Ruminate
June 3 - July 31, 2016
Opening Reception: Friday, June 3, 2016, 6-9pm
June 3 - July 31, 2016
The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art is pleased to present “Ruminate,” a three-person exhibition of work by Robin Dluzen, Cydney Lewis and Allison Svoboda. For these three Chicago-based artists, contemplative thought processes address the confluence of and contrasts between humans and nature, using a vast range of meaningful, tactile materials.
For Robin Dluzen, the intersection of labor and landscape is at the core of her practice, and here, a new series of charcoal drawings on stretched lawn-refuse bags consider the artist’s mother’s 30-year career as a horticulturalist. In this exhibition, Dluzen redraws the precisely rendered botanical drawings created by her recently retired mother over the course of her tenure; Dluzen preserves the gestures of her mother’s hand (and even her signature), combining them with her own in works that truly have two authors, collaborating decades apart.
Cydney Lewis, too, looks to everyday materials, both embracing the lowness and the unaesthetic nature of man made matter like plastic paper towel wrapping and dry cleaning bags, and also completely transcending their humble origins. In her installation pieces, the twisted, wired plastics become extraordinarily laborious, vivid recreations of flora. Accompanying these sculptural pieces are a series of ink drawings, taking cues from the aesthetics of black and white films to address a number of symbolic dualistic tensions, including that of race.
Created during a recent fellowship studying Zen and traditional artistic techniques in Japan, Allison Svoboda exhibits a number of multimedia works that use fractals found in nature as catalysts. In her collage works, thousands of brushstrokes on paper are torn and reassembled into a monochromatic, wall-bound mandala. In Svoboda’s Scorched Vestments, a burning incense stick is the sole mark-making tool. Cotton sheets hand dyed with indigo shibori are suspended from the ceiling, suggesting a kind of soft, temple-like architecture. Light refraction from the Vernal Equinox is featured in a video piece. Together, these varied materials and processes create a rich, meditative experience.
A catalog is published in conjunction with the exhibition, featuring an essay by artist and art critic, Alan Pocaro.
Order catalog – HERE
Cover Image:
Robin Dluzen, Drawing of a Drawing My Mom Made (Pineapple), 2016,
Charcoal on lawn refuse bags and stretcher, 56 x 64 in.
Opening Reception
Chornobyl 30 Years Later
April 1 - May 29, 2016
Opening reception April 1, 2016 (6-9pm)
April 1 - May 29, 2016
On April 26, 1986, the Chornobyl nuclear disaster occurred in Pripyat, Ukraine. This was the worst nuclear power plant catastrophe in history resulting in tremendous casualties and long term contamination effects that are still reverberating to this day. 2016 marks the 30th anniversary of the disaster, and the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art is dedicating the exhibition spaces of the entire museum to two exhibits addressing the theme, “Chornobyl 30 Years Later.”
In the West Gallery, “Chornobyl: Impact & Beyond,” nine artists have created works with a range of subject matter related to Chornobyl before, during and after the incident, as well as its wider impact physically and conceptually. Artists Ricardo Manuel Díaz, Yhelena Hall, Karolina Kowalczyk, Dominic Sansone, Anaïs Tondeur, Jave Yoshimoto, Eden Unluata, Tara Zanzig and Igor Zaytsev hail from many different backgrounds and from all over the world, including Chicago, France and Ukraine.
The human toll of the disaster is addressed in Díaz’s metaphorical painting about emptiness and evacuation, Sansone’s multi-headed sculpture referencing the lives lost, and Zanzig’s painting and street art series that depicts the long term effects on those exposed to radiation. Chornobyl’s natural environment is explored in Hall’s sculptural plant installation on the absorption of the manmade by nature, Kowalczyk’s layered work on paper about the impact of radioactivity on flora and fauna, and Tondeur’s photograms that document the invisible scars left upon that which grows in irradiated soil. Zaytsev’s and Yashimoto’s pieces consider the power of creative and destructive forces. Throughout the exhibition, Unluata will be activating a site-specific installation with a Turkish tea ceremony performance addressing the radioactive impact on the tea grown and consumed in nearby Turkey.
