Created 5/7/08
Launched in 2007, Parts and Labor Gallery is a mobile arts and events space housed in an eighteen-foot commercial box truck. Covered in copper flashing that is fastened in place by stainless steel screws, the truck occupies its own aesthetic lot. It is rendered transparent by two lengths of Plexiglas (in place of walls)… (more) secured by a network of wood and steel beams.
Parts and Labor Gallery showcases emerging and established artists who aim to encourage public interest and involvement in the visual landscape of the everyday. Hosting exhibitions in settings typically perceived as routine-a congested urban intersection, a long stretch of farmland-the gallery transports, emphasizes, and participates in the relationship between art and life.
Positioned between two clear screens, the gallery forms a direct visual connection to the outside world; exhibitions become both lens and subject to their surroundings. This layout embodies a working hypothesis: In transit, artwork is open to context and audience in ways that the traditional gallery cannot physically sustain.
Trading in real estate for the road, Parts and Labor is driven to reconsider the scope of public art and public response in the city and beyond. The gallery was born of a desire to place art and culture within the framework of everyday experience. (less)
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