State of California Rev. 13413B3 CONSTRUCTIVE EVICTION
New work by all of us collective
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT, under the terms of the exhibition agreement dated May 29 - June 29, 2021, your attendance on May 29, 2021, 5-7pm, is mandatory.
WHERE: 2 Swinson Projects
ADDRESS: Undisclosed, City of Oakland, State of California
WHEN: May 29 - June 29, 2021
OPENING: May 29, 2021, 5-7PM
VESTED PARTIES INCLUDE:
Brett Amory
Gabriella Grill
Miguel Monroy
Joshua Moreno
After the initial showing of the space on May 29, 2021 5-7pm, state law will permit interested parties to schedule a time between May 29, 2021 to June 29, 2021 to view the personal property left at the former address of the tenant, subject to certain conditions. Email allofusprojects@gmail.com to book an appointment.
Constructive Eviction is the first in-person exhibition by all of us. It includes works by founding members Brett Amory, Gabriella Grill, Joshua Moreno, and Miguel Monroy. Located at 2 Swinson, a storage unit in East Oakland, the space is in a tug-of-war between arts and economics, people and company. Constructive Eviction seeks to confront this tension through artistic defiance and by reclaiming a contested location.
Working in the do-it-yourself spirit, the collective reimagines the 2 Swinson space by converting the storage unit into a gallery. In Constructive Eviction, Amory emphasizes the markings on the wall. Grill and Monroy expose studs within the drywall, using the studs as a platform for display and revealing the construction of the space. Moreno collects materials from the building and surrounding area, drawing attention to the materials of the storage unit’s exterior environment. Through this mutation, the artists highlight the banalities of everyday spaces and recontextualize their functionality.
Please email allofusprojects@gmail.com to book an appointment and get directions.
Brett Amory
We have been witnessing the displacement of families and artists from major metropolitan areas in record numbers over the past few decades. Artistic hubs and the soul of neighborhoods are being destroyed in the name of progress; in the name of gentrification. Rents for these locals have become so high, they are forced to move further away from the cities. Artists start to rebuild their community again in areas that they can afford, but the same cycle continues. This Space is Unavalialbe is a protest against the transformation of the bay area into a gentrified wasteland and how artist communities remain vulnerable to displacement.
Gabriella Grill
Empties are made from empty plastic bottles and wire. Grill creates armor for the plastic bottles by weaving wire and wrapping the wire around the plastic until the original bottles are completely enveloped. As we know, plastic does not easily decompose and unrecycled bottles will remain on the earth for hundreds if not thousands of years. The bottles in the artist’s kitchen will likely outlive her multiple times over, and yet have already fulfilled the function for which they were created. She has drawn these bottles into her work as she grapples with her carbon footprint and concerns about her own contributions to waste. With this series, Grill creates hardened shells around the bottles that fortify the longevity of the bottles’ lives, and preserve the bottles of her past as a part of her consumer experience. While the wire literally creates a hard exoskeleton around the bottle, the craft and labor also protect it. The single-use bottle is no longer a manufactured disposable item, but is instead a unique object, crafted and labored.
Joshua Moreno
In Layered Daze on Mango Haze, Moreno creates a sculptural installation using materials found on-site and the surrounding outdoors of East Oakland, CA. The presentation of collected objects highlights some of his observations of the interior and exterior of the installation site and the people who historically and presently use the space and its surroundings.
Miguel Monroy
In Street View Selfie, Monroy discovers streets around the world using Google Maps street view and collects images in which the google camera appears. He explores the different levels of representation particularly those that are intentionally or unintentionally metaphysical. In this way, Monroy evokes the metaphor of the mirror by way of Contemporary meninas.