Go Away Garage
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The Go Away Garage is a real garage. Mitch Willis started out building custom hotrods on West Street and now builds motorcycles at the joint on Commerce, where the garage has been for more than a dozen years. When Willis needed privacy to devote to his projects, he’d put up a 4-foot-by-8-foot sign that said “Go Away." The name stuck.But each Final Friday, the Go Away Garage becomes a bustling gallery of art with hundreds of people milling through the edgy art displays.
“We’re into lowbrow creations,” Willis said.
Mark S. Walker had his multimedia art and music on display at our visit April 27, 2007. Walker said that what most people see as trash, he turned into art for his exhibit “Recycled Incarnation: Perspectives on the Processes of Existence on the Physical Plane.”
Just don’t ask Willis to build you a motorcycle. He’s booked solid for the next 16 months. The gallery? Its schedule is filled until the end of the year.
So busy, he’s liable to tell you to just “go away.”
Except on Final Fridays, when everyone is welcome.
