May 2nd - June 23rd
Opening reception: May 2nd, 6-9pm
shai-lee horodi, Hyun Jung Jun, Jessica Frances Martin, and Hamilton Poe—2019 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates in the Department of Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University—present their thesis projects, concluding two years of intensive artistic development. This year's thesis exhibition is accompanied by events, programming and a publication conceived by the MFA candidates.
This exhibition and the associated events are co-organized by the Department of Art Theory and Practice and the Block Museum at Northwestern University. Support provided by the Norton S. Walbridge Fund; the Myers Foundations; the Jerrold Loebl Fund for the Arts; and the Alsdorf Endowment.
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Hyun Jung Jun (b.1989 Seoul, South Korea) currently lives and works in Chicago, IL where she received her BFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014. Through various mediums including installation, sculpture, photography, drawing and performance, Jun’s work explores the relationship between body and landscape (culture, society, and nature) in everyday life. Jun’s work has been included in various exhibitions across Chicago and has participated in the Alchemy residency in Ontario, Canada and the Vermont Studio Center residency in Johnson, VT.
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Jessica Frances Martin’s painting practice is figurative, focused on women and the environments they exist in. How as they merge with their environment they have more power over their image and the world they inhabit. With a particular focus on narratives of fantasy, interiority, girl culture, and processes of transformation. Martin received her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011.
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Hamilton Poe (b.1986) studied Chinese and Visual Art at Bennington College. Poe’s art questions aesthetic structures based on claims of ‘genius’ that are commonplace in the reception of art by engaging with the quotidian ephemera of daily life: the materials and experiences that are not recognized as a part of artistic practice. He has shown work at Cranbrook Art Museum, The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.
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shai-lee horodi was born in 1993. She received her name in 2016. Her works are not about - and this text is not about them. Her native language offers no good translation for the word about.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Thursday, May 2, 6pmat Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Drive
Evanston, IL, 60208
SYLVANA CARUSO, GABRIEL CORONA, ERIN GREGORY, SIENA MORENO, ANNA REISHUS, ARIC WALDMAN
ATP SENIOR THESIS EXHIBITION
MAY 18 – JUNE 15
RECEPTION MAY 18 4 – 6PM
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Friday, May 18, 4pmat Dittmar Gallery
Norris Center
1999 Campus Dr
Evanston, IL, 60208
2018 MFA Thesis Exhibition,
May 10–June 24, 2018
Alsdorf Gallery, Block Museum
Opening Reception:
Thursday, May 10, 6–9pm
James Britt, Joe Cassan, Kandis Friesen and Christopher Smith—2018 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates in the Department of Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University—present their thesis projects, concluding two years of intensive artistic development. This year's thesis exhibition is accompanied by events, programming and a publication conceived by the MFA candidates.
Free and open to public.
This exhibition and the associated events are co-organized by the Department of Art Theory and Practice and the Block Museum at Northwestern University. Support provided by the Norton S. Walbridge Fund; the Myers Foundations; the Jerrold Loebl Fund for the Arts; and the Alsdorf Endowment.
Related Programming:
We Need To Hide What We're Doing
Saturday, May 26th, 7pm
One night program of screening and performative works by Northwestern Art Theory and Practice MFA students, alumni and staff.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Thursday, May 10, 6pmat Block Museum
Alsdorf Gallery
40 Arts Circle Dr.
Evanston, IL, 60208
Andrew Falkowski, Judy Ledgerwood, Joe Pflieger & Phillip Vanderhyden
@ Julius Caesar Opening May 20, 6 - 9, runs through June 11
"The marshals of the four coalitions chose our sky for their decisive battle because the sky over our village was the best in the world: calm and cloudless. The sun flowed through our sky like a wide, peaceful river. I remember them well, the sun and the sky. The marshals found this place ideal for the final battle. It’s not surprising."
An excerpt from Without Sky by Natan Dubovitsky
Natan Dubovitsky is the pen name of Vladislov Surkov, the architect of Vladimir Putin’s "Non Linear War," a steady-state information attack on western democracy. The disillusion of shared consensus is a main objective. Pensive paranoia is another.
The scrambled esthetic of "non linear war" is a contradistinction to late modernism’s reductive "clarity." Both presume hierarchy through efficient platforms of universality. Both can be seen as perversely attractive in their conviction, depending how you see it. Both can be integrated into target practice.
Recursive graphic motifs seduce with endless iteration and flexible disposability. They confirm themselves with self-reflexive repetition.
In fetishizing the mechanisms that occupy perception in its various guises, perhaps one can inhabit fear and loathing’s abstract design.
Same Shit Different Day/Don’t Worry Be Happy.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Saturday, May 20, 6pmJulius Caesar
3311 W. Carroll Ave
Chicago, IL
