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“As for the cellar, we shall no doubt find uses for it ... It will be rationalized and its conveniences enumerated. But it is first and foremost the dark entity of the house, the one that partakes of subterranean forces. When we dream there, we are in harmony with the irrationality of the depths.”
― Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Tops Gallery is made up of a particular combination of portals and altitudes. Descend into the labyrinthine basement of Memphis’ 400 South Front Street and one arrives at an irregular doorway, formed long ago by a sledgehammer’s route through the cement partition. Once used to store coal, today this corner of the building’s cellar contains decidedly other elements: artworks by Anna Gregor, Chris Peckham, and Bobby Smith find themselves in harmony. Weatherboarded textures, natural elements, and three-dimensional architectures compliment and contradict one another. Concrete foundations double as gallery walls. A window of sorts, a single manhole feeds a…
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“As for the cellar, we shall no doubt find uses for it ... It will be rationalized and its conveniences enumerated. But it is first and foremost the dark entity of the house, the one that partakes of subterranean forces. When we dream there, we are in harmony with the irrationality of the depths.”
― Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Tops Gallery is made up of a particular combination of portals and altitudes. Descend into the labyrinthine basement of Memphis’ 400 South Front Street and one arrives at an irregular doorway, formed long ago by a sledgehammer’s route through the cement partition. Once used to store coal, today this corner of the building’s cellar contains decidedly other elements: artworks by Anna Gregor, Chris Peckham, and Bobby Smith find themselves in harmony. Weatherboarded textures, natural elements, and three-dimensional architectures compliment and contradict one another. Concrete foundations double as gallery walls. A window of sorts, a single manhole feeds a…






































































