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Toy Dispenser Gallery
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Toy Dispenser Gallery is a series of ongoing interactive installations where friendly toy dispensers offer miniature artworks for the audience to take freely. This work departs from work typical of a gallery setting and critically engages with both the audience and concepts including value, materialism, capitalism, accessibility, connection, and altruism.
This projet considers how inaccessible much artwork is and removes the barrier of purchase, subverting the capitalistic structures that permeate the art world by offering the work within freely to the viewer. The toy dispenser was chosen intentionally, not only for its playful and ritualistic qualities, but also to transform the vehicle used by businesses to cultivate compulsive spending and obsessive materialistic desire into something that carries genuine, intimate, and loving gestures inspired by the gifting of work that often occurs between artists and craftspeople. The ritual of this work - using the machine, and randomly acquiring an artist's work - creates a powerful and unique moment where meaningful connection is forged between artwork, audience, and artist.
Many other artists have included work in Toy Dispenser Gallery, including: Alexis and Darryl Diggs, Allysha Farmer, Anita Becerra, Anna Highsmith, April Grunspan, Casey Lin, Cass Christ, Chris Ramos, Ed Escobedo, Frankie Pittorf, Gaeun Kim, Giovanna Pizzoferrato Ribeiro, HUESCO SECO, Jason Lee Starin, Jesus Sergio Fernandez Bermudez, Jonathan Leal Ramirez, Julia Arredondo, Laura Williams, Lilian Wu, Lindsey Davis, M Aragon, MA-MA-, Maggie Adams, Mantis Harper-Blanco, Martin Rodriguez, Mary Wuest, Maryalice Carrol, Monica Juarez, Monica Wilson, Patricia Castillo, Patricia Heeman Hoffman, Ryan and Ellie Huck, Sam Oliver, Tiana Tucker, Tricia Cutler, True Arizola-Lyons, and Verena Gaudy.
Toy Dispenser Gallery has been exhibited in Richmond, VA, Brooklyn, NY, and Austin, TX, and will be on display in Houston, TX, and Salt Lake City, UT in 2025.






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