Gallery Ü Haul

Gallery Ü Haul 2005 - Present

Gallery Ü Haul is a mobile gallery that travels and exhibits throughout the greater Cleveland area. A do-it-yourself alternative to the traditional gallery — an interactive art experiment located in the back of a rented U-haul truck that parks, invites viewers to enter, interact with the artist (Kline, who videos Q & A sessions with participants) therefore, becoming part of the installation. Each installation deals with John Wheeler’s Participatory Universe Theory and other basic principles of quantum mechanical behavior. Wheeler believes we are tiny patches of the universe looking at itself - and building itself. No matter how deeply we peer into the quantum world of the atom or how far we reach into the vastness of outer space, the act of us looking with the expectation that something exists may be precisely the force that creates something for us to see.

The concept for Gallery Ü Haul was generated by 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 Campbell 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 via live, interactive studies of social behavior. The hope is to raise awareness of the importance of individual identity and how it is the creative thinkers that bring about change needed to transform negatives into positives.


"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

2009 SCHEDULE - to come
2008 SCHEDULE - to come

2007 SCHEDULE
POP-ART - Bubble blowing and bubble prints
Artist: Patsy Kline

Fri, May 11, 6 - 11 p.m.
@ Southside Cleaners
2415 Tremont Road

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ONE day garage sale/gas money fundraiser

July 22, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
@ 2338 Scranton Road

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24hr artMIX

August 10, 6 p.m. - August 11, 6 -p.m.
@ empty lot corner of Sctanton and Willey Road

Multi-sensory, live, interaction art installations by:
Deirdre Lauer
Emily Tan & “PAD”
ryann “guitar” anderson
Bridget Ginley
Andrew Klimek
Elizzabeth Schiros
Eric Wahl
Joseph Makkos
PJ Doran
Jim Fellahean
Amy Notley
Laila Voss
Patsy Kline
Joe Milan
Steven Goldberg
convergence-continuum
Heather Young
Beth Mastroianni
Edd Lewis
Frank Mills
Christine Aprile

MORE TO COME

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2006 SCHEDULE

Fri, March 10, 6 - 10 p.m.
Inside-Outside Gallery for the Tremont Artwalk
2688 W. 14th St., Cleveland, OH 44113

“Don’t Look Back”
Artists: R Ferris, Michael McNamara, and Steven B. Smith

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Sat, April 8, 5 - 10 p.m.
Arts Collinwood Gallery
15605 Waterloo Rd., Cleveland, OH 44110

“Don’t Look Back”
Artists: R Ferris, Michael McNamara, and Steven B. Smith

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Fri, April 14, 6 - 10 p.m.
Brandt Gallery / Tremont Artwalk
1028 Kenilworth Rd., Cleveland, OH 44113

“Don’t Look Back”
Artists: R Ferris, Michael McNamara, and Steven B. Smith

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Fri, May 12, 6 - 10 p.m.
F.D. Roosevelt Post and Club 58 / Tremont Artwalk
2442 Professor Ave., Cleveland, OH 44113

“A Mobile Artist Studio”
Artist: Michael McNamara

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Fri, June 9, 6 - 10 p.m.
Prosperity Social Club / Tremont Artwalk
1109 Starkweather Ave., Cleveland, OH 44113

“Let Go Lounge”
Artists: Evelyn Albers, Patsy Kline, Deirdre Lauer and Alyssa Wright

Performance: Lounge Kitty, 9 p.m. - midnight

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Sat, June 24, 11am - 7 pm
Beachland Ballroom / Waterloo Arts Fest
15711 Waterloo Rd. Cleveland, OH

“Let Go Lounge”
Artists: Evelyn Albers, Patsy Kline, Deirdre Lauer and Alyssa Wright

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Fri, July 14, 6 - 11 pm
Asterisk Gallery / Tremont Artwalk
2393 Professor Ave., Cleveland, OH 44113

“Cal King: episode 1”
Artist: Patsy Kline

“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

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Fri, August 11, 6 - 10 pm
Kline’s Home/ Tremont Artwalk
2338 Scranton Rd., Cleveland, OH

“Cal King: episode 2”
Artist: Patsy Kline

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Fri, September 8, 6 - 10 pm
Studio 11/Tremont Artwalk
2337 W. 11 St., Cleveland, OH 44113

Old Time Poetry Machine
Installation by: Daiv Whaley

Place the headphone on and hear four voices (two female and two male) reciting nouns, pronouns, adjectives and adverbs. Write down what you hear and create your very own poem.

Art for the Long Haul Douglas Trattner

Each month, Patsy Kline headed to the local U-Haul lot where she plunked down a deposit for a 17-foot moving truck, promising to return it no later than noon the next day. Finally, a U-Haul employee asked, “Just how many times you gonna move, anyway?” Patsy Kline wasn’t preoccupied with moving; she’s preoccupied with art. After shuttering her Gallery Ü Cleveland, located inside the Colonial Marketplace for three years, the Cleveland Institute of Art graduate suddenly found herself with art to show but no place to show it. So she took her act on the open road, exhibiting out of the back of a rented truck. And in so doing, Gallery ü became Gallery ühaul. “When I made the decision to close Gallery ü, it was devastating,” Kline recalls. “I went from having a gallery space to having nothing. It felt like I was homeless. The U-Haul project began as a commentary about those feelings.” Gallery ühaul can be seen this summer as part of the Tremont ArtWalk, which is held on the second Friday of each month. The purpose of this mobile art gallery is not to sell art, says Kline, “but to bring people together to experience and question art.” Her interactive autobiographical installations have focused on such topics as “moving on” and Kline’s personal attachment to her matrimonial bed. “I’m not the first person to put art in the back of a truck,” Kline admits, “but I have my personal story to go along with it. And the response has been phenomenal.” Kline says that apart from the unconventional setting, little else has changed about the way she approaches art. It’s just that these days, instead of paying rent on a gallery, she’s paying mileage on a moving truck.