ON PTG CAA Panel and Exhibitions organized by Michelle Grabner Susanna Coffey, Anoka Faruqee, Richard Hull, Judy Ledgerwood, Sabina Ott
In Gallery 2
Painter's Paintings paintings by gallery artists Dan Attoe, Jimmy Baker, Carl Baratta, Nicholas Frank, Paul Nudd, Melissa Oresky, Geoffrey Todd Smith
Show dates: February 13 - March 20, 2010 Public Reception: Saturday, February 13, 7-10 pm Gallery Hours: Wednesday to Saturday, 11am to 6pm
In Gallery 1
ON PTG CAA Panel and Exhibitions organized by Michelle Grabner Susanna Coffey, Anoka Faruqee, Richard Hull, Judy Ledgerwood, Sabina Ott
In conjunction with the College Art Association's annual conference-convening in Chicago, February 11-13, 2010 - four Chicago galleries will host exhibitions that feature the work of the 13 painters who will comprise CAA's Studio Art Session: Painting Panel.
"What's to be done about painting?" is a perennial yet ungraspable question that continues to spur contemplation and examination within the contemporary art apparatus. The first sentence to the catalogue essay accompanying the 1999 exhibition "Examining Pictures," it is the rhetorical response to the statement "painting is dead." This session will investigate the position of painting and painting practices. It will not only ask: "what's to be done about painting" but "how is painting valued?" How does painting assert its authority? What is painting's speed? Can painting enact radical social and cultural critique? What is painting's place within the mainstream? How does painting implicate itself in capital?
As a means of examining these questions the artists Carrie Moyer, Ann Craven, Susanna Coffey, Anoka Faruqee, Peter Halley, Thomas Lawson, Judy Ledgerwood, Rebecca Morris, Sabina Ott, Jon Pestoni, Scott Reeder, Molly Zuckerman Hartung and Michelle Grabner will present a 10 minute position on painting at the panel. Each of these artists will also exhibit their work at four Chicago galleries hosting consecutive openings on February 13, 2010.
Western Exhibitions will present the work of four painters on the CAA panel, Susanna Coffey, Anoka Faruqee, Judy Ledgerwood, Sabina Ott plus Western Exhibitions gallery artist Richard Hull.
About the Artists:
Susanna Coffey lives and works in Chicago and New York City. A graduate of The University of Ct and Yale School of Art, her work is represented by The Alpha Gallery in Boston, The Maya Polsky Gallery in Chicago, Taylor Bercier Gallery in New Orleans, Galeria Isabel Ignacio in Seville Spain, Pi 37 Gallery in Athens Greece and others. She has received awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, The NEA, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, and The National Academy of Design. Her work is included in the collections of several museums including The Art Institute of Chicago, The Akron Museum of Art, The Minneapolis Museum Of Art, The Hononolulu Academy of Art,and The Weatherspoon Art Museum. Since 1982 she has taught at The School of the art Institute of Chicago and is now the F.H. Sellers Professor in Painting.
Anoka Faruqee is a painter who lives and works in Los Angeles. She has exhibited her work in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, and Dhaka, Bangladesh. Group and solo exhibitions include Max Protetch and Monya Rowe Galleries, New York; PS 1 Museum, Queens; Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo; Angles Gallery, Los Angeles; Chicago Cultural Center, and Hosfelt Gallery, New York and San Francisco. She received her MFA from Tyler School of Art in 1997 and her BA from Yale University in 1994. She attended the Whitney Independent Study Program, the Skowhegan School of Art, and the PS1 National Studio Program. Grants include the Pollock Krasner Foundation and Artadia. Faruqee currently teaches painting and critical theory at California Institute of the Arts, where she is Co-Director of the Art Program.
Richard Hull is a Chicago-based painter. He is represented by Western Exhibitions in Chicago, where he will have a solo show, March 26 to May 1, 2010. His work is in the collections of several museums including The Smithsonian Museum, Washington D.C.; The Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and The Smart Museum, Chicago. He has exhibited his work at The Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City; The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield CT; Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH; Portland Art Museum, OR; Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY and Chicago, IL; The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH; Herron Gallery of Art, Indianapolis, IN; Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI; Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art. Evanston IL; and The Painting Center, New York, NY. Hull teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Judy Ledgerwood is a painter who lives and works in Oak Park, Illinois. Her work is represented in public collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, the Milwaukee Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago among others. The German fine arts book publisher Hatje Cantz published a monograph on Ledgerwood's paintings in October. She is the recipient of a The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Award, an Artadia Award, a Tiffany Award in the Visual Arts, a National Endowment for the Arts Award, and an Illinois Art Council Award. Her degrees are from the Art Academy of Cincinnati, BFA, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MFA. Judy Ledgerwood teaches at Northwestern University in the Department of Art Theory and Practice and currently serves as the Department Chair. Her solo show, Thinking Of You opened recently at H�usler Contemporary M�nchen Feb 11-April 17 followed by Chromophillia at 1301PE in Los Angeles March 20-April 23, 2010.
