The Mildred Complex(ity)

The Mildred Complex(ity) is a storefront space exhibiting creative thinkers and makers working at the Mildred's Lane art site and residency. Mildred's Lane comes out of the woods and onto Main Street USA to form a series of public projects with the Upper Delaware River Valley community. The aim of town projects concerns people dynamics in the spirit of exchange. Projects with Resident-Artists-in-Complex(ity) (RAIC) manifest in multiple forms, always with and for the greater community. In this river town, Narrowsburg, New York, we build renewable, creative sociality charged with environmental activism.

SELF- MADE, by Gina Siepel

SELF- MADE, by Gina Siepel

Hosting and supporting international cultural producers, organizing informal residencies, developing site-sensitive projects, seminars, dinners, research think tanks, and more – we have made Mildred's Lane a significant but invisible center for these new forms of creative practice. We welcome this "new age of curiosity" -- activating connections that situate themselves at the nexus of science, methods of living, and critical artistic practices, thus engaging in, of, and with the world.

Pablo Helguera workshop

Pablo Helguera workshop

Individuals and groups are finding these commons of Mildred's Lane, the place to study what is significant, meaningful to our society's future. The storefront project, The Mildred Complex(ity), began in 2007, during the Mildred's Lane Sessions titled Retail 21st Century (R21c.) and research-based think tanks convening over a few years. These dialogs sparked off multiple social practitioners to rethink their roles in society outside the traditional art world paths.

Topics include environmental and post-recession economic strategies for artists, changing art world dynamics, and expanding creative practitioners' roles in contemporary society. We define storefront practices as emergent spaces for environmental action and social engagement. The storefront allows us to directly engage a broad array of the public visiting Main Street USA, taking on the challenge to reframe new possibilities for community involvement by activating curiosity.

Young Landscape #23 2020 / Fundraiser Exhibition / J. Morgan Puett and Multiple artists of Mildred’s Lane

Young Landscape #23 2020 / Fundraiser Exhibition / J. Morgan Puett and Multiple artists of Mildred’s Lane

The Mildred Complex(ity) includes studio, office, experimental retail storefront project space in the quaint hamlet of Narrowsburg, NY, a hundred miles northwest of New York City. Year-round we present projects, workshops, lectures, and exhibitions by international creatives visiting and/or in residence at Mildred's Lane.

––––––

Please find more information about projects, exhibitions, and collecting to support these artists and ideas, posted on our homepage and at www.aguideotthefield.com.

"Atomic Priesthood" 2014 by Bryan McGovern Wilson 

"Atomic Priesthood" 2014 by Bryan McGovern Wilson