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Exhibition Archive
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Alastair Noble
Thursday, June 5 to Saturday, Aug. 9, 2008
Alastair Noble’s artistic practice focuses on sculpture, public art and interior installations. Poetry has informed his work over the years, and recently the text itself has emerged as a major structural element of his sculptural forms..
Annual Juried Student Art Exhibit
Thursday, April 24 to Saturday, May 24, 2008
A juried display of paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography, ceramics, jewelry and more by College of DuPage art students.
The Work of Michael Piazza
Thursday, March 6 to Saturday, April 19, 2008
Organized by Brian Dortmund, Jim Duignan and Bertha Husband
Michael Piazza’s investigative and frequent public work has focused on making explicit the divergent experiences of histories contained in a site. Piazza was a Chicago-based visual artist and writer who taught art, culture and education at the School of the Art Institute, Columbia College Chicago, and DePaul University. He co-founded Axe Street Arena Artists Collective and co-edited New World [Dis]Orders & Peripheral Strains with Marc Zimmerman and Disparities and Connections with Elizam Escobar. His writing has appeared in the New Art Examiner, The Somnambulist and Whitewalls. Michael spent years working alongside adults with developmental disabilities and has collaborated with resident youth at the Cook Country Temporary Detention Center in Chicago as an artist in residence.
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Review in Newcity Chicago
Celebrity and The Peculiar — Industry of the Ordinary
Thursday, Jan. 24 to Saturday, March 1, 2008
Industry of the Ordinary is a collective made up of Chicago artists Adam Brooks and Mathew Wilson. Through photography, sculpture, text, olfactory vehicles and other means, Industry of the Ordinary is planning a site-specific multi-media event that will examine the occurrence of celebrity in "ordinary" peoples' lives.
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OHIO
Thursday, Nov. 29 to Saturday, Jan. 5, 2008
Ohio, the state, has a turbulent history relating to American politics and tragedy. In that regard it is a colorful representative of this nation. The artists in the exhibition don’t illustrate the narrative history of Ohio. Their work is rooted in the multifaceted politic of a nation as it evolves into the 21st century. Artists include: Sam Durant, Rodney McMillan, Andrea Bowers, David Hullfish Bailey and Olga Koumoundouros. Curated by Brad Killam.
Stephanie Brooks
Thursday, Oct. 11 to Saturday, Nov. 17, 2007
Chicago artist Stephanie Brooks is concerned with creating tensions between systems of authority and subjectivity. From fill-in-the-blank forms, graphs, public signage, poetry, measurement systems and minimalism, the work inserts subjectivity into impersonal forms and injects minimalism with emotion. Brooks is interested in asking why and how we mark moments as sentimental, when it is personal, when it is generic and how we create meaning between these locations.
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Studio Art Faculty Exhibit
Thursday, Aug. 30 to Saturday, Oct. 6, 2007An exhibition of new work by College of DuPage studio art adjunct faculty teaching in painting, sculpture, drawing, design, printmaking, photography, jewelry and more.
Susan Giles
June 7 to Aug. 4, 2007
Chicago artist Susan Giles addresses travel and tourism in a sculpture and video installation. Giles' artwork stems from researching the intersection of tourism and culture and her desire to understand what occurs at the root of common linguistic and tourist encounters. Giles examines the shaping of self and others abroad and at home.
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Phill Niblock
April 19 to May 26, 2007
New York filmmaker and minimalist sound composer, Phill Niblock makes thick, loud drones of music, filled with microtones of instrumental timbres that generate many other tones in the performance space. Simultaneously, he presents films/videos that look at the movement of people or computer driven black and white abstract images floating in time.
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Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition
March 8 to April 14A juried display of paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography, ceramics, jewelry and more by College of DuPage art students
On Death and Dying: Photographs from the Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago
January 25 to March 3, 2007
This exhibition included photographs from both living and nonliving artists: Harold Allen, Sophie Calle, Catherine Chalmers, Jason Lazarus, Barbara McDonnell, Vik Muniz, Esther Parada, Irving Penn, Gilles Peress, Michal Rovner, Mark Ruwedel, Alec Soth, Dennis Stock, Stephen Tourlentes, and Brian Ulrich.
