Chicago Expo an International Art Showcase September 13ã¢â“17 at Navy Pier

September 17-20, 2015 at Navy Pier

Date & Time

Wednesday, September 7, 2016
3:00 PM

Location

Navy Pier

Description

The Academy of Chicago will once once again serve equally a partner and participant in EXPO CHICAGO, the International Exposition of Contemporary & Modern Art, September 17-xx at Navy Pier.

In its quaternary edition, EXPO CHICAGO, presents artwork from 140 leading galleries, representing xvi countries and 47 cities from around the globe. Through collaborative IN/SITU, /Dialogues, and Special Exhibition programs, it also reveals how the Academy of Chicago is shaping Chicago's greater gimmicky art landscape.

As in years past, the 2015 EXPO CHICAGO features the work of DoVA alumni and faculty and showcases several University of Chicago arts organizations.

For a full listing of EXPO CHICAGO programs and participants, visitexpochicago.com.

Programs

A wide array of University of Chicago arts organizations and artists are showcasing their works at 2015 EXPO CHICAGO. Read on for the total list.

/Dialogues

Museum Models: The Global Impact of Public Collections
Friday, September xviii
iv:00 pm

Featuring Managing director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem Thelma Golden, Executive Managing director and Chief Curator of The Renaissance Society Solveig Øvstebø and Terri and Michael Smooke Curator and Department Head of Contemporary Art of LACMA Franklin Sirmans. Chastened by Curator of the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Club Jacob Proctor.

Art history is one of the nigh easily identifiable methods of how we visually tape history. Whose voices are nosotros listening to through the images we collect and showroom? Often defined as encyclopedic institutions, museums are responsible for collecting and exhibiting history, while often writing it in the process. How can contemporary museum collections and kunsthalle models change or alter certain histories once they take been written? Looking at both public collecting and not-collecting institutions and exhibitions through the lens of diverse museum models, each of the panelists will offering the various means that their associated institution handles the global responsibility of collecting and exhibiting contemporary work.

EXPO Projects

Jason Salavon
The Master Index (Semaphore)
Inman Gallery

The Master Alphabetize (Semaphore) consists of 2 adjacent walls covered entirely in custom wallpaper and one existent-time digital video listing every English Wikipedia article by popularity. Jason Salavon composed this massive digital listing in collaboration with researchers at the University of Chicago.

IN/SITU 2015

The IN/SITU program provides exhibiting galleries the opportunity to showcase large-calibration installations and site-specific works past leading artists during EXPO CHICAGO. Among the artists featured in these exhibiting galleries is Jessica Stockholder, University of Chicago Raymond W. & Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor and Chair of the Section of Visual Arts.

Jessica Stockholder:Celestial Flavor,Kavi Gupta

Jessica Stockholder'southCelestial Season  is a sculptural installation that adopts and interacts with the unique compages of fine art fairs. A luminous "cloud," equanimous of translucent plastic baskets, the piece floats only higher up the boundaries of fine art fair walls, buoyant and playful in the context of its locale. At one time warm and absurd, like a cakewalk on a summer day, the piece stands at odds with the formality of the fine art fair infinite, and encourages audiences to interact with information technology, move around it, and spend time with it as a reprieve from the regimental berth layouts.

Special Exhibitions

The Special Exhibitions program features select regional, national, and international not-profit institutions, museums, and organizations to exist included on the main floor of the exposition in Navy Pier's iconic Festival Hall.

Chicago Artists Coalition

Chicago Artists Coalition's (CAC) 2015 booth at EXPO CHICAGO presents Artist Resident & Mentor Marissa Lee Bridegroom, who creates a video and sculptural installation that poses questions virtually scale and connectivity, from micro-interactions to space expansiveness, which impacts climate and information communication. The berth is curated by Neubauer Collegium for Civilization and Society at the University of Chicago.

Contained Curators International (ICI)

Independent Curators International (ICI) produces exhibitions, events, publications, research and training opportunities for curators and various audiences effectually the world. Established in 1975 and headquartered in New York, ICI has commissioned artists since 1990 to produce limited edition works. Artists include; John Baldessari, Louise Bourgeois, Olafur Eliasson, Stephen J. Kaltenbach, Jacob Kassay, Joseph Kosuth, Laurie Simmons, Robert Rauschenberg, Kiki Smith, Ernesto Neto, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Marina Abramović and most recently, Chicago based creative person Robert Burnier. Celebrating its 40th Ceremony, ICI will showcase a selection of limited edition works by Bernd and Hilla Becher, Robert Rauschenberg, Marina Abramović and Liz Glynn among others, and will feature Jessica Stockholder, a pioneer of multimedia genre-bending installations, every bit a special artist for the 2015 program.

The Renaissance Order

The Renaissance Lodge presents a limited edition series past Berlin-based artist Nora Schultz, created on the last twenty-four hours of her solo exhibition in Feb 2014. In "Metallic Mind Model Magazine Parrot," materials from her site-specific installation were installed into an orchestration of improvised printmaking that spanned virtually the entirety of the gallery. Photographs of the process were taken, printed and reincorporated into the flurry of activity, all of which was eventually stapled into eleven objects Schultz refers to as "magazines." Six unique framed works, along with a functioning video of the artist creating the work volition be on view.

The University of Chicago Headquarters 3.0

The University of Chicago Headquarters three.0 will showcase the work of recent Master of Fine Arts alumni. Curated by Department of Visual Arts' bookish faculty and lecturer William Pope.L and Zachary Cahill, the artists will respond to a serial of curatorial prompts, challenging and intriguing visitors through object creation and performance. Artists include dado, Jinn Bronwen Lee, Tucker Rae-Grant, Nick Raffel, Sophia Rhee, Ramyar Vala, and Danny Volk.

Whitechapel Gallery

Playing a central office in London's cultural landscape, and a touchstone for contemporary art internationally, Whitechapel Gallery has developed an exceptional portfolio of express editions and artworks as function of its fundraising initiative to help support the galleries' educational programming. Leading artists including Georg Baselitz, Theaster Gates, Peter Halley, Rachel Harrison, Linder and Isa Genzken have made cute only affordable artworks exclusively for the Whitechapel Gallery that will be on view at EXPO CHICAGO.

Booth Talks, Performances, and Signings

Theaster Gates

Thursday, September 17
five:00–7:00pm
Phaidon | Booth 801

Theaster Gates will be available for volume signings of his most recent monograph, published by Phaidon. Available to VIP Guests and Vernissage Ticket holders.

Marissa Lee Benedict and UChicago Curator Jacob Proctor

Friday, September 18
three:00 pm
Chicago Artists Coalition | Booth 121

Marissa Lee Benedict and her collaborator onDark Fiber, David Rueter, will participate in an artist talk led by Jacob Proctor. Benedict is CAC's BOLT Artist Resident & Mentor. Her video and sculptural installations pose questions about scale and connectivity.

Gallery

Regards | Chicago

PRINCIPALS
Michael Schuh
Natalie Popovic Schuh

ARTISTS REPRESENTED
Brandon Anschultz
Christopher Aque
Nick Bastis
Aline Cautis
Kristen Van Deventer
Judith Geichman
Megan Greene
Matthew Metzger
Ethan Rose

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Source: https://arts.uchicago.edu/event/expo-chicago

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