upstART Gallery will host its first group show at Pop Box Gallery & The Art Chose Me’s residency in Old East Durham. The show features 27 artists who were selected through an open call review process. Artists were challenged to create work especially for this unique space, scaled 1:12 (one inch = one foot).

Jim Lee’s meticulous construction process, chronicled on social media and captured in a series of photographs, is exhibited in conjunction with upstART Gallery. In the text accompanying the photographs, Jim invites us into the deeply personal and political backstory that evolved alongside the project.

upstART Gallery was inspired by the Boston-based Shelter in Place Gallery and is partially funded by The Awesome Foundation.

FEATURED ARTISTS

• Ami Patel (@amipatel.art)

• Betty Haskin (@bettmakesart)

• Bjorn Bates (@bjorn_bates)

• Brenda van Orsouw

• Cassandra Rowe (@longwinded_)

• Chieko Murasagi (@cmurasugi)

• Christine Hager-Braun (@soularpowerfabricart)

• Craig Cutright (@craigcutright)

• Dara Baldwin (@ari_midnightsun)

• Ed Speas (@aejr_perspective)

• Paige Welch (@paigewelchart)

• Jackie MacLeod (@jackie.macleod)

• Jason Lord (@jasonearllord)

• Jeannette Brossart (@JeannetteBrossart)

• Jena Matzen

• Jim Adams

• Jim Lee (@jim5058)

• Jodie Robinson (@jodie_phillips_robinson)

• Leah Sobsey (@leahsobsey)

• Lily Lapin

• Lisa Creed (@lisa_creed_artist)

• Meg Stein (@meg-stein-art

• Precious Lovell (@preciousdlovell)

• Rebecca Neigher (@ramnmetals)

• Shaun Gill (@ishaunhg)

• Teddy Devereux(@teddysartglass)

• Tracey Chipps (@beautyandbill)