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KIROKAZE
occasionally subtle
Show & Tell

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❣ Chile in a Photography ❣
we're not kids anymore.
YOU ARE THE REASON
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Game of Thrones Daily
Mike Driver
Not today Justin

Product Placement
Today's Document
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
Cosimo Galluzzi
RMH

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Andulka
DEAR READER

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Rana Siegel @ranaanne Slack (The Gallery) September 13 - October 12 ************drive/walk/bike out OUTDOOR NIGHT viewings encouraged***************** Gallery will have the lights on during off hours. This will be an especially excellent exhibition to see through the window at night. Or for an appointment email: [email protected] Or DM here (at Material) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEuObwLlTyA/?igshid=7uzpogb6ek7a
Our contribution to @cnlprojects @terrainexhibitions #artinplace There are 3 artists studios behind @materialexhibitions storefront gallery and artist run space: @benjaminlarose @wistigrayson @jeanalexanderfrater It’s lovely that our work can be together since we cannot! Until we can; Thank You Cortney Lederer @cnlprojects and Terrain @terrainexhibitions for organizing this collective action💗 (at Material) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAdi5irFpvb/?igshid=13riu9o4x7hdb
Artwork made by studio artists:
Nancy Wisti Grayson
Benjamin Larose
Jean Alexander Frater
special thanks to CNL Projects and Terrain Exhibitions
Karen Dana, Off Hours
curated by Ionit Behar
@materialexhibitions
#Karendana #materialexhibitions #chicagoartist
From @karendanas solo exhibition: Off Hours @materialexhibitions Curated by @ionbehar “Inherited Touch” 36 x 44 in Mixed Media on canvas 2018 DM to visit or for inquiries (at Material) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8O5sXNlunD/?igshid=e40ktxmkkt8y
They made it thru the entire opening and are still smiling! @karendanas with her beautiful family! (at Material) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8FWWz6FGiA/?igshid=840vkacrygyr
Off Hours, @karendanas Curated by @ionbehar My heart just swells up with gratitude to have these 2 amazing humans sharing their gifts and work! Many thanks to everyone who came by for the opening today! Stay tuned for some events and other related programming! (at Material) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8FOCmqllk7/?igshid=kh4ablt8k5vd
Opening reception: Sunday February 2, 2020, 11:00-2:00 p.m.
Off Hours
A solo exhibition by Karen Dana
Curated by Ionit Behar
February 2 – March 15 , 2020
Opening reception: Sunday February 2, 2020, 11:00-2:00 p.m.
Karen Dana, Support System, 2019, Oil and ink on canvas, 9 x 12 in.
The Mexican poet Octavio Paz once wrote that “eyes speak, words look, looks think. To hear thoughts, see what we say, touch the body of an idea. Eyes close, the words open.”[1]This inseparable connection between the senses is central in Karen Dana’s works. As Dana paints with her brush she embodies the labor of women in her family who worked with their hands while knitting, baking and washing. Her compositions offer an intimate and complex narrative of caring and nurturing. Karen Dana’s paintings set in motion a dialogue between private spaces and the various dimensions of domesticity and motherhood.
Chicago based artistKaren Dana(b. 1982, Mexico) is currently a BOLTartist in residence at Chicago Artists Coalition. Dana earned her MFA from Hunter College, New York and a BFA from The National Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico City. She has participated in national and international exhibitions in Mexico, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, California, and has been awarded several honors including the Chicago Artists Coalition’s Field/Work Residency, FONCA Young Creators Grant, Honorable Mention at the XVI Mexican Painting Biennial, XVI Bienal de Pintura Rufino Tamayo, INBA, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo; MACO Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Mexico. Honors at the XV National Biennale of Painting from Rufino Tamayo Contemporary Art Museum in México and Oaxaca. She currently leads a critique group of artist mothers.
Ionit Beharis an art historian and curator. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She holds a Master's degree in Art History, Theory and Criticism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a Bachelor of Art Theory from Tel Aviv University, and a degree in Art Administration from the Bank Boston Foundation in Montevideo. She currently teaches art history at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and serves as the Director of Curatorial Affairs for Fieldwork Collaborative Projects.
[1]In Spanish: “Los ojos hablan, las palabras miran, las miradas piensan. Oír los pensamientos, ver lo que decimos, tocar el cuerpo de la idea. Los ojos se cierran. Las palabras se abren. Octavio Paz, Entre lo que veo y digo(“Between What I See and What I Say”), 1980.
