Stairmasters · Holland Tunnel Williamsburg
The staircase gallery
Stairmasters, a four-floor permanent art installation, is the third art space Paulien Lethen started for Holland Tunnel. It launched in 2003 in the hall and monumental four-flight staircase of the brownstone next to Holland Tunnel Gallery in Williamsburg.
For a Williamsburg curators' art weekend, gallery director and curator Paulien Lethen wanted to do something outstanding to present her stable of artists. She used the just-restored hall and staircase as an extra exhibition space. From then on she presented long-term exhibitions in Stairmasters, with the artworks installed from the ground floor to the top, inviting visitors to get some exercise while looking at the show.
Nov 7, 2014 onward
Stairmasters / Framed
To celebrate 17 years of Holland Tunnel Gallery Williamsburg, Paulien Lethen invited 110 artists to make work freely interpreting the theme "framed", a play on the double meaning of the word. The mega group show includes many of the roughly 700 artists who had shown at the gallery since it opened in 1997.
The opening weekend, Nov 7–9, 2014
A weekend of events at the gallery, in a party tent and in the parking lot: the celebration of 17 years of Holland Tunnel Gallery Brooklyn and the 5 Dutch Days in the Fall festival; the launch of the Holland Tunnel Gallery book by Rob de Vos, Consul General of the Netherlands in New York; the opening of Framed; and concerts by Lex Grey & the Urban Pioneers. Paulien Lethen, Bix Lye and Jan Mulder were "framed" in the Holland Tunnel garden shed for the weekend, with live music by Heleen Schuttevaêr with guest jazz musicians Syberen van Munster, Vitor Gonçalves, Jay Rattman, Rick Rosato, Colin Stranahan, Ron Jackson, Adam Kabak and Art Lillard, and The Silent Brass Band (De Stille Fanfare).
All 110 artists in Framed
Marjolijn van den Assem, Lauren Bakoian, C Bangs, Sarah Barker, Joe Barnes, Wayne Barnes, Claire Begheyn, Jean Betancourt, Alan M Bolle, Céline Bouchez, Mireille Brouwer, Ken Butler, KaKyung Cho, Angiola Churchill, Marieken Cochius, John Crawford, Susan Daboll, Melissa Dadourian, Timothy Daly, Paula De Luccia, Francoise van Dijk, Elizabeth Duffy, Julie Durkin, Rupert Eder, Stephen Eins, Margot Farrington, Alexa Gambal, Naomi Beth Gans, Serge Gavronsky, Stephen Gerberich, Luke Gray + Dorke Poelz, Meghan Harkins, Jan Hartzema, Heff Heisler, Neddi Heller, Jenny Hellman, Molly Herman, Shelley Himmelstein, Wendy Hirschberg, Cody Hughes, Matt Jenkins, Nikos Karpodinis, Miki Katagiri, Tim Knox, John Koos, Fran Kornfeld, Marni Kotak, Liv Mette Larsen, Gerda van Leeuwen, Jan Lethen, Roy Lethen, Paulien Lethen, Alexandra Limpert, Liz-N-Val, Gisèle A. Lubsen, Bix Lye, S.J. Lye, Ernest Marciano, Grace Markman, Tony Martin, John McNulty, Alice Meyer Wallace, Elizabeth Morris, Jan Mulder, Victor Nieuwenhuijs, Yukako Okudaira, Victor Ortale, Judith Page, Kent Peterson, Brian Prugh, Carla van de Puttelaar, Jacqueline Sferra Rada, Ellen Rand, Pablo Rey, Jacques Roch, Mimmo Roselli, Sheila Ross, Anthony Rubino, Kiyomitsu Saito, Heleen Schuttevaêr, Maartje Seyferth, Carri Skoczek, Louise P. Sloane, Andrea Spiros, Amanda Staszewski, Greet Steenland, Meryl Taradash, Judy Thomas, Richard Timperio, Nathalie Trovato, Francesco Mario Tumbiolo, Hans van Uden, Lynn Umlauf, Harry Vandevliet, Hanny Veenendaal, Victor Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Daniel Vernola, Rob Voerman, Michael Volonakis, Jan Maarten Voskuil, Larry Walczak, Joy Walker, Larry Webb, Anna West, Tristan Wolski, Peter Yamaoka, Christopher Yeatman, Apostolis Zolotakis
Dec 5, 2009 – Oct 15, 2014
Stairmasters / Delft Blues
For 400 years of Netherlands–Japan connections, Paulien Lethen invited 50 artists and gave each a plate or vase to make their own variation on the famous Delft Blue pottery. The result: 125 hand-painted ceramics on the walls of Stairmasters, the four-flight staircase of her monumental brownstone.
The artists in Delft Blues
Marjolijn van den Assem, Joe Barnes, Heleen Bijvank, Mireille Brouwer, KaKyung Cho, Angiola Churchill, Francoise van Dijk, Rupert Eder, Maartje Folkeringa, Monica Gaertuer, Serge Gavronsky, Neddi Heller, Tracy Heneberger, Nieske Kalkman, Karl Kautzinski, Fran Kornfeld, Paulien Lethen, Richard Lethen, Alexandra Limpert, Jos Looise, Tony Martin, Margot Farrington, Susan Mayr, Jan Mulder, Marc Peters, Jan van der Ploeg, Jacques Roch, Tony Roch, Michiel Sanders, Heleen Schuttevaêr, Michal Shapiro, Carri Skoczek, Andrea Spiros, Richard Timperio, Elisabeth Tonnard, Pim Trooster, Nathalie Trovato, Hans van Uden, Lynn Umlauf, Daniel Vernola, Rob Voerman, Joy Walker, Larry Webb, Terryl Sellers, Thornton Willis
Oct 11, 2008 – Nov 30, 2009
Stairmasters / Night and Day
A group show up the four flights of stairs.