Susan Meyer, M.F.A., specialist professor of foundations in the Department of Art and Design, is currently showing “Group Chat,” a solo exhibition of new sculpture, at LABspace Gallery in Hillsdale, New York. The show opened May 3 and runs through June 29. It was included in the 2025 Two Coats of Paint Selected Gallery Guide and reviewed in Upstate Diary on May 6 by David Ebony, editor of snapSHOT of the Art World and former managing editor of Art in America.
The exhibit features a series of quasi-figurative sculptures of varying shapes, sizes and materials. Like the text-based conversations that shape contemporary discourse, the sculptures appear to communicate with one another in ways both fluid and disjointed. Drawing from popular culture references — including utopian communities, scholar’s rocks, architecture and midcentury playground structures — the works suggest a range of tenuous relationships between nature and the built environment, growth and decay, aspiration and failure.
As part of the exhibition, Meyer participated in an artist talk June 8, moderated by Nicole Hayes, curator, artist and art educator. Hayes serves as program manager at Interlude Artist Residency in Glenco Mills, New York, and was curator and project manager at Art Omi in Ghent, New York, from 2014 to 2023.
LABspace, operated by artists and curators Julie Torres and Ellen Lechter, is located at 2642 Route 23, Hillsdale, New York, and is open Saturdays and Sundays from 1 to 5 p.m., and by appointment.
Meyer received a spring 2025 Creativity Grant from Monmouth University to support this and an upcoming exhibition.