Karen Dana, Support System, 2019, Oil and ink on canvas, 9 x 12 in.
I’LL SEE YOU WHEN YOU GET HERE. Benjamin Larose Closing Reception! Sunday January 12, 11AM -2PM @materialexhibitions @benjaminlarose https://www.instagram.com/p/B7MDH4mFSXV/?igshid=k08zx7fdhluw
I’LL SEE YOU WHEN YOU GET HERE
Benjamin Larose
Solo Exhibition
Opening Reception Sunday, December 8, 11 am - 2pm
2025 West Belmont Ave, Ste 1 Chicago, IL 60657
And Open by appointment [email protected]
Thrilled to present our next exhibition I’LL SEE YOU WHEN YOU GET HERE Solo exhibition by Benjamin Larose Opening Reception Sunday December 8, 11 am -2 pm @benjaminlarose @materialexhibitions This new body of work is an ode to quietness and stillness. What do you make of yourself when the hours and the years linger? Image courtesy of @benjaminlarose (at Material) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5VaGB-lIgQ/?igshid=gmnbxafnjvx2
Julia Klein: And then essay by Teresa Silva
Julia Klein: And then
In modern and contemporary art, combining discarded materials is not a new approach. In the early twentieth century, Marcel Duchamp made a hybrid sculpture by fastening a bicycle wheel atop a wooden stool, and he made more versions of said sculpture into the mid-twentieth century. In the 1950s and beyond, Robert Rauschenberg made what he dubbed combines whereby pairing unconventional materials with de-skilled artistry. While Duchamp and Rauschenberg’s sculptures were decidedly non-narrative, they did provide commentary on the world around them. Duchamp’s amalgamation of everyday objects was a comment on crass capitalism and the speedy rise of mass production. Rauschenberg’s combines pointed to man-made environmental catastrophes that have led to global water and air pollution. The artists’ assemblages were meant to arrest one’s attention and generate critical awareness of our complicity. One cannot help but think about these issues now and that decades on it’s all the more dreary -- but also rife with radical imagination and hope in human ingenuity to bring about change.
In the year 2000, I was in Berlin and came to see assemblage art in a new way. I visited the now-defunct Tacheles building, occupied by artists as live-work spaces, and wandered about curious to find something. The building was a derelict pre-World War II altbau, in the former East where resources were scarce and the euphoria of reunification in 1990 was long left behind. Capitalism wasn’t working so well for East Berlin. The job outlook was dismal and rampant gentrification was taking hold. What was left of altbau and plattenbau housing were being demolished or left in shambles.
Inside one studio, I noticed a sprawling floor sculpture, resembling at once a cityscape and reclining body. The artist was present and we talked about his use of materials and what his process was like. He said he collected objects found in the building’s stairwells and outdoor grounds. The sculpture felt like alchemy, recasting detritus as limitless creative fodder. Witnessing in-person his artistic process in flux, and the jarring combinations of dead pc monitors, crumbling architectural fixtures, and leftover food packaging, re-ordered my thinking about assemblage.
And then marks a new moment in Julia Klein’s ongoing engagement with discarded materials and her ever evolving process and intentions of re-working and re-presenting objects in different contexts and space. And then as language may connote to concatenate things, so they add up (think of the statement: one plus one equals two). But, Klein’s artistic process is not linear. The origins and initial purposes of found materials – how they were used, thought about, felt, and deployed in relation to other objects – motivate Klein’s impulse to scramble them with both spontaneity and formal intellect for the present moment and possible future reuse. Using a deft artistic hand, she shifts materials and their meaning over, and over, and over again.
Works on view in this exhibition gather remnants of accrued and saved materials, over many years and demonstrate a more recent experimentation with weight and suspension and considering the body in space. Moves like hanging, chopping, grounding, standing, leaning, and daubing color are made by the artist to mess with our perception of the body, both its interiority and exteriority. Klein employs rope, clay, wire, pantyhose, paper, plaster, resin, hooks and weights to generate an unstable formal and emotive context for this body of work. More than material, Klein’s emphasis on chance champions the value of process, insofar as keeping the work alive, spirited, and dynamically fragmented.
-Teresa Silva
*With admiration and gratitude to Julia Klein and Jean Alexander Frater.
White Cut & clay
2019
Clay, plaster, plastimold, rope, wire, clay, copper
Pontormo & Kelly, 2019 Clay, rope, wire, paint, wood 28 x 21 x 2 in Julia Klein And then . Sept 27- Nov 2 By appointment: DM @materialexhibitions . @soberscove @_teresita_silva (at Material) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2XEm7FFs4w/?igshid=k988cho7iwy7