The shelves flew off the shelves here at Artcite, as artists from the Windsor and Detroit areas picked up 23″ x 9″ pine shelves to turn into original works for ARTSEEN 13 – SHELF LIFE!.
Thanks to our mighty shelf-making volunteer crew, (Kudoes to Steve Daigle!! Thanks Sam Therrien and Matt Romain), we made and distributed a slew of elegantly simple pine shelves to interested artists who turned them into original art for “ARTSEEN 13 – SHELF LIFE”!
60 artists hung their shelf-creations on Artcite’s walls, working the idea and the materiality of “the shelf” in a show that pushed the boundaries of the creative process – some went so far as to make a couple of shelves!
Objets d’art, objets d’artiste, Duchampian “ready-mades” (that make ‘dada’ proud), SHELVED ideas! Think OUTSIDE the shelf! Think ON the shelf! Think ABOUT the shelf!
In past years, Artcite’s ARTSEEN was a showcase of experimental and ‘site-specific’ art works held in in old factory spaces and other decommissioned buildings.
Windsor and Detroit area artists presented new and in-process works in all media (visual art, video, multi-media, installation and performance) working with the themes and materials suggested by the sites.
Due to difficulties in securing donated vacant building spaces ( as well as utilities, heat and insurance costs), Artseen was “shelved” for the last 5 years. For 2011 Artseen bounced back (!) with a more intimate and miniaturized theme:
For our 2011 ARTSEEN (our lucky 13th!), “All the ARTSEEN world is a shelf!” (…on the wall…at Artcite). With this we broke the #13 jinx, and we look forward to resuming our art occupations of vacant Windsor buildings for future Artseens!
Click here to see All the shelves on our Flick set for the show.
And visitors can buy one (or many) of the shelf-works!
“ARTSEEN 13 – SHELF LIFE” is an exhibition AND a gallery FUN(d)raiser(R)(TM), so many of the shelf-works are up for grabs! A 30% commission is collected from sales proceeds during this special exhibition, so your purchases go towards supporting Artcite’s programming as well!.
ARTSEEN 13 -SHELF LIFE artists:
Kiki Athanassiadis; Jeet Aulakh; Timpy Aulakh; Douglas Bedard; Daniel Bombardier; Leesa Bringas; Marc Buckner; Allen Bukoff; Tena Campbell; Dianne Clinton; Samantha Cooper; Étienne Daigle; Joe Deangelis; Deborah Dunlop; Dan Dunlop; Margie Ferraro; Pina Frabotta; Kewy Gammie; Ken Giles; Susan Gold; Carole Harris; Bernard Helling; Danny Hompoth; Dennis Hunkler; Frank Incitti; Nadia Ionta; Ed Janzen; Ruth Janzen; Nancy Johns; Karen Anne Klein; Suzanne Konyha; Neda Laketic; Cyndra MacDowall; Mike Marcon; Sharron McGlashan; Riaz Mehmood; Ines Mihalji; Zeke Moores; R Mutt; Sasha Opeiko; Kyle Paul Ouellette; Megan Parry; Valerie Pearson; Nadja Pelkey & Joey Stewart; Shannon Phair; Mel Ann Piva; Amin Rehman; Matthew Romain; Victor Romao; Laura Shintani; Danuta Siniarska; Hadas Sita Eitany; A.G. Smith; Mike E. Squires; Igie SunEagle; Kate Ward; Mr. & Mrs. T.W. Whalen; Holly Wolter; Thick & Heavy Marching and Chowder Society; PSA(Pertinent Social Action) and apologies to anyone we missed!.
