Fall of 2022.  The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA will host a solo exhibition of the artist's from February 2023 - January 2024.  Atterbury is represented by Mrs., Maspeth, NY and DOCUMENT, Chicago, IL.

Fabienne Lasserre (b. 1975, Ottawa, Canada) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. A 2019 Guggenheim Fellow and the Maryland Institute College of Art’s current Director of the interdisciplinary M.F.A. in Studio Art, she received her B.F.A from Concordia University (1996) and her M.F.A. from Columbia University (2004). Recent solo projects include With What Eyes (2023, Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto) and Eye Contact (2021, Turn Gallery, New York), as well as exhibitions at the Hallways Contemporary Arts Center (2018, Buffalo, NY) and Parisian Laundry (2018, Montréal). Her upcoming solo exhibition, Listeners (Athenaeum, Athens, GA), will open in 2024 with support from the Andy Warhol Foundation. Group exhibitions Essex Flowers, White Columns, The Tang Museum, Ceysson de Bénétière, Palazzo Costa Trettenero, Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston, Museo de Antioquia, and Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, among others. She is the recipient of a Saint-Gaudens Memorial Fellowship, a Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Award, and Project Grants to Visual Arts from the Canada Council for the arts. Her work also appears in public and private collections, including the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, the Birmingham Museum of Art, and the Claridge Collection of Canadian Art.

NADA Foreland 2023 features over 40 participating galleries and over 60 exhibiting artists in a collaborative exhibition cascading through Foreland’s historic Flagship Building and Waterfront; a community market featuring books, art objects and more in Foreland’s Bookhouse; a selection of premier food and beverage vendors across a sprawling waterfront lawn; and a robust series of live music, discussions, guided tours, and other performances throughout the weekend.

Visitors will also have access to ‘Foreland Presents,’ a rotating series of artist commissions, public exhibitions, performances, events, and workshops operating around the heart of Foreland's Studio Community.  Curated by Jesse Greenberg, each project takes advantage of a specific architectural feature or location within Foreland’s historic industrial buildings, including gallery artist Chris Bogia’s Candle, 2022, which remains on display outdoors at Foreland, through October, 2023.

For more information please contact emily@mrsgallery.com.

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