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NEW ICON Curated by Britton Bertran
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FROM A POSITION Curated by Maxwell G. Graham
SHAPE-SHIFTERS Curated by Jason Foumberg
INTERIORITY Curated by Stuart Keeler
STATE & LAKE Curated by Annie Morse
THINGS FALL FROM THE SKY Curated by Ken Fandell, Ciara Ennis
THE NEW COLLUSION Curated by Kathryn Hixon and Sandra Dillon
OPERATION: HUMAN INTELLIGENCE Curated by Matthew Girson
ARRANGED MARRIAGE: outer space(s) Curated by Marjorie Vecchio
FIELD PHENOMENA Curated by Douglas Garofalo
LIBIDINAL Curated by Susan Sensemann
STUFF Curated by Jeanne Dunning, James Yood
THE CONSTRUCTED SELF: WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? Curated by Patty Carroll
DISTRACTION Curated by Edward Maldonado, Nadine Wasserman, and Tina Wasserman
SUPERCONCENTRATED Curated by Hamza Walker, Mike Lash, and Fitz Gerald
YOUTH CULTURE KILLED MY DOG (but I don't really mind) Curated by Kathryn Hixson, Irene Tsatsos, and Joe Scanlon
Curator: Britton Bertran New Icon explores the notion of iconography in a contemporary society, focusing on new interpretations https://www.exness-th.com of old definitions by looking at the personal and public relationships to symbols and signs. Within the context of LUMA, nine artists will present works that enable new encounters with objects and ideas reflecting a variety of methodologies and attitudes. From the socio-political to abstract metaphors, New Icon challenges both the ritual and the object and our relationship to them. By going beyond our ideas of what an “icon” might be—through historical, spiritual, social, and conceptual approaches—a new future might be discovered.
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Interested in Becoming a Member? The Contemporary Arts Council (CAC) is an independent not-for-profit demo exness organization founded in 1994 by a group of art enthusiasts devoted to supporting Chicago-area contemporary art and artists, and expanding members’ appreciation of the diversity of Chicago’s arts scene. The CAC’s mission is to support, learn about and enjoy the Chicago-area art scene with an interesting group of like-minded art enthusiasts including artists, collectors and business and professional people of all types. Yearly CAC dues ($300) fund a professionally-curated annual exhibition and catalog, featuring contemporary and emerging Chicago-area artists. CAC events, pay-as-you-go for https://exness-th.com/demo-account those who attend, include visits to galleries, artists’ studios, private collections and other art and design venues in a small group setting with specially arranged presentations and lots of informal discussion and interaction. Events typically continue over dinner with CAC members and artist or collectors at local restaurants where discussion and camaraderie continue. If you interested in becoming a member please contact the CAC
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May 24 - June 28, 2009 Evanston Art Center From A Position is
an exhibition of the relationships between figure and ground, foreground
and background. These issues are not inherently locatable as the themes
of narratives Barbara Crane
Jeff Carter Heather Guertin and Zak Prekop Xavier Jimenez Owen Land Jason Loebs William J. O'Brien Lucy McKenzie Jason Pickleman Stephen Prina Valerie Snobeck Catherine Sullivan Tony Tasset |
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SHAPE-SHIFTERS
Curator: Jason Foumberg May 23 - July 3, 2008 Alfedena Gallery 434 W. Ontario Street, Chicago IL Opening reception May 23, 5pm-8pm. Performance at 7pm. Exhibition hours: Tuesday - Friday, 10am - 6pm. Saturday, 10am - 5pm Like a whale’s vacuum-suck mouth that efficiently consumes the ocean, we too devour our surrounds. The art objects in Shape-shifters are remnants of digested culture, re-shaped and re-purposed. Olympiad bodies, zombies, household gods, and urban myths: by holding many pieces of culture in balance inside us, we become a conglomerate body—an animate spawn of the culture that nourishes us. A catalog in the form of an
exquisite corpse game is available with essays by Jesse Ball, Reed
Barrow, Elijah Burgher, Jason Foumberg, Brian Getnick, and Dan
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INTERIORITY
June 10 - July 29, 2007 Hyde Park Art Center Interiority is an expanding conceptual art work. It is an investigative means of pushing conceptual ideas of interior / exterior aspects of shared physical space. The main premise is to deconstruct and examine the construct of curatorial practices as a new social framework by extending exhibition prosthetics as works of art. An active contextualizing of the exhibition catalogue and website as current contemporary art practices, in addition to the gallery exhibition at the Hyde Park Art Center. The notion of the Surrealists, and the exquisite corpse was a conceptual experiment of artmaking - this same concept is the beginning working premise for this exhibition. Interiority seeks to create conversation as a catalyst for making new social connections through contemporary art practices with Chicago artists. An initial set of 6 invited artists will select 3 artists with the Interiority social criteria, these 3 artists are people they do not know, or who have not met, and have admired or responded to the work, from this shortlist of 3 artists 1 artist will be selected from the Curator and Artist and Committee. Expanding the Chicago art community creating new connections will be a series of social projects, studio visits, exchanges, where process is the highlighted media in the production of the final exhibition and catalogue. Amanda Browder
