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Kantor Gallery Chelsea 10th Avenue
Window
259 10th
Avenue, New York, NY 10001 |
The Kantor Gallery in association
with New York artist Ryan Humphrey is pleased to present. . .
Ryan Humphrey
SUPERSTORE
Installation
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SUPERSTORE: a prototype storefront
for the mock corporation Humphrey Industries. This venture is
influenced by the independent rock band Fugazi, Diane Von
Furstenburg’s multi-use, party space/apartment-boutique, and Keith
Harring’s pop shop.
The self-produced, self-managed
and artist run store has co-opted the retail design of fashion
boutiques that attach themselves to gallery districts like barnacles
on ships. This experiment in entrepreneurship is a “DIY” approach
to engaging the art public directly without the aid or hindrances of
gallery representation.
This is a call to arms: Eliminate
the middlemen. Deal direct. Forge your own cultural vision and
promote it yourself.
Humphrey Industries has no full
time employee’s, no child labor factories in China, no giant Times
Square billboards, or glossy fashion magazine ads, and hardly any
actual product.
Humphrey is more influenced by the
inventiveness of David Lee Roth era Van Halen and the feats (and
defeats) of Motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel than any visual artist
living or dead.
Ryan Humphrey will be exhibiting
his wares in the Kantor Gallery New York window located at 259 10th
Avenue. Exhibit will run from October 1st to December 3rd. For
more information please call 323-933-6976.
Special thanks to Vans shoes, and
A’me grips for this project.
On view in the space:
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18 self portraits of the
artist as Clark Kent changing into Superman.
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An edition of 300 Humphrey
Industries Bicycle grips.
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Van Saarinen - a
vintage Saarinen chair painted like Eddie Van Halen’s guitar
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Several miniature skateboards
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Humphrey Industries Soda
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Humprey Industries Product
boxes
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Editioned Humphrey Industries
stickers
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Humphrey Industries t-shirts
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Several small Humphrey
Industries logo paintings
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Humphrey Industries book - a
Printed Matter publication
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“Somebody Call Me a
Doctor.” – a vintage rotary phone painted like Eddie Van
Halen’s guitar and housed in a glass cake tray.
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