In partnership with the Block Museum of Art, ATP welcomes Jordan Ann Craig as part of the winter visiting artist series. In this exhibition keynote, Craig will be in conversation with poet m.s. RedCherries.
Craig is a Northern Cheyenne artist living and working in Pojoaque Valley, New Mexico. She grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and received her B.A. from Dartmouth College. In 2017, Jordan was awarded the H. Allen Brooks Traveling Fellowship as well as the Eric and Barbara Dobkin Fellowship at the School for Advanced Research SAR). In 2019, Jordan was awarded artist residencies at the Institute for American Indian Arts (IAIA) and the Roswell Artist-in-Residence (RAiR) Program. Her work is shown nationally and internationally. Currently, Jordan is painting in Northern New Mexico.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Wednesday, February 26, 6:00pmat BLOCK MUSEUM
PICK LAUDATI AUDITORIUM
50 ARTS CIRCLE DRIVE
EVANSTON IL 60208
ATP is delighted to welcome Carmen Neely as part of the winter visiting artist series.
Neely (b. 1987 in Charlotte, North Carolina; lives and works in Chicago) trades in semantics. For Neely, the difference between two types of line is not so much a precious commitment to formal queries that lead nowhere outside of the canvas; rather these marks are an earnest stab at solving real problems in expressing one’s own history and the histories that are passed through us by the act of mark making.
Neely’s canvases are surfaces taut with conflict, line, color and language. The marks ricochet and collide off one another, their meanings always affected by their proximity to other gestures. In Neely’s paintings, memory, speech, and feeling are not necessarily linear or discrete expressions and experiences but are rather codependent on a series of contexts that produce, interrupt and re-form them over time.
Her paintings give a feeling of catharsis, bursting with colorful and calligraphic strokes on delicate and soft backgrounds. The tableaus propose the peace that comes through an ongoing process of renegotiation and reiteration. If each line holds expressions of identity, values, and memory passed through generations of family and friendships, Neely’s consistent modulation of gesture and color in her own vernacular suggest the mutability and evolution of these values over time and geography. The process is about intricacies of interpretation with the resulting works expressing a methodological approach to language that remains vulnerable to Neely’s own ongoing confrontation with selfhood.
Neely holds a Master’s in Fine Arts from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and is included in the collections of The Milwaukee Art Museum, The University of North Carolina, and the Plattsburgh State Museum of Art. Neely is currently an adjunct professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Wednesday, January 22, 4:30pmat FORUM ROOM
KRESGE HALL ROOM 1515
1880 CAMPUS DRIVE
EVANSTON, IL 60208
VISITING ARTIST TALK: DAVID HARTT
ATP welcomes visiting artist David Hartt.
Hartt creates work that unpacks the social, cultural, and economic complexities of his various subjects. He explores how historic ideas and ideals persist or transform over time. Born in Montréal in 1967, he lives and works in Philadelphia where he is an Associate Professor, in the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Wednesday, November 20, 5:00pmat KRESGE 1515
1880 CAMPUS DRIVE
EVANSTON, IL 60208
VISITING ARTIST TALK: JESSICA LYNNE, WRITER & CRITIC
ATP welcomes visiting writer and critic Jesicca Lynne.
Lynne is a founding editor of ARTS.BLACK, an online journal of art criticism from Black perspectives. Her writing has been featured in publications such as Artforum, The Believer, Frieze, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, and Oxford American, where she is a contributing editor. She is the recipient of a 2020 Research and Development award from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, a 2020 Arts Writer Grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation, and she is the inaugural recipient of the Beverley Art Writers Travel Grant awarded in 2022 by the American Australian Association. She holds an MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College.
Jessica is currently an associate editor at Momus and host of the limited series podcast, Harlem is Everywhere.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Thursday, November 7, 3:15pmat KRESGE 1515
1880 CAMPUS DRIVE
EVANSTON, IL 60208
VISITING CURATOR TALK: RACHEL ADAMS
ATP welcomes curator Rachel Adams for a public talk.
Adams has been the Chief Curator and Director of Programs at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art since 2018. Past curatorial appointments include Senior Curator at UB Art Galleries, Curator-in-Residence at Disjecta Contemporary Art Center (now Oregon Contemporary) and Associate Curator at Arthouse at the Jones Center (now The Contemporary Austin). Adams holds an MA in Exhibition and Museum Studies from SFAI and a BFA from SAIC. Her areas of interest are varied but focus on creating meaningful connections for artists. Projects tend to include the crossover between contemporary art and architecture, as well as sound, performance, video and new media practices. Select exhibitions include Jennifer Ling Datchuk: Eat Bitterness, Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers (co-curated, catalogue), Presence in the Pause: Interiority and its Radical Immanence, Maya Dunietz: Root of Two, All Together, Amongst Many: Reflections on Empathy, Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Drop Scene, Claudia Wieser: Generations (co-curated), Alison O’Daniel: Heavy Air, Jillian Mayer: TIMESHARE, The Language of Objects, Wanderlust: Actions, Traces, Journeys 1967-2017 and Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective (co-curated). She is responsible for curating the Mellon Foundation supported sound venue LOW END at Bemis Center. Past performers include Fujita, Ana Paula Santana, Tarta Relena, Salami Rose Joe Louis, Maya Dunietz, Ya Tseen, Kiku Hibino, Eli Keszler, jaimie branch, Laura Ortman, Dereck Higgins, Matmos, ADULT., Xiu Xiu, Elisa Harkins, Elder Ones, Moor Mother, Lea Bertucci + Amirtha Kidambi, SCRAAATCH, and Pamela Z. Forthcoming projects include exhibitions with Carmen Winant, Miatta Kawinzi and the group exhibition From the Great Lakes to the Great Plains: The Visible Current of Climate Change.
She has worked with artists including Ekene Ijeoma, Amie Siegel, Maya Dunietz, Ragnar Kjartansson, Lydia Okumura, Stephanie Syjuco, Claudia Wieser Kambui Olujimi, Jordan Weber, Brendan Fernandes, Seher Shah, John Grade, Claire Ashley, Julia Rose Sutherland, Seitu Ken Jones, and Alyssa Pheobus Mumtaz. Her writing has been included in exhibition catalogues Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers; Maya Dunietz: Root of Two; Claudia Wieser: Generations; Jillian Mayer: TIMESHARE, Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective, Out of Easy Reach, Prospect.3 New Orleans, and Texas Prize 2012 as well as Afterimage, artforum.com, Art Papers, Art Practical, Modern Painters, and Texas Architect. She is an alumna of the 2016 ICI Curatorial Intensive in New Orleans and the 2016 Artis Curatorial Research Trip to Israel. She has lectured at the University at Buffalo, MOCAD, The Rose Art Museum, Hallwalls Center for Contemporary Art, PNCA, FIT, the University of Nebraska Omaha, the Stephens Institute, Texas State University, The University of Texas at Austin, the University of Nebraska Lincoln, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Tuesday, October 15, 5:00pmat KRESGE HALL 2435
1880 CAMPUS DRIVE
EVANSTON, IL 60208
