Ebony G. Patterson, Dan Gunn, Ben Fain, Anna Shteynshleyger
January 15 - February 5, 2011
*conversations with the artists every Saturday @ 1pm
It's that time of year again, and we've got an ambitious 4-part program that you shouldn't miss! We have invited four artists new to the gallery to present an installation of their choice. Each week-long installation culminates with a Saturday afternoon "conversation" that will be free and open to the public. Each artist will be paired with another art world participant to start the discussion but audience members are encouraged to join in. Chicago contemporary art podcast Bad At Sports will be onsite covering the talks, to be archived forever on the world wide web. Treats and hot drinks provided by Letizia's Natural Bakery and chairs provided by AAA Rental System will complete the cozy afternoon of collaborative thought.
Mark your calendars!
Saturday January 15, 1pm: Ebony G. Patterson & Tumelo Mosaka
Patterson (Jamaican, born 1981, lives Lexington, KY/Kingston, Jamaica) will have a dynamic mixed-media installation that investigates Jamaican dance hall culture in the gallery's window facing Division Street. Mosaka included Patterson in his 2007 exhibition Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art at the Brooklyn Museum of Art where he was formerly Associate Curator of Exhibitions. Recently, Mosaka has become the Contemporary Art Curator at the Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois. Patterson�s installation Gully Godz in Conversation-Conversations Revised I, II and III will continue through March 26 as our fourth on the wall project.
Saturday January 22, 1pm: Dan Gunn & Michelle Grabner Gunn's (American, born 1980, lives Chicago) paintings, sculptures, and installations investigate the power and perception of pattern and light as well as the roles of spatial and cultural context to the assignment of meaning in contemporary art. Michelle Grabner, who is an artist, curator, writer and the founder of The Suburban in Oak Park, taught Gunn at the School of the Art Institute, where she is Chair of the Painting and Drawing Department and where Gunn received his MFA in 2007. After the conversation, follow us for the opening of Grabner�s solo exhibition Like a rare morel at Shane Campbell Gallery
Saturday January 29, 1pm: Ben Fain & Shannon Stratton Fain (American, born London 1980, lives Chicago), who is best known for his controversial public-performances and parades, recently taught the course The Parade Float as Guerrilla Art in Northwestern�s Department of Art Theory and Practice. Stratton, the founder and Executive Director of local non-profit Threewalls, is intimately familiar with Chesterhill, OH, the location of Fain�s most recent parade and the subject of his current project. Together they will discuss this project along with new contexts for art making and exhibiting.
Saturday February 5, 1pm: Anna Shteynshleyger & Andreas Waldburg-Wolfegg Shteynshleyger�s (Russian-American, born Moscow 1977, lives Chicago) photographs�portraits, still-lifes, landscapes, and interiors�display a historic sensitivity that is at once personal and political. Arts patron Waldburg-Wolfegg is on the Advisory Committee of the Museum of Contemporary Photography and the International Committee of the Renaissance Society, where Shteynshleyger had solo exhibitions in 2004 and 2007 respectively. Shteynshleyger will be previewing some of her new work in progress.
Please come and participate. RSVPs are not required but we'd love to know if you'll join us. Thank you for your continued support of the gallery, our artists, and our ambitious programming.
Please contact the gallery with questions:
Whitney Tassie Director moniquemeloche 2154 W. Division Chicago IL 60622 t: 773.252.0299, f: 773.252.0899 Tues-Sat 11am-6pm www.moniquemeloche.com
