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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Point 8 Blog / News Point8 Blog: Art in the summer
Posted By Barbara Schreiber on Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:22 AM
It's strange to start blogging about art in the summer, when the art world tends to go to sleep. I understand why commercial galleries power down, but I've never fully accepted this phenomenon as it applies to nonprofit and alternative spaces. It's not as if we're all spending the season at the beach house.
What I'd really love to see in Charlotte are projects that could happen only in the summer — exhibitions that are suited to the muggy, buggy South; work that is not necessarily marketable; strange work in strange spaces. I once participated in such a project in Atlanta. Joey Orr, a curator who was inspired by a similar effort in San Antonio, established Shedspace, which ran for five blissful, sweaty years. Every Saturday in August, he would open a new, one-night-only show in a garage or storage shed in a transitional neighborhood. I was one of the earlier (and more conventional) artists. As the project continued, Joey found that it was best suited to installation and performance-oriented work. It was incredible: essentially a back yard party, replete with artists, neighbors, kids and dogs, but the focal point was an exhibition of often challenging work.
BACK IN THE SADDLE. Joie Lassiter Gallery is arguably Charlotte's most adventuresome commercial gallery (and also a Point8 favorite, because it hosted some of our earliest gatherings). After six months of quietly working on a backlog of curatorial projects out of a transitional space on the edge of Uptown, Lassiter has reopened her gallery, which is now at 1430 South Mint St., Suite #105, just down the street from the previous Southend location. Lassiter has hinted at some surprises and new developments, but we'll have to wait until after Labor Day to find out exactly what they are. Right now, the gallery is open by appointment only.
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