Visiting Artists
Below is the preliminary list of visiting artists. More will likely be added in the coming week.
Session 1:
Terry Evans
7/22-7/24
Terry Evans, Chicago artist photographer, has photographed the prairies and plains of North America and the urban prairie of Chicago, combining both aerial and ground photography. Recent work explores working steel mills, the Greenland ice sheet, and the Kansas Flint Hills. She has exhibited widely including one-person shows at the Chicago Art Institute and The Field Museum of Natural History. She teaches part-time at Columbia College. She is currently working on a portrait project.
http://www.terryevansphotography.com/
Noelle Mason
In her trans-disciplinary practice Noelle Mason conceptually employs a variety of traditional mediums as well as video, performance, and installation to investigate the subtle seductiveness of power facilitated by systems of visual control. She is primarily interested in the artificial means by which we extend our ability to see and the mediating object’s affect on the transmission of images to affirm social and political hierarchies.
Kelly Kaczynski
7/26-7/28
Kelly Kaczynski is a sculptor and installation artist. Her work, while existing in a temporal-spatial platform, is deeply materials based. She received an MFA from Bard College in 2003 and BA from The Evergreen State College 1995. She has exhibited at the University of Buffalo Art Gallery, Rowland Contemporary in Chicago, Triple Candie in New York, Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois, Chicago, the Islip Art Museum in New York, the Cristinerose/Josee Bienvenu Gallery in New York, the DeCordova Museum in Massachusettes, the 123 Watts Gallery in New York, and the Boston Center for the Arts. Kaczynski’s work was included in the Boston Drawing Project at Bernard Toale Gallery in Massachusettes. Public installations include projects with the Main Line Art Center, Haverford, Pennsylvannia, the Interfaith Center of New York, the Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston, and the Boston National Historic Parks, Boston Public Library. Kaczynski has taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and University of Chicago.
http://www.kellykaczynski.com/
Jennifer Montgomery
7/29-7/31
Jennifer Montgomery’s films include Notes on the Death of Kodachrome (2006), Along the Highway (2005), Threads of Belonging (2004), Transitional Objects (2000), Troika (1998), Art For Teachers of Children (1995), I, a Lamb (1992), Age 12: Love With a Little L (1990), and Home Avenue (1989). These films range from experimental essays to experimental features and are distributed by Zeitgeist Films, Women Make Movies and Video Data Bank.
Montgomery’s works have shown at many international festivals, as well as venues including the Museum of Modern Art (NYC), Film Forum (NYC), the Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago), the ICA (London), the Walker Arts Center (Minneapolis), and the Whitney Museum (NYC). She has been the recipient of grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Mary Nohl Established Artist Fellowship, the Jerome Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Wisconsin Arts Board, and Art Matters. She was twice nominated for the IFP’s Independent Spirit Award.
http://whitney.org/www/2008biennial/www/?section=artists&page=artist_montgomery/
Session 2:
Nicolas Lampert
8/3-8/5
Nicolas Lampert is an interdisciplinary artist and author based out of Milwaukee and Chicago. Primarily, he is best known for his collage art – the “machine-animal” series, the “meatscape” series and numerous images that address political and environmental issues. Over the past 15 years, his collages have been presented in various formats including digital prints (from framed images to fourteen-foot tall images), 16mm animated films, outdoor murals, stencils, silk screens, posters, and gallery installations. His art work has been included in the museum shows “ Becoming Animal” at the MASS MoCA (North Adams, Massachusetts),The Idea of the Animal at the RMIT Gallery in association with the Melbourne International Arts Festival (Melbourne, Australia), and the Maltwood Art Museum (Victoria, BC) and is part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art(New York), the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Center for the Study of Political Graphics (Los Angeles.) Collectively, he works with Just Seeds/Visual Resistance Artist Cooperative, the Street Art Workers and the Cut and Paint ‘zine project.
http://www.machineanimalcollages.com/
Irena Knezevic
8/6-8/8
Irena Knezevic is a Serbian artist currently living in Chicago. Knezevic’s work spans a variety of media to construct public events where scores, instructionals, and programs come together with sculptural objects to form a narrative inventory. Current areas of research include topics, such as: “secrets,” “involuntary movement,” “dream-wreck,” “liquidity,” “topical and tropical disasters,” “downward spirals,” “bright lights,” “vibratory inscription,” “hallucinogenic modernisms,” and “phantom continents.” Recent projects and performances have occured at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; White Columns, New York; Harvard University, Cambridge and Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Berlin.
http://www.allyouknowistrue.net/
Daniel Sauter
8/6-8/8
Daniel Sauter is an artist who creates interactive installations and site-specific interventions dealing with the cultural and social implications of emergent technologies. His current projects focus on mobile interventions exploring the phenomenon of projection in urban spaces.
