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ALL ART SELLS FOR $200
ADMISSION IS FREE
ONE NIGHT ONLY!
Saturday, June 21, 2008
7pm–Midnight
142 Waterstreet (old Storyeum building)
Vancouver BC
Map
Water Street will be shut down to car traffic until 8pm on Saturday please
use parkade entrance via Cordova Street.
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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.
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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.