January 21 - March 11, 2005

The Stray Shopping Cart Project: Cleveland and Environs

Julian Montague (Buffalo, NY)

Part of SWAP

Julian Montague spent the first three weeks of his residency documenting and classifying Cleveland's many stray shopping carts through photography. In The Stray Shopping Cart Project: Cleveland and Environs, January 21 ? March 11, 2005, Montague explores the way in which science constructs meaning and imposes order through vocabulary. Having traveled by bicycle through snow and wind to find his cart specimens, Montague further explored Cleveland during the second half of his residency, via warmer means. He talked with a class at the Cleveland Institute of Art about collections as art and collecting art, and held a workshop for local middle school students in which they created classification systems for their own "unnatural" objects. New York Times art critic Benjamin Genocchio supplied the critical essay on Montague's project.

About the Artist

Julian Montague

Julian Montague (b. 1973) lives and works in Buffalo, New York. A graduate of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, he has shown work at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, New York; Black & White Gallery, Brooklyn, New York; The Light Factory, Charlotte, North Carolina; and SPACES, among others. He is... go to artist page

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