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Dear Friends of Next Art Chicago, We continue the launch of our 2012 initiatives with the Collectors’ Colloquium program this month. In partnership with Chicago Gallery News, this monthly series will offer insights and expertise related to all areas of collecting art. Leading up to the fair in April, each session will be hosted by a different gallery. Click here for additional information on session details and registration. We are particularly excited for the new exhibition series, Chicago Works, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, our longtime beneficiary and partner. Chicago Works is dedicated to artists of all generations, and at various points in their careers, living and working in our city. The exhibition will present new bodies of work by four artists each year, beginning with Scott Reeder this fall. As always, please see below for information about art happenings—we look forward to seeing you around town. Look for more exciting announcements from Next Art Chicago coming later this month. |
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Staci Boris Executive Director Next Art Chicago |
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Works: Scott Reeder Scott Reeder's first solo museum exhibition includes new figurative paintings in his signature idiosyncratic style—for instance, anthropomorphic foods, fruits, and plants smoking cigarettes or enacting the myths of Sisyphus and Narcissus, and, most recently, abstract paintings made with cooked and raw spaghetti. For this exhibition, Reeder creates a large-scale, site-specific wall painting from his abstract spaghetti series for the second-floor lobby wall and screens his first feature-length film, Moon Dust, a futuristic story of a failing resort located on the moon. ..... The Art Institute of Chicago Contemporary Collecting: In just a little over a decade, Chicagoan and Art Institute of Chicago trustee Irving Stenn Jr. has amassed a compelling collection of 170 drawings by at least 90 artists. Concentrating on works from the 1960s—a period that saw a fundamental change in the way works on paper were made, used, and appreciated—Stenn’s stunning collection features multiple works by Mel Bochner, Sol LeWitt, Brice Marden, and Fred Sandback, along with pieces by Agnes Denes, Eva Hesse, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, and Ellsworth Kelly. |
The Art Institute of Chicago Focus: Sharon Hayes Over the past 15 years, American artist Sharon Hayes has been probing how speech—both public and private—intersects with politics, history, personal identity, desire, and love through her performances and multimedia installations. Drawing on a range of artistic and academic practices, her approach is arguably most clearly defined by the New York theater scene that greeted her as an undergraduate student in the early 1990s—staunchly political, feminist, queer-identified, and besieged by the AIDS crisis. |
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November 4 On Curatorial Intelligence Kitty Scott, director of Visual Arts at The Banff Center, guest lectures at the University of Chicago. Scott, previously chief curator at the Serpentine Gallery, London, and curator, Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, has curated exhibitions of artists such as Francis Alÿs, Janet Cardiff, Paul Chan, Peter Doig, Ragnar Kjartansson, Silke Otto-Knapp, Ken Lum, and Ron Terada, and is an agent for dOCUMENTA (13) (2012), Kassel. She has written extensively on contemporary art for catalogues and journals including Parachute, Parkett, and Canadian Art. ..... November 4 America Now and Here: A conversation with Chicago artists Dawoud Bey, Indira Johnson, and Jason Reblando; Kathy Dickhut, Deputy Commissioner Chicago Department of Housing and Economic Development; Dorothy Dunn, Director America Now and Here; and Lisa Yunn Lee, Director Jane Addams Hull House Museum. In partnership with Jane Addams Hull House, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Hyde Park Arts Center, and Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy. ..... November 5 Art by Telephone and Other Chicago Humanities Festival Richard Gray Visual Art Series. In 1969, the brand-new Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago mounted a landmark exhibition—Art by Telephone—that took its title literally. Artists phoned in their works of art, which were then created on-site to their specifications. IAIN BAXTER& was one of the participating artists then, and he returns to Chicago this fall for his retrospective at the MCA. In a conversation with art historian Hannah Feldman, IAIN BAXTER& recalls not only Art by Telephone but also additional milestones in conceptualism. The Subversive Artist: Siebren Versteeg Chicago Humanities Festival Richard Gray Visual Art Series. Artist Siebren Versteeg, whom New York Magazine called “every Harry Potter–loving/Hackers-watching/anti-capitalist computer geek’s idol,” writes his own software code, avails himself of online media and commercial databases, and creates high-tech works that critique the very sources he uses. In a way, his art shows us that our digital reality is not so real. So far his approach has resulted in works such as Dynamic Ribbon Device, which renders the Associated Press’s Internet feed in the shape of the Coca-Cola logo. He discusses his work and the role of the artist in the digital age with Naomi Beckwith, curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. ..... November 8 Artists Talk: Scott Reeder Scott Reeder's faux-naïve approach complicates the gravitas of his subject, namely the history of painting and the macho, academic nature of much of that history, with saccharine colors, atypical materials, and oddball subjects. At the same time, his work challenges established tastes and values. Exhibition is on view November 1, 2011 – January 24, 2012. |
