Ceramics / Glass
December 6, 2013 – February 2, 2014
CERAMICS/GLASS
December 6, 2013 – February 2, 2014
Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago (UIMA) presents the exhibition Ceramics / Glass. This exhibit focuses on the medium of ceramic or glass in contemporary art – mediums that require high temperatures, special tools, kilns and specialized studios. UIMA has selected some distinctive personal styles from numerous glass / ceramics studios in Chicago and from artists working in national and international cities.
Brent Rogers, Alex Trommler and Aaron Wolf-Boze are from Chicago, showcasing art glass that was created in Ignite Glass Studios. Ignite Glass Studios (founded 2012) is already building reputation as a ‘hot’ art glass studio in the U.S.. Eric Bladholm is from Chicago Glassworks, a state of the art glass blowing facility and artist’s studio, custom built into a former iron foundry. He will present glass works combined with various metals. Nikki Renee Anderson will present multiple piece ceramic installation and Robert Pulley will exhibit one of his larger ceramic garden sculptures. Both artists are from Chicago Sculpture International and focus on the sculptural aspect of working with ceramics. Michael Janis, an ex-Chicago artist (now Co-Director of the Washington Glass School in Washington, DC) will present fused glass with glass powder imagery. Xavier Monsalvatje lives in Spain and works in traditional ceramic techniques which reflect industrial aesthetic designs reminiscent of the works of Mexican Muralists. Yurij Musatov and Anna Lypko, both from Ukraine, are two contemporary artists working in ceramics.
Opening Evening Photos on our Flickr page – HERE
Cover image by Alex Trommler, Orbit, 2012, Cast Glass, Ground and Polished, MDF, and Steel, Ø19 x 11 in.
Opening Reception
Artists Respond to Genocide
October 4, 2013 - December 1, 2013
ARTISTS RESPOND TO GENOCIDE
Opening reception October 4, 6-9pm
October 4, 2013 - December 1, 2013
In honor of the 80th anniversary of the Holodomor-Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933 in Ukraine, the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago (UIMA) is organizing the exhibition “Artists Respond to Genocide”.
The exhibition addresses genocides of the world, the deliberate massacre of millions of people targeted on the basis of group membership – such as ethnic, national, cultural, and religious. In Soviet Ukraine, Stalin and his government staged an artificial famine to eradicate Ukraine’s population, resulting in seven to ten million deaths. Such acts of horror are tragically prevalent in the 20th century – Armenia, Holocaust, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, for example – and continue to be so today. The artists participating have addressed this theme from a number of different perspectives and cultural contexts, such as – the legacy of the Holodomor on second and third generation Ukrainian-Americans; the universal fight for social justice as a preventative measure against genocide; the personal impact on family; and survival.
Highlights include official competition designs, and the final stage model of the Holodomor Memorial Monument in Washington D.C., by Larysa Kurylas. It is scheduled for installation in 2014. Kurylas will discuss the competition process and her project at the October 4th opening at 7pm.
This exhibition features the work of 20 local, national, and international artists, including: Lydia Bodnar-Balahutrak, Evhen Prokopov & Orest Baranyk, Harold L. Cohen, Klaus Eyting, Christine Forni, Larysa Kurylas, Jason LaMantia, Arthur Lerner, Jackie Moses, Bonnie Peterson, Klaus Pinter, Mary Porterfield, Dominic Sansone, Susanne Slavick, Marzena Ziejka, Eden Unluata, Erika Uzmann, Mandy Cano Villalobos and Pat Zalisko.
Purchase exhibition catalog – HERE
Opening Reception
Chicago’s Bauhaus Legacy
August 9 – September 29, 2013
August 9 – September 29, 2013
In 1937 the Chicago Association of Art and Industry invited László Moholy-Nagy to head what was to be called the New Bauhaus, four years after the Bauhaus in Berlin was dissolved in 1933 under National Socialist pressure. László Moholy-Nagy had been a Bauhaus Master from 1923-1928 in Weimar and Dessau. His teaching as well as his own diverse creative work, were characterized by a unique innovative and experimental approach to the arts.
The exhibit will showcase art and design by students of Moholy-Nagy’s schools from 1937-1955: the New Bauhaus, School of Design in Chicago and Institute of Design – with special emphasis on the Foundation Course exercises. In addition, life work of both teachers and students will be shown, from 1937 to the present.
Representing more than sixty individuals, the vast majority of the exhibit is work that has never before been seen. Material has been provided through the generous loans from private collections, in addition to work from the UIMA permanent collection and the Bauhaus Chicago Committee Archive & Collection.
This exhibit is organized in partnership with T. Paul Young and the Bauhaus Chicago committee NFP.
Photographic image: Art Sinsabaugh, Portrait Series: Eye, 1948
Courtesy of the Art Sinsabaugh Archive, Indiana University Art Museum
Purchase exhibition catalog – HERE
Artists & Designers in the Chicago’s Bauhaus Legacy exhibition:
Harold Allen
Dori (Hahn) Altschuler
Franz Altschuler
Alexander Archipenko
Gunther Aron
Edward Balchowsky
Morris Barazani
BARWA chair, Edgar Bartolucci & Jack Waldheim
Harry Callahan
Edward Caputo
Ivan Chermayeff
Serge Chermayeff
Harold L. Cohen
Lera Colyer
Ralph Cowan
Eugene Dana
Clark Dean
Ruth (Huendorf) Dean
Designers in Production (DinP), Davis Pratt & Harold L. Cohen
Donald Dimmitt
Iatser Cathline Erickson
Robert Donald Erickson
Leonard Farb
Richard Filipowski
Sumner Fineberg
Henry Gardiner
Robert Genchek
Blanche (Banchik) Gilden
Len Gittleman
Mary Jo (Slick) Godfrey
Eugene Godfrey
Keld Helmer-Petersen
Martin Hurtig
Yasuhiro Ishimoto
Kazimir Karpuszko
Susan Jackson Keig
Elsa Kula
Jean (Kendall) Glaser
Misch Kohn
Richard Koppe
David Arthur Kropp
Gyorgy Kepes
Norman Laliberte
Lawrence Joseph Lange
Mary Ann (Dorr) Lea
June Leaf
Nathan Lerner
William J. LeVier
Raúl Martinez
Lynn (Bright) Martin Windsor
Hiller Masker
Lyle Mayer
Helen McConoughey
Burt Meyer
László Moholy-Nagy
Marvin Newman
Richard Nickel
Robert Nickle
Art Paul
Elmer Ray Pearson
Donald Petitt
Lowell Phillips
Herbert Pinzke
Allen Porter
Davis Pratt
James Prestini
Ralph Rapson
Merry Renk
Charles Reynolds
R. Thomas Schorer
Moses Richard Schultz
Arthur Siegel
Irene Siegel
Art Sinsabaugh
Aaron Siskind
Victor Skrebneski
Kenneth Snelson
Simon Steiner
Donald Stoltenberg
Deborah Sussman
Tadao Takano
Beatrice Takeuchi
Crombie Taylor
Hope (Scrivens) Taylor
Mili Thompson
Stanley Tigerman
Margit Varro
Konrad Wachsmann
Harold Walter
Hugo Weber
David Windsor
Emerson Woelffer