Talk Shop 4.0
Curated by visual artist, Beka Goedde and featuring works by:
Briana Babani
Melissa Dadourian
Georgia Elrod
Jess Gaddis
Shanti Grumbine
Brad Lail / Lail Design
Lowland Studio
Alison Charli Smith
Laura Gail Tyler
Alona Weiss
Now On View:
Talk Shop 4.0 includes sculpture, paintings, textiles, ink on paper, photography, ceramics, and vegetable based sculptural elements created by
renowned regional artist.
The collection is intentionally showcased in a series of domestic vignettes framed via VERSEโs ongoing inventory of astounding local modern makers and VERSE Vintage goods, curated by VERSE Founder Vanessa Shafer. Ongoing works include locally made modern furniture and goods for the home and body. Come to see, shop, and be well versed in the bounty of contemporary work brewing today in the Hudson Valley region
+ a bit beyond.
March 1 - April 28, 2024
Briana Babani
Briana Babani is an artist and designer based in Red Hook, NY. She grew up in the Midwest, received her BA in painting from Yale University, and then lived and worked in New York Cityโs fashion district before earning her Masters Degree in Interior Architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design. In addition to being exhibited in galleries across the country, Babaniโs work has been sold at Barneys New York and ABC Carpet and Home.
Melissa Dadourian
Melissa Dadourian is a Brooklyn and Hudson Valley based artist working in textile media, painting and sculpture.
Dadourian has exhibited at JEFF in Marfa, Texas, the ACCEA in Yerevan, Armenia,
the Albany Airport, the University of Buffยญalo, Transmitter Gallery, Textile Arts Center in Brooklyn among others. Recently she created an 8,000 square foot mural for Manhattan Park Pool on Roosevelt Island and has forthcoming shows at the Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, Collar Works, Troy, NY as well as the MoCA Westport, CT.
Georgia Elrod
Georgia Elrod is an artist based in the Hudson Valley and New York City. Her work posits physicality as a kind of living abstraction and poetic space, presenting bodily forms that can be both known and unidentifiable. Elrod begins with many ink and gouache works on paper to cultivate imagery into larger mixed media oil paintings. The works express fleeting moments in time within and between bodies, their narratives often embedded with autobiographical meaning.
Georgia Elrod's work has been exhibited in New York and abroad, in solo exhibitions at Peninsula Art Space and John Davis Gallery, as well as in group exhibitions at spaces including Momenta Art, The Painting Center, and RH+ Gallery in Istanbul. Her work has been featured in ArtMaze Magazine, Big Bell Magazine, and New American Paintings. Georgia is currently a co-director of the artist-run gallery Underdonk, and co-curated at Heliopolis Gallery from 2012-2015. Georgia co-founded That Time of the Month, a monthly studio visit group for women and non-binary artists. She received her MFA in Painting from Hunter College.
Jess Gaddis
Jess Gaddis lives and works in Catskill, NY where she founded Cone Zero Ceramics School. She holds a BFA and MFA from SUNY New Paltz.
Shanti Grumbine
Shanti Grumbine is a New York-based multi-media artist. She has been an artist in residence at the Millay Colony, Ucross, Yaddo, Vermont Studio Center, Saltonstall Foundation, Wave Hill Winter Workspace Residency, Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder Residency, Artist in the Marketplace (AIM), Womenโs Studio Workshop, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, BRIC Workspace, and the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program. Fellowships and grants include the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts, the Santo Foundation Individual Artist Grant, RVAC Money and Materials Grant, Arts Mid-Hudson Individual Artist Grant, Taking Care Fund, A.I.R Gallery Fellowship and the LABA Fellowship at the 14th Street Y. Select exhibition venues include The Bronx Museum, Dorsky Gallery, Dorsky Museum, CCA Sante Fe, Love Apple Art Space, Magnan-Metz Gallery, Fridman Gallery, Planthouse Gallery, PS 122, Smack Mellon, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey and IPCNY. Shanti will be an artist in residence at Interlude Artist Residency, Hudson, NY in July 2024 and has a solo show coming up at WAAM, Woodstock, NY, in October 2024. Shanti received an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Brad Lail / Lail Design
Lail Design was founded in 2016 by Master Thrower Brad Lail.
Rooted in traditional craftsmanship with a modern design approach, Lail Design makes high quality ceramics with a minimal aesthetic. Durable, versatile, and timeless, they are designed to outlive trends and last a lifetime.
Brad worked in North Carolina, South West England, Jingdezhen China, and NYC for over a decade before opening his own shop. His work is informed by the teachings of Leach pottery, Michael Cardew, and traditional North Carolina pottery.
LAIL pottery is hand thrown, trimmed, glazed and fired from Brad's home studio in Catskill, NY. All glazes are formulated and mixed in-house. The pots are fired in a reduction gas kiln resulting in a depth and sensitivity that electric fired pieces cannot achieve.
Lowland Studio
Lowland Studio produces custom, hand-carved porcelain lighting inspired by the cycles of growth and decay found in nature. Their biomorphic designs allow light to come through the fixtures like dappled sunlight on the forest floor.
All lighting is designed, thrown and assembled by Kelly Storrs in her studio in Kingston N.Y. A potter first, Kelly came to lighting through a love of the simplicity, elegance and translucency of porcelain and a desire to explore those qualities by illuminating it.
