Gallery Address:
1821 W Hubbard, Suite 202
Chicago, IL 60622
312.307.4685
Gallery hours:
Wednesdays - Saturdays
noon to 6pm
January 14 - February 18, 2006
AMY HAUBER
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plus
MELISSA ORESKY
Observatory
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and in the Drawing Room:
contemporary artist books from BOOKLYN
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AMY HAUBER
Amy Hauber explores fantasy and desire in these media-saturated trying times through sculptural tableaux, personalized ceramic and rubber gags, personal avatars, video, painting and a forty foot long, droopy, filthy, soft-sculpture rainbow. Hauber works across media disciplines; her projects utilize and investigate collaboration, digital and material culture and the construction of morality, identity and aesthetics in contemporary society. This show contrasts the paranoid result of technological development with the body's need for physical interaction.Chicagoans might remember Amy Hauber's installation "Ovaries and Advanced Degrees" from our booth at the Stray Show in 2003 or from the "Hysterical Pastoral" show at the Ukrainian Museum of Modern Art, a show that was reviewed by Fred Camper in the Chicago Reader. She has twice been a resident artist in the John Michael Kohler Arts Center's ARTS/industry program and her ceramic work was featured in American Craft Magazine: Portfolio Amy Hauber December/January 2002. Hauber received her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and lives, works and teaches in upstate New York.
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MELISSA ORESKY: Observatory
Melissa Oresky's dense, animated paintings alternate between semi-abstracted landscapes and brainscapes, as masses of tangled lines and fluid paint coalesce into moments of crystal clarity, like the shift from free floating daydream to focused and conscious thought. The shape shifter series of paintings look like potentially unstable blobs of replicated images such as nerves and cross sections of the brain. Her groundcover series more explicitly references landscape, with foliage made of nerves. The "groundcover" is the top layer of thought, the conscious surface of a dense, turbulent, interior suggested by the shape shifters. Both combine organic, freely painted areas with flat, angular slabs of paint knifed into taped shapes to resemble rocky planar structures.Melissa Oresky's New York City debut solo show at the Van Harrison Gallery opens the week prior to this show. Her solo shows in Chicago include a 12 x 12 New Artists/New Work show at Museum of Contemporary Art and Standard Gallery, and her work has been included in shows at Mixture Contemporary in Houston, Wendy Cooper Gallery (then in Madison), and the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago. Oresky received her MFA from the University of Illinois-Chicago and lives, works and teaches in Normal, Illinois.
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Booklyn, a non-profit artist alliance from Brooklyn, NY, will exhibit in The Drawing Room some of the most innovative books being made by contemporary artists. Individual and collaborative books, prints and drawings will be on view from the following artists:
Kurt Allerslev
Allyson Mellberg
Fred Rinne
Mark Wagner
Marshall Weber
Christopher Wilde
Scott WilliamsA few preview images here
Booklyn's mission includes promoting artist books as an art form and an educational resource, providing the general public and educational institutions with programming involving contemporary artist books, and assisting artists in exhibiting, distributing and publishing artist books, prints and related interdisciplinary art internationally. Learn more here: http://www.booklyn.org/
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