The Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Visual Arts at Princeton University will host S-T-O-R-E-D, a pop-up shop by senior Ben Denzer, from March 2 through 6. The shop will be open Monday through Friday 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. A reception will be held on March 4 from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public. The art is for sale.
“Half art-gift-shop half yard-sale,” according to Denzer, S-T-O-R-E-D inventories a range of modified artworks and found objects. Current holdings include books with wheels, blown glass, postcards, books with nails, stretched bottles, and items he does not want after leaving college. A more complete inventory can be viewed at S-T-O-R-E-D.com.
Photo by Ben Denzer/S-T-O-R-E-D.com
A functional store, the project is a framework for the display and sale of artistic experiments. Graduating from the University in June, Denzer explains that S-T-O-R-E-D was created to provide, “an outlet for visual experiments that I might not otherwise have reason or motivation to make after leaving Princeton. Having S-T-O-R-E-D as an excuse, I can keep making things, documenting them, and hopefully sustain that process through selling them.”
The thesis that results, notes Denzer, “pokes at the consummation of art as well as the contemporary position of the book as a primarily aesthetic object. The work aims to destabilize how things are valued and validated.”