Alison Charli Smith
Alison Charli Smith is a textile designer, natural dyer and quilter living in New Yorkโs Hudson Valley. She studied photography and ceramics at the University of Vermont before discovering natural dyes through the Textile Arts Center in Brooklyn. She is a self-taught quilter and has been making naturally dyed quilts for a decade.
Alona Weiss
Alona Weiss is a multi-disciplinary artist, working with a variety of mediums, including drawing, painting, video/filmmaking, performance, installation, graphic design, sculpture, and writing. She was born in Haifa, Israel, immigrated to US/Brooklyn, and currently based in Hudson Valley, NY. Her work explores personal and collective memories, channels healing through the practice of drawing, and reflects on the transient nature of time. She received an MFA from Parsons, The New School, NY, and a BDES from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. Her work was shown in museums, art spaces, galleries, and venues around the world, such as The Hall of Fame For Great Americans (Bronx, New York); 601 Artspace (New York); Lesley Heller Workspace (New York); The Haifa Museum of Art (Israel); The Beijing Film Triennial (China); Arad Contemporary Art Center (Israel); El Museo de Los Sures, (Brooklyn); The kitchen (New York); Genia Schreiber Gallery (Tel Aviv); Local Projects (Queens), Fikra Biennial, (United Arab Emirates), and Lincoln Center (New York). She lectured in public programs at BCC Archives & Special Collections, CUNY Bronx NY, Columbia University Teachers Collage, and Columbia University School of the Arts in New York. Her work was reviewed by Wall Street International, Haaretz Art & Culture, Droste Effect Magazine, Huffington Post, Erev Rav Magazine, Blouin Artinfo, Unbag Magazine, and Artis.
Laura Gail Tyler
Laura Gail Tyler received her B.A. in Sculpture and Photography from Bard College and her M.F.A. in photography from Yale University. Tyler's photography depicts basic architectural structures such as the bridge, the tower and the house. Using impermanent materials, she constructs and photographs small-scale models of these structures. Her images evoke the fragility of building in the face of natural forces. Tyler has exhibited her work at the Society of Contemporary Photography in Kansas City, MO, the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art in New Paltz, NY and The Houston Center for Photography, among other venues. Tyler is a 2006 fellow in photography from the New York Foundation for the Arts and has received fellowships from the Woodstock Center for Photography and the Houston Center for Photography. Her work was selected for publication in Witness No. One: Stephen Shore (JGS and Nazraeli Press, 2006). Laura Gail Tyler lives and works in Tivoli, NY.
Ongoing Works By
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Eric Conroe / Finding Form Design
Inspired by a deep range of historical forms, Finding Form is about designing and making furniture and goods that have durability, function - and the inherent beauty found therein.
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Elisa Finoli / Aglaia Jewelry
Hudson Valley jewelry designer dedicated to ethical, contemporary kewelry. Aglaรฏa jewels are wearable reminders of the power of beauty. The secret is in their highly crafted sculptural simplicity.
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Ken Landauer / FN Furniture
Zero-Waste, body-fit, durable furniture designed and made in the Hudson Valley.
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Liza McLaughlin / LB Felt
Exceptional felt works, derived from the tutelage of Kiki Smith, McLaughlinโs affinity for felt-work began on the streets of NY, working with wool batting, friction, and water from an open fire hydrant, she magically trod woolen blankets into existence. McLaughlin is an artist, jewelry designer, fabricator and arts educator.
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New York Heartwoods
New York Heartwoods (NYH) is a woman-owned and operated fabricator of fine solid wood furniture, using sustainable wood milled from fallen and urban Hudson Valley trees. Founded in 2011 out of their love of forests and desire to create both beautiful timeless designs and environmental and economic solutions for their community, they impeccably craft unique heirloom-quality furniture.
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Swish & Hammer
Traci Pinczes, a Hudson Valley Native, is dedicated to creating highly crafted art, jewelry and decor integrating up-cycled materials and masterfully tedious technique. VERSE showcases a robust line of her beaded jewelry and hand-dyed silk tapestries.
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Allison Toepp / Ethel Leather
Leatherwork studio in the village of Red Hook. Toeppโs objects are functional works of art, handmade from materials that are dear to her. This is her way of celebrating her cows and her community.
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Emi Winter
A multi-disciplinary artist versed in printmaking, drawing, painting, and textiles had a desire to translate her exploration of color and texture from custom woodblock prints into wool. This exploration led Winter back to her hometown of Oaxaca, Mexico where she began working with local weavers. The experiment resulted with a series of rugs that are open editions, intended to be functional objects in peopleโs homes.
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Withers Studio
Withers Studio (formerly Withers & Grain) is a bespoke design and build studio based in Red Hook, NY with a Williamsburg retail storefront. They produce exquisitely crafted furniture for residential and commercial clients.
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Laura Battle
Laura Battle has spent several decades as an artist exploring the potential of geometry to offer an optically charged mental space in which to explore universal visual language. Her work is informed by diagrams of the universe, mathematical configurations, codes and symbols, maps and charts of all kinds, esoteric manuscripts, Arabic geometries, forces in nature like the ebb and flow of water, and by the work of innumerable artists. Battle looks at the work of untrained artists, of mystics, calligraphers and craftsmen.
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