Shaun Kardinal

Portable wall, stickers, typography, performance.

An on-foot gallery exhibition.

First performed for Vital 5’s August 2009 Arbitrary Art Grant in Art Dealing, an hour-long, outdoor performance where art dealers lined an imaginary storefront, peddling art and acting as a wall.

I chose to create not only a new exhibition of work, but also a new gallery with which to promote it: PROJECT GALLERY SPACE, a portable wall, in this instance displaying the most recent work by local artist Shaun Kardinal.

The exhibition was titled Equal ∧ Opposite and featured two new works: the first, a strip of paper on adhesive, titled Light; the second, Dark, toner on paper on adhesive; each 8¾ × 2¾ inches, edition of 100. The former ran for $5 and, naturally, included an edition of the latter, which was not for sale.

With the Light, Comes the Dark.

Shopping cart, orange juice cartons, baking sheets, QFC isle. Dimensions variable.

Created for Vital5’s Arbitrary Sculpture Grant, which asked artists to document a sculpture made in a grocery store, created only from store inventory.