A suburban garage with an open garage door, framing a large wall with four drawings on blue paper, hung over large yellow envelopes.

Lydia Rosenberg, Incomplete Objects
opening reception November 11, 2023 2–5pm
on view November 11–December 9, 2023
open most Saturdays 10–2 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.

A suburban garage with an open garage door, framing a large wall with four drawings on blue paper, hung over large yellow envelopes.
Lydia Rosenberg, Incomplete Objects. 2023. Photo by Perry Doane.
A large wall with four drawings on blue paper, hung over large yellow envelopes; a small shelf is hung on the right edge of the wall.
Lydia Rosenberg, Incomplete Objects. 2023. Photo by Perry Doane.
A large drawing on blue paper depicting a room with thousands of lemons on the floor, hung atop a large manila envelope..
Lydia Rosenberg, Incomplete Objects. 2023. Photo by Perry Doane.
A large drawing on blue paper depicting a room with a pair of tables with strange place-settings, hung atop a large manila envelope.
Lydia Rosenberg, Incomplete Objects. 2023. Photo by Perry Doane.
A large drawing on blue paper depicting a room with various broom-like objects in it, hung atop a large manila envelope.
Lydia Rosenberg, Incomplete Objects. 2023. Photo by Perry Doane.
A large drawing on blue paper depicting a room with various lamp-like objects in it, hung atop a large manila envelope.
Lydia Rosenberg, Incomplete Objects. 2023. Photo by Perry Doane.
A small shelf with a box made out of yellow manila envelope paper with a slot on the top. a stack of blue paper cards with field for a name, address, and occupation, a black pencil, and a pencil sharpener.
Lydia Rosenberg, Incomplete Objects. 2023. Photo by Perry Doane.
A detail of the hanging drawing and envelopes, showing brass grommets and hooks.
Lydia Rosenberg, Incomplete Objects. 2023. Photo by Perry Doane.
The surface of a table with a vase of flowers, pamphlets with an image of an envelope with text reading Incomplete Objects and an open paper zine.
Lydia Rosenberg, Incomplete Objects. 2023. Photo by Perry Doane.

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.