Gutter Box Review Volume 1: Local Papers
Gutter Box Review Volume 1: Local Papers will showcase works by alumni of the Gutter Box project, initiated by artist Louis Watts at Lump in 2015 and now based on the NCMA-Winston Salem campus. Gutter Box is a sculptural and curatorial project that transforms a retrofitted newspaper distribution box into a miniature white cube gallery, playing with perceptions of scale and context. It offers artists the opportunity to experiment with installations and pieces that, through the shift in scale, achieve monumental effects with minimal materials and time. As a sculptural object repurposed from the ordinary shell of a newspaper box, Gutter Box provides an unexpected encounter with contemporary art. Free from the sacred or political confines of museums or the capitalistic sterilization of a commercial gallery, it offers an unguarded experience of art, liberated from preconceived notions of context.
Throughout its run, Gutter Box has showcased artists from both North Carolina and across the U.S. Gutter Box Review Volume 1: Local Papers focuses specifically on contributions from North Carolina-based artists. This retrospective at Lump will feature nearly all NC alumni of the project, dating back to its first year. In keeping with the artist-centered mission of the project, the curatorial approach will remain light, allowing artists to experiment with the space or present their work without overwrought direction.
participating artists:
Ben Alper
John Bowman
Jerstin Crosby
Lincoln Hancock
George Jenne
Wayne Marcelli
Lindsay Metivier
Reuben Moore
Chris Musina
Travis Phillips
Drew Robertson
Mark Soderstrom
Louis Watts
https://www.gutterboxgallery.com/
Gutter Box is a sculptural object and contemporary art gallery conceived and built by artist Louis Watts and made from a retrofitted newspaper distribution box donated by Indy Week. It is a blank space, a void paused in the center of daily activity. It is a chamber of potential between the space, artists, and audience. It once was used to disseminate information via newspaper but has been repurposed as an unexpected white cube gallery space.
Originally the box lived outside of Lump, in Raleigh, NC. The project now lives in front of the North Carolina Museum of Art – Winston-Salem. Gutter Box offers artists of all disciplines, interests, and locations an opportunity to bend their ideas into this funky little white box. It also provides the passer-by with a brief and surprising encounter with a contemporary gallery space.
