Stephanie Barber Solo Exhibition at Trunk Show
Trunk Show | July 18, 19, 20
Baltimore Alternative Art Fair | Charles Street Garage, 1714 Charles St, Baltimore, MD
Chicago, IL, July 9, 2014
For our June exhibition we were thrilled present and represent and represent on the art (of) multiple(s) with Alex’s Chitty’s sticker, Phenomenon. The opening and sticker release was celebrated on the top level of a Home Depot parking lot with a dramatic view of the Chicago skyline. After a few hours, a half-dozen cars left the lot emblazoned with Chitty's wry reminder of how art enters the world.
For the the July edition, Trunk Show will be crossing state lines for the first time. Our friends Lease Agreement have invited us install in their booth at the Baltimore Alternative Art Fair from July 18th-20th. We asked our most favorite Baltimore artist, Stephanie Barber, to make the bumper sticker for this month. Barber makes smart, funny and idiosyncratic work in film, video, poetry and performance. Her practice is thrilling in part because it takes on the big issues from a resolutely human scale. As a part of her exhibition for Trunk Show, she has arranged special daily performances and artist lectures with collaborators Keenon Brice, Amanda McCormick and Christine Sajecki.
In addition to Barber’s work, Trunk Show’s riff on the used car lot will feature work and interventions by Lauren Anderson, Lilli Carré, Alex Chitty, Assaf Evron, Chris Little, Kelly Lloyd, Curt Miller, Laura Hart Newlon, Kyle Schlie and the Globe’Al Chemical Company, Deborah Stratman, and Oli Watt.
ABOUT STEPHANIE BARBER
Stephanie Barber is an American writer and artist. She has created a poetic, conceptual and philosophical body of work in a variety of media. Many of her videos are concerned with the content, musicality and experiential qualities of language. They ferry viewers through philosophical inquiry with the unexpected oars of play, emotionalism, story, and humor. Barber’s films and videos have has been screened nationally and internationally in solo show and group shows at MOMA, NY; The Tate Modern, London; The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; The Paris Cinematheque; The Walker Art Center, MN; MOCA Los Angeles, The Wexner Center for Art, OH, among other galleries, museums and festivals. Barber is currently a resident artist at The Mt. Royal MFA for Interdisciplinary Art at MICA in Baltimore, MD.
ABOUT TRUNK SHOW
TRUNK SHOW is a mobile exhibition space often located near Chicago’s Eckhart Park. Following in the rich tradition of Chicago’s apartment, alternative and creative exhibition spaces, Trunk Show is committed to challenging exhibition forms through its unique program. We feature monthly solo shows for which artists are commissioned to design a limited edition bumper sticker. The sticker lives, rides along with, and helps propel the medium beat up 1999 forest green Ford Taurus owned by Raven Falquez Munsell and Jesse Malmed. In addition to the month-long exhibitions, the editioned bumper stickers are sold (from the trunk) for a collector-friendly price and by annual subscription (SOLD OUT! Stickers still available à la carte). Openings follow a nomadic, symbiotic logic and include a public affixing, radio jams, and road snacks. Newcity named it The Best New Gallery on a Car Bumper.
ABOUT LEASE AGREEMENT
Lease Agreement is a collaborative curatorial project by artists Adam Farcus and Allison Yasukawa. Set in the living room of the couple's rental house, Lease Agreement continues in the tradition of apartment gallery exhibition spaces by exhibiting conceptually rigorous, engaging work within the context of a home. Located in the Waverly neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, Lease Agreement has operated out of the collaborator's row-house since October 2012. Lease Agreement opens a show with Trunk Show friends Latham Zearfoss & Claire Arctander Saturday July 19th, from 6-9 pm.
Trunk Show co-driver/director Jesse Malmed will be screening some recent works at the AAF on Friday the 18th at 9 pm.
