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November 20 to December 19, 2009
JOE HARDESTY
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Western Exhibitions, in conjunction with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, are pleased to present a gallery talk by Joe Hardesty, who currently has his first solo show up in Western Exhibitions’ gallery 2.
Joe Hardesty was the 2008 recipient of SAIC’s Jacues and Natasha Gelman Travel Fellowship upon receiving his MFA from SAIC last year. Hardesty will discuss his current show and the work he created during his fellowship year in Germany and his travels through central Europe.
Hardesty uses text in his drawings, prints and photographs to describe what the viewer is experiencing – that is, he hand draws a series of sentences that depict an evocative scene. As such, his drawings inhabit a space somewhere between text, image and the mind’s eye. Seemingly simple, Hardesty’s drawings on paper address contradictory aspects of our cultural landscape. The themes and issues in his current body of work include, among other things, German landscape painting, animal husbandry, the disappearance of traditional agricultural practices in the face of corporate food production, neurological disorders, and Vikings. By focusing viewers’ attention through the use of text, the drawings work both as a concrete reality created on the page and as a changing series of interpretations as each viewer “reads” the text differently.
This gallery talk is free and open to the public.See images of the show here
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