In addition to “Chornobyl: Impact & Beyond,” the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art has commissioned a fine art print portfolio project and exhibition entitled, “Chornobyl: Artists Respond,” the contents of which will be on display in the East Gallery.
UIMA invited 30 Chicago artists to participate in this project, each artist creating an edition of 40 original prints for the portfolio in remembrance of the event. The artists, who come from different cultural backgrounds, approached this project from unique perspectives, reflecting on their individual experiences and knowledge of the Chornobyl disaster. The completed prints feature a range of themes, from scenes of the Chornobyl accident and its aftermath, to commentary on its current state, and its correlation to other nuclear accidents. Just as varied as the artists’ points of view are the techniques with which they chose to create their prints, from the traditional media of screenprints, etchings and lithographs, to more unconventional methods incorporating natural and non-art materials.
While the exhibitions and the portfolio are composed of a multitude of voices and perspectives, they are all united in remembrance. Though Chornobyl was 30 years ago, it is clear that the disaster and its memory are just as potent today.
Preview exhibit Chornobyl: Impact & Beyond – HERE
Preview exhibit Chornobyl: Artists Respond – HERE
Order catalog Chornobyl 30 years later – HERE
Pictures of the installation and opening – HERE
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Tea Ceremony Performances with “Chornobyl: Impact & Beyond” artist Eden Unluata:
Saturday April 16, 1-4pm
Saturday May 7, 1-4 pm
Saturday May 14, 1-4 pm
Free and open to the public
Chornobyl: Impact & Beyond
Chornobyl: Artists Respond
Opening Reception
Sentience
February 5 - March 27, 2016
February 5 - March 27, 2016
ARTIST TALK: Saturday, March 19, 2016 (2-4pm)
In “Sentience,” five Chicago-based artists embrace mediums of construction, assemblage or collage in a range of vastly differing practices. Though David Criner, Marcos Raya, Tom Torluemke, Kathy Weaver and Stacia Yeapanis each work within their own unique artistic intentions, their works share a strangeness that results from the tension of commingling imagination with the stuff of everyday life.
In his work, David Criner transforms twentieth century collage material in pursuit of an image that celebrates the present moment. The antiquated “pop” sensibility imbued by Criner’s sourced matter is countered by his gestural, spontaneous mark-making, creating compositions that manage to reference the past while also feeling timeless.
Sometimes autobiographical, and sometimes socially engaged or critical, Marcos Raya’sworks are always a reflection of his unique vision. Though renowned as a painter and muralist, Raya also possess a proficiency for found objects, turning ordinary things into complex tableaus that are thoroughly surreal.
Tom Torluemke, a master of many mediums, here presents a large-scale painted paper installation. Torluemke is well known for his unflinching depictions of highly emotive narratives, and in this piece, objects and figures occupy three-dimensional space with the viewer, making his handcrafted creations feel unsettlingly real.
Kathy Weaver emphasizes the uncanniness of our relationships with seemingly sentient machines with the use of soft charcoals, burning and hand stitching. Her longtime use of robots as subject matter has evolved throughout her oeuvre, varying in character from whimsical to sinister. Here, Weaver employs familiar settings viewers associate with home and the Midwest to relate narratives that are far darker.
For this exhibition, Stacia Yeapanis creates a site-specific installation assembled from recycled materials. In this work, manmade media like newspaper and plastic are completely transformed into a vast, organic-looking construction, blurring the lines between the artificial, the natural and the completely invented.
Preview – HERE
Installation and opening reception images – HERE
Cover image by:
David Criner, To Live in This World, 2015, Mixed media, 50 x 50 in.
