Monique Meloche is pleased to announce an exhibition by Robert Davis and Michael Langlois at our NEW location
Robert Davis and Michael Langlois In Our Likeness: Portraits of Illumination
September 12 - October 31, 2009 Opening Reception: Saturday September 12th, 4-7pm
PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION and PHONE!! moniquemeloche 2154 W. Division (@ Leavitt) Chicago, IL 60622 773.252.0299 tues-sat 11-6pm
For further information contact Whitney Tassie at 312.455.0299 or 773.252.0299
So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.� (William S. Burroughs)
What is more intimate than touching someone's face? Gently rubbing their eyes and lips to get them just so. We want a reminder of their greatness. We want them fixed in time with all their glory and despair. This is our Illuminati, the council of elders, a dinner party wish list serving Beluga and Dom. Like Bill and Ted flying through time collecting greatness in order to save the world we have culled our shepards.
Ladies and Gentlemen: Haile Selassie, T.E. Lawrence, H.R., Mary Shelley and Lavina Jenkins.
- Robert Davis and Michael Langois August 2009
In our Likeness: Portraits of Illumination is the 3rd solo show by Robert Davis and Michael Langlois at moniquemeloche and is running concurrently with their solo show Into The Void: The Ballad of The Martyr as Told by Ingres at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago as part of the UBS 12x12: New Artists, New Work series. Davis (American, b. 1970) and Langlois (American, b. 1974) have been working collaboratively since meeting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1997. The artists have exhibited internationally with solo exhibitions in Los Angeles, Berlin, Naples Italy and most recently at the Chicago Cultural Center. Earlier this year, a major installation by Davis and Langlois was featured at The Andy Warhol Museum in the exhibition The End: Analyzing Art in Troubled Times curated by Eric Shiner. Davis and Langlois are two-time recipients of Artadia grants.
Davis and Langlois Into the Void solo show @ MCA Chicago UBS 12x12 series Sept 5-29 Davis and Langlois artist talk @ MCA Tuesday September 15th 6pm Davis and Langlois The James Hotel lobby Gallery September/October 2009 Carrie Schneider and Alison Ruttan Signs of the Apocalypse/Rapture @ Hyde Park Art Center thru Sept 20
ONGOING in CHI this FALL: Kendell Carter Drip Paintings solo show in the Art Hall @ The Blackstone Hotel Kendell Carter, Davis and Langlois, Laura Letinsky, and Carrie Schneider @ Kara Mann Showroom mmg gallery artists @ The Urban Sandbox a Ranquist Development
