Q: WHAT’S GREEN,
LANDSCAPED, BEYOND THE CURVE, AND SEEMINGLY WEIGHTLESS?
A: FLATFILEgalleries in November/December!
On Thursday, October 30, FLATFILEgalleries will
open its new shows, APPARENT
HORIZON, BEYOND THE CURVE,
ESPACE VERT, SEEMINGLY
WEIGHTLESS,
and MAN/WOMAN/CAT/DOG
with a reception from 5-9pm. This will mark the
first Thursday opening in the gallery’s eight
and a half year history. The show will run until
December 19.
In the main gallery, we feature Apparent Horizon,
new medium to large-scale paintings by gallery artist
Anna Jaap, from Nashville.
This body of work is a major departure for Jaap,
who has formerly worked entirely in a small-scale.
Jaap’s usual attention to texture and detail
remains, however, and the paintings are all the
better for being larger. Also in the main gallery
is Beyond the Curve, new sculpture by Chicago
gallery artist David Noguchi. Noguchi’s
softly brushed stainless steel pieces appear to
be preparing to soar from the pedestals on which
they rest. Noguchi, who is has been an assistant
to sculptor Richard Hunt since 2002, has most recently
shown his work in the CSI Biennale and at the Union
League Club of Chicago.
Espace Vert will fill the lower gallery with
3D work by gallery artist Lucy
Slivinski, and drawings, photographs,
by guest artists Cynthia
Hron, and Jamie
Kreher, respectively, and an installation
by guest artist Michele
Brody entitled Garden Sentinels.
Chicagoan Slivinski, who is known for her use of
recycled materials in sculptures, will show pieces
from her Green Moss Series, created from
sisal, steel and paint. She has recently added her
work to the St Cloud Public Library in St Cloud
MN, and had her show Site Specific at Workroom
wonderfully reviewed in Sculpture Magazine. St Louis
artist Kreher strips photographs to the barest minimum
to make a point in Islands, which reduce
parking lots to just the islands that they contain,
surrounded by a sea of plain white. Hron, who lives
and works in Pennsylvania, delicately draws her
grassy islands as small tufts of green in topiary
forms that are almost tactile in nature. New York
artist Brody’s Garden Sentinels will
be site-specific to the project room, complete with
sprouting wild flowers and grasses native to the
Midwest. Brody has traveled extensively to install
her work throughout the US, in Europe and Central
America. With each new site she concentrates on
developing an interpretation of the sense of a place
as an outsider looking in. In conjunction with ESPACE
VERT, Brody will be working collaboratively with
students from a class at Chicago’s Loyola
University called "BioArt: Exploring Living
Organisms through Art."
In Project Room 1, Indian gallery artist Neha
Vedpathak’s subtle white canvasses
in Seemingly Weightless become a meditative
installation, which she enhances with elements of
sound, smell and tactile experience. Vedpathak’s
extremely minimal paintings incorporate tiny scraps
of paper, graphite textures, and pigments made of
crushed leaves and herbs. To enter the project room
is to experience art in a new way that speaks to
all the senses.
In Debut, Luca
Bidoli, who lives just outside Venice
Italy, makes his US debut with Man/Woman/Dog/Cat.
Bidoli, who has shown fairly extensively in Italy,
will show an assortment of paintings that are variations
on the theme that provoked the title of his exhibition.
Using a very limited palette, Bidoli manages to
convey the beauty of the quotidian existence of
his family, which is comprised of the four elements
of the title.
Please visit FLATFILEgalleries
at SOFA, where we will occupy Booth # 1204,
be showing work from John Himmelfarb, Nancy Genn,
Richard Heinrich, Fredrick Holland, Lynn Basa, Jozef
Sumichrast, Pablo D’Antoni, Wolfgang Buttress,
and Terrence Karpowicz.
FLATFILEgalleries is open from 11-6, Tuesday through
Saturday, or by appointment, and is a member of
The Art Dealers Association of Chicago. |
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