PRESS:
“American Eye Pull-Up Bar”: A Conversation with Tom Torluemke by Kevin Blake in Bad at Sports
11 art gallery exhibitions to see in February by Jenny Lam in TimeOut Chicago
Opening Reception
Skimption
December 4, 2015 - January 31, 2016
December 4, 2015 - January 31, 2016
Opening Reception: Friday, December 4, 2015, 6:00pm
One of the most exciting aspects of contemporary art-making is being able to work outside of the fixed contexts of our traditional art dialogue. Each artist in “Skimption” defies all the usual qualifiers: “painter,” “sculptor,” “fiber artist,” “ceramicist.” Even the term “multidiscipline artist” fails to accurately describe the way in which these artists’ unique conceptual goals fluctuate amongst scope, media and process. And while Diana Gabriel, Emily Hermant, Luis Sahagun, Catherine Schwalbe and Rusty Shacklefordcan’t be easily denominated, each of their voices is unquestionably well defined.
In this exhibition, curated by artist and art critic Robin Dluzen, the grey areas between established genres are explored by these five emerging artists. Gabriel and Hermant each present site-specific works, with Gabriel’s linear-patterned, fiber installation bringing drawing into three dimensional space, and Hermant’s hand-rendered “wallpaper” challenging the distinction between slow handmade processes and fast-paced digital communication. Sahagun intermingles “high art” materials with the “low” stuff of everyday life with a series of floor and wall pieces that embody both permanence and ephemera. For Schwalbe, an intimate, ceramics studio practice is a catalyst for her large-scale social practice, here manifested in an indoor garden of edible greens for viewers to harvest. Shackleford’s series of works are neither paintings, photographs nor typical collages, in an innovative gestural painting and digital scanning process that’s unlike anything else.
Preview exhibit – HERE
Catalog available – HERE
Opening Reception
All.go.rhythm
October 2 - November 29, 2015
Opening Reception: Friday, October 2, 2015, 6:00 pm
October 2 - November 29, 2015
“All.go.rhythm” is a show of plotter drawings, digital prints, textiles, watercolors, installation and performance works by artists who work with algorithms. Algorithms are recipes for carrying out a logical or mathematical task. We associate them with computers, but the word is ancient and the concept more ancient still. Weaving, music, tiling patterns and architecture all make use of algorithms. Through computing and networking, algorithms shape contemporary culture and technology. Artists who create their own computer programs, which includes everyone in all.go.rhythm, have become especially aware of the power of algorithms.
Computational algorithms play a critical role in the art practices of the four artists in all.go.rhythm, hence the title, which also suggests that algorithms may be found everywhere. Colette Bangert, Roman Verostko, and Jean-Pierre Hébert are highly regarded pioneers of what was once referred to as “computer art,” and now is called “new media art.” With the collaboration of her husband Charles Jeffries Bangert, Colette Bangert produced some of the earliest digital art in the form of plotter drawings. In 1995, Jean-Pierre Hébert and Roman Verostko together founded the Algorists, a group of artists working with algorithms. Curator Paul Hertz, an artist who curated last year’s glitChicago show at UIMA, has developed free software for artists.
The catalog for all.go.rhythm features essays by Grant Taylor, noted author of When the Machine Made Art: The Troubled History of Computer Art, and Debora Wood, who as Senior Curator at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art curated (with Paul Hertz) Imaging by Numbers: A Historical View of the Computer Print.
Order Catalog – HERE
Special Event:
Symposium with the artists: Saturday, October 3, 2:00 pm
Sponsored by Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation
Featured image:
Paul Hertz
i as in beet, a as in father (El guateque), 2015
Archival pigment print on paper, 18 x 18 inches
Software: GlitchSort, an application written by the artist in Processing.
Description: The characteristic frequencies of the human voice pronouncing the vowel sounds “i as in beet, a as in father” were used to modify an image that was treated as if it was an audio signal. The audio signal was encoded back into image format, and output to a file.
Chicago Connection
July 31 – September 27, 2015
Artists from the Post-War Period
July 31 - September 27, 2015
In the history of Chicago art, much has been written about the works created in the late 1940’s, ‘50’s, and ‘60’s. The worldwide political struggles, the Depression years, and the upheaval caused by World War II, served as the backdrop of the artists in this exhibit. This societal disjunction pushed many artists to question artistic traditions and inspired many to break from the norm. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) served as the meeting ground for many of these artists, a place where their skills were groomed and where they could explore the existential questions that they sought to answer through their art.
