opening reception for the artist during Art Chicago SATURDAY!!!!, April 26 from 5-8pm
"We are reminded of the mathematical paradox of Zeno of Elea...the arrow never reaches the tree because it always has to cover half the distance again and again and again, meaning it slows more and more the closer it gets to the target." Sabine C. Becker, Review of Dino Buzzati's "The Falling Girl," irreal [re]views, http://home.sprynet.com/~awhit/review2c.htm
For her 2nd solo show at moniquemeloche, Karen Reimer will exhibit her ongoing series "Endless Set" which made its inaugural debut in early 2007 at VONZWECK. "It is a hard-line conceptual project, based on rules Reimer conceived before threading the first needle. Each crazy-quilt pillowcase is made up of a predetermined number of irregularly shaped, irregularly patterned patches. (Two, the first in the series, is made up of two patches; Thirty-Seven is composed of 37 patches, and so on.) Onto each pillowcase, the artist has stitched the accompanying prime number, a piece of white cotton fabric that is the same height in inches as the number it represents (e.g., Thirty-Seven is 37 inches tall)... As the series progresses and the numbers grow in value and height, the cases become more abstract, the sequence more oblique and indecipherable. The bright patchwork gives in to the growing swathes of white. Any portion of the number that does not fit within the grid of the pillowcase, Reimer has folded back onto itself, obscuring the prime-number sequence even further." Jake Malooley Time Out Chicago issue 112 The wikipedia definition of a prime number is a natural number greater than 1 which has exactly two distinct natural number divisors: 1 and itself. For example: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89, 97, 101...
Karen Reimer received her MFA from the University of Chicago in 1989. A solo show, Karen Reimer: Embroideries 1999-2005, was mounted in 2007 at the Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN curated by Scott Stulen. Her work is published in The Object of Labor: Art, Cloth, and Cultural Production, MIT Press, edited by Joan Livingstone & John Ploof, and By Hand: The Use of Craft in Contemporary Art, Princeton Architectural Press, edited by Shu Hung & Joseph Magliaro - both published in 2007.. Selected group exhibitions include such institutions as the Contemporary Craft Museum, Portland OR; Memphis College of Art, Kohler Art Museum, Sheboygan, WI; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; and Wallspace, NY. Reimer is a past recipient of both the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Grant and Artadia Chicago Grants for Individual Artists.
Visit us at ArtChicago 2008 April 25-28 booth 12-135
featuring Kendell Carter, Rashid Johnson, Laura Letinsky, Joel Ross, Carrie Schneider, Scott Stack
note many West Loop Galleries will be open until 8pm Saturday April 26th! so join us for Karen Reimer's opening 5-8pm
