Jennifer Reeder constructs personal fiction films about relationships, trauma and coping. Her award-winning narratives are innovative and borrow from a range of forms including after school specials, amateur music videos and magical realism. These films have shown consistently around the world, including the Sundance Film Festival, The Berlin Film Festival, The Rotterdam Film Festival, The London Film Festival, SXSW, The Venice Biennale and The Whitney Biennial. Her awards include several that have qualified her films for Oscar nomination. She won a Creative Capital Grant in Moving Image in 2015, short film funding from Rooftop/Adrienne Shelly Foundation in 2016 and short film funding from the Hamburg Film Fund in 2016. She is a USA Artist nominee for 2008, 2015, 2016, and 2017. She is a 2018 recipient of a SFFILM Rainin Foundation Screenwriting Grant.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Wednesday, April 10, 5pmat Kresge 1515
1880 Campus Dr
Evanston, IL, 60208
Sunday, April 7th from 3pm-7pm
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Sunday, April 7, 3pmat Locy Hall, Basement
1850 Campus Dr
Evanston, IL, 60208
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
One night program of screening and performative works by Northwestern Art Theory and Practice MFA students, alumni and staff, as part of the 2018 MFA Thesis Exhibition.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Saturday, May 26, 7pmat Nightingale Cinema
1084 N Milwaukee Ave
Chicago, IL, 60642
S,H,O,W, O,F,F
Join the Department of Art Theory and Practice in showcasing the work of its students, and their new space in Kresge Hall. Food and raffles will be located in Kresge room 1345.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Thursday, November 9, 4pmat KRESGE HALL,
1880 CAMPUS DR,
GROUND FLOOR,
EVANSTON, IL 60208
