1926 Exhibition Schedule

Gallery hours:
Wednesday-Friday, 3:00-7:00 p.m.
Saturday/Sunday, 1:00-6:00 p.m.
Closed Monday & Tuesday

Location:
1926 North Halsted Street
Chicago, Illinois 60614
(one-half block south of Armitage)

Contact:
ph: 773.665-4802
fax: 773.665-4804
email: saic1926@artic.edu

The School of the Art Institute 1926 Exhibition Studies Space provides a forum for the development of innovative projects that explore the meanings of exhibitions, interpretation, and related activities. Throughout the academic year, the 1926 Exhibition Studies Space offers events and exhibitions that are free and open to the public.

Wallpaper™
Friday February 14 and 15, 2003 *Two Days Only*
Opening Reception: Friday February 14th from 7-10 p.m.

Wallpaper™ is an ephemeral exhibition exploring the relationship of paper to walls and vice versa. By questioning it’s relative absence in our lives and the act of transformation that walls with paper can create, memories are conjured as the inevitability of walls are celebrated. The walls thus become the object, not the supporter, creating a wealth of possibilities from banal to imprisoning to engrossing.

Bring your Valentine honey and be surrounded.

Artists include Eli Robb, Titus Dawson-Polo, Ryan Swanson, Loul Samater and Claude Closky.

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photo by Lee Landry

Frank Scott Jr. is a blues musician and self-taught artist whose career and life has revolved in and around the Maxwell Street Market and neighborhood here in Chicago.

This gallery exhibition, Frank Scott Jr.'s first, will feature collage work that depicts the music and market history as well as the unsuccessful fight to preserve Maxwell Street from destruction and development. During the opening reception Frank Scott Jr. will perform with the blues band The Motavations.

Two panel discussions will complement the exhibition. "The Struggle to Preserve Maxwell Street: Historic Preservation's Role in the Process of Urban History and Development" will take place Thursday, February 13, 2002 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the SAIC School Auditorium. "Preserving Space, Place, and Culture: Maxwell Street and Chicago Artists" will take place Sunday February 23, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Intuit Gallery located at 756 North Milwaukee.

This show is curated by Paige Sarlin.

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Fieldwork
February 28 - March 2, 2003
Opening reception: Friday, February 28, 7-10 p.m.

Marking the beginning of National Women's History Month of March, “Fieldwork” will explore, unite and expand the frontiers of thought related to being a woman. Works exhibited and presented will either directly address notions of womanhood, "women's experience(s)," gender in general or are done in a spirit that is engaging and relates to the metaphor of fieldwork and to National Women's History Month.

“Fieldwork” will be exploratory, rather than definitive, with the hopes of provoking thought and striking dialogue. The exhibition will consist of mixed media installations, short films and other means of visual and conversational exchange. Related events to this exhibition will be made available shortly.

Co-curators for this exhibition are graduate students in the Masters of Arts in Art Administration department at SAIC, Audrey Peiper and Alycia Scott.

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The Inexplicable Flyswatter
March 6– March 23, 2003
Opening reception: Friday, March 7, 6-9 p.m.

Peter Brötzmann is best know as one of the founders of European improvised music and one of the most important jazz saxophonists of the post-60's era, but in fact began his creative life as a painter and even established ties with members of the Fluxus movement, primarily Nam June Paik. With a burgeoning career in music however, Brötzmann's artwork was kept a private activity over the years, with an occasional exhibition as well as graphic design work done for album covers and posters. In late 2002, the first major retrospective of Brötzmann's visual art was finally mounted at Ystads Konstmuseum in Sweden.

The first North American exhibition of Brötzmann's visual art, "The Inexplicable Flyswatter" will follow up on the Swedish retrospective by focusing on works that were left out of that show. The subject of the exhibition at 1926 will be some 50 works on paper (paintings, collages, lithographs) created over a four year period, more than half of which focus on a common, peculiar image: the flyswatter.

Brötzmann will be in Chicago for the opening of the exhibition (at which he will perform solo) and will be performing at the Empty Bottle two nights, March 4th and 5th, with drummers Walter Perkins and Nasheet Waits respectively. An event entitled "Brötzmann on Film" will feature a documentary and several rare short films of Brötzmann from the early '60s, screened at the Gene Siskel Center on Thursday, March 6th. Please check www.emptybottle.com/jazz/index.html and www.artic.edu/webspace/siskelfilmcenter/ for more information.

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Nomads and Homesteaders
“The Open Source Life Project”
March 27 - March 30, 2003
Opening reception: Friday, March 28, 5-8 p.m.

In conjunction with the 2003 three day digital arts convergence Version.03 at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, the theme of technology and nature “Utopia versus Dystopia” will be explored by the artists collective Nomads & Homesteaders. Moving beyond the walls of the MCA, Nomads & Homesteaders will explore satellite venues to help spread awareness throughout the Chicago community.

“The Open Source Life Project” is designed to attract audiences and engage them in an interactive experience in the hopes of allowing them to draw parallels between current practices in community based technologies, such as Open-Source distribution, and traditional farming and plant cultivation techniques.

The exhibition at 1926 will revolve around a central installation/kiosk where visitors will be invited to create virtual artificially intelligent plants (VAIP) whose care they will be responsible for during the duration of the plant’s life. Participants will be able to create their very own VAIP and design it to adapt with life in a range of virtually created environments. Once a VAIP has been created it will be the responsibility of the guardian to care and tend to its needs by visiting it in its virtual environment through the World Wide Web. The entire event will be connected to the MCA via Web cameras linking 1926 to audiences there and around the world.

Nomads & Homesteaders is a graduate student collective who promote and produce innovative new media programming under the umbrella of the Department of Film, Video and New Media at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Artists included in this exhibition are Jon Cates, Beth Cerny, Ben Chang, Diane Figueredo, Joey Lindsey, Claire Pentecost, Daniel Roman and Stephanie Rothenberg.

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Oops!… I did it again
April 4– April 20, 2003
Opening reception: Friday, April 4, 6-9 p.m.

"Oops!... I did it again," will be an interdisciplinary exhibition featuring some twelve artists, working in various media, including; painting, sculpture, photography, fiber, mixed media installation, as well as film and sound.

Viewed as a sympathetic starting point, each artist has been invited to create a new work reflecting his or her own interpretation and response to Britney Spears' song and album title as it relates to categories such as love, repetition, and failure.

Co-curated by Ryan Weber and Katie Geha, this exhibition is designed to celebrate the influence of popular culture and media on contemporary art praxis. Exhibitors include students and recent alumni from The School of the Art Institute, University of Illinois at Chicago MFA students as well as artists working in New York, New Orleans and Missouri.

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For more information about Exhibition Studies & 1926, contact the Administrative Director at 312.899-7470 or exhibitionstudies@artic.edu