March 17 - April 22, 2000
Opening reception: Friday, March 17, 5 - 8pm
Ten artists have been invited to create new works on site, incorporating sculpture, video, film, photography and other media.
Constance Bacon's video installation presents, with humorous futility, a banal domestic scene with absurd props and repetitive action, belying a dark underside of personal relationships.
Juan Chavez's found object installations have been seen, while they last, out of doors, on doors, and other distinct physical bases. He will create several new assemblages for the gallery.
15 Years Ago (detail), Juan Chavez
Jno Cook's new sculpture takes its cue from the obnoxious presence of loud, raucous, boom box mobiles on city streets. A tempermental black lucite box reacts to the approach of visitors in the center of the main gallery. More information on Cook's can be found at his web site.
Stardom Booth, Edra Soto Fernandez
Edra Soto Fernandez's "Stardom Booth" reflects the American obsession with 15 minutes of fame. A campy 70's disco setting of mirrored ball and feather boas makes every visitor feel like a star.
Aunt Ann Goes Fishing, Linda Horn
Linda Horn has acquired a collection of photos of her aunt fishing over a 60 year time span. With wry humor we see both the adult development of this fisherwoman and the attendant changes in fashion and attitudes throughout the 20th century.
| Francis Ponge 1899-1999 (detail), Stephen Lapthisophon |
Stephen Lapthisophon's typically chaotic collection of found objects, text and drawings offer multiple layers of cryptic thought processes with no easy readings, this time dealing with notions of inside/outside and container/contained. |
Patrick McGee's signature string geometry hearkens back to minimal sculpture, defining a space and calling attention to the larger environment surrounding it, while taking it one further by being almost invisible.
Adelheid Mers' light sculptures provide a playground for raver and art patron alike. Dealing with a specific architectural element of the G312 space, the mysterious balcony which juts out into the main gallery will at last become a site for action. More information on Mers' work can be found at her web site.
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| Installation for Audience and Performers, Adelheid Mers Views from Site Works opening March 17, 2000 with performer Sally Alatalo (assisted by Mers) | |
| Untitled (view), Helen Maria Nugent |
Helen Maria Nugent's post-modern room challenges our notion of space definition and forecasts the future with floating planes and wall projections. Imagery abstracted from nature is blown up to a scale that encourages re-interpretation. |
Mary Patten's activist video work becomes self-reflexive in her new work "Post-Mortem," looking back, from the middle of the AIDS pandemic, at the efforts and personalities that made ACT-UP a force to be reckoned with in the thick of the crisis.
Read a review of the exhibition by Margaret Hawkins from the Chicago Sun-Times, Friday, March 31, 2000.
An Artists' Talk will take place Saturday, April 8th at 2pm. Admission is free.
