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
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.