INDUSTRIA
In Gallery A, Ryan
Zoghlin exposes us to NIMBY,
(Not in my Back Yard) a fascinating look
at dwellings in the shadows of large industrial
and nuclear elements. The large images, which are
sometimes fraught with a sense of foreboding and
other times drenched in humor, are part of a larger
body of work that has recently been shown in The
New Space Center for Photography in Portland OR,
and at the New Orleans Photo Alliance. Dimitre’s
body of work entitled Energy is comprised
of images he created during an enormous project
for Exelon and became completely engaged in the
visual portrayal of energy. For this exhibition
of guest artist Terrence
Karpowicz’s sculpture, a variety
of pieces that define the essence of industry, strong,
stocky pieces crafted of stone and metal, that often
incorporate actual industrial items, were chosen
for those properties. Karpowicz is “particularly
drawn to tension at the point of contact between
disparate materials”, a fact which is borne
out in the pieces to be shown in INDUSTRIA.
On the walls of lower level Gallery B, FOTOWERK
2008 will feature images created through
by alternative photographic processes by gallery
artists Marco
Ambrosi, Keith
Hackett, Mark
DeBernardi, and Jean
Sousa, as well as frequent guest artists,
David Jones, Jennifer
Mannebach,
Jorge Manghi, Clare
Britt, and Philip Feitelberg.
Digital work, which once was a hard sell to clients,
has come a long way, and several of the FOTOWERK
2008 artists have discovered intriguing ways
of creating with the computer. Some, like DeBernardi
and Jones, craft manual collages incorporating photographs,
paint, and other materials.
Both Project Rooms will house video works by Gallery
artists Marlena Novak and Jay
Alan Yim, aka localStyle.
The team presents two new video pieces, Fluid
Mechanics Remix, which will be shown
in Project Room 1, as a part of INDUSTRIA,
and pr!ck, an interactive
video installation, which will reside in Project
Room 2. localStyle, which is represented by FLATFILE,
has shown and been collected in Australia, Mexico,
Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, and throughout
the US.
INTERPRETABLE CHAOS
In Debut, FLATFILE’s space for new artists,
Chicago painter Cleveland
Dean shows new paintings in his customary
black and white. This marks the first solo gallery
show for Dean, who is known for his on site public
painting performances, and has just been named a
Chicago Artist to Watch by the Chicago
Artists Coalition. Dean will be painting live at
FLATFILE from noon to 4 pm on October 4 and 5, in
conjunction with Chicago Artists Month and the Explore
Fulton Market Art Walk which will be held from 11-5
on both days.
FLATFILEgalleries is open from 11am to 6pm Tuesday
through Saturday, and is a member of the Art Dealers
Association of Chicago.
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