Beth Lipman Sumakshi Singh Carol Jackson Amy Mayfield Kerry James Marshall Justin Cooper Nick Cave Michael Rakowitz Benjamin Bellas LaShawnda Crowe Storm Inigo Manglano-Ovalle |
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STATE & LAKE
Curator: Annie Morse State and Lake can be understood literally in terms of intersecting streets and an elevated/ subway interchange, and figuratively (for example) as power and contemplation, identity and landscape, law and resources, bureaucracy and waves. State and Lake is a transitive place; only a place because of the energies extending it in four directions and the intersections that happen there - not necessarily fast, but with enough motion to avoid arrest. Matt Binns |
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THINGS FALL FROM THE SKY
Curators: Ken Fandell, Ciara Ennis The present is a hard place to live, often lacking magic and providing little excitement or opportunity to reimagine the world….Theses magical moments are so rare that more often than not we find ourselves trapped somewhere between nostalgic yearning for the past and optimistic anticipation for an unknown future where limitless possibilities abound. Chad Gerth |
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THE NEW COLLUSION
Curators: Kathryn Hixon and Sandra Dillon Instead of rejecting the forces of corporate branding, fashionable commodity excesses, and spectacular displays of power, today, artists are taking full advantage of the ‘devouring machine.’ Stealing back the spectacles created by commerce, from painting to direct stream Internet feeds, artists impose their own will and add new critical meanings to these forms. Lisa Boumstein-Smalley |
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OPERATION: HUMAN INTELLIGENCE
Curator: Matthew Girson 1960’s: Political upheaval, assassinations, and riots establish widespread counter-cultural activity. Avant-garde critique begins to erode the hegemony of Abstract Expressionist universalism as artists slowly turn toward specific real-world content. Phyllis Bramson |
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ARRANGED MARRIAGE: outer space(s)
Curator: Marjorie Vecchio The friction of inner and outer spaces causes creation in those that experience it. Collaboration challenges two people to reveal and expand their work process for the benefit of the project. The point of departure is curiosity and mystery; success depends on how the pair responds to that risk and anxiety. To collaborate, one must generously communicate, and sometimes sacrifice ego or a great idea. Ayana Evans and Chi-Jang Yin |
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FIELD PHENOMENA
Curator: Douglas Garofalo While our society faces a growing fragmentation and specialization that seems at times to alienate us, we have also started to view our world as a series of integrated, even entangled networks. One way we can begin to understand this contradictory state is as a matrix of field phenomena -- repetitive patterns of texture, growth, turbulence, sound, light, etc., within a given system or space. Field Phenomena merges together a group of artists whose work conveys an affinity with such active effects. The hybrid quality of this exhibit -- semi-natural, quasi-architectural and multi-dimensional -- underscores the idea that practices of art actively engage and define space. Kathleen McCarthy |
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LIBIDINAL
Curator: Susan Sensemann “In the encounter, I marvel that I have found someone who, by successive touches, each one successful, unfailing, completes the painting of my hallucination…the puzzle of my desire.” - Roland Barthes in A Lover’s Discourse
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STUFF
Curators: Jeanne Dunning, James Yood The stuff of garbage and dirt, the stuff of excess, the stuff of domesticity, the stuff of the body, the stuff of art…Stuff is omnipresent, asserting itself, insisting on our notice, and of course, taking up space. Michelle Fierro |
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THE CONSTRUCTED SELF: WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?
Curator: Patty Carroll “The history of photography offers, among other things, the history of identity. The photograph has been a mirror on paper that has shown our true and often false selves to each other….The lies of photography are part of the fun.” Suky Best |
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DISTRACTION
Curators: Edward Maldonado, Nadine Wasserman, and Tina Wasserman Common obsessive intrusive thoughts “The two facing mirrors of virtual and real reality have become as disorienting as a funhouse maze of mirrors.” Tom Denlinger |
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SUPERCONCENTRATED
Curators: Hamza Walker, Mike Lash, and Fitz Gerald “Bordeaux raised its head evoking the muse and finding the resonance” Gaylen Gerber |
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YOUTH CULTURE KILLED MY DOG (but I don’t really mind)
Curators: Kathryn Hixson, Irene Tsatsos, and Joe Scanlon “It is not about cultures, or despair, desperation, or dogs, and certainly not about youth or Generation X…It is not about apathy, or objectivity. It is about indifference or perhaps impartiality. Not passively or objectively impartial, but powerfully, independently, in a self-possessed manner.” Charlie Cho |
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