THE MALL: ART WALK + EXHIBITIONS

As part of this year’s Upstate Art Weekend, we're thrilled to be hosting The Mall—a pop-up art exhibition taking place June 26–28. Curated by Jasper Richmus and Marly Hammer, the space will be transformed into a vibrant gathering place featuring DIY gallery exhibitions, installations, and festivities throughout the weekend.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Before algorithms told us what we liked, the mall did. This exhibition reimagines vacant mall storefronts as living, breathing cultural spaces—temporary homes for exhibitions, curators, pop-ups, fashion collectives, and artists working across every genre. Empty shops become galleries. Food courts become runways.

Once, the mall was a site of wandering. A place to meander without a destination. To try things on. To look without buying. You arrived with friends and left when someone’s parents pulled up at the agreed-upon entrance, headlights blinking. Time stretched. There were no notifications. Getting lost was part of the architecture.

This project taps into that cultural memory—of mallrats and matinees, of glossy tile and fluorescent glow—and asks what happens when we reclaim these commercial corridors as spaces for gathering rather than consumption. What if the storefronts that once sold sameness now house experimentation?

Featured artists include: Rose Nestler, Marianna Peragallo, Esmaa Mohamoud, Karen Mainenti, Everywhere Shop, Hadi Falapishi, Linda Colleta, John Richey, Lagoon, Stuart Lantry, Watercolour Society, and dozens more.

The exhibition and adjacent events will be free and open to the public. All artworks in the presentation are displayed and available for purchase onsite and online.

Learn more at https://www.themallupstate.com/