Testing, Próbando celebrates BOX 13’s new (bilingual) website and the invisible labor that goes into running an art space and an artist’s studio practice. BOX 13 ArtSpace is run by Member Artists, each of whom take on different roles to keep the gallery and studio spaces running. Just as a new website needs to be proofed and tested, this trial stage is paralleled in our art practices. The private spaces of this building are constantly home to work that is in-progress or “under test.”
This group exhibition brings some of these outliers from the studios of BOX 13 Member Artists into the public eye, including work by: Nohelia Vargas Bolivar, Melinda Laszczynski, Caroline Roberts, Alberto Careaga, Farima Fooladi, John Forse, Alexander Squier, Alex Lesser, Jennifer Pulido, Nicolle LaMere, Daniella Koontz, Violette Bule, Claire Chauvin, Emily Link, Jessica Kreutter, Patrick Turk, Venessa Monokian, Emma Balder, and Sandra de la Rosa. These works include studies, models, first versions of things, things that took work in a new direction, brand new, not-yet-quite-figured out things, one-offs, sketches, experiments, and tests.