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Studio Art Faculty Exhibition
Nov. 30 to Dec. 30, 2006
Chuck Boone, Fred Bruney, Jeff Curto, Glenn Hansen, Jennifer Hereth, Kathleen Kamal, Brad Killam, Marina Kuchinski, David Leary, Terry Vitacco
Amy Park and Philip Vanderhyden: Paintings
October 12 to November 18, 2006
Chicago painters, Amy Park and Philip Vanderhyden follow an architectural theme in the form of painting. Amy Park explores ideas of innovation and isolation in her large-scale watercolor paintings of modern architecture. Philip Vanderhyden paints vertical abstract oil paintings that appear as layers of varied skins that recall architectural materials and industrial surfaces.
Elana Herzog: Wallscape
August 31 to October 7, 2006
New York artist, Elana Herzog attaches utilitarian textiles to the wall using thousands of staples that are applied following the pattern of their weave. Parts of the fabric and the staples are then removed, leaving a residue of shredded fabric and perforated wall surfaces. For the Gahlberg Gallery, Herzog created an archipelago of architectural forms within the gallery and lobby.
Kevin Hamilton: Department of Rhythmanalysis: College of DuPage
June 1 to August 5, 2006
The Department of Rhythmanalysis implemented a site-specific state-of-the-art system for the control and surveillance of remote and local rhythms, through an array of indicators, sensors, buttons and switches. Coincident events were indicated through a series of analog visual indicators. Through this and other efforts, the Department explored the potential of examining irregular temporal events as rhythmic, and thus capable of change.
Parameters of Preciousness
Organized by Kathleen Kamal
May 18 to 27, 2006Does something have to be rare or costly to be precious? When something is beloved or dear, isn't it also precious? No other art form deals with preciousness like art jewelry. From materials to final product, it affects how the art looks, feels and sells. What happens when artists who traditionally negotiate "preciousness" challenge its essence? This show was the result of that exploration.
Juried Student Art Exhibit
April 6 to May 13, 2006College of DuPage art students are showcased in a juried display of paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography, ceramics, jewelry and more.
The Mystical Arts of Tibet Mandala Sand Painting: The Architecture of Enlightenment
March 29 to April 2, 2006Magnificent tantric Buddhist mandala sand paintings were painstakingly poured grain by grain to generate energies for global healing. Monks of Drepung Loseling Monastery created the mandala over five days. The Mystical Arts of Tibet is a Richard Gere & Drepung Loseling Production.
See a time-lapse video of the Monks creating a Mandala Sand Painting
Over your head and too deep?
Try juxtaposition semiotics!
Jan. 19 to March 18, 2006SIMPARCH and Paul Cekan presented an overview of recent discoveries of ancient icon codes that relate meaning across the ages, the cultures, and the minds of alien thinkers. Like matching up pieces in picture puzzles, tricks relating counterparts of conceptual patterns were shown in this exhibit.
Paul R. Cekan, M.D. (b. March 21, 1933)
Since age 5 Dr. Cekan has been interested in why people misread meaning and refuse to be corrected. At age 17 he went to a combined program at Northwestern University and Medical School to study and practice in psycho-communication error. He pursued this in graduate training at the University of Chicago. Tibetan symbols and motifs are parallel to what he has seen in his own career.SIMPARCH is an artist collaborative group organized and maintained by Matt Lynch and Steven Badgett. The ethos of SIMPARCH has been to create an armature for social interaction through experimentation with materials and design.
Studio Art Faculty Exhibition
Nov. 17 to Jan. 7, 2006New work by College of DuPage part-time studio art faculty showcasing a variety of art mediums and contemporary ideas by professional artists.
Things are Better: Jim Torok
Oct. 13 to Nov. 12, 2005An exhibition featuring Jim Torok's paintings about living, identifying oneself as an artist, and existing within our current political climate. Painted on paper in the 'broad brush' style similar to that found in the humor section of greeting card displays, these works evoke a similar sentiment by operating through the same simultaneous relief and incitement of amusing despair.
Spin/Spun: Danielle Gustafson-Sundell and Melissa Pokorny
Aug. 29 to Oct. 8, 2005Danielle Gustafson-Sundell's new sculptures work like short stories, poems or song lyrics and are made from familiar objects and structures found in the home and yard - houseplants, rugs and windchimes. Her work was located around the desk area and the surrounding space of the gallery - places where art gallery information happens but where art is rarely found. A curiously blank yet loaded place of exchange.
