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Betty Rymer Gallery Exhibition
Schedule
August 18 –
September 26, 2003
Faculty Sabbatical Exhibition
Opening reception: Friday, September 5, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
This exhibition and related public presentations feature work by faculty
returning from their sabbatical leaves. Exhibiting artists include Dan
Devening, Gaylen Gerber, BJ Krivanek, Lou Mallozzi, John Manning, Anders
Nereim, Olivia Petrides, Kay Rosen, and Blair Thomas.
Related Events:
- Tuesday, September 9, 4:30 p.m.
" (Outsider) Art Europe"
Faculty sabbatical lecture by Randy M. Vick, Associate Professor,
Department of Art Therapy, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Ballroom, 112 S. Michigan
Werner Voight with self-portrait, Hamburg 2003
Photo credit: Randy M. Vick. See September 9 lecture by Randy M. Vick. |
Since the beginning of the 20th century there has been a fascination
with art produced by people with mental illness and disabilities
as well as other artists working outside the cultural mainstream.
Terms such as art brut, outsider, naïve, self-taught, and visionary
are all imperfect attempts at categorizing this vigorous and elusive
genre. This presentation will examine the historical and current
practices within this genre with a particular focus on its relevance
to art therapy. Highlights from the presenter’s recent visit
to the Prizhorn Collection (Heidelberg), Dubuffet’s Collection
de l’Art Brut (Lausanne), Gugging (Vienna), Die Schlumper (Hamburg),
and lesser-known contemporary studio programs will be shared.
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Thursday, October 16, 4:30 p.m.
" Touching Photos, Ground Zero"
Faculty sabbatical lecture by Margaret Olin, Professor, Department
of Art History, Theory, and Criticism, School of the Art Institute
of Chicago
112 S. Michigan, Room 1307
Margaret Olin, New York, 2002.
Photograph courtesy of the artist. See October 16 lecture
by Margaret Olin. |
Many people still assume that what makes a photograph valid is its
relation to its subject: the camera had to be in the same space with
the subject of the photograph. For several years, however, Margaret
Olin has considered the possibility that what is at stake in photography
is a photograph's contact not with its subject, but with its viewer
and with other photographs. This lecture brings these studies to bear
on the practice of photography around the events known as "9/11."
- Wednesday, October 22, 4:30 p.m.
" What I Have Written That I Saved: Recent Work by Michael
K. Meyers"
Faculty sabbatical presentation by Michael K. Meyers, Professor,
MFA in Writing Program, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
112 S. Michigan, Room 1307
(About a very hot night in Chicago, Meyers once wrote)
"Everyone was outside. The men were out as well, some with
their families, but mostly they stationed themselves alone. They leaned
or stood, some affecting the contrapposto pose invented by Greek sculptors
in a time before Pericles so as to invest stone with the off-kilter
tilt of life—that one hip supporting all in a metaphor of what
men imagined themselves to be, what I had once imagined himself to
be: the pillar on which they and their families were kept upright
and off the ground. Alone from each other and from their families,
at distances that looked prescribed, like sentinels these men silently
communed with the mystery that was themselves, and while doing so,
like me, they smoked. Standing or leaning in the intermittent dark
spaces between the glow of streetlights, they resembled solitary fireflies
while around them the neighborhood had the feel of a time capsule
lifted whole from an earlier part of America’s short life, when
people, without TV or radio to separate them, were reported to have
mingled more and with time not yet fractured into tiny bits, were
said to have been more amiable and languid in their dealings with
each other, and generally, although they didn’t live as long,
were said to have had a better time."
Michael K. Meyers is a writer and performer. His fiction has appeared
in the New Yorker. He has presented a theater piece at MOMA. A recipient
of three NEA awards and numerous I. A. C. fellowships, Meyers has
a new dog, Lucky Dog, a Chesapeake Bay Retriever.
- September 5 - September 28
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.; Sundays at 2:30 p.m.
