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Exhibition Archive
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2008
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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catalog
Industry of the Ordinary website
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2007
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.
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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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catalog
Studio Art Faculty Exhibit
Thursday, Aug. 30 to Saturday, Oct. 6,
2007
An 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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catalog
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www.susangiles.net/liberty.html
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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Niblock catalog
Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition
March 8 to April 14
A 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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2006
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.
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the Park and Vanderhyden catalog
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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.
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the Elana Herzog catalog
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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.
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the Kevin Hamilton Catalog
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Parameters of Preciousness
Organized by Kathleen Kamal
May 18 to 27, 2006
Does 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.
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Juried Student Art Exhibit
April 6 to May 13,
2006
College of DuPage art students are showcased in a juried
display of paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography, ceramics, jewelry
and more.
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The Mystical Arts of Tibet Mandala
Sand Painting: The Architecture of Enlightenment
March 29 to April 2,
2006

Magnificent
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
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Over your head and too deep?
Try juxtaposition semiotics!
Jan. 19 to March 18, 2006
SIMPARCH 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.
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2005
Studio Art Faculty Exhibition
Nov. 17 to Jan. 7, 2006
New work by College of DuPage part-time
studio art faculty showcasing a variety of art mediums and contemporary
ideas by professional artists.
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Things are Better: Jim Torok
Oct. 13 to Nov. 12,
2005

An 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.
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the Jim Torok Catalog
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Spin/Spun: Danielle Gustafson-Sundell
and Melissa Pokorny
Aug. 29 to Oct. 8,
2005

Danielle 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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Spin/Spun Catalog
Other Information
Danielle
Gustafson-Sundell's web site
Melissa Pokorny's web site
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Richard Holland:
Pressure Change
July 7 to Aug. 13,
2005

Richard 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.
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Richard Holland catalog
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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.
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the Girson, Short, Stack catalog
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Annual Student Exhibition
April 7 to May 7,
2005
A juried display of paintings, drawings, sculptures, prints,
ceramics, jewelry, photography and more by College of DuPage art students.
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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.
Shona Macdonald
Gallery Catalog
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Studio Art Faculty Exhibition
Jan. 6 to Feb. 12, 2005
Chuck Boone, Fred Bruney, Jeff Curto, Glenn Hansen, Jennifer
Hereth, Kathleen Kamal, Marina Kuchinski, Teresa Parker, Terry Vitacco
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2004
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.
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Cat Chow Catalog
The
Cat Chow web site
Interview
on WBEZ with Cat Chow
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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.
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the Infra-Thin Catalog
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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.
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the Books and Shelves Catalog
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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.
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Annual Student Show
April 1 to May 8, 2004
A juried display of paintings, drawings, sculpture, prints, ceramics,
jewelry and more by College of DuPage art students.
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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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the Amanuensis catalog
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2003
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.
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Bakker, Benjamin, Kerr Catalog
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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.
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the Alison Knowles Catalog
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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.
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The Instant and Infinite: Images
of Iberia and Italy
June 19 - July 26, 2003
Paintings and photographs by Brian Blevins and Jeff Curto
depicting the everyday and the ancient of Italy, Portugal and Spain.
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Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition
May 29 to June 14, 2003
A juried display of paintings, drawings, sculpture, prints, ceramics,
jewelry and more by College of DuPage art students.
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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).
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the Re:Figure Gallery Catalog
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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.
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Wolniak large-format poster/brochure
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Full-time Studio Art Faculty Exhibition
Jan. 9 to Feb. 15, 2003
An 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.
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2002
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.
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On a Clear Day catalog
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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.
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Letinsky catalog
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Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition
May 20 to June 13, 2002
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A Sound Installation by
M.W. Burns
April 4 to May 13, 2002
An 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.
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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.
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of the Family Photograph catalog
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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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the Devil is in the Details catalog
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2001
Part-time Studio Art Faculty Exhibition
Nov. 10 to Dec. 27, 2001
A multi-media exhibition of works by College of DuPage part-time studio
art faculty.
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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.
Download the Charlie
Cho catalog
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