Wei Leng Tay and Catherine DeLattre

Image / Time | Shoppers & Interiors

In residence -

Opening July 5th, 2025 2pm - 6pm

For UPSTATE ART WEEKEND 2025, OSMOS Station is presenting two exhibitions: one by current Arts&Rec artist-in-residence, Wei Leng Tay (born 1978 in Singapore), entitled, Image / Time, and the other by Catherine DeLattre (born 1949 in Pennsylvania), entitled, Shoppers & Interiors.



Current artist-in-residence, Wei Leng Tay deconstructs photographs from a family archive in an ongoing series, entitled, Image / Time. Through processes of fragmentation and manual alterations, she comments on photographic systems and substrates. These deconstructions are presented in conversation with an earlier portrait work from 2012. Together these diverse works question
photography's roles in influencing one's understanding of the world around them.

The second exhibition on view during Upstate Art Weekend 2025, presented by OSMOS, is work from two of Catherine DeLattre’s photographic series, namely, Shoppers, Broadway Upper West Side, NYC, 1979-80 and Interiors, Monongahela, Pennsylvania, 1977-78. DeLattre’s interiors from her childhood home are saturated, closely cropped, and intensely focused, to show not only the idiosyncratic fashion trends and color choices of the 1970s, but also her own sense of intimate familiarity crossed with critical distance.

For the Shopper’s series, Delattre positioned herself every day for an entire year (weather-permitting), on a corner near Fairway Market to capture with her TLR
Mamiya women -- mostly older and many immigrants – outfitted to do their daily shopping. This unprecedented body of color street photography from the 1970s had remained in the artist’s archive until only a few years ago. Delattre’s ability to oscillate between personal memento and period style produces haunting and precisely observed vignettes.

Join us for the special opening reception on Saturday, July 5th, 2pm-6pm
Join us for an artist talk and reception, July 19, 6pm-8pm
During UPSTATE ART WEEKEND, July 17 to July 21, open daily from 10am-6pm
Open to the public Saturday - Sunday 11am-5pm, and by appointment

  • Installation View: Wei Leng Tay, Convergence: Kian Foo's home, 2009, archival pigment print.

  • Installation View: Catherine DeLattre Interiors, 1977-78, Monongahela, Pennslyvania