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Lineup | Summer Group Exhibition

Mandy Bonnell, Richard Dupont, Valerie Hammond, Laurie Lambrecht, Katia Santibañez, and Keith Thomson

July 9 - August 9, 2025

Opening Reception: Wednesday, July 9, 2025, 6-8PM

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Preview Richard Dupont's Lineup Edition here.

This summer, Planthouse is pleased to present a group exhibition of selected works including two new gallery publications: Lineup, an immersive installation of Richard Dupont’s large-scale monotypes on paper, and Fire Escapist, by Keith Thomson, a nine-layer screenprint with hand-coloring. Both projects were realized this spring in collaboration with Powerhouse Arts in Brooklyn. 

The back gallery features a new lithograph by Katia Santibañez from her series produced last year by Woolworth Publications, Paris. This series is featured in the gallery’s website’s flat files. UK-based artist Mandy Bonnell contributes four letterpress drawings created during a recent residency at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Virginia. Finally, four woven works by Laurie Lambrecht complement her outdoor installation Bark/Cloth, currently on view at the gallery. 

Mandy Bonnell (b. 1957) was born in the UK, and trained at Gloucester College of Art and the Royal College of Art, where she attained an MA in Printmaking in 1983. Bonnell has had 14 solo exhibitions to date, including the RaMoma, Museum of Modern Art, Nairobi and four shows with the Eagle Gallery. Her work is held in public collections such as the  Ashmoleum Museum, Oxford; British Council, Kenya; British High Commission, Nairobi; British Library: Modern British Collections; Berry and Coutts Co., London; Fidelity, London; Fitch and Co., London; RaMoma, Museum of Modern Art, Kenya; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Yale Center of British Art.

Richard Dupont (b. 1968) was born in New York and received a BA from the Departments of Visual Art and Archeology at Princeton University. His work has been exhibited at museums including The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA (2016); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (2015); The Underground Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2014); The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY (2014); The Queens Museum, Queens, NY (2013); The Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT (2011); and The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY (2008).

Valerie Hammond received her MFA from the University of California at Berkeley, where she received the Eisner Award. Her work is in public and private collections such as the Walker Art Center; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Library of Congress; the New York Public Library’s Print and Drawing Collection; The Getty Museum; the Progressive Collection; the Chazen Museum of Art; Madison Museum of Contemporary Art; the Grand Palais Museum; and Fidelity Investments Corporate Art Collection. In addition, Hammond is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the New York Foundation of the Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the Peter S. Reed Foundation. Hammond’s most recent solo exhibitions include Wander, Valerie Hammond and Kiki Smith, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY, 2022; Blue, Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, 2021; The Eyes Have It, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, NY, 2021; Wonderland, Planthouse Gallery, New York, NY, 2023; Double Vision: Curated by Jane Holzer, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY, 2019.

Laurie Lambrecht is a visual artist based in Bridgehampton, NY, working at the intersection of photography and fiber. Museum collections include the National Gallery of Art, the Center for Creative Photography, and the Parrish Art Museum. She has participated in artist residencies at institutions, including the American Academy in Rome, The Watermill Center, the Rauschenberg Residency, and KH Messen in Norway. Recent projects include site-specific outdoor installations at the Madoo Garden Conservancy (2019), the Watermill Center (2021), and the Nassau County Museum of Art (2023).

Katia Santibañez is an American, born in 1964 in France. Trained in Microbiology before getting her degree at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1990), she moved to NYC in 1998 and has exhibited widely in the US. A multidisciplinary artist working from painting, drawing, printmaking, video, and photography, she is represented in NYC by DC Moore Gallery, and in Houston by Texas Gallery. She has been a resident at Yaddo, NY; Casa Wabi, Mexico; Albers Foundation, CT; Civitella Ranieri, Italy; Sitka center, OR. In 2021 she received a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Santibañez lives and works in New York City and the Berkshires.

Keith Thomson studied drawing at Columbia University and the Sorbonne and then worked as a political cartoonist for The New Haven Register and New York Newsday before becoming a writer and painter. His novels include the New York Times Best-Selling Once a Spy and 7 Grams of Lead. His nonfiction chronicle of Sir Walter Raleigh’s search for El Dorado, Paradise of the Damned, was published last year by Little, Brown. He and his family live in Alabama.

Laurie Lambrecht | Bark/Cloth

Bark/Cloth

May 21 – August 9th, 2025

Opening Reception: Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 6-8PM

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This blanket is a necessity. It keeps me from cracking up. It may be regarded as a spiritual tourniquet. Without it, I’d be nothing, a ship without a rudder.

- Linus Van Pelt.

This summer, Planthouse is pleased to present Bark/Cloth, an outdoor installation of Laurie Lambrecht’s photographs of tree bark on the gallery’s patio. Seven photographs, each measuring 56 x 35 inches, printed on fabric, invite close inspection of the tree’s form, bringing attention to details of nature that often go unnoticed.

Lambrecht’s practice combines fiber and photography to replicate, enhance, and transform natural forms. Her series Bark/Cloth showcases a sensitivity to nature’s patterns, colors, and textures. The individuality and presence of trees are central to Lambrecht’s practice. By photographing bark close-up, she focuses on intricate surface details, highlighting irregularities of lichen, knots, and scars unique to the trees themselves.

When printed on fabric, chemical interactions shift the colors into surreal hues like lime green, lavender, and cornflower blue. This process investigates scale, magnifying the bark’s texture to an exaggerated size. The pieces are fade-resistant, colorfast, and printed with water-based inks.

For Planthouse, Lambrecht introduces the transformed images outside, suspending them against the weathered wood wall on the patio. Lingering in the dense urban cityscape, the pieces invite quiet contemplation. In this setting, the enlarged patterns evoke organic memory and urban contrast. The installation invites a moment of stillness and spirituality, allowing viewers to pause amid the city’s busyness. Lambrecht encourages the viewer to reflect on the natural world by isolating and amplifying the’ overlooked surfaces of trees, reminding us that trees, much like a blanket, provide a source of comfort and care.

Bark/Cloth by Laurie Lambrecht will be on through the summer at Planthouse.

Laurie Lambrecht is a visual artist based in Bridgehampton, NY, working at the intersection of photography and fiber. Her background as a sweater designer informs her acute sensitivity to texture, pattern, and color—qualities that permeate her explorations of trees. Museum collections include the National Gallery of Art, the Center for Creative Photography, and the Parrish Art Museum. She has participated in artist residencies at institutions, including the American Academy in Rome, The Watermill Center, the Rauschenberg Residency, and KH Messen in Norway. Lambrecht has lectured at institutions such as the National Gallery of Art, the Morgan Library, and the Art Institute of Chicago and led bookmaking and weaving workshops at museums and art centers. Recent projects include site-specific outdoor installations at the Madoo Garden Conservancy (2019), the Watermill Center (2021), and the Nassau County Museum of Art (2023).

Laurie Lambrecht, Kirkside (detail), 2025, fabric print, 56” x 35”

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