40 Hour Work Week
July 24 – August 3, 2024
Opening Reception, Saturday, June 29, 6–9 pm

Labor migrated from the cottage to the factory over the course of the 18th and 19th centuries. The idea of ‘work’ evolved from something integral to our daily lives and routines into a completely separate inconvenience that made everything else more convenient. And on that glorious altar of efficiency we sacrificed the value of what it means to make things with our own hands. Still, in the vacuum of tradition, a purer form of production surged in. Art rose alongside factories, cafés, and modern disenchantments. It rose as a new essence, cast new meanings, unearthed new forms, and survived as the purest form of work in a world where work and life had been permanently separated.

40-Hour Work Week will reunite them.

The gallery will be open from 9 am on Monday, June 24 until 11:59 pm on July 28 for anyone to come in and draw whatever they wish in the gallery. Paper and drawing materials will be available. Artists will only be asked to punch a timecard, sign it, and leave drawings behind to be collected and curated into an exhibition of all the work made during the week prior.

This wall-to-wall exhibition of drawings by the public will open with a reception on Saturday, July 23 at 6 pm and stay up through the remainder of the summer.

Please join, one and all!