The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art presents its latest exhibition “Chicago Connection – Artists from the Post War Period,” which focuses on artwork created in the ‘50s and ‘60s by students from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. This period is central to the history of the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art because it was during this time that the institute’s co-founders, Konstantin Milonadis and Mychajlo Urban, attended SAIC. The paintings, sculptures, and prints featured in this exhibition were created by the co-founders and by their peers at SAIC, including Eleanor Coen, Seymour Rosofsky, Ted Halkin, Arthur Lerner, Thomas Kapsalis, Richard Hunt, Robert Kuntz, Donald Vogl, and Maurice Lapp—all were instrumental in many of the prominent artistic movements and groups in Chicago from the Monster Roster to Bauhaus. In addition to the works they created at SAIC, some of their later works are included in this exhibition, displaying the enduring influence that Post War art has on today’s artists’ imagination.
Order catalog- HERE
Images from opening reception – HERE
For a selection of images from “Chicago Connection,” please visit: UIMA Flickr page
Opening Reception
Australian Artists from Ukraine
March 27 – May 31, 2015
Opening reception: March 27, 2015 (6pm-9pm)
March 27 – May 31, 2015
The exhibit “Australian Artists from Ukraine” opens an untapped new window into Ukrainian Art History. It shows the talents of six artists that came from different backgrounds, all born in what is now Ukraine, who through the vagaries of world history settled in Australia before and after World War II. They influenced Australian art with their individual techniques and personalities. Australia had never seen anything like them before. Michael Kmit, Maximilian Feuerring, Stanislaw “Stacha” Halpern, Wladyslaw Dutkiewicz, Ludwik Dutkiewicz and Timothy Messack were survivors of a horrific world war, but yet through an unbroken spirit, brought to Australia with their art, beauty, culture, and style.
View photos from opening – HERE
View letter from Australia’s Prime Minister, Tony Abbott to UIMA – HERE
Order catalogs – HERE
Opening Reception
Convergence: The Poetic Dialogue Project
February 6 - March 22, 2015
Opening reception: Friday, February 6, 2015 (6-9pm)
February 6 - March 22, 2015
The upcoming exhibition, Convergence: The Poetic Dialogue Project, curated by Chicago-area artist and curator Beth Shadur, is an exhibition of collaborative works created by twenty pairs of visual artists and poets. The exhibition includes renowned visual artists and poets from throughout the United States (and a poet from Canada).
The Poetic Dialogue Project is an ongoing project that came about after a wonderful meeting of hearts and minds in 2004 at the Ragdale Foundation between poet Lois Roma-Deeley and Shadur, as both explored the parallel creative process of artist and poet. Since their meeting and dialogue at that time, Shadur and Roma-Deeley have undertaken a number of collaborative projects. Out of her own collaboration, Shadur created the idea of The Poetic Dialogue Project. Since 2004, four traveling exhibitions have been curated by Shadur, with various pairings of artists and poets. In 2009, the last exhibition, Collaborative Vision: The Poetic Dialogue, was premiered at the Chicago Cultural Center. The excitement of this ongoing project has been in the creation of new works outside established paradigms of artistic discipline, and in artist and poet taking their work in new creative directions.