November 9 LaToya Ruby Frazier LaToya Ruby Frazier explores her family’s intergenerational lineage through photographs and videos that blur the line between self-portraiture and social documentary. By appearing on both sides of the camera and engaging her mother as a co-creator of her images, Frazier effectively turns the traditional relationship between camera, subject, and author on its head. Though her focus is specific, her work examines the role that family dynamics play both on a personal level and in society at large. ..... November 13 Symposium: The Home in/as Community In coordination with the current photography exhibition No Place Like Home, curated by Dawoud Bey, the Art Center presents the one-day free symposium examining the role of home and community within the city. Moderated by No Place Like Home photographer and Sociologist David Schalliol, panel participants will address these issues through art, architecture and other creative fields that have helped shape them, ultimately considering how the city has changed and how home as changed with it. Participants include: Iker Gil, Director of MAS Studio and Editor in Chief of the design journal MAS Context; D. Bradford Hunt, Author and Associate Professor of Social Science and History at Roosevelt University; Natalie Moore, Author and Reporter for WBEZ, and Adjunct Professor at Columbia College Chicago; Emmanuel Pratt, Executive Director for the Sweet Water Foundation, Artist-in-Residence at the Hyde Park Art Center and PhD Candidate in Urban Planning at Columbia University, New York. ..... November 15 David Hartt Lecture and Dinner Artist David Hartt uses photography, sculpture, video and installation to coolly capture environments created around ideals. Recently relocated to Chicago, Hartt is already making important contributions to the artistic fabric of the city. His lecture will focus on his recent photographic work, with subjects ranging from a vegan community in Summertown, Tennessee and the surreal, stage set-like architectural landscape of Columbus, Indiana, to a free market think tank in Midland, Michigan. His newest series, Stray Light—which will debut along with the artist’s first film installation at the MCA later this month—captures the headquarters of the Johnson Publishing Company in Chicago. ..... November 16 Visiting Artists Program: Amar Kanwar Amar Kanwar's films explore the politics of power, violence, sexuality, and justice. His multi-layered installations originate in narratives often drawn from zones of conflict and are characterized by a distinctly poetic approach to the social and political. In retracing history through images, ritual objects, literature, poetry, and song, Kanwar creates lyrical, meditative film essays that do not aim to represent trauma or political situations as much as to find ways through them. *Screening November 17, 6pm at the Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State Street. ..... November 18 Contemporary Collecting: Seminar panelists review notable selections from the Irving Stenn, Jr. Drawings Collection on view. Presenters include Mel Bochner, artist; Ruth Fine, National Gallery of Art; Barry Schwabsky, art critic for The Nation and co-editor of international reviews for Artforum. Exhibition curator Mark Pascale moderates. Free with admission. |
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November 8 Forum 400 Launch Party Celebrate the kick-off of Forum 400, a support and advocacy group for Gallery 400 – enjoy cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, music, artist performances, and hear from Gallery 400 Director Lorelei Stewart about G400's innovative programming, the role of Forum 400, and how you can be a part of it. ..... November 11 2nd Fridays Gallery Night The Chicago Arts District hosts the monthly opening receptions at the galleries and artists' studios centered around South Halsted and 18th Streets in Chicago. Join the 30 creative spaces in the Chicago Arts District as they showcase an exciting display of art and artists from Chicago and beyond. This unique art community opens its doors, free of charge, and lets you get up close and personal with the art and artists. |
November 18 Annual Benefit and Auction Men, put on your spats and, ladies, break out your fringe for the MoCP Annual Benefit and Auction with a selection of photographs and unique experiences to benefit the museum's programming. Come ready to drink custom cocktails, take pictures in a classic photo booth, and dance the night away to a four-piece jazz ensemble. ..... November 29 Curator Tour: Get the inside view. Walk through IAIN BAXTER& and Ron Terada exhibitions with James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator Michael Darling and learn about the criteria and ideas that guided the selection of artists and artworks. |
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