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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!
