Curb Gallery
Curb Gallery, 2015
Street based exhibition, 7' x 2' x 6'
Found furniture, acrylic paint, polyurethane.
New York, New York
Curb is a mobile, curated gallery venue, that exists inside the drawers of a refurbished mid-century dresser. Inspired by the pervasive use of mid-century modern style furniture in New York galleries and art fairs, Curb’s design resembles a reception desk or information kiosk, while the exterior of the dresser provides a surface to feature vinyl ‘wall texts’ and curatorial materials. The inaugural exhibition displayed artworks by seven emerging artists that were installed inside the dresser drawers. It included video works running on battery packs, museum-like vitrines holding ceramic sculpture, miniature installations, and mixed media works all using the site and interactive action of opening the drawer. Exhibiting artists to made jumps in logic about their relationship to the locations by adding lines to their resumes under the title of...
Shift/Leverage/Move: Curb of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2015
The exhibition traveled to several sidewalks outside the doors of New York’s most established galleries and museums, and occupied the sidewalks facing the doorways. This exhibition strategy and site created a level of proximity between the dresser and the building that contrasted, conversed and at times conflated the two institutions. Usurping the hosting gallery’s audience by using this party-crashing tactic, was meant to create a situation of self-consciousness, where hopping between major galleries to view the work of established artists now included a moment to consider the sheer volume of New York-based artists existing outside the mainstream. The traveling frame of the dresser compacted with the artist’s work suggested a group action with an exchange of service of my work, as organizer with theirs, as visual artist.
