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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Visual Art Everybody Wants to Do a Thing

Posted by Jen Graves on Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 1:01 PM

At Ambach & Rice Gallery: The Vatican, empty.

At Ambach & Rice Gallery: The Vatican, empty.

The new Nano Gallery in Santa Monica claims to be the smallest gallery in the world, at (I think) six by six by six inches.

Big words!

But no way I'm buying it. The history of art is full of weird little spaces. Just in the Northwest in the last decade alone, there's been the Tollbooth Gallery in Tacoma, the Telephone Room in Tacoma, and the short-lived but potentially smaller-than-Nano desk drawer gallery in the former iteration of Ambach & Rice in Seattle, which was called The Vatican, and which, in the gallery's current iteration, has been upsized to a window box with nothing in it (but to which, as the photo says, something will be COMING SOON).

(Thanks, Artnet.)

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Hey Jen - don't forget JEMA http://www.jema.us Sean Miller's ongoing project. Not only is it small but it's portable!

Posted by Howard House Contemporary Art on January 13, 2010 at 3:51 PM

This has to be the smallest gallery:
http://www.orgallery.org/webprojects/han…

Hannah Jickling compiled this fantastic archive of mobile spaces as part of an offsite-project series for the Or Gallery in 2005. http://www.orgallery.org/webprojects/han…

Posted by jjp on January 13, 2010 at 11:27 PM

My mobile shirt pocket gallery is currently closed for dry cleaning.

Posted by Drawmark

on January 14, 2010 at 6:17 AM

Hi Jen, I'm pleased that Howard House Contemporary Art brought my little museum the John Erickson Museum of Art (JEMA) http://www.jema.us/ into the discussion. Here is a little more art to keep in mind. More or less...

Temporary Services Keeps An Outstanding Database of Mobile/Portable/Miniature Art:
http://www.temporaryservices.org/mobilit…
Diana Cavanaugh's Worn Gallery is a beautiful new little venue:
http://worngallery.blogspot.com/
Filip Noterdaeme's HOMU is smart and full of surprises.
http://www.homelessmuseum.org/
And last-but-not-least - peedie gallery
http://www.peediegallery.co.uk/

My Two Cents,
Sean Miller
Director/Founder
John Erickson Museum of Art
A Location Variable Museum

Posted by museum on January 15, 2010 at 9:54 AM