Shadowshop
Just in time for the holidays!
A temporary and alternative store/distribution point embedded within the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s fifth floor galleries, Shadowshop will stock hundreds of artists’ multiples, small works, tchotchkes, catalogs, books, zines, media works, and other distributive creative output.
While operating as an actual mom-and-pop style store, Shadowshop is also a platform for exploring the ways in which artists are navigating the production, consumption, and dissemination of their work. Four themes (1. artwork-as-commodity, 2. cultural souvenirs, 3. bootlegs and counterfeits, and 4. alternative distribution systems) will contextualize selected projects that are both complicit with and also critical of capitalist circulation. Special projects will be commissioned by Packard Jennings, Juan Luna-Avin, and Imin Yeh.
For almost six months (November 20, 2010—May 1, 2011) Shadowshop will feature only local Bay Area works, give museum visitors access to a wide variety of affordable wares, and provide a snapshot of a vibrant and energetic art scene.
100% of pre-tax sales from Shadowshop go directly to the artists.
To see some of the wares, click here.
A couple of examples....
FREE SOIL READER by Amy Franceschini
Soft cover book with silkscreened cover
$30 each
A collection of historical and contemporary ephemera, essays and interviews about alternative, “radical” forms of education and learning.
Chinese Restaurant Project mini prints, 2005: by Indigo Som
High-quality Ultrachrome inkjet prints of Chinese restaurant photos
$50 each
A temporary and alternative store/distribution point embedded within the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s fifth floor galleries, Shadowshop will stock hundreds of artists’ multiples, small works, tchotchkes, catalogs, books, zines, media works, and other distributive creative output.
While operating as an actual mom-and-pop style store, Shadowshop is also a platform for exploring the ways in which artists are navigating the production, consumption, and dissemination of their work. Four themes (1. artwork-as-commodity, 2. cultural souvenirs, 3. bootlegs and counterfeits, and 4. alternative distribution systems) will contextualize selected projects that are both complicit with and also critical of capitalist circulation. Special projects will be commissioned by Packard Jennings, Juan Luna-Avin, and Imin Yeh.
For almost six months (November 20, 2010—May 1, 2011) Shadowshop will feature only local Bay Area works, give museum visitors access to a wide variety of affordable wares, and provide a snapshot of a vibrant and energetic art scene.
100% of pre-tax sales from Shadowshop go directly to the artists.
To see some of the wares, click here.
A couple of examples....FREE SOIL READER by Amy Franceschini
Soft cover book with silkscreened cover
$30 each
A collection of historical and contemporary ephemera, essays and interviews about alternative, “radical” forms of education and learning.
Chinese Restaurant Project mini prints, 2005: by Indigo Som
High-quality Ultrachrome inkjet prints of Chinese restaurant photos
$50 each
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