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SURPLUS
SURPLUS is a two-part exhibition featuring all new work created with surplus materials left in a Baltimore warehouse.
Exhibition dates: July 9 - August 1, 2004
Gallery hours during the ArtScape weekend: Sat. July 17th and Sun. July 18th, 12-3pm
Regular Gallery Hours: Sundays 12-3pm through August 1st
Artist Reception: Friday July 9th, 8pm to midnight
Music by the Blue Humors
An Artscape 2004 off-site exhibition, www.artscape.org.
Click here to see the list list of materials available to artists.
SURPLUS:Constructions
SURPLUS:Constructions features sculpture and installations by 13 regional artists created from surplus materials. Work will be installed in and around the gallery, and perhaps in the surrounding area.
Artists participating in Surplus: Constructions are:
Carolyn Curtis, David Page, David Parker, Dawn Cochran, Elizabeth Minna Phillips, George Teaford, Helen Elliott, John Watson, Laura Shults, Lauren Schott, roycrosse, Shannon Young, Soumiya Krishnaswamy, Sungmi Lee
SURPLUS:Buy the Square Foot
SURPLUS:Buy the Square Foot is an on-site installation that features 2-D work by 17 artists, created on-site using surplus material. We will wrap one of our gallery rooms with vinyl from the building, and invite artists to come in and create artwork on the vinyl. These works will be sold off throughout the exhibition at $5 per square foot to benefit the gallery.
Artists participating in Surplus: Buy the Square Foot are:
Aimee Shapiro, Aylen Maquehue, Cory Wagner, Elise Burns, Frank Perrelli, Geoff Grace, Irene Woodbury, Heather Barone, Jackie Milad, Jennifer McBrien Dixon, Juliette Goodwin, Laurent Hrybyk, Michelle Sanzi Kermes, Nancy Linden, Rene van der Stelt, Stephen Pauley, Timothy Nohe
Background of the SURPLUS Exhibitions
AREA 405 is located on the first floor of a 66,000 square foot building that formerly housed window blind and shade manufacturers and is currently owned by 3 Square Feet, LLC. . Approximately 1/3 of the building is still full of manufacturing materials--rolls of vinyl and fiberglass fabric, cording, thread, wood slats, cardboard strips, miscellaneous hardware and trimmings. Weighing approximately 40,000 pounds and taking up over 7,000 square feet of space, this material needs to be cleared out by the end of 2004.
Although a great deal of the material has already been recycled, much of the remainder cannot be recycled, and will be relegated to dumpsters. In a last ditch effort to do something constructive with the material, it has been offered to AREA 405 gallery for use in art projects, before being thrown out.
To facilitate the art-making process, AREA 405 has proposed the SURPLUS project, to make this material available to regional artists to create artwork. SURPLUS will be a series of exhibitions that will invite artists to create work using the surplus material, and will culminate in a celebratory weekend event that showcases the results.
Following the exhibition, AREA 405 will post a date and time for other interested parties (not necessarily artists) to come by and pick up some of the remaining surplus material to use in any way that suits their fancy. The only requirement is that it doesn't come back!
