Lydia Rosenberg: Incomplete Objects
An exhibition at Labor is a Medium
Opening Reception: November 11 2023 2–5pm
Open to all. Pizza for free. Masks indoors.
On view November 11–December 9
1183 DeMeo St, Santa Rosa, CA
Open most Saturdays 10am–2pm, or by appointment.
Since 2019 Lydia Rosenberg has been writing a novel-as-sculpture: a project consisting of a written narrative that emphasizes the description and movement of objects. Characters in the novel serve as collaborators in conceptualizing sculptures based on the written narrative in which they act. Previous exhibitions connected to this project have featured those sculptures based on excerpts of the novel. For Incomplete Objects, the fifth iteration, Rosenberg is pursuing the form of serial fiction as a way to develop the text itself, as a sculpture.
The gallery at Labor is a Medium will become the mail-room: the fictional office of the publisher of the novel-in-progress. For the duration of the exhibition, subscribers to the project mailing list will receive weekly unique versions of the existing four chapters of the novel-as-sculpture. Subscribers are invited to return their chapters with edits and suggestions, to be recorded in the final version(s) of the novel. Each week, a copy of all versions to date will be presented at the mailroom table.
Visitors may subscribe in person at Labor is a Medium.
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Lydia Rosenberg is an artist currently based in Pittsburgh, PA. She is a co-founder of Anytime Dept. an artist-run exhibition project, currently on pause, which was based in Cincinnati, OH. Recent solo exhibitions include The complete subject at Napoleon, Philadelphia—featuring several hundred sculptures in the shape of lemons based on written descriptions of the fruit as depicted in paintings—and Spaghetti Restaurant at BasketShop Gallery, Cincinnati, for which she transformed the gallery into a pop-up, cost-free spaghetti-restaurant-as-sculpture. In 2023 she had solo exhibitions continuing her ongoing project of writing a novel-as-sculpture in Pittsburgh at Mattress Factory Museum, the chute, and here gallery.
Organizer
Labor is a Medium (LiaM) is an exhibition project occupying a roughly 6’x7′ freestanding wall in Emily & Daniel J Glendening’s suburban garage, in Santa Rosa, CA. LiaM hosts three exhibitions per calendar year, with an emphasis on work that demonstrates its process; that addresses the political through oblique pathways; and/or that challenges capital. Driven by a desire to create a space to connect in community, LiaM is a vehicle to offer artists, friends, and neighbors a little bit of space, a little bit of time, and a little bit of food. The pizza is always free.