yard sale (an art show)
This was a group art show based on the theme of a yard sale, which took place in Santa Fe, NM this summer. Yard sales are always random, nostalgic, and tacky-therefore, each “item” created kept those ideas in mind. This show also acted as an installation/performance; yard sale signs were put up on a breezy sunday morning, which attracted strangers as well as invited guests to an actual yard where negotiations were made (sometimes).
***My pieces included life-size drawings of food in plastic bags, drawings of collected seashells from around the world, jars of drawn buttons (some with actual string sown through the button holes), and drawings of random pieces of string. I also put up for sale a moon rock (at a considerably discounted price), pet rocks, used pet batteries, pet bottle caps, and one pet colored pencil, spray painted gold objects, lucky pennies, jokes for 25 cents, and TOP SECRET/CONFIDENTIAL secrets.***
This show also acted as a statement to the way people interact with art (or the lack of interaction). These art pieces were not meant to be framed on the wall, but were meant to be added to other people’s collections, souvenirs, toy boxes, and random drawers!
Submitted to Winter 2009 Showcase
7 Comments
I attended the Yard Sale (An Art Show) and not only thought it was a brilliant way to highlight good art and an innovative way to incorporate art into a more normalized setting, I also bought a bunch of art (that is now in drawers, on friends walls, and comes in the mail). Ms. Nickel is smart, playful, talented and brilliant. So, so good. No joke.
high price
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very original process
This is pretty brilliant, although I think that your pineapple might be a little overpriced.
This is adorable and fun. I like the use of drawings as objects and I’m glad that you displayed them all on a kitschy tablecloth.
Beautiful! Your idea of performance and installation is wonderful! I also very much appreciate the specific objects you chose to draw and sell. P.S. The pineapple looks totally worth it!
Always pushing the envelope. Taking art as object and subjecting it to interaction, off the wall or the pedestal and onto the plate, the countertop, the desk, the dresser, the pocket.
Her work reminds me that subjects of art are, themselves, artistic, works of art, and artist. I am now not a viewer, but a subject of the artist and her subject, at long last a vital participant in the triad of experience.
No longer a stranger, I have become part of the family.
thank you for all of the comments! if anyone would like more information on the show or any of the other artists involved please ask! or for more installation pictures look at the facebook album link above.
p.s. i still have some seashells, pieces of string, and some jokes if anyone suddenly realizes that that is exactly what theyve been looking for! prices vary.