Garage Spaces premiered with Stolen, an art installation/temporary pawnshop created by Mike Bancroft and co-curated by Evan Plummer.
"Stolen" was part pawn shop/part human-scale curio cabinet with a secret within. The converted 2 car garage space was stocked with works and documentation of ideas appropriated or borrowed indefinitely. The collection of prosecutable works was provided by artists: Bridget Bancroft, Mike Bancroft, Gabrielle Carasquillo, Roberto Cardenas, Pearl Dick, Alex Inglizian, Brooks Johnson, Jasemine K, Patrick MacCarthy, Maria Perkovic, Evan Plummer, Luis Sanchez, Jeremy Scidmore, Bert Stabler, and Tommy Stephenson, Robert Vasquez, and many more unwilling to jeopardize their anonymity.
Viewers navigated real captive spaces that looked into our collective paranoia about possession of objects and artistic ideas. The installation aimed to challenge the very legality of trademark through a paradoxical lens tempting the viewer to take a side they might not have otherwise. The pawn shop desk was staffed by volunteers eager to help viewers pawn or purchase items and if they were lucky lead them into the"vault".
When
Fri. October 9, 2009 5:00pm-10:00pm
Sat, October 10, 2009 12:00pm-5:00pm
Saturday, October 17, 2009 12:00pm - 5:00pm
Sunday, October 18, 2009 Dinner Performance RSVP only
Friday, October 30, 2009 5:00pm - 10:00pm