Pairings: Visual artists / Poets
Jane Fulton Alt / Martha Collins
Granite Amit / Jan Beatty
cat chow / Rosemary Willey and Maggie Dietz
Laura Ann Cloud / Francisco Aragón
Sergio Gomez / Maurice Manning
Donna June Katz / Maurya Simon
Heidi Kumao / Kate Gale
Kim Laurel / Micheline Maylor
Lynda Lowe / Joseph Heithaus
Susan Mackin-Dolan / Honorée Fanone Jeffers
Renee McGinnis / Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Zach Mory / Kevin Prufer
Bonnie Peterson / Maggie Anderson
Mark Pomilio / Rigoberto Gonzalez
Beth Shadur / Lois Roma-Deeley
Eleanor Spiess-Ferris / Daniel Tobin
Vivian Visser / Peggy Shumaker
John Pitman Weber / Michael Heller
Cynthia Weiss / Margaret Rozga
Connie Wolfe / Annie Finch
EVENTS:
Opening reception: Friday, February 6, 2015 (6-9pm, with remarks on collaboration at 7pm)
Panel Discussion: Saturday, February 7, 2015 (2-4pm), panel on the collaborative process will be presented by several pairs of artists and poets
Joseph Heithaus and Margaret Rozga, Poetry reading: March 14, 2015 (2pm)
Order Catalog – HERE
Photos from the opening – HERE
Opening Reception
From Past to Present
December 7, 2014 – January 25, 2015
Ethnic Heritage through the Eyes of My Elders (Children's exhibit)
December 7, 2014 – January 25, 2015
The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA) and the Ukrainian National Museum are pleased to host the children’s art exhibition From Past to Present.
In this exhibition, the two museums invited children to explore the notions of cultural heritage by asking their grandparents what would they like to leave as a legacy. The Ukrainian National Museum, engaged the experiences and artistic skills of Chicago-based youth, while the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art reached out to children living in Ukraine.
The works by these young artists both illustrate the disappearing world of their grandparents, as well as encapsulate the riches that their elders would like the younger generations to keep for the future. “From Past to Present” highlights the most precious gifts that one can pass on to progeny: the gift of traditions.
Opening reception: December 7, 2014 (Sunday 1pm – 3pm)
Long Path to Freedom
October 24, 2014 - January 18, 2015
Ukrainian Art Between Revolution and Hybrid War
October 24, 2014 - January 18, 2015
Opening reception: October 24, 6-9pm
“Long Path to Freedom” is a special exhibition presented by the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art that documents and reflects upon the activism, unrest and trauma experienced during recent ongoing political crisis surrounding the Ukrainian revolution: A period widely considered the country’s most tumultuous since achieving independence in 1991.
“Long Path to Freedom” includes three curated components featuring work by Ukrainian artists across digital, graphic and photographic mediums. ‘The Breath of Maidan’ captures the unique spirit of the protest movement of Winter 2013-14 on Kiev’s Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square); the epicenter for activism and subsequent violence. ‘Vision of Trauma’ accounts the devastation caused by the separatist movement and resulting war with photographic images of displaced citizens and volunteer military. The final component, an installation, emulates “Mystetsky Barbakan,” an improvised gallery of digital prints created by artists that functioned on the barricades in Kiev in Winter 2013-14.
Participating artists: Alexander Chekmenev, Oksana Chepelyk, Roman Gromov, Dariya Koltsova, Olexa Mann, Roman Mykhayluk, Anastasiya Nekypela, Maria Pavlenko, Vlada Ralko, Stepan Riabchenko, Ivan Semesiuk, Nikita Shalennyi, Andriy Sydorenko, Mykyta Zavilinsky.
Curated by Alisa Lozhkina and Andriy Sydorenko
Alisa Lozhkina art critic and curator, deputy director of one of the major Ukrainian art institutions – Mystetsky Arsenal and editor in chief of ART UKRAINE magazine. Studied at Kyiv Mohyla Academy (Kyiv, Ukraine) and Higher Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors (Moscow, Russia). Works and lives in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Andriy Sydorenko artist, researcher and curator in Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine. Born in 1983 in Kharkiv, lives and works in Kiev, Ukraine. Studied at National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Kiev, Ukraine.
Opening of the exhibit Flickr
Opening Reception
Stella: The Nature of a Collective
October 3, 2014 - November 30, 2014
Opening reception: Friday, October 3, 2014 (6-9pm)
October 3, 2014 - November 30, 2014
“Stella: The Nature of a Collective” features work by 12 artists in a diversity of media originating in photography. Presented by the Stella Photography Collective in cooperation with the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, the exhibition is organized around issues of the collective and the natural world. The exhibit includes photography, video, installation, collage, large draped photographic screens and 3-D imagery.
