sundry items

Titled “In the Air Tonight,” after Screw’s remix of Phil Collins’s 1981 chart-topping single, the exhibition demonstrates the fluency with which Spratley edits and rearranges found imagery of sundry items like blades, mechanical parts and cartoons.

“We were presented a small gift basket, compliments of the City of Minot, containing various sundry items.”

Sundry items such as cup holders, USB outlets, headroom, hooks and storage cutouts abound.

The German-American Heritage Foundation hosts movie nights and beer tastings at its Chinatown headquarters and has a small shop selling sundry items, including traditional egg noodles, mustards and sausages, and books about famous German Americans.

A nearby gallery is lined with 40 square-format, dye-transfer color photographs showing shuttered shop fronts, discarded mattresses, handwritten signs and sundry items of used clothing for sale.