INTERVENTIONS II

(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Artist Isidro Blasco invited fourteen artists to help imagine the renovation of the house he bought at the southwest corner of State and Third streets. The result of their efforts is the on-site installation, INTERVENTIONS II, which will be on view at 257 State Street from Friday, January 30, 2015, to Sunday, February 1, from 11am to 7pm. There will be a reception on Saturday, January 31 at 1pm.

Hudson artists Laetitia Hussain and Max Goldfarb are represented in the exhibition, which also includes participation by Beth Campbell, Clare Churchouse, Andrew duPont, Mala Iqbal, Laura King, Tom Kotik, Jaime Munarriz, Iván Navarro, Ruby Palmer, Karina Skvirsky, Grace Sullivan, and Dannielle Tegeder.

In a prepared statement, Blasco says, “We are investigating how the architectural elements of a house might turn out differently from what is generally accepted as normal. We are implicitly rejecting the status quo of the standardized home, where decisions are based on economical or aesthetic factors and not through real perceptions of space and emotions. We look for a new path. An outcome more connected to contemporary inhabitants and users of a home. In doing so, familiar outcomes may find other solutions.”

Image credits: INTERVENTIONS II, installation shots courtesy of Isidro Blasco.