File:Trunk Show Catalogue 2017.pdf

Summary[edit]

TRUNK SHOW (2013-2016) was a mobile exhibition space usually located in Chicago. Each month, artists were commissioned to design limited edition bumper stickers which lived, rode along with and helped propel a medium beat-up forest green Ford Taurus owned by Raven Falquez Munsell and Jesse Malmed. In addition to the month-long exhibitions, the bumper stickers were sold à la carte and by annual subscription. Openings followed a nomadic, symbiotic logic and included a public affixing, conceptual catering and playlists. TRUNK SHOW has been featured in the Chicago Reader, Hyperallergic and Newcity (who also named it The Best New Gallery on a Car Bumper in 2013) and the Chicago Tribune which named it amongst The Best of Visual Art in 2015.

In 2017, a book was produced to archive the project and included essays by Anthony Stepter and Dana Bassett and a conversation between Dan Miller and Davi Lakind. It was designed by Aaron Walker and edited by Raven Falquez Munsell and Jesse Malmed. Commissioned artist bumper stickers through the run of the project were made by: eric fleischauer; Assaf Evron; Jodie Mack (x2); Deborah Stratman; Oli Watt; Lauren Anderson; Brandon Alvendia; Laura Hart Newlon; Eric Watts; Alex Chitty; Stephanie Barber; Bryce Wilner; Eric May; Kelly Lloyd; Michael Milano; Michael Rae; Jason Lazarus; Philip von Zweck; Jennifer Reeder; Davi Lakind; Lilli Carré; Edie Fake; Claire Arctander; Eric J. Garcia, Josh Rios + Anthony Romero; Anne Elizabeth Moore; Scott Wolniak; Alex Bradley Cohen; Jessica Campbell; Clay Hickson; Aay Preston-Myint; Alexandria Eregbu; Alberto Aguilar; Philip Kaufmann; Tim Kinsella; Jen Delos Reyes; Every house has a door.