Sabina Ott is an artist and Associate Professor of Art at Columbia College Chicago. Her work has been exhibited in gallery and museums internationally in over 30 solo exhibitions and participated in over 70 group shows that include the Corcoran Gallery of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Her paintings and prints are in numerous public collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, the Los Angeles Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum and The Saint Louis Art Museum and her work has been reviewed in publications such as Artforum, Art in America, The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. She received a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artists Grant as well as a Howard Foundation Grant from Brown University for research combining digital media and painting. Most recently, she completed a Chicago Transit Authority commission
Catalogue: A catalogue titled ON PTG will be published by Poor Farm Press. This small hard cover tome will include the artist's positions accompanied by reproductions of their work. ON PTG will be available at the galleries in March 2010.
CAA Studio Art Session: PAINTING PANEL Saturday, February 13, 9:30 AM-12:00 PM Grand A, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency
Susanna Coffey, Ann Craven, Anoka Faruqee, Michelle Grabner, Peter Halley, Thomas Lawson, Judy Ledgerwood, Rebecca Morris, Carrie Moyer, Sabina Ott, Jon Pestoni, Scott Reeder, and Molly Zuckerman Hartung
Receptions at the other participating galleries: All receptions will take place on Saturday, February 13, with staggered times, starting at JULIUS C�SAR at 4pm, continuing to Shane Campbell Gallery at 6pm, and ending at the 119 N Peoria Building in the West Loop at Rowley Kennerk Gallery and Western Exhibitions, from 7 to 10pm.
JULIUS C�SAR 3311 West Carroll Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60624 312-725-6084 (gallery voicemail) email: [email protected] reception: Saturday, February 13, 4-7 pm exhibition: February 13 - 28, 2010 Thomas Lawson, Scott Reeder, Carrie Moyer and Michelle Grabner
Shane Campbell Gallery 1431 W. Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60622 312-226-2223 email: [email protected] reception: Saturday, February 13, 6-8 pm exhibition: February 13 - March 13, 2010 Ann Craven, Peter Halley and Jon Pestoni
Western Exhibitions 119 N Peoria St, 2A, Chicago IL 60607 312.480.8390 [email protected] reception: Saturday, February 13, 7-10 pm exhibition: February 13 - March 20, 2010 Anoka Faruqee, Judy Ledgerwood, Sabina Ott, Susanna Coffey and Richard Hull
Rowley Kennerk Gallery 119 N Peoria St, 3C, Chicago, IL 60607 [email protected] (773) 983-0077 reception: Saturday, February 13, 7-10 pm exhibition: February 13 - 27, 2010 Rebecca Morris, Molly Zuckerman-Hartung and Jutta Koether
In Gallery 2
Painter's Paintings paintings by gallery artists Dan Attoe, Jimmy Baker, Carl Baratta, Nicholas Frank, Paul Nudd, Melissa Oresky, Geoffrey Todd Smith
As a companion to the ON PTG show on view in Gallery 1, Western Exhibitions is pleased to present work by gallery artists who paint as their primary practice. The paintings range from figurative to abstract to text-based, atmospheric to geometric, grotesque to beautiful, and all permutations in between.
Dan Attoe is fresh off solo shows at Peres Projects and Western Exhibitions, a solo presentation by Peres Proejects at Art Basel Miami Beach and group shows at Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw and Galerie Max Hetzler in Berlin. Attoe lives and works just outside of Portland, OR.
Jimmy Baker currently has a solo show "Event Horizon" at New Galerie de France in Paris and is in a group show "Shapeshifter" at Country Club Projects in Cincinnati, OH. He has upcoming solo shows at Roberts and Tilton, Los Angeles, CA and the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, OH. Baker lives and works in Cincinnati, OH.
Carl Baratta was recently included in the group show "Big Youth" at Corbett vs. Dempsey and curated a show at Side Car Gallery in Hammond, IN. His last solo show at Western Exhibitions was reviewed in New City, Chicago Reader and Fecal Face.
Nicholas Frank currently has a large painting (that was also the floor of his studio from 2007-2009) in "Picturing the Studio" at the Sullivan Galleries of the School of the Art Institute. Frank's recent solo show at Western Exhibitions in Nov/Dec 2009 was reviewed in New City and the new art writing website ARTWRIT. Frank lives and works in Milwaukee, WI.
Paul Nudd is currently showing the multi-channel video installation "Black Milk" in "Picturing the Studio" at the Sullivan Galleries of the School of the Art Institute. His 2009 solo show VOMITOMITRON at Western Exhibitions was reviewed on Bad At Sports, Chicago Art Review and Fecal Face. Nudd lives and works in Berwyn, IL.
Melissa Oresky has been included in several group shows recently including "On Paper" at the Galhberg Gallery at the College of DuPage; "Contemporary Painting" at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, MI; and "Streaking" w. Carrie Gundersdorf at Proof Gallery in Boston, MA. Chicago Art Review enthusiastically reviewed her recent solo show at Western Exhibitions. Oresky works in Chicago.
Geoffrey Todd Smith's work was featured in a solo booth by Western Exhibitions at the 2009 NADA Art Fair in Miami Beach, FL and will be included in the group show, ""LET THERE BE GEO"" at Columbia College Chicago's Leviton A+D Gallery that opens on March 4. Smith lives and works in Chicago.
