SHOW LOCATION
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ONE NIGHT ONLY!
Saturday June 21 2008
7pm–Midnight
142 Waterstreet (old Storyeum building)
Vancouver BC
Map
SHOW
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The Cheaper Show returns once again.
On June 21st, 2008, the eighth installment
of The Cheaper Show series will take place in the Gastown district of
Vancouver, BC.
The concept of The Cheaper Show is very simple: 150 multi-disciplined
international artists presenting 300 pieces of art, each priced at $200
for one night only. Far from being an 'art sale,' each exhibiting artist
consciously makes a sacrifice by selling their work for less than its
potential value. This creates united support for the event, the arts
community, and an opportunity for this show to take place in an environment
that is accessible to everyone. In turn, many walk away with sales, exposure,
commissions and gallery representation, as well as having an opportunity
to connect with peers on an even playing field.
Visitors are drawn to the show, discovering a rare display of exceptionally
diverse talent where someone from almost any financial background may
own a piece of art. These people include the curious, the first time
buyer, and the well-seasoned collector.
The Cheaper Show is a salon style exhibition that focuses on quality
and diversity rather than category. Works of art, regardless of medium,
are displayed so as to activate one another; oil paintings and illustrations
hang next to contemporary photographs with content that ranges from the
urban to the academic.
The Cheaper Show has never been a profit-based event. Admission is free
and the artists receive 75% of the sale with the remainder going to offset
the production costs. The focus of the show is to create a greater observance
of talent with both established and underexposed artists.
HISTORY
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Cheaper
than a One Night Stand was started in 2000 by local artists Steve "Breadman" Cole,
Syx Langeman and Graeme (known then as the collective Fracture Industries)
as a new format to promote talented and underexposed artists. The concept was
very simple; to have a one night art show with dozens of multi disciplined
artists and with over a hundred pieces of art, all for sale at one affordable
price. The format caught on immediately and eight years later has
grown to become an institution with it being the largest recurring one night
art show in the history of this city.
The first show took place in November
of 2000 at the Sugar Refinery and was a huge success with sixty pieces
selling for $75 each. The next few shows were moved to a larger venue
in Yaletown and due to word of mouth we soon had line-ups around the
block just to get in. We started getting contacted from all over North
America by artists interested in taking part and they were sending us
work from as far away as New York and Florida. We were contacted by well
known local gallery represented artists who wanted to take part in The
Cheaper Show just to lend there names to the event to cause a greater
stature. All of these efforts culminated in our last event, The Cheaper
Show No. 7, which was a massive success. We took over a Porsche dealership
and filled the walls with over 75 international artists work. A diverse
crowd of over 1500 showed up and we sold over $24,000 of work in four
hours.
MANAGEMENT TEAM AND CONSULTANTS
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Executive Director
Graeme Berglund
www.sundaymorningwarship.com
Producer
Heidi Iro
www.trick17productions.com
Co-Curator
Meghan Paterson
Executive Producer Graeme Berglund will be the lead development consultant
and curator. Graeme is a local artist represented by the Douglas Udell
Gallery in Vancouver and showing with White Walls in San Francisco. He
is one of the founding members of Fracture Industries that originally
started the Cheaper Show series of events. He is a contributing illustrator
to the Georgia Straight and Co-Founder of The Cartelera Talent House.
He is part of the music project, Illiterature. He was lead coordinator
on the production of the last Cheaper Show installment, as well as on
various other arts related endeavors in the city of Vancouver.
Producer
Heidi Iro hails to Vancouver from Vienna, Austria. After spending 6 years
in the film Industry, she spent 4 years working as part of the Red Bull
Canada marketing team, coordinating their promotional teams and being
part of the production team organizing large-scale events such as Red
Bull Flugtag and Red Bull Elevation. In 2007 Heidi launched Trick17 Productions
and her first brand event The Trick17 Stop Motion Film Competition. Heidi
and Trick17 Productions are currently developing a number or projects
involving the Vancouver artist community. She is also a member of The
Cartelera Talent House.
Co-Curator Meghan Paterson was born on the West
Coast’s Gooch
Island. Her mother sent her to study with an eccentric woman who took
her under her wing and trained her in extensive lessons on the human
figure. Taking inspiration from artists with a classical approach such
as Egon Schiele and Tamara de Lempicka, as well as being drawn to some
of the street level aesthetic of Margaret Killgallen and Barry McGee,
she has proven to be highly skilled in portraiture. She has assisted
in several productions of The Cheaper Show as part of the collective
Fracture Industries. Meghan is the director of the discreet nomadic
space called Mercy Gallery. She is also a member of The Cartelera Talent
House.
VOLUNTEER
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We are currently looking for Volunteers for this event. If
you would like to be part of the team, please email volunteer@thecheapershow.com
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