Melissa Pokorny's clusters of sculptural objects focused on domestic and liminal space - thresholds, boundaries and things that delineate edges and containment. Pokorny used familiar but tweaked markers of interior décor, architecture, backyard nature, outdoor dog and bird figurines and other faux materials as a locus for the eruption of the grotesque that becomes this collision of the familiar and strange.
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Other Information
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Melissa Pokorny's web site
Richard Holland: Pressure Change
July 7 to Aug. 13, 2005Richard Holland’s installation Pressure Change filled the gallery with the sensory effects of an unexpected storm. The multifaceted work utilized sound, light and space to synthesize an epic environmental experience.
Matthew Girson, Scott Short, Scott Stack
May 19 to June 23, 2005
Three contemporary Chicago painters with very different agendas came together for this exhibition. Matthew Girson works in traditional painting genres to explore boundaries of knowledge and perception. His recent cloudscape paintings include visual blockages that complete and obscure the images. These blockages, or scotomas, can be seen as blind spots that limit what we see or openings in the field of vision that allow for greater (in)sight. He is not certain if his vision is failing or if his failing is vision. Scott Stack paints popular culture as a blur. His paintings imply a deep space but are about painting a screen or an effect. He is interested in both the recognizable quality of (popular media) and the possibility that an image can only exist as a painting. Scott Short takes the simple process of Xeroxing sheets of color into a complex, obsessively detailed eloquent painting. The copy becomes the original with the machine assuming more of the traditionally creative role, producing an abstraction. No longer the laborsaving device, it becomes the model whose faithful transcription requires tedious labor.
Annual Student Exhibition
April 7 to May 7, 2005A juried display of paintings, drawings, sculptures, prints, ceramics, jewelry, photography and more by College of DuPage art students.
Shona Macdonald: Inscape
Feb. 17 to April 2, 2005
Shona Macdonald created internalized “inscapes” based on her experiences of travel and living “between” cultures. Imagery is fragmented, then seamed back together in this group of drawings and paintings. Visual referents are sought from maps, aerial photography, magical realist fiction, fractals from nature, and photo documentation of specific locals.
Studio Art Faculty Exhibition
Jan. 6 to Feb. 12, 2005Chuck Boone, Fred Bruney, Jeff Curto, Glenn Hansen, Jennifer Hereth, Kathleen Kamal, Marina Kuchinski, Teresa Parker, Terry Vitacco
The Interpretation of Seams: Works by Cat Chow
Nov. 4 to Dec. 23, 2004
Artist/designer Cat Chow creates wearable art pieces constructed from non-traditional materials, such as a continuous zipper, bobbins, tape measures, Band-Aids, Astroturf, dollar bills and more.
Infra-Thin
A curated project by Dan Devening
Sept. 14 to Oct. 23, 2004
Originally formulated as an editioned portable group project funded by the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts at Northwestern University, Infra-Thin evolved into a series of installations inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s theory of interstitial structures.
Artists include: John Arndt, Dan Devening, Jim Lutes, Mark Booth, Susan Giles, Zach Formwalt, Lou Mallozzi, M.W. Burns, Eli Robb, Matthew Rich, Nathaniel Robinson, Robert Meijer, Carrie Lambert, Janice Clark, Tiny Hairs.
Books and Shelves
June 24 to Aug. 21, 2004
Do you organize your bookshelves by subject, size or color? Are your shelves from IKEA or homemade with cinderblocks or crates? Books and Shelves featured work by 15 artists in mediums of photography, sculpture, painting, drawing, embroidery and more.
Artists include: Mark Arctander, Stephanie Brooks, Gary Cannone, Bill Davenport, Anthony Elms, Nicholas Frank, Michelle Grabner and Brad Killam, Rashid Johnson, Deva Maitland and Robyn O'Neil, Michael Piazza, Karen Reimer, Joe Scanlan, Buzz Spector.
Interior/Exterior: Steve Harp & Jordan A. Schulman
May 13 to June 19, 2004
Steve Harp’s black and white photographs of Iceland landscapes explore the theme of liminality - the position and process of being in between. Jordan A. Schulman’s color photographs of psychotherapist office interiors are familiar visual representations that allude to the possibilities of emotional experiences.
Annual Student Show
April 1 to May 8, 2004A juried display of paintings, drawings, sculpture, prints, ceramics, jewelry and more by College of DuPage art students.
