Cause +
Affection
Dates
June 12 – September 12, 2010
Type
Group Exhibition
Artists
~20 emerging artists
Curator
Kara Lenkeit, Independent Curator
Press
The New York Times, August 15, 2010
Location
3 East Cross Street, Croton Falls NY
About This Exhibition
Twenty artists.
One summer.
The work that followed.
Cause + Affection brought approximately twenty emerging artists to Lift Trucks Art for a three-month summer exhibition running June through September 2010. Curated by Kara Lenkeit, an independent curator, the show presented a wide range of approaches — drawing, painting, installation, sculpture — unified not by style but by the emotional register Lenkeit was looking for in each work.
Lenkeit described her curatorial process as responsive: she selected work that triggered an internal reaction, something she couldn’t immediately explain. The exhibition’s title reflects that sensibility — cause and affection as two sides of the same question. Why does a work get to you? What is the mechanism? The show didn’t answer the question so much as hold it open across three months and twenty bodies of work.
“”Several of these artists will be significant names in New York’s gallery world within a decade. The work is already there.””
Danielle Arps · Lift Trucks Art · 2010
The New York Times covered the show on August 15, 2010, bringing national attention to what was happening on Route 22. The exhibition included figurative and abstract works, watercolors and pencil drawings alongside site-specific conceptual pieces and geometric works — a genuinely heterogeneous program that made the case for the breadth of emerging practice at the time.
Featured artists included Scott Daniel Ellison, Nick Greenwald, Scott Goodman, Daddy, Ellen Guhin, Christopher Manning, Mark Nilsson, Gil Riley, and Milton Stevenson, among others.
Curator
Kara Lenkeit
Independent curator. Selected work based on emotional resonance — pieces that triggered “internal reactions.”
Press
The New York Times
August 15, 2010
Exhibition Themes
Anxiety, desire for recognition, passion, love, and caution — psychological states examined through diverse media: watercolor, pencil, installation, sculpture, geometric abstraction.
Plan Your Visit
3 East Cross Street
Route 22, Croton Falls NY 10519
By appointment preferred.
50 miles north of Manhattan · ~60 min.
The Collection
Fifteen years of
serious work.
From the inaugural show in 2009 to today, Lift Trucks Art has been presenting emerging and established artists in a setting that takes the work seriously. The showroom is open by appointment.
~20
Artists in the show
3mo
Exhibition duration
50mi
North of Manhattan
Free
Always free to visit