For the individual artists of the Stella Photography Collective this exhibition is an opportunity to explore new ways to present work in collaboration, deepening their practice. Thematically, the work is concerned with nature and the natural world, as well as the nature of human experience: growth, decay, camouflage, geography, security and sensuality.
Stella Photography Collective formed in 2008 as a monthly critique group and has a rich history of mutual support and creative challenge. The collective includes 13 women, 2 of whom work as a collaborative team. Members are based in Chicago and surrounding communities, including Milwaukee. They are: Aimée Beaubien, Suzette Bross, Patty Carroll, Liz Chilsen, Ciurej & Lochman (Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman), Christine DiThomas, Mary Farmilant, Alice Hargrave, Kate Joyce, Mayumi Lake, Jean Sousa, Peggy Wright
In conjunction with the exhibition, the collective plans two lively events inviting visitors to enjoy refreshments – some of which respond to ideas in the work – while participating in creative activities based on selected exhibition themes. A Sunday “Lunch-in” on October 12th from 1:00 – 3:00 PM, and a workshop “The Nature of Nature: An Afternoon Repast of Botany and Memory” on November 2nd from 2:00 – 4:00 PM
Purchase catalog of the Stella: The Nature of a Collective exhibition – HERE
Preview exhibit – HERE
Survival, Spirit, Dreams, Nightmares
February 9 – March 30, 2014
February 9 – March 30, 2014
Opening February 9, 2014 (Sunday 2 – 5pm)
The exhibition features works by artists addressing themes of culture and ethnicity, survival, and the power of the human spirit in overcoming adversity. Four artists with different life journeys are telling stories through their paintings, prints and sculptures. This exhibition includes Chicago artists René Hugo Arceo, Mark Nelson, Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern and ex-Chicagoan Peter Dallos.
René Hugo Arceo was born in Cojumatlan, Michoacan, Mexico in 1959. He completed high school after relocating to the United States in 1979 and soon thereafter attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1986 to 1999, Rene worked for the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum in Chicago, helping it become the largest Mexican Fine Arts institution in the nation. Arceo’s work has been influenced by the traditions of Mexican printmaking and by his regard for the work of Mexican artists. He is working in various relief print media with the themes of life and culture that surrounds him with the ancestral spirit lurking behind him.
Peter Dallos spent his early years under the Hungarian fascist regime and later under the Soviet occupation. He immigrated to the U.S. after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. His professional life has been in neuroscience research, currently as the John Evans Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
In 1998, he began making sculptures and has been a professional sculptor since 2012. In his “Struggle Series,” he is concerned with elemental conflicts that affect humankind. The semi-abstract sculptures depict the reaction of the wounded earth to environmental destruction. Alternatively, the work can be interpreted as showing the conflict between Western Civilization and the forces of nihilism and anarchy.
Mark Nelson’s work was forged by his childhood experiences overseas. Raised as a Colonial American outside of the continental U.S., his international travels Culminated in a near twenty-year residence within the Republic of Panama where he developed an interest in visual and performing arts. Nelson returned to the USA to finish his formal education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, followed by a Masters in Fine Arts at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Eventually, Mark Nelson took up permanent residence in Pilsen, where he resides and works in his Gringolandia Studio. His new works from the “Panama Series” reflect the cultural and physical landscape that made it his home for nearly 2 decades.
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern was born in the U.S.S.R. and grew up under socialism. He came to the United States in 1996 to study Jewish history at Brandeis University. In 2003, Yohanan joined the faculty of the History Department at Northwestern University, where he currently serves as the Crown Family Professor of Jewish Studies.
In his “Nightmares Series” he is working with acrylic on canvas, in mostly three hard-edge color compositions, culminating in a final visual effect of powerful, paper-cut-like imagery. His themes are a combination of recognizable religious, literary and historical visual references. Yohanan addresses universal themes of catastrophe, violence, and fear which he represents through the prism of Jewish experience.
Preview the exhibition – HERE
Order catalog – HERE
Gallery Talk, with Mark Nelson and Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, is scheduled for Sunday, February 23 at 1pm
Cost: Free. Donations are welcomed.
Opening Reception
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