About

The Streetside Gallery Project aims to recontextualize and transform urban walls and spaces into exhibition sites where painting, sculpture and performance art can be viewed without the accompanying elitism rampant throughout the art world.  Ideally, art should respond to the place, time and situation into which it was created.  However, art and the experience of viewing art has been relegated to specific sanitized locations far removed from life.  By leaving art in a context where it can be viewed, appreciated and taken by anyone (either inside or outside the "art world"), the Streetside Gallery aims to establish a dialogue with people not necessarily exposed to art while placing art within its appropriate context: daily life.  Art should be reclaimed from high society and given to the everyday man and woman.

Graffiti writers and street artists have often dubbed the urban environment as their canvas, yet the general public rarely views the city as an expansive exhibition of street art.  By transforming eyesores (construction walls in particular) into exhibition spaces, the Streetside Gallery hopes to make the casual observer reconsider his/her relationship to and opinion of art in the street.