Wednesday, September 10, 2008 2:00pm - Monday, November 3, 2008 6:00pm
Estetica Social: Diasporic Narratives
Chicago State University curator Prof. Joyce Owens Anderson and guest curator Jesus Macarena-Avila present an exhibition showing a range art forms by Latinos including digital photography, painting, installation, sculpture and prints. more...
What is at our core? How much material is essential to our happiness? How do we provide for our young? What do we need to feed our creative process? Join artist and School of the Art Institute of Chicago Professor Claire Ashley to explore these themes and view her installation "Bedrock: The Stuff of Life" on the 8th floor of the library. Audience: all ages Price: Free
Monday, September 1, 2008 9:00am - Saturday, November 15, 2008 9:00pm
In honor of Chicago Artists' Month we are proud to present an installation piece by Claire Ashley. In "Bedrock: the Stuff of Life", the artist layers large amounts of material from her life to create a bedrock or foundation of stuff, a poetic portrayal of domesticity, familial support, and nurturing. There will be an Artist Talk October 18 at 2pm.
Friday, June 13, 2008 12:00pm - Friday, August 1, 2008 12:00pm
For Immediate Release – Conquistadors at It Again, this Time in Neon!!!
For the second time in 500 years, a conquering European Armada has landed on the shores of this continent to disrupt the activities of the unassuming natives. Only this time, they are 48 inches tall and filled with neon gas. more...
Friday, May 16, 2008 7:00pm - Friday, June 13, 2008 12:00am
Hello, Bye-Bye
May 16 through June 13, 2008
Opening Reception:
Friday, May 16 from 7 to 10 pm
"Hello, Bye-Bye" is a group exhibition that features photography, painting, ceramics, drawings, installation, film and video by the members of Taiwanese Student Association (TSA) who study at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC).
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 10:00am - Saturday, May 31, 2008 6:00pm
Thread offers Justin Cooper's first large-scale sculpture/installation, the exhibition is bookended with two performances featuring Cooper with Noelle Mason and Ross Moreno. The installation and performances will interact together intimately, like lovers, as well as ignore each other completely, like lovers. Meanwhile, several dichotomies will be pressed into service: temporality vs. permanence; abstraction vs. personification; audience vs. performer; speech vs. gesture; observed impossibility vs. unseen possibility; low profile vs. high body mass; hard factual accounting vs. ethereal hazy accounting; retention vs. loss; celestial chimes vs. terrestrial drums; object vs. space; cold equations vs. heartwarming pseudoscience; eye-witness account vs. eye-witness account; acting vs. re-acting; realistic expectation vs. idealistic projection; unexplained giant fur-covered paper bag vs. explained giant fur-covered paper bag etc... more...
Friday, May 9, 2008 8:00pm - Saturday, May 10, 2008 8:00pm
The Finch Gallery, located in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood, launches its first annual performance festival with a diverse line up of new and exploratory works, many being previewed to the public for the first time by ten provocative performance and installation artists. With a rotating schedule, each night offers a glimpse inside new works through mediums of sound, durational works, installation, movement, text, video, and monologue.
each artist is bringing a work to the event that was inspired or connected to one of the following thematic suggestions: the number eight, cage, garden, and stacking.