Sauter received a Diploma in Communication Design from HfG/ZKM Karlsruhe in 2002 (State College of Design at the Center for Art and Media, Germany), and an MFA from the Design | Media Arts Department at UCLA in 2004 (University of California Los Angeles). He won the Nabi Special Honorary Mention for UNESCO Digital Arts Award 2005, the Bernay Kurland Grayson Award for Creative Excellence 2005, the Art In Motion Award 2005, and the EUROPRIX Top Talent Award 2001. In 2004, he was awarded a honorary mention in the category Interactive Art for the Prix Ars Electronica and received an Adjudicators` Recommendation at the 8th Japan Media Arts Festival. Currently Sauter is an Assistant Professor at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC).
Doug Ischar
8/8-8/12
Since the early 1990s, Doug Ischar’s work has focused on the potentials of video and sound in ever more distilled manifestations. Following large multi-media installations such as Orderly (1994) and Wake (1996), Ischar turned to more minimal forms. His 1997 project for InSite (San Diego/Tijuana) used a high school basketball court as locale for a multimedia meditation on adolescent homosexual desire. His 2001 work, Ground, uses twenty-four channels of audio to replicate the sound of a gallery floor being swept. His 2005 public installation, Water Music, explores the relationship between personal and artistic
histories of the Pacific Rim cultures in which Ischar lived as a child. Since 2007, he has been producing single-channel videos around issues of cross-generational male intimacy and psychological/social loss. These include Back the Way He Came (2006), Bask (2007), brb (2007), and Forget Him (2009). His most recent videos include Come Lontano (2010) that explores the lives of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Maria Callas as they intersected during the making of Medea and CB, an exploration of the life of Charlotte Bronte via an historic audio recording of a séance with her and her searingly confiding letters. CB is a collaboration with Ischar’s partner, Tom Daws.
Bill Friedman
8/12-8/14
Bill Friedman is associate dean and adjunct professor of photography at Columbia College. His work ranges from experimental photography to installation to earth works to crop circles. (more info coming soon)
http://work.colum.edu/~bfriedman/
Session 3:
Industry of the Ordinary
8/17-8/19
Through sculpture, text, photography, video, sound and performance, Industry of the Ordinary are dedicated to an exploration and celebration of the customary, the everyday, and the usual. Their emphasis is on challenging pejorative notions of the ordinary and, in doing so, moving beyond the quotidian.
http://www.industryoftheordinary.com/
Anthony Elms
8/21-8/23
An artist and writer, Elms is also the Editor of WhiteWalls, and Assistant Director of Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago. With WhiteWalls he has curated and/or edited five issues of the journal WhiteWalls; fourteen books; the CD Pillow Plays Brotzmann (with Bottrop-Boy); and the 7inch single Filler (with Academy Records). With Gallery 400 he has curated and/or organized ten exhibitions. His writings have appeared in Art Asia Pacific, Art Papers, Artforum, Artforum.com, Cakewalk, Coterie, Interreview.org, Modern Painters, New Art Examiner, and Time Out Chicago. He has also written essays for many catalogs. As an artist, Elms’ works have been included in projects exhibited at Boom (Oak Park), Gahlberg Gallery (Glen Ellyn), Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago), Mandrake (Los Angeles), Mess Hall (Chicago), Randolph Street Gallery (Chicago), and VONZWECK (Chicago), among others. He has independently curated many exhibitions, including: Sun Ra, El Saturn & Chicago’s Afro-Futurist Underground, 1954-61 (with John Corbett and Terri Kapsalis); Interstellar Low Ways (with Huey Copeland); and Can Bigfoot Get You a Beer?(with Philip von Zweck).
http://anthonyelmsabsorbs.blogspot.com/
Temporary Services
8/24-8/27
Temporary Services is an artist collective based in Chicago, Illinois, USA. They have been collaborating on art projects, public events, publications, and exhibitions since 1998. On their web site, they state:”We champion public projects that are temporary, ephemeral, or that operate outside of conventional or officially sanctioned categories of public expression.” Temporary Services states a desire to not preference any type of activity or object as art, or any audience. They also work against the constructed link between aesthetics and ethics. They view art as activism, and carry on the traditions of situationism.
