Gallery Ü Haul is a mobile gallery that hit the streets spring of 2006. The concept for Gallery Ü Haul was generated by artist Patsy Kline whose Gallery Ü was displaced December of 2005. After more than three years of dedication to the development of the “ARTcade Project” located in the Colonial Marketplace arcade she decided to close in lieu of the building being turned into a sports complex. “I
felt like the artists I had shown had been used and kicked to the curb. I knew my landlord had been looking for a developer but sports rendered the ARTcade obsolete. And then when the local press and Mayor stated that the building had been vacant it hit me — since the artist’s work was essentially being shoved into a U-haul why not express how transient the arts had been treated by turning the U-haul into a gallery — hence, Gallery Ü Haul. “A creative, minimal approach to express just where art goes after being used as an economic engine,” states Kline. Gallery Ü Haul’s mission is to be an accessible, unpretentious opportunity to experience and discuss the importance of the arts. The hope is to energize viewers and neighborhoods by powerfully evoking questions regarding creativity, individual identity and social norms. And to also act as a social sculpture that encourages the need to challenge established cultural mindsets. Each installation is site specific, has an educational component, and deals with the theme of “moving on”. Since its inception Gallery Ü Haul has held over 30 installations which have included approximately 60 artists and more than 26,000 participants. Gallery Ü Haul is a housetremont.com project
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“Just outside the gallery (Inside Outside) on opening night was Gallery U Haul, parked at the curb. The brainchild of Patsy Kline”
- By Douglas Max Utter, Freetimes 3/15/06
“One of the most innovative venues for viewing contemporary art this summer is Patsy Kline’s Gallery Ü Haul”
- Lyz Bly, Freetimes 5/24/06
“Unlikely as it may seem, beds have appeared over and over again in works of contemporary art. Among the most notable examples: John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s legendary 1969 “Bed-ins for Peace” set a high-profile precedent for the use of beds as a platform for social and political activism, forever entwining personal and public discourse. Cleveland-based artist and gallery owner Patsy Kline is creating a similar dynamic, using her own king-size bed in an interactive public installation that opens from 6 to 10 tonight as part of the monthly Tremont ArtWalk. The event, titled “Cal King: Episode 3 Live, Love, Lounge,” will take place in front of Kline’s home, 2338 Scranton Road in Cleveland, in her “Gallery U-Haul,” a mobile art gallery that she has used for a variety of novel art events throughout the summer. Her own take is that the bed is where life begins and ends, and “where we experience our most extreme feelings of love, hope and despair,” she said. How participants respond to the opportunity to gaze at or climb into Kline’s bed is anyone’s guess. But her installation is sure to spark conversations about the differences and similarities between artspeak and pillow talk.”
- Dan Tranberg, The Plain Dealer 10/11/06
“Patsy Kline suffers from ocular migraines, which can be triggered by her surroundings, behavior, food and other factors. That got her to thinking about how the city makes her and others feel. So for five years she’s been collecting sounds, images, videos, oral histories, objects and visual art about Cleveland and how the city makes her and her neighbors feel. She’s mapped all that out in an exhibit called “CLÜMAP” which she’ll exhibit in her Gallery U Haul truck, parked from 6-10 p.m. A must see.”
— Michael Gill, Freetimes 7/10/09
