You can pack, project and expect so many things onto, or from, an art gallery. There are about as many ways to go about being a gallery as there are opinions floating around the art world, but the path Mike and Laura set out for ShockBoxx was that they wanted to create a place where the people involved would feel safe enough… nah, encouraged enough… nah… DARED enough to take risks, to experiment, to make and show what they feel like making and showing. To tell the stories they need to tell for the sake of telling them, and with no pressure to make the cash register ring. Not gonna lie, it’s fun when the red dots pop, but it’s more fun when the artist does.
That’s what we have been witnessing with Amrta since we met her way back in the days of quarantine.
If you know her, you have a sense of her work, and maybe an inside glimpse into the story she has been telling. While watching the installation of her upcoming solo show, “integrated,” we realize that everything leading up to this show was prologue. What comes next matters most in the telling of this story and we couldn’t be more proud of how Amrta is meeting this moment with grace, courage and an acceptance of that dare that makes the existence of this little gallery matter that much more to every single one of us that call ShockBoxx our home spot.
So hey, Amrta, we are getting messages from people that are so ready for this. Tell the story and know that the whole squad is standing here with all the respect there is.
Game on.
