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thisisnotashop @ No Soul For Sale: A Festival of Independents

June 24, 2009 — June 28, 2009

We are pleased to announce that we will be exhibiting in New York City as part of NO SOUL FOR SALE: A Festival of Independents held by X Initiative at the former DIA space in Chelsea opening June 23rd and continuing until June 28th, 2009. X has invited more than 30 not for profit art spaces from around the world to present their programs and artists. Thisisnotashop is proud to represent Dublin alongside arts organizations from such diverse places as Hong Kong, Barcelona, Trinidad, Berlin, Reykjavik, Milan, Paris, Los Angeles and more.

Thisisnotashop will exhibit a group show featuring artists involved with our gallery (both past and future) including Clive Murphy, Wendy Judge, Kathryn Maguire, Robert Carr, Jessica Foley, Esperanza Collado, Gillian Lawlor, Paula Barrett, Catherine Barragry, and The Writing Workshop at Thisisnotashop. This group exhibition will include work that reflects past exhibitions — such as Clive Murphy’s Porn Spam T-Shirts (2007) — as well as debut new projects by artists we support, including as Kathryn Maguire’s Footage, a video/sound installation that investigates the recent history of Benburb Street where Thisisnotashop is located. It seeks to express the diversity and quality of our own program as well as give an international audience a taste for the independent Dublin arts scene. This exhibition is organized and curated by Jessamyn Fiore, assisted by Michael Kynaston.

On Wednesday June 24th from 7—9pm Thisisnotashop presents Thisisnotashop Live, a series of live events on the building’s ground floor including a new piece by Catherine Barragry and featuring NYC based Wreckio Ensemble performing excerpts from their show The Ladies Aide Society Invites You To A Poverty Party To Benefit The Foundation For Ethical Art And Culture which they created specifically for Thisisnotashop Gallery and performed July 2008.

Thisisnotashop is a not for profit gallery founded in 2006 in Dublin, Ireland, dedicated to supporting the work of emerging artists from both Ireland and abroad, directed by Aideen Darcy and Jessamyn Fiore.

For further details about NO SOUL FOR SALE please visit: www.x-initiative.org

Opening: June 23, 6—9pm / Exhibition continues June 24—28, 1—9pm.
X Initiative, 248 West 22nd Street, New York City.

Thisisnotashop Live —
An Evening of Performance with Catherine Barragry and The Wreckio Ensemble.
Wednesday, June 24, 7—9pm.