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Exhibition 2: Tom, Dick, and Harry

We began working on the second show at —Tom rather late because we all needed a break after working really hard to open the first show. I realised that running a space was pretty much this tiring process of opening one show and the immediately having to work on the next show whilst the first show is running. This led me to think about other models of running spaces that may be more within my capacity to do rather than the model we run on now:

  1. Physical space, roughly 800 sq ft
  2. Run by 2 people, handling everything from curation, maintainence to design, and gallery sitting
  3. Open 3 days a week, roughly 6 hours each time



The next show is pretty fun. It was supposed to be the first show at —Tom, but instead it might be our last, but also only our second. Tom, Dick, and Harry was the phrase that the space was named after, seeing “Tom” as a generic name used within a phrase specifically about generic names.


I am looking forward to this show because it is a group show, featuring Mike, Nina, Joo and Avis. It was a show that I thought about for a long time, figuring out which artists and their practices could compliment each other and the show. I was also very glad to be bringing these artists together to do a show within school because I have talked about their practice to my peers within crits, and hence I admired their works very much. I decided to work with them also because I really liked the way they didn’t seem to fit within the tone of the education here in Lasalle. In a sense that their practices are more abstract, with an element of genuinity and play and hence that I learnt a lot from in thinking about my own practice.

The show was ambititious. There was a lot of coordinating that I had to do amongst the four artists as well as in figuring out the spacial dimension of the show. We also decided to build a boardwalk, so that meant a lot of budgeting, figuring out of logistics and trying to invest as much time and attention to the four artists.


I thought I could have invested more energy in communicating with the artists closer though. Before we started I had hoped that by the end of the show, I would knnow their practice much much more in depth and would perhaps even be able to write an artist bio for them. That was a kind of process that I initially hoped for but was unable to commit to.



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