Public Installation / Art Slope Art Festival / Brooklyn, NY / September 2016

Not for Sale

New York City

Girl on Girl New York City’s first exhibition—Not for Sale: a newsstand installation project, created in association with the Art Slope art festival.

This pop-up newsstand was exhibited from September 17 to 25, 2016, under the Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial arch in Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY.

Concept

At any newsstand, you can expect to find objects that you—and thousands of other consumers—are all too familiar with. Daily newspapers, chocolate candy bars, celebrity gossip magazines, and cheese curls, to name a few. It doesn't really matter which newsstand you go to, all of them will provide you with the same, mass-produced products that you have learned to desire.

Not for Sale is exactly that—not for sale. It is a newsstand filled with art objects created by female-identifying artists who donated their beautiful works of art to be displayed in place of conventional, highly impersonal, mass-produced products of consumerism. These unique art objects allowed for a more personal experience between "consumer" and "product."

The five founders of our New York City chapter "worked" at the stand as shop attendants. In order to take home an object, a viewer had to engage in conversation with an attendant. The conversation served as a means of giving and receiving consent, taking place of the impersonal exchange of money for a product. The conversations between the viewers and attendants were mostly initiated as discussions about the work on display, the concepts behind them, and background information about the artists. Many of those conversations evolved into intellectual discussions about Feminism and related topics, and then onto getting-to-know-you exchanges. We even made some new friends.

Contributing Artists
  Olivia Accardo
Olivia Alonso Gough
Rebecca Anthony
Malaika Astorga
Tuesday Bassen
Katharina Behling
Chynna Campbell
Elle Chen
Mia Christopher
Gabriella Coll
Leah Miriam Cooper
Eel Costello
Lizzy DeVita
Emily Dunlap
Sophie Durbin
Leah Edelman-Brier
Jillian Evelyn
Kayley Flowers
Keaton Fox
Hope Gangloff
Courtney Garvin
Erin Geidman
Maegan Gindi
Patrice Gonzales
Daniela Gonzalez
Frances Goodman
Haesan
Anjali Harris
Zoe Hawk
Lillian Henehan
Cindy Hernandez
Ann Hirsch
Yoko Honda
Doris Guaier Huang
Haley Kattner Allen
Eri King
Kate Klingbeil
Lisa Kogawa
Sonnie Kozlover
Fabiola Lara
Hadley Leary
Alexandra Levasseur
Jhune Li
Caroline Locatelli
Cayla Lockwood
Cara Luddy
Grace Ludmer
Marsha Mack
Zoë Martin
Julia Irion Martins
Dina Martinelli
Amanda Xochitl Martinez
Caitlin McCann
Anna Mebel
Zoë Meighan
Nikita Merrin
Tsarina Merrin
Melanie Metz
Caroline Mills
Eden Mitsenmacher
Tara Morton
Cara Mullinary
Ambar Navarro
Jessica Nelson
Nastja Nykaza
Jess Øberlin
Lauren Oliver
Mariana Pacho Lopez
Sam Panken
Molly Pardoe
Adriana Pettinga
Sarah Pfohl
Liza Philosof
Ginger Q
Kati Rehbeck
Renée Reizman
Kyle Richardson
Lacy Rose
Jo Rosenthal
Adira Schiff
Natalie Soloperto
Lindsay Stripling
Amrita Strützle
Mara Tuccio
Cianna Valley
Victoria Wallace
Eliza Wapner
Danielle White
Elora Williams
Isolde Woudstra
Elif Yayla
Aimee Young
John Yuyi