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Buster Keaton's Stroll and Other Stories" A Collection of
Solo Puppet Theater by Blair Thomas, Adjunct Associate Professor,
First
Year Program, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Location: Actor's Gymnasium, Noyes Cultural Center in Evanston
Tickets $15 / Call 773/722-3248 for information
The Blackbird by Blair Thomas
Photo
credit: Stephanie Howard |
The audience will behold a giant toy theater woven with singing tubas,
a miniature marionette stage aglow like an altar, a quartet of rolling
shadow screens and a cast of over 2 dozen puppets performing tales
both comic and tragic. From lusty streetwise romance to infatuated
innocence, this collection of stories each pursues an unattainable
love. Blair Thomas' unique puppetry and stage design brings these
stories to life. The works are based on the poetry of Federico García
Lorca, Patrick Kavanagh and Wallace Stevens.
St. James Infirmary (anonymous) A New Orleans style love affair played
out as old Vaudeville.
Buster Keaton's Stroll (by Federico García Lorca) In this surreal
fantasy Buster Keaton sets out on a bicycle in search of love, which
he discovers in the most unexpected way.
Raglan Road (by Patrick Kavanagh) The story of an enchanted love
that meets its autumn.
The Blackbird ("Thirteen Ways of Looking At A Blackbird" by
Wallace Stevens) Doubt inexplicably finds its way in-between
the love of a man and a woman.
About Buster Keaton's Stroll
" As for the sheer art and craft of his undertaking, let's just say
that all those who spent childhood hours toying with toy theater
- from Ingmar Bergman to Orson Welles - would be more than
dazzled by Thomas' masterful and visually gorgeous work."
Hedy Weiss - Chicago Suntimes Oct 2002
About The Blackbird
"the technique and commitment on display is nothing short of staggering."
Chris Jones - Chicago Tribune Jan 2002
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October 10 – November
21, 2003
Spectacular Vernacular
Opening reception: Friday, October 10, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Curator’s talk: Tuesday, October 14, 4:30 p.m.
Brian McCutcheon, Trailer Queen, 2001.
Weber grill, speed parts, auto paint, and steel, 32" x 34" x 40".
Photo courtesy of the artist. |
Spectacular Vernacular reexamines the influence of subculture and its
common symbology through the viewpoints of four contemporary artists.
This exhibition features artworks that respond to popular culture by
recontextualizing common iconography to blur the lines and distinctions
between social use and material meaning. Artists include Brian McCutcheon,
Lynn Cazabon, Matt Owens, and Matthew Weddington. The exhibition is curated
by Chicago-based artist Ryan Davis.
 Spectacular
Vernacular Curator Statement
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December 11, 2003 – February
13, 2004
Occurrences: the performative space of video
Opening reception: Thursday, December 11, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Gallery talk: Thursday, December 11, 6:30 p.m.
Studio Workshop with Daniéle Wilmouth: Saturday, February 7,
10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Video Workshop Screening: Thursday, February 12, 5:00 p.m.
Daniéle Wilmouth, Tracing a Vein,
2001. Photo credit: Mayumi Lake and Lina Hoshino. |
Occurrences examines the connections between performance art, movement,
and the video medium through the works of contemporary artists. This
exhibition features a variety of styles and approaches including cine-dance,
performances adapted and/or staged for the camera, and works that utilize
unusual camera movement to activate the video space. Occurrences investigates
the dynamic collision and fusion of time-based vocabularies resulting
in works that straddle strict definitions of - and explore the liminal
spaces between - contemporary media. Occurrences is supported, in part,
by the Video Data Bank of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
(www.vdb.org), Insight Arts, and the Illinois Arts Council, a state
agency.
In conjunction with this exhibition, the gallery and Insight Arts collaboratively
host a studio workshop with Chicago film and video artist Daniéle
Wilmouth on Saturday, February 7,10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. at the School
of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1990, Wilmouth moved to Osaka,
Japan. During her six-year residency, she studied Japanese Butoh dance,
and performed with the multi-national dance company The Saltimbanques,
directed by Butoh master Katsura Kan. In 1993, she became the co-founder
of Hairless Films, an independent filmmaking collective. She is currently
a faculty member at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and
Columbia College.
During this workshop, Wilmouth will lead participants through a series
of cinematic experiments inspired by visual metaphor, Butoh movement
and unconventional camera techniques. Participants will collaboratively
translate physical investigations into a video work to be developed
during the class session with subsequent screening in the Betty Rymer
Gallery. The participant screening will take place on Thursday, February
12 at 5:00 p.m. Previous experience with video and/or dance is helpful
but not necessary. Participant cost: $15.00 per person. Call 312.857.7642
for more information and registration.
For information on related programming and presentations, please
call 312.443.3703.
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