Ongoing exhibit
  • Group Exhibits  | 
  • Pássaros geometricos e pelo menos um pássaro rectangular! | 
  • The Triumph of Patience

February 13 - to March 6th, 2010

Opening Reception: Saturday, February 13th.

Colectivo MR
COLECTIVO MR

In Si no existe el mas allá, la injusticia del pobre se prolonga eternamente (If there is no afterlife, the injustice of the poor lingers perpetually), Colectivo MR addresses social issues such as discrimination and racism through a series of staged photographs. These portraits place a family from the Peruvian Andes, in their traditional dress, in settings throughout the wealthy districts of Lima. The irony of their seemingly being out of place in their own country is evident.

  
JOSE, BECHARA    

   

JESSICA, LABATTE    

   

BRIANNA, SCHWEIZER    

   

YOUNG, CHO    

   

UISUK, BYEON    

   

 

Pássaros geometricos e pelo menos um pássaro rectangular!

Jose Bechara was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he studied at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage.  His work has been exhibited widely in North and South America, as well as Europe.  In this most recent exhibition of his work, Pássaros geométricos e pelo menos um pássaro rectangular! (Geometric Birds, a Rectangular Bird at Least), he continues to explore dualities.  They remain traditional in that most are two-dimensional works of oil on canvas, yet contemporary in their incorporation and manipulation of rust as a medium.  They include very rigid elements of geometry, but couple them with soft transitions of tones and colors.  They can be very abstracted, while still referencing landscapes, figures and other elements. Jose Bechara
 

The Triumph of Patience

Materials transform over time.  Like human bodies they disintegrate, collapsing, crumbling, and wearing away over the course of their existence.  The artists in this exhibition investigate and capture the frailty of their respective materials, while also reworking and transforming them.  Working in Chicago, a city with deep foundations in labor, these artists employ common materials as a means of transcendence.  Their choices of materials, combined with exhaustive, often obsessive devotion to process, are contemplations on temporality, mortality, control and the transcendence of contemporary life. All four of these artists have recently graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago with an MFA.  They have exhibited their work throughout the United States, as well as internationally.  They bring together personal backgrounds and experiences cohesively while each maintains an individual focus, concept and aesthetic. Brianna Schweizer, Jessica Labatte, Uisuk Byeon and Young Cho

ARTE FIERA

Bologna - Italy
January 29-31, 2010
Cecilia Paredes | Michael Scoggins | Pia Fries | Michael Loveland | Daniel Gonzalez | Vickie Pierre | Felice Grodin | Paula Otegui | Clemencia Labin | Ivelisse Jimenez | Julie Davidow