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For the foreseeable future, I have made the curatorial decision to exhibit work by people who identify as trans or non-binary (acknowledging that for some people, these identities overlap). The work exhibited at Lease Agreement does not have to be about these identities: queer, trans, and non-binary artists are often pigeon-holed into only making/exhibiting work that is related to their identities, which is not my intention. Lease Agreement is seeking conceptually rigorous artworks, exhibitions, and events.

If you do not identify as trans or non-binary, I would still love to talk to you because I am always open to hearing ideas, and perhaps I can find or share other opportunities or collaborations.

Lease Agreement is an artist-run, alternative, and nomadic curatorial project directed by Adam Farcus. The gallery programming continues in the tradition of alternative art spaces by organizing conceptually rigorous, engaging work for exhibitions, screenings, performances, and art events in non-traditional locations. Lease Agreement sometimes has a physical gallery, hosts online events, and also partners with galleries, organizations, businesses, and utilizes public spaces to bring contemporary art to viewers. Lease Agreement is currently based in the Seminole Heights neighborhood of Tampa, Florida - in the garage on the property that Adam rents.

Started in 2024, Front Facing is a Lease Agreement exhibition space as a novelty license plate on the front bumper of curator Adam Farcus’s Toyota Yaris. Artworks/plates will be printed digitally and installed on the front of the car for at least a month and until the next artwork/plate is exhibited. Works that are not digital images which can be printed on aluminum will be considered. Lease Agreement will retain all plates printed for Front Facing in an archive at the gallery.

Exhibitions, programming, and calls for proposals will be released publicly and posted here and on social media. Exhibition proposals for solo and group exhibitions are accepted and reviewed on an ongoing basis. Send proposals to leaseagreementgallery@gmail.com.

Visit Lease Agreement during event and receptions, or contact Adam at the email above to make an appointment.

Land acknowledgements are primarily performative and Lease Agreement is looking in to how to do real decolonial work in Florida. The gallery is on stolen Seminole, Calusa, and Tocobaga land.

Lease Agreement's programming is a continuation of the previous iteration of the space which spanned from October 2013 to August 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland. Co-founded by Adam Farcus and Allison Yasukawa, Lease Agreement Baltimore was a residential art space and curatorial project set in the front rooms of a row house.

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