BLACK FLOOR

Black Floor is Dead. Long live Black Floor. This will be the last missive from Black Floor Gallery, though this site may float in the ether of the internet for awhile, this place is no longer active:Annette Monnier, Carrie Collins, Gerik Forston, Nick Paparone, Elsa Shadley and Jamie Dillon created an "alternative" gallery space and sustained it for three years. In six months the space they signed a lease on had been converted from a grimy garment-pressing facility to a grimy art gallery and studios (with "residences" hidden in the back). The gallery floor was painted black, partly to create a border between the gallery and the rest of the space. The name, Black Floor Gallery, came as the most obvious and sincere solution to the seemingly eternal dilemma of denomination.The space terminated on March 25th 2007, a date that coincided with the last day of "Locally Localized Gravity" an exhibition that Black Floor was asked by The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, to participate in. "LLG" served as a way to rapidly summarize all the activities that had taken place in Black Floor during it's three-year history.Now Black Floor retires to the endless string of defunkt artistic collectives and spaces, and will hopefully be mentioned in the artistic memoirs of our collective future. It is better to burn out than to fade away.