Parrish Road Show 2019: Laurie Lambrecht
Limn to Limb

The Madoo Conservancy

618 Sagg Main Street Sagaponack, NY 11962
Hours: Fridays and Saturdays Noon–4:00 pm

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Now in its eighth year, the Parrish Road Show is the Museum’s annual creative off-site cultural engagement program. Every year, East End artists are invited to create new work for temporary projects and engage residents in their process. In an effort to deeply connect art and creativity to everyday life, the exhibitions take place at public sites across the region—cultural and historical organizations, public parks and highways, and community centers—and the artists offer public talks and artmaking workshops for children and adults.

For Parrish Road Show 2019, Laurie Lambrecht will present Limn to Limb, a site-specific installation at The Madoo Conservancy, where she will respond to Madoo’s trees, shrubs, and structural details that are typically painted in bright colors with interventions that include photography, printmaking, weaving, and knitting. She will create large-scale fiber prints of tree bark, hand-knitted covers for stones, rocks, and trees, and weavings made of cut-up fabric prints from photographs of the gardens.

The exploration and observation of the nuances of bark has long been the impetus for Lambrecht’s creation of prints and fiber pieces. As a continuation of a project Lambrecht began last fall on Hardanger Fjord’s edge in Norway, she will be covering stones and rocks with colorful knitted wool to exalt the small and sometimes overlooked and prompts the viewer to rediscover these humble garden elements. The soft covers challenge the perception of the very qualities of a stone, thus enhancing the visual and tactic experiences that contribute to memory of place.

Works by both 2019 Road Show artists, Candace Hill Montgomery and Laurie Lambrecht, will be on view at the Parrish Art Museum through November 3, 2019.

About Laurie Lambrecht

Laurie Lambrecht, a native of Bridgehampton who works in photography and fiber, has been featured in numerous solo exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad, and her photographs are in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, D.C., and the Parrish Art Museum, among others. In the early 1990’s, as administrative assistant to Roy Lichtenstein, Lambrecht photographed the artist and his process. Roy Lichtenstein in His Studio, the monograph of her project, was published by Monacelli Press in 2011. She has worked with theater artist Robert Wilson at the Watermill Center since 1993, and from 2012–2014 Lambrecht photographed a documentary project for the Rauschenberg Foundation (Florida). She was recently a fellow at artist residencies there and at the Virginia Center of the Creative Arts and Vermont Studio Center. This spring Lambrecht will be an artist in residence at the Watermill Center

Lambrecht has taught workshops in the Literacy through Photography program in Medellin, Colombia, and locally, at Project Most in Bridgehampton and the Art Barge in Montauk. She has given talks about her work at The Morgan Library, New York, and The Art Institute of Chicago, and The National Gallery of Art, among other venues.

About Madoo

The Madoo Conservancy is dedicated to the study, preservation, and enhancement of Madoo, the ever changing, horticulturally diverse garden with historic structures established in 1967 by artist, gardener, and writer Robert Dash in the village of Sagaponack, New York. At Madoo, a unique living tribute to the artistic imagination of its founder, Madoo seeks to continually engage, educate, and inspire their visitors within this ever-changing, entirely organic environment.

Parrish Road Show is organized by Corinne Erni, Senior Curator of ArtsReach and Special Projects

Parrish Road Show 2019 is made possible, in part, by the generous support of The Dorothy Lichtenstein ArtsReach Fund, established by Agnes Gund; Deborah Buck; Sandy and Stephen Perlbinder; Jane Wesman and Donald Savelson; Leslie Rose Close; and Joni Sternbach.