A Beautiful Intersection of Art and Commerce

Phantom Galleries LA is teaming up with vacant storefront windows everywhere to bring you a beautiful intersection of high caliber art and commerce (or the lack of commerce for those stores it inhabits). It creates makeshift galleries for a limited time all around Los Angeles, Pasadena, and Long Beach in empty stores. Phantom Galleries rounds up leading cultural organizations, galleries, curators, and artists from all across this Angeleno land to give a public arts equivalent to the pop up stores that retail outlets have been using for years.

Closing in one week, the true essence of Phantom Galleries lies in artists Katarzyna Balug and Christopher Reynolds’ show Market.  This exhibition plays off the shopping experience of this gallery/retail space with works that focus on consumer culture and the marketing/design of food and its packaging.  Complete with a shopping cart in the front, Market does not necessarily make you hungry for the electric colored box of BBQ boneless rib-shaped pork patties depicted (an at home version of a McRib?), but it indeed makes you yearn for more.

The show will be open until June 30th at 340 E. 3rd Street in Long Beach, CA 90802.  Click here to schedule an appointment as gallery hours are subject to change.