Summer Brake is a gas station-inspired group show taking place at Cruise Control Contemporary in Cambria. Gather at the gallery on 7/26/25 as they dare to break their solo show format for the FIRST EVER CCC “really big summer time” GROUP SHOW from 5-8pm at 1075 MAIN STREET Cambria, CA.

“Gas stations are America’s accidental museums—fluorescent-lit shrines to kitsch, camp, and chaotic consumerism. Exploring gas station merchandise through art becomes a way to examine the surreal poetry of the roadside: airbrushed wolves on velvet, rhinestone trucker hats, Jesus candles, lottery tickets, and beef jerky side by side like some late capitalist still life. These one-stop culture convergence points are where regional identity, mass production, nostalgia, and irony collide in glorious overstatement. Through this lens, the gas station becomes more than a pit stop—it’s a stage where taste, myth, and marketing merge, inviting artists to remix its offerings into a new visual vernacular.”
-Charlie Smith curator of CCC