Vinegar curates expanded art projects in Birmingham, Alabama.
We believe that experimental and noncommercial art practices have heightened capacities to challenge and uplift our community. Our exhibitions emphasize unconventional formats: installation, video, new media, performance art, and social practice. We pay every artist a fair wage for their creative labor.
OPENING NOVEMBER 2
Bad Outdoorsmen (Episode 3)
Katie Hargrave and Meredith Laura Lynn
Presented at two venues:
Ruffner Mountain Nature Preserve, 1214 81st St S, Birmingham, AL 35206-4599 (Directions here)
The Old Bailey Gallery, 4909 Fifth Ave S, Birmingham, AL 35222 (Directions here)
Opening Reception November 2, 2–5pm, held simultaneously at both venues
Still from the video Katie Hargrave and Meredith Laura Lynn created as part of Bad Outdoorsmen (Episode 3)
CURRENT EXHIBITION
Between a Love and a Hard Place
A video art exhibition in a new collaborative venue, the Media Window.
Pardon their progress: they’re installing a new TV soon, plus a shade to protect it from the punishing afternoon sun.
September 28 – November 28, 2024
FUTURE PROJECTS
In 2024, Vinegar stepped out of the white cube and into the public sphere.
We now curate site-responsive and publicly accessible exhibitions, considering the City of Birmingham as an art gallery framed by social architecture.
For inquiries, reach out to melissa@vinegarprojects.org.
PAST PROJECTS
EXHIBITIONS
Vinegar at the QiPO Fair // February 8–11, 2024
Circular Narratives by Kyle Hackett // November 4 – December 30, 2023
UMD :: Utopia Manifestation Daemon by artist-curator Ian Breidenbach + collaborators // September 16 – October 28, 2023
Love, Crush, Anger, Institution by Asa Mendelsohn // June 6-8, 2023
Embattled Bodies: Displacement, Trauma, and Resistance, a guest exhibition by the Mid-South Sculpture Alliance with juror Karlota Contreras-Koterbay // November 12, 2022 – January 7, 2023
The Mexican Husband by Fabiola Carranza // September 16 – October 22, 2022
DRUNK by Maegan Hill-Carroll // June 4 – July 23, 2022
Youth Artist Exhibition with The World Games 2022 // May 20, 2022
Vivarium by John Powers // February 12, 2022 – March 19, 2022
Shape: Art and Resilience Artist Residency Virtual exhibition // 2021
Memorial for Souls Can’t Go Home by Orlando Thompson // December 10, 2021 – January 22, 2022
Couched by Britny Wainwright // June 4 – July 17, 2021
Holding Space: One Entity Embracing All // April 17 – May 22, 2021
Sawubona/Sala Kahle by Brandi Shah // February 19 – March 27, 2021
Those are the views. These are the vistas. by McLean Fahnestock // December 11, 2020 – January 3, 2021
Cobweb Codex by Jasper Lee // November 6 – 21, 2020
Elevation vs. Infatuation by Carey Fountain // September 25 – October 17, 2020
Shape: Art, Agency, Accountability, and Activism Artist Residency Virtual Exhibition // September 16, 2020
BEZOZON by Tess Elliot // February 2020
SHAPE: A VIRTUAL RESIDENCY PROGRAM
Shape was a residency-workshop program for artists, creatives, and culture-bearers.
Shape 1 : Art, Agency, Accountability, and Activism // 2020
Shape 2: Art and Resilience // 2021
Shape 3: Art and Health Justice // 2022
We forever love and remember our friend Brian Hawkins, the poet known as Voice Porter.