Amanuensis (I Hear a Symphony)
An Installation by Stephen Lapthisophon
Feb. 12 to March 20, 2004
The subject of Amanuensis was the artistic gesture itself, its claims for authenticity, and the struggle for authentic experience. The exhibition is intended to ask questions regarding presence, gesture, identity, the act of signing and the interpretation of the act of creation.
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Bakker, Benjamin and Kerr
November 13 to December 27, 2003
Conrad Bakker, Keith Benjamin and Chris Kerr exhibited objects, paintings and photographs that reference consumerism, contemporary culture, and nature.
October Leaves Falling: An Interactive Project by Alison Knowles
Oct. 2 to Nov. 8, 2003
An exhibition of found and sound objects by Alison Knowles and workshop participants including the performance installation "Secrets of Ordinary Things" and other works by Knowles.
Skywatching/Carrie Gundersdorf
July 31 to Sept. 13, 2003
Paintings influenced by design themes from early 20th century modernism, 60s' color field painting, computer enhanced astronomy photographs, science textbook images and comic book drawings.
The Instant and Infinite: Images of Iberia and Italy
June 19 - July 26, 2003Paintings and photographs by Brian Blevins and Jeff Curto depicting the everyday and the ancient of Italy, Portugal and Spain.
Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition
May 29 to June 14, 2003A juried display of paintings, drawings, sculpture, prints, ceramics, jewelry and more by College of DuPage art students.
Re:Figure
April 3 to May 22, 2003
Refiguring the figure - an exhibition featuring contemporary figurative paintings and drawings by Conor McGrady (NY), Anja Schrey (Dusseldorf), Kehinde Wiley (NY), Su-en Wong (NY).
Time and Space
Video projections by Scott Wolniak
Feb. 20 to March 22, 2003
Scott Wolniak presented three video projections depicting specific spaces and the activity that characterizes those places. The movements in each video appear to be contained by their environment, trapped in repetitive cycles that test the limits of rhythm and ergonomics.
Full-time Studio Art Faculty Exhibition
Jan. 9 to Feb. 15, 2003An exhibition of works by studio ar faculty members: Chuck Boone, Fed Bruney, Jeff Curto, Glenn Hansen, Jennifer Hereth, Kathleen Kamal, Marina Kuchinski, David Leary, Richard Lund, Deborah Postlewait and Terry Vitacco.
On A Clear Day
Nov. 6 to Dec. 31, 2002
Drawings and prints by Suzanne Caporael (NY), sculpture by Anne Chu (NY), photographs by Christina Hejtmanek (NY), and paintings by Chris Patch (Chicago). On A Clear Day is an exhibition of unconventional land and skyscapes.
Some Things I Know
Photographs by Laura Letinsky
Sept. 26 to Nov. 2, 2002
A solo show by Laura Letinsky featured photographs from her Morning and Melancholia series, photographs of still-life's influenced by Dutch-Flemish and Italian paintings and photographs from her Venus Inferred series, a visual language of love.
Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition
May 20 to June 13, 2002
A Sound Installation by M.W. Burns
April 4 to May 13, 2002An Arts Center commissioned site-specific sound installation by Chicago artist and 2000 Whitney Biennial participant, M.W. Burns. His work employs sound to conceptually activate space and probe the psychological and physical territories of the utterance.
The History of the Family Photograph: Photographs and Memory Connecting the American Past and Present.
Feb. 21 to March 28, 2002
This exhibition was organized and sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Community College Humanities Association (CCHA). It was a national project involving 30 community colleges across the country. This photography exhibit brought the DuPage County community together to examine its history through family photographs, lectures, and panel discussions.
The Devil is in the Details
Curated by Anthony Elms
Jan. 10 to Feb. 16, 2002
All art works in the show delt with, or somehow only existed because of details. A subtext to the exhibition would be just what we view as being a 'detail' and how this affects the big picture. What is our definition of the small, or the unimportant, and how these add up to create an item which is more than the sum of its parts. -Anthony Elms, Curator.
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Part-time Studio Art Faculty Exhibition
Nov. 10 to Dec. 27, 2001A multi-media exhibition of works by College of DuPage part-time studio art faculty.
Unnatural Selection: New Work by Charlie Cho
Sept. 27 to Nov. 3, 2001
Charlie Cho's Unnatural Selection was an exhibition that commented on the synthetic and mutated world that man and science has created. The show consisted of two-dimensional and three-dimensional work.
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