"Almost exactly a year ago, an inconspicuous U-Haul truck parked outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In lieu of cardboard boxes and furniture bound in stretch wrap, the truck's cargo was an assemblage of contraband objects taken from various workplaces. The truck was the U-Haul Gallery, on its third night of The Show of Stolen Goods, an exhibit curated by Jack Chase, the gallery's Head of Global Strategy, and artist Victoria Gill."
"In the U-Haul Gallery world, nothing is sacred and everything is stolen, or at least up for grabs, even ideas. The idea for a truck show was conceived by founder James Sundquist in spring 2024 after he stored one of his paintings in the back of a U-Haul during a studio move amid a fruitless search for affordable gallery space."
The U-Haul Gallery operates exclusively out of ubiquitous moving trucks and stages roving exhibitions that appropriate or reclaim objects. The Show of Stolen Goods presented contraband workplace artifacts linked to alleged looting and trafficking figures and staged a pop-up outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Founder James Sundquist conceived the truck-show idea after storing a painting in a U-Haul during a search for affordable gallery space, and Jack Chase joined early programming. The project contests old-guard exhibitionary legacies, treats ideas and objects as circulating, and embraces a guerrilla, anti-sacred approach to display.
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