The Project: Anonymous Gallery will feature four temporary, public art exhibitions, lasting four days, beginning October 16, 2008 and ending on October 19, 2008. Four 20ft x 8ft shipping containers will be placed curbside, near two separate major art institutions. Artists Monica Canilao, Maya Hayuk, Greg Lamarche and Anthony Lister will each be given a container to create an installation. The ambitious project intends to create a dialogue between the institutions, the public, and the city itself.

The project will be followed by a gallery exhibition featuring the participating artists – Monica Canilao, Maya Hayuk, Greg Lamarche, and Anthony Lister. The exhibition will feature collage, painting, sculpture, and installation to explore the complexity of exhibiting within a limited environment. It will serve as a tool to document the project and support the artist work. The title of the exhibition: Contain, is an examination into the perspective of how public art / street art is translated indoors. Conceptually the artwork inside of the containers is creatively free, limitless and available to the public, although its confines are restrictive. Similarly, the limitations of a gallery space translate differently than the freedom and spontaneity of the artists’ outdoor work.

WHERE:
The Lower East Side location (Chrystie Street between Stanton and RIvington) will feature installations by artists MAYA HAYUK and MONICA CANILAO

The Chelsea location (22nd street near 11th avenue) will feature installations by artists GREG LAMARCHE and ANTHONY LISTER

Anonymous Gallery is located at 329 Broome Street on the Lower Level
check out more info at:
anonymousgallery.com