À La Carte: a roving exhibition featuring artists' multiples sold to incidental passersby for popsicle prices

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-Slaton, Joyce. 'Merrily They Roll Along'. SF Weekly (June 2, 2004)

-Cohn, Terri. 'Emerging: Alternatives to the Twenty-first Century'. ArtWeek (Sept 2004) -> page 1, 2

Willow Laland, Chika Sato, David Benzler, Cynthai Burgess, Yuka Ezoe, Kurt Bigenho, Annmarie Ho, Tim Martinez, Muriel Olivares, Timothy Peterson, Thomas Carney, Rick Darnell, Jackie Julian, Julian Milo Smith, Robert Osborne, William Woods, Alexander Herbst, David Rudolph, Kevin Greisch, Naomi Kawamura, Chris Groves, Ev Funes, Ladies' Saturday Morning Stencil Club, Tia Factor, Magpie, Miriam Ewers, Mike Arcega, Emily Sevier, Lettie Jane Rennekamp, Jackie Gordon, Bert Bergen, Will Yackulic, Zach Von Joo, Shady Lanes, Amanda Eicher, Emily Wilson, Maggie Haas, Tiffany Hark, Barbara Garber, Jeannette Au, Erik Zassenhaus, Matt Volla, Marisa Olson, Elizabeth Zvonar, Sean Neil, Anna Steiner, Harriet Salmon, Mike Godwin, Michael Campbell, Gravity, Jessamyn Lowell, Kathryn Van Dyke, Leeshawn Renee Navarro, Helen Jo, Courtney Ryals, Elisa Harms, Rose Heineman, Chris Duncan, and more…

Opening Launch: Friday May 14, 2004, 7-10

Location for opening launch: Pond (324 14th St b/w Valencia and Mission St)

A La Carte will rove on Saturdays & Sundays, May 15 - June 20, 12-5 pm in the SF Mission district.

À La Carte is a roving exhibition cart on wheels (resembling an ice cream cart) that will tour San Francisco with the objective of bringing art to a wider audience and exhibiting work in a different context. Artists' multiples and one-of-a-kinds will be sold to incidental passersby at popsicle prices. All proceeds support public art exhibitions.

The exhibition title's double meaning explains À La Carte's activist sentiment: on a literal level, the art will be wheeled around the city via a cart; additionally, the concept of ordering an item in a restaurant "a la carte" means to order the item in isolation of other side dishes and accoutrements. The notion of ordering art "a la carte" thus critically considers what it means to exhibit and view art aside from normative gallery trappings.

À La Carte will be test run in San Francisco but may travel to other locations as well. If you are interested in inviting À La Carte to your event or an event you are attending please get in touch with us at the contact information below.