Made You Look @ SHoP
An exhibition of inconspicuous interventions
Saturday, March 31st, 5:30 – 9pm
Southside Hub of Production
5638 S. Woodlawn Ave.
During a three-week period, seven artists carefully examined this space, worked on site, and installed site-specific work that inconspicuously intervenes. Some works were created from quiet observation of idiosyncratic architectural features, pieces that, when discovered, allude to the history of human interaction within the site. Other works explore a utopian ideal, creating systems out of what is normally taken for granted, inviting viewers to choose whether to participate or not.
Made You Look reveals the experiments of a contemplative practice. The artists not only ask you to discover their work, but also require that you look deeper into the spaces in which you exist.
Featuring works by:
Caryn Ann Bendrick
Christie Ann Carlson
Christopher Drury
Ector Garcia
Kristin Mazur
Jessica Pappadio
Mimi Wilson
Located near Racine and Roosevelt in the near southwest side, this church had been written up about its adaptation of architectural ornaments from other destroyed historical sites in Chicago. Like a body snatcher, this building is impressive yet chilling to behold.
Shameless plug: I’m in this show, so some and check it out.
The theme for this exhibition was inspired by our temporary occupation of the Fenn House, once single family mansion turned rental. SHOP will leave Fenn house in the spring as First Unitarian Church has decided to put the house on the market, and the University being the most likely buyer. SHOP will again become nomadic, and in an embrace of that eventuality we invited artists to propose work that responds to the concept of home writ large, and collapses or amplifies the friction between house and home, between museum and domestic space, between public and private. The exhibition asks what is home to the exiled, the abandoned, the gypsy, the foreclosed…the homeless? What is home within a market that treats a house like a commodity, a stage set for the interchange of social capital? How does one address the gap between gated community and housing project? What would homeland security look like? What does this community need right now? Local and international artists responded with work about…
February 25th – April 8th
Opening Reception: Feb 25th, 6 to 11
Albert Stabler and Bridget Bancroft, Jim Duignan and Watie White, Jessica Drogosz, Alexa de Togne, Matt Joynt, Kate Baird, Julia Oldham, Norman Teague, Doug Shaeffer, Maxime Clusel, Rachel Herman, Alberto Aguilar, Michael Webster, Crystal Gregory, David Schalliol, Laurie Jo Reynolds, Heather Mekkelson, Tara Lynn Morton, Maia Cruz Palileo, Rebecca Beachy, Adam Grossi, Shawn Greene and Katrin Asbury, Cauleen Smith, Orron Kenyetta, Mary King, David Durstowitz, Marvin Tate, Chris Lin and Kayce Bayer, Kevin Reiswig, Vicky Yen, Emily Segal
February 14th-March 16th
Living By Example is an exhibition focusing on the continued rise and growing popularity of Chicago-based artist-run apartment exhibitions. For this exhibition Edra Soto and Dan Sullivan are creating a structure within the confines of a traditional gallery space. The Franklin, the name given to the structure, is being built in the form of a modern shed which, once the exhibition is complete, will reside in the backyard of Soto and Sullivan’s home and will act as their version of the common “apartment exhibition” space.
The exhibition installed in The Franklin will consist of work from Soto and Sullivan’s private collection. Artists included in the exhibition are Jeroen Nelemans, Ryan Richey, Ryan Travis Christian, Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, Deborah Boar dman, Dana Carter, Kirsten Leenaars, Zachary Cahill, Ann Toebbe, Melissa Oresky, Alberto Alguilar, Corrine Halbert, Meg Duguid, Heidi Norton, Paul Nudd, Maria Gaspar, Mindy Rose-Schwartz, Erik Brown, Catie Olsen, and Michael Rea.
