Tollbooth Gallery

The Tollbooth Gallery was a site-specific exhibition space and project of the nonprofit arts organization ArtRod launched in 2003 and located in Tacoma, Washington.

The aim of the Tollbooth was to offer dynamic and challenging installation and video art in an outdoor urban setting.

[1] Participant and curator Fionn Meade described the Tollbooth site as a “challenging space to work with but in a good way,” commenting that “the limitations of a format make you be more decisive.”[8] This decisive approach to exhibiting contemporary art allowed the Tollbooth Gallery to program work that might be considered “edgier,”[9] which was furthered by the temporary nature of the commissions.

[13] A catalogue of the first year of exhibitions at Tollbooth Gallery was subsequently published as Toby Room 10.

[8] The Tollbooth Gallery was one of four major projects of the art organization ArtRod, which included Critical Line - an exhibition center, the publication Toby Room, and the film and video series Don’t Bite the Pavement.