Program Archive
Shows Built
On Site.
Lift Trucks is a working studio and public showroom in a 1922 former forklift factory on Route 22. Exhibitions are planned, built, installed, and archived in the same building.
22+
Shows & Projects
15+
Years On
Site
50+
Artists Presented
3
Flagship Initiatives
Current Feature
Tom Christopher · In Situ Presentation
Rooms, Not Walls
The new paintings are shown beside foundry sculptures and crucibles in the Lift Trucks studio. The pairing is deliberate and drawn from a Japanese display tradition: object and artwork alter each other when they share a room.
These are working objects, not atmosphere. The crucibles were used to cast bronze, the molds held metal at 2,000 degrees, and the bronzes were exhibited at Richard Bellamy’s Oil and Steel Gallery and Socrates Sculpture Park. Art in rooms, not on walls alone.
Past Shows
18 exhibitions & projects
2009
Inaugural Exhibition
From a Factory Floor
The show that opened the building. Screen print collaborations by master printer Gary Lichtenstein with 14 artists including Alex Katz. Reviewed in the New York Times, June 14, 2009.
Flagship Projects
Three projects that went
beyond the building to
make the headlines.
Not every show stays on Route 22. These three extended the reach of Lift Trucks into national press, elite galleries and one of New York’s most famous cultural institutions.
01
Summer 2014 · Collaboration
The Brill
Building Project
For 30 days in summer 2014, Tom Christopher and Oscar Andy Hammerstein III occupied a vacant Brill Building storefront and painted live for six hours a day while New York walked past.
02
FALL 2014 • Collection Lender
Body
Electric
A tattoo art exhibition presented at Ricco/Maresca Gallery in Chelsea, featuring classical flash works from the Lift Trucks tattoo archive assembled by Tom Christopher over more than three decades.
03
2017 · Institutional Partnership
Tattooed
New York
Lift Trucks’ classic tattoo archive traveled to the New York Historical Society for a major institutional exhibition—a Route 22 collection shown at one of New York’s major cultural institutions.