"Have a Painting? Leave a Painting. Need a Painting? Take a Painting" Exhibition
at chashama Window Space (266 W 37th St. )
in the Midtown area
This event has ended - (2008-09-17 - 2008-09-23)
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Chashama is an institution finding and providing free temporary spaces for artists to hold short exhibitions. It has several temporary spaces in NYC and one such space is tucked away among ordinary clothing stores and hidden fashion design studios in the middle of the Garment District.
Two artist-curators, Anna Ogier-Bloomer and Erik Sanner, have opened up the Chashama space for only a week. Artists can bring in their work to show and later donate to the gallery visitors, including other participating artists, to take home in a sort of, but not quite, barter. Visitors are not asked to leave anything in exchange; leaving a work of art for other visitors to pick up is only an “encouraged” option.
On the opening night, Eric Sanner, curator and participating artist, said that if an art work is requested by more than one “collector,” they will need to justify why they want the particular work. The most convincing argument wins. One is only required to email the artist whose work they take home.
The visitors to Chashama can feel like collectors before their first purchases, except that no money or goods need to be exchanged. Last night I felt like a true collector, just starting out, who would like to collect to his taste and not to the market’s. At the end I decided not to start a collection just yet, unsure of what I liked most out of the many good art works.
Hopefully there will be more works to pick up or just look at, after a score of them were given away at the opening reception.
Photos by Kosuke Fujitaka.
erik sanner
2008-09-22
tomorrow (tuesday, 9/23) is the last day – there are still plenty of works coming and going. we have given away about fifty original works of art so far. nothing remains from the opening reception, but the gallery is still full. anyone welcome to stop by between 12pm and 6pm and take home a piece of art!
266 w 37th st
erik sanner
2008-09-22
actually, there might not be much available. we’ve given away over fifty pieces (that’s over fifty connections between over a hundred people, most of whom have never met, but are now in email contact, sharing a bond over a piece of art). at close today there was one ceramic sculpture, several drawings, one small oil painting, and a wall-hanging assemblage piece. no clue if people will continue bringing work tomorrow (last day) but i imagine so and urge you to check it out if you haven’t already.
last day = tuesday, 23 september 2008
12pm-6pm
266 w 37th st