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The Gift Shop

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August 27, 2009 – March 31, 2010


Image 1 / 9: Matthew Offenbacher. Study for the Gift Shop.

Image 2 / 9: Jenny Zwick and Joe Park. I know I know.


Image 4 / 9: Heide Hinrichs and Shaw Osha. The Atlas of Gifted Ideas.

Image 5 / 9: Heide Hinrichs and Shaw Osha. The Atlas of Gifted Ideas.

Image 6 / 9: Heide Hinrichs and Shaw Osha. The Atlas of Gifted Ideas.

Image 7 / 9: Heide Hinrichs and Shaw Osha. The Atlas of Gifted Ideas.

Image 8 / 9: Heide Hinrichs and Shaw Osha. The Atlas of Gifted Ideas.

Image 9 / 9: Debra Baxter, Margot Quan Knight, Matthew Offenbacher. Moonlight Requisition.

Moonlight Requisition
Debra Baxter, Margot Quan Knight, Matthew Offenbacher
Saturday, January 23rd until February 14

  1. Get a big sink from the GSA.
  2. Paint a WPA-esque documentary-historical-heroic painting.
  3. With homemade soap.
  4. Anti-bacterial communal hand-washing station with homemade soap.
  5. With a gum sculpture.
  6. Home-made gum: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Chewing-Gum.
  7. Sculpt soaps out of alabaster.
  8. Consider waterfall photography.
  9. Frozen waterfalls.
  10. Ice climbing.
  11. Ansel Adams: http://www.anseladams.com/.
  12. Gravity-fed rainwater collection system to run fountain using a large funnel on G.W.’s head and tubing and/or solar panel.
  13. Fake roses, sticky nostalgia.
  14. Make-out room.
  15. Petrified pompeii people and dogs.
  16. AIDS quilt: http://www.aidsquilt.org/.
  17. Love vs. ardor.
  18. Ardor, some definitions: a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause), intense feeling of love, feelings of great warmth and intensity.
  19. Artifice vs. Sheep. Sheep are real.
  20. No pretense to a significant event occurring.

Thank you: Jeffry Mitchell, Leo Saul Berk, Claude Zervas, Lorraine Parham, John Mutton, Joanna Baxter.

The Gift Shop Project #4 of 6

This is the fourth in a series of projects initiated and developed by Seattle artist Matthew Offenbacher which have turned the abandoned Henry Art Gallery gift shop into an autonomous, artist-powered, alternative exhibition space. Goals include: involving a diverse and interesting group of artists; developing means and methods which acknowledge the contingent nature of this particular site; generating new understandings of what an exhibition can be; and enjoying the pleasure and energy generated by working together. What makes water move uphill? Money! gift.shop.project@gmail.com.

Featured artists: Matthew Offenbacher, Jenny Zwick, Joe Park, Sol Hashemi, Jason Hirata, Claire Cowie, Shaw Ohsa, Heide Heinrichs
Image 1: Matthew Offenbacher. Study for the Gift Shop. 2009.
Image 2: Jenny Zwick and Joe Park. I know I know. 2009.
Image 4: Heide Hinrichs and Shaw Osha. The Atlas of Gifted Ideas. 2010. Installation for The Gift Shop Project. All images courtesy of Heide Hinrichs and Shaw Osha
Image 5: Heide Hinrichs and Shaw Osha. The Atlas of Gifted Ideas. 2010. Installation for The Gift Shop Project. All images courtesy of Heide Hinrichs and Shaw Osha
Image 6: Heide Hinrichs and Shaw Osha. The Atlas of Gifted Ideas. 2010. Installation for The Gift Shop Project. All images courtesy of Heide Hinrichs and Shaw Osha
Image 7: Heide Hinrichs and Shaw Osha. The Atlas of Gifted Ideas. 2010. Installation for The Gift Shop Project. All images courtesy of Heide Hinrichs and Shaw Osha
Image 8: Heide Hinrichs and Shaw Osha. The Atlas of Gifted Ideas. 2010. Installation for The Gift Shop Project. All images courtesy of Heide Hinrichs and Shaw Osha
Image 9: Debra Baxter, Margot Quan Knight, Matthew Offenbacher. Moonlight Requisition. 2010. All images courtesy of the artists.

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