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The Tollbooth Gallery was a site-specific exhibition space and project of the nonprofit arts organization ArtRod launched in 2003 and located in Tacoma, Washington.〔http://www.artrod.org/tollbooth.html〕 The project featured contemporary art on view 24 hours a day and seven days a week. The aim of the Tollbooth was to offer dynamic and challenging installation and video art in an outdoor urban setting.〔http://pappas-kelley.com/art/Curatorial_Projects.html〕〔http://www.artrod.org/tollbooth.html〕〔http://www.artrod.org/history.html〕 Tollbooth Gallery was created and curated by Jared Pappas-Kelley and Michael Lent.〔http://www.seattlepi.com/ae/article/That-aroma-from-Tacoma-It-s-the-smell-of-1203267.php〕 For each exhibition an artist or artist team was commissioned and tasked with the realization of their project at the site, while taking advantage of the freestanding concrete structure.〔http://www.artrod.org/tollbooth.html〕〔http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/11/prweb175493.htm〕 Art critic Regina Hackett characterized the project as “mind-expanding art packed into cramped quarters” and described the approach as: “Art that is eager to wrestle with reality.”〔Hackett, R., 2004. Reviews: Tollbooth. The Organ Review of Arts. Mar./Apr.〕 Hackett noted: “What it lacks in space, it achieves in time,” and “on top of that, it's fabulous.”〔http://www.seattlepi.com/ae/article/Mind-expanding-art-packed-into-cramped-quarters-1148452.php〕 The Tollbooth commissioned eight exhibitions per year, focusing on varied approaches and engagement with the site and viewer, with an emphasis on video art, time-based work, photography, printmaking, and installation art.〔http://www.artrod.org/tollbooth.html〕〔http://www.academia.edu/2061114/Catalogue_for_the_first_year_at_the_Tollbooth_Gallery_published_in_printed_form_as_Toby_Room_10〕 The gallery’s stated mission was to bring video and gallery work outside of the traditional museum setting, challenging artists and audience to approach site in different ways.〔http://www.artrod.org/tollbooth.html〕 Participant and curator Fionn Meade described the Tollbooth site as a “challenging space to work with but in a good way,” commenting that “the limitations of a format make you be more decisive.”〔http://www.academia.edu/2061114/Catalogue_for_the_first_year_at_the_Tollbooth_Gallery_published_in_printed_form_as_Toby_Room_10〕 This decisive approach to exhibiting contemporary art allowed the Tollbooth Gallery to program work that might be considered “edgier,”〔http://www.tacomaculture.org/arts/resource/TA_Pub_PublicArtReview.pdf p 22〕 which was furthered by the temporary nature of the commissions.〔http://www.tacomaculture.org/arts/resource/TA_Pub_PublicArtReview.pdf p 22〕 As the journal Public Art Review noted, the project benefited from the “dynamics” of its temporary exhibitions as they allowed for experimentation and “delivered on a short timeline.”〔http://www.tacomaculture.org/arts/resource/TA_Pub_PublicArtReview.pdf p 22〕〔Wagonfeld, J., 2005. Tacoma: The Dynamics of Temporary. Public Art Review. Spr./Sum.〕 Over the years the Tollbooth Gallery was selected by Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles to be included as part of their curriculum,〔http://edu.moca.org/education/teachers/curric/themes/publicart/making/tollbooth-gallery〕 presented as part of the panel Conduit to Contemporary Art at Americans for the Arts National Conference,〔http://ww3.artsusa.org/pdf/events/2005/conv/pubart_speaker_bios.pdf〕 and Make Your Own: Art in and out of Cologne at Henry Art Gallery.〔http://www.henryart.org/mediathings/show/261〕 A catalogue of the first year of exhibitions at Tollbooth Gallery was subsequently published as Toby Room 10.〔http://www.academia.edu/2061114/Catalogue_for_the_first_year_at_the_Tollbooth_Gallery_published_in_printed_form_as_Toby_Room_10〕 The Tollbooth Gallery was one of four major projects of the art organization ArtRod, which included Critical Line - an exhibition center, the publication Toby Room, and the film and video series Don’t Bite the Pavement.〔http://www.artrod.org〕 == Exhibiting artists == * Wynne Greenwood (Tracy and the Plastics) * Jared Pappas-Kelley * Michael Lent * Bill Daniel * David Lester * (Fionn Meade ) * (Bridget Irish ) * Denise Smith (Baggett) * Vanessa Renwick * Josh MacPhee * Justseed's Celebrate People's History Project * (Tim Sullivan ) * (Patrick Rock ) * (Alex Schweder ) * (Lauren Steinhardt ) * The Danish art collective (Femmes Regionales ) * (Kevin Haas ) * (Ido Fluk ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tollbooth Gallery」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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