Charles LaBelle is a contemporary visual artist who earned his B.A. and M.F.A. from UCLA and has exhibited across the United States and abroad. Much of his work deals with psycho-geography, or the influence of the geographical environment, particularly in cities, on the human mind. LaBelle completed work on three different exhibitions during his winter 2007 residency at MacDowell. One, a project called BLDGS ENTERED 1997-2007, was a one-person show documenting a small percentage of the nearly 10,000 buildings he entered and drew during a ten-year period. His book, Corpus, compiles nearly 200 drawings of those buildings. LaBelle has received numerous awards and grants including a Getty Trust Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation Grant, Lower Manhattan Cultural Trust Grant, and a Bellagio Center Study Fellowship.
Charles LaBelle
Studios
Cheney
Charles LaBelle worked in the Cheney studio.
Cheney Studio was given to MacDowell by Mrs. Benjamin P. Cheney and Mrs. Karl Kauffman. Like Barnard Studio, Cheney is a low, broadly massed bungalow. Sited on a steep westward slope, its porches are supported on wooden posts and fieldstone with lattices. Although it still retains its appealing character, the original design of the shingled building…