12 June 2009 to 31 July 2009
Gallery Hours: Tues - Saturday 11 am-5 pm
Tony Wight Gallery
(formerly Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery)
119 N. Peoria St
IL 60607
Chicago, IL
Illinois
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Judy Ledgerwood, Honeypot, 2009 Oil on canvas, 60 x 60 in
Tony Wight Gallery is pleased to announce pop sizzle hum, an exhibition featuring works by Pamela Fraser, Carrie Gundersdorf, Steven Husby and Judy Ledgerwood
The artists in pop sizzle hum continue to consider abstraction through painting, resuscitating past strategies and reinvigorating them within very current conversation. In these paintings the immediacy of contemporary signage and the characteristic slowness of mid-century abstraction are not mutually exclusive. Rather, these painters approach abstraction through the flat vernacular language of popular culture, intermixing it with more traditional languages of abstraction rooted in the 1960's thereby addressing the viewer and context.
Pamela Fraser's solo exhibitions include Casey Kaplan Gallery (New York), Galerie Schmidt Maczollek (Cologne), and Asprey Jacques (London), among others. Group exhibitions include galleries and institutions such as GAD Gallery (Oslo), The Albright-Knox Art Gallery(Buffalo), Shipper and Krome and Podewil Centre (Berlin), Wurttembergischer Kunstverein (Stuttgart).
Carrie Gundersdorf has been featured in solo and two-person exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago) and Shane Campbell Gallery (Chicago). Group exhibitions include galleries and institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), Marc Foxx (Los Angeles), and Mixture Contemporary Art (Houston).
Steven Husby has mounted solo exhibitions at the The Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago) and Lisa Boyle Gallery (Chicago), among others. Recent group exhibitions include Andrew Rafacz Gallery (Chicago) and 65Grand (Chicago).
Judy Ledgerwood has had solo exhibitions at Häusler Contemporary (Munich, Zurich), Tracy Williams Ltd. (New York), 1301 PE (Los Angeles), and The Renaissance Society (Chicago), among others. Group exhibitions include galleries and institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), The Swiss Institute (New York), and Christopher Grimes (Los Angeles)
Single Channels
Tony Wight Gallery is pleased to present Single Channels, an exhibition of animated video works by Timothy Hutchings, Jacco Olivier, and Allison Schulnik.
Timothy Hutchings' video, The Battle of the Mass, focuses on a sculpture that while constructed from cardboard invokes a sensibility that is minimalist. The hand of the artist is not visible yet the sculpture accumulates layers and layers of paint that become patterns moving in sync with the video's sprightly lo-fi soundtrack. The flatness and color of the animated patterning defines and then confounds the sculpture's geometry, which anxiously oscillates between two and three dimensions.
Jacco Olivier is a filmmaker whose evocative pieces merge painting with moving image. Olivier assiduously photographs his paintings at innumerable stages of their construction and compiles them as an animation that moves between narrative and abstraction. The finished works are enigmatic and poignant. Wood is a dreamlike narrative, a stunningly elegant articulation that belies the simple moments described.
The protagonist in Allison Schulnik's claymation Hobo Clown, a 'hobo clown', is situated alone within a surreal world. Throughout the fractured, hallucinatory narrative, the divisions between the solitary figure and the set pieces disappear as both are made subject to completely plastic chimerical manipulation.
Timothy Hutchings received his M.F.A. in Sculpture from Yale University in 1998 and lives and works in New York. Hutchings' recent solo exhibitions include Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna), I-20 Gallery (New York), and the Sydney College of Art (Sydney). Group exhibitions include institutions such as the Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia), P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (New York), the New Museum of Contemporary Art, (New York), and the Museo Reina Sofia (Madrid).
Jacco Olivier graduated from the Rijksakademie in 1998 and lives and works in Amsterdam. He has had solo exhibitions at Marianne Boesky Gallery (New York), Victoria Miro Gallery (London) and Galerie Thomas Schulte (Berlin). Olivier's work was included in the 2005 Prague Biennale and group exhibitions at the Istanbul Modern (Istanbul), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Denver) and Centre pour l'image contemporaine Saint-Gervais (Geneva).
Allison Schulink lives and works in Los Angeles. Her solo exhibitions include Unosunove Arte Contemporanea (Rome), Rokeby Gallery (London), and Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, among others. Group exhibitions include The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (Kansas), Al-Sabah Art (Dubai, United Arab Emirates), Galerie Huebner & Huebner (Frankfurt).
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An opening reception will be held for both exhibitions on Friday, June 12th, from 5-8 pm.
