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Color: Fully Engaged

chicagoa — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:00:01 +0000

Color: Fully Engaged concerns itself with color’s multi-faceted role and, rather than confronting and solving any theoretical problems, further explores the correlations between color and perception. Via contemporary artworks created as part of conceptual and fine arts, design and architecture disciplines, the exhibition follows modern and contemporary trajectories of color as both scientific and associative methodology. Featuring essays, artworks and artist interviews, the Color: Fully Engaged project as a whole provides a unique look at the diverse employment of color in the practice of contemporary art making. In reflections on their studio practices, artwork and lives, each Color: Fully Engaged participant posits part of the whole question: what does color mean?

Contributing artists include Academy Records, Jeanne Dunning, Susan Giles, Dan Gunn, Adriane Herman, Anna Kunz, Jessica Labatte, Matthew Metzger, Liz Nielsen and Nathaniel Robinson.

Exhibition and catalog include essays by Claudine Ise and Jamilee Polson Lacy.

This exhibition is sponsored by the Art + Design Department at Columbia College Chicago. This exhibition is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation.

Running Room

karly — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:00:38 +0000

Madeleine Bailey, Adam Farcus, Erik Peterson and Alexander Stewart met at ACRE’s 2010 session in an environment that fostered artistic experimentation, dialogue, and play. Here, the artists draw on a continuation of that energy in the form of an interdisciplinary experiment existing within and beyond its walls. Over the course of this show, the artists will transform the gallery space into a Running Room.

Running Room is based on Karl Kraus’s notion of allowing an idea / place / material / object enough wiggle room to change. Encouraging an active détournement of seemingly banal signs, we allow a space for viewers to experience the darkly humorous undercurrents that make up everyday life. If allowed “running-room,” a sculpture can become a prop for a performance, a film can be transformed by its very viewing, and an artwork can be built by its audience. Slowly populated by work over the duration of the show, the exhibition’s room is not only defined through Kraus but also by the exhibition space itself—its four walls, floor and ceiling—outside and in. We use the gallery as both a physical space for social interaction and a conceptual space for redefining the purpose of the exhibition. By way of four curated events that will take place each Thursday evening and the large (and changeable) amphitheater, we invite the possibility to turn an exhibition into this: a stadium, a staging ground, a public forum, and a theater.

Davida Newman and Josh Minkus

karly — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 22:00:43 +0000

The Pougialis Fine Art award is a yearly competition that offers promising Fine Art students an opportunity to study as an apprentice with a senior artist of national and international standing for one semester, a cash award, and an exhibition in the A+D Gallery.

ZERØ Waste: Fashion Re-Patterned

karly — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 23:00:40 +0000

ZERØ Waste attempts to find solutions for dealing with fashion’s waste, as well as challenge fashion systems through their conceptual framework.

Curated by Arti Sandhu.

Phillip Chen and Tomas Vu: When After Comes Before

karly — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 23:00:59 +0000

Drawing from personal experiences, memories and written history, Phillip Chen‘s and Tomas Vu‘s work incorporates both long departed and surviving traditions, beliefs, objects and landscapes, positioning all firmly with in a contemporary context. The push and pull of yesterday and today is encompassed in the very materiality of the work, constructed using computer-controlled technologies such as laser cutters combined with old-school hand printmaking. Their work is at once a documentation and a schematic diagram of the present as seen through the past and the past as seen through the present.

Data Mining

karly — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:00:31 +0000

Data Mining provides a small, sample window into a newly emerging and rapidly evolving process of data mining, the process of extracting hidden patterns from data. The way, shape, and manner in which artists and designers our appropriating this process creates radically new forms that communicate across disciplinary, social and cultural boundaries. The artists’ visualization/ realization can be any form from 2-D to 3D to aural and/or time based media constructs.

Curated by Bill Linehan and Terence Hannum. Work by Stephen Cartwright, Sean Dack, R. Luke DuBois, Lynn Hershman, Andreas Kratky, Golan Levin, Lev Manovich, Mark Napier and Paul Slocum.

Imagine Everywhere

karly — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:00:04 +0000

Imagine Everywhere is about the strategies, visions and horizons that artist offer to the forces of globalization. Globalization is a fashionable concept that covers a wide range of distinct political, econommic, and cultural trends. “Globalization” is used in various ways: it may mean free market policies or the Internet revolution, the dominance of western ways of living or a global integration of lifestyles. In each case, Globalization signals cultural change and emergence of new imaginative forms. It refers to fundamental changes in human activity, where experiences of space and time are fundamentally different. In fact, globalization may signal a collapse of geographic borders and sitances, in large part because of the movement of images. Images circulate within cultures and across cultural boundaries. They transmit in various media, including text, image and sound–often all three at once. As image producers, artists confront the challenges of Globalization as they address isssues of representation, history and economic survival. The artworks in Imagine Everywhere work in various ways to champion, contest, interrogate, or reverse the trends marked by “Globalization.” What they have in common is a commitment to new, artistic an imaginative forms of envisioning global community.

Stephen Eichhorn: New Work 2010 Summer Digital Artist Residency

karly — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:10 +0000

Please join Columbia College Chicago’s Photography Department in celebrating the conclusion of the 2010 Summer Digital Artist Residency Program. For one night only we will be presenting work by collage artist Stephen Eichhorn created during his month long residency.

X-Treme Studio

karly — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:00:24 +0000

X-treme Studio is an exhibition focused on the active production of visual art. It asks the viewer to reconsider conventional notions of the studio by highlighting visual practices and active spaces of production. Participating artists may participate live and through digital media, while active spaces will enter the gallery in digital media. Artists and projects include D. Denenge Akpem, The Dorchester Project/Theaster Gates, EJ Hill and Tannar Veatch, Hyde Park Art Center, Industry of the Ordinary, Julie Lequin, Shaun Leonardo, Live Work/Michael Zheng, New Urban Arts, The Poor Farm, The Velaslavasay Panorama, The Work Office, Alison Rhoades, and Russell Watson.

Let There Be Geo

karly — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:39 +0000

Let There Be Geo is an art exhibition at Columbia College Chicago’s Leviton A+D Gallery that surveys the art of contemporary artists who use geometric form in their work. While employing geometric form in art is not a new phenomenon, geo forms are appearing in some of the most aesthetically progressive work being made today. Twenty-first century responses to geometric form make use of a variety of styles and media, from painting and video to photography and sculpture. The works in Let There Be Geo examine today’s incarnation of geometric form.

“The persistence of artistic geometric forms hints at a continuum, or a legacy, or some coy deity made present in this world by his shadow, cast as a polygon, on the eyeball of the artist,” writes Jason Foumberg in the exhibition’s essay.

Participating artists include Jesse Brown, Nick Butcher, Jeff Canham, Jacob Hashimoto, Maya Hayuk, Cody Hudson, Steven Husby, Barbara Kasten, Chad Kouri, Nadine Nakanishi, John Parot, Sam Prekop, Archer Prewitt, Geoffrey Todd Smith, Jason Urban and Vanesa Zendejas.

Let There Be Geo is curated by Elizabeth Burke-Dain.