Mike Cloud is a painter whose work examines the conditions of painting in its contemporary life among countless reproductions, symbols and descriptions. Cloud earned his MFA from Yale University School of Art and a BFA from the University of Illinois-Chicago. A selection of exhibitions include: ‘Special Project: Mike Cloud’ at P.S.1, NY; ‘Agreement and Subjectivity’ at Max Protetch, NY; ‘Jesse Chapman/ Mike Cloud’ at Marianne Boesky Gallery, NY and ‘Bad Faith and Universal Technique’ at Thomas Erben Gallery, NY. His work has been included in group exhibitions such as ‘Frequency’ at the Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; at Apexart, NY and Honor Fraser Gallery, CA.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Thursday, January 17, 5:00pmat Kresge 1515
1880 Campus Dr
Evanston, IL, 60208
Amanda Ross-Ho holds a BFA from the School of the Art institute of Chicago and an MFA from the Roski School of Art, University of Southern California. She has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally. Solo exhibitions include Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, Hoet Bekaert, Belgium,The Pomona Museum of Art, Mitchell-Innes and Nash New York, The Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art, Middelburg, Netherlands, the Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland, The Approach, London, and Praz-Delavallade, Paris. Group exhibitions include Artists Space, New York, The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, The Orange County Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, The New Museum, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the 2008 Whitney Biennial. She has presented large-scale commissioned public work at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, City Hall Park, New York City, and the Parcours Sector of Art Basel Switzerland. Ross-Ho's work has been featured in Artforum, The New York Times, ArtReview, Modern Painters, Art in America, Flash Art, Art + Auction, and Frieze among others. She is an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at the University of California, Irvine. She lives and works in Los Angeles.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Tuesday, November 20, 5:00pmat Forum Room
Kresge Hall, 1515
1880 Campus Dr
Evanston, IL, 60208
Since the early 1990s, Doug Ischar’s work has focused on the potentials of video and sound in ever more distilled manifestations. Following large multi-media installations such as Orderly (1994) and Wake (1996) Ischar turned to more minimal arrangements. His 1997 work for InSite (San Diego/Tijuana) used a high school basketball court as local for a multimedia meditation of adolescent homosexual desire. His 2001 work ground uses 24 channels of sound to replicate the sound of a gallery floor being swept. His 2005 public installation, Water Music, explores the relationship between personal and artistic histories of the Pacific Rim cultures, in which Ischar lived as a child. Ischar has taught extensively in Scandinavia as a visiting professor (Göteborg,Malmö) and was a visiting artist at IASPIS (Stockholm) in spring 2001.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Thursday, October 18, 5:00pmat Forum Room
Kresge Hall, 1515
1880 Campus Dr
Evanston, IL, 60208
In 2018 Alex Kwartler mounted a solo exhibition, “Snowflake” at Magenta Plains. He has exhibited his work at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, White Columns, Bortolami Gallery, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Martos Gallery, Casey Kaplan, Petzel Gallery and Wallspace. His exhibitions have been reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Frieze, Artforum and Art in America. Kwartler’s paintings were featured in Painting Abstraction edited by Bob Nickas and published by Phaidon Press. He received his MFA from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ and his BFA from The Cooper Union, New York, NY. Kwartler was artist-in-residence at The Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas in Spring 2017. He will present two forthcoming shows in 2018 at Two Bridges Music Arts, New York, NY and Practise (with David Deutsch), Oak Park, IL.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Thursday, October 4, 5:00pmat Forum Room
Kresge Hall, 1515
1880 Campus Dr
Evanston, IL, 60208
Conrad Bakker lives and works in Urbana, IL where he teaches at the University of Illinois and directs the MFA Studio program. Bakker makes carved/painted sculptures and paintings of everyday objects and positions them in consumer contexts and exhibition spaces to reveal and comment on the political economies and relational networks between persons and things.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Thursday, May 3, 5:00pmat Kresge Hall
Room 1410
1880 Campus Dr
Evanston, IL, 60202
