Ruth Duckworth Gallery Talk

Thursday, June 16; 12:15pm
Chicago Cultural Center, Exhibit Hall
78 E. Washington Street., Chicago
Free

Join Sofia Zutautus, Assistant Curator of Exhibitions, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, for an overview of the exhibition in the gallery.

Department of Cultural Affairs: 312-744-6630

Gallery Talk: Ruth Duckworth, Modernist Sculptor

Thursday, May 19; 12:15pm
Chicago Cultural Center, Exhibit Hall
78 E. Washington Street., Chicago
Free

"Ruth Duckworth, Modernist Sculptor." Gregory Knight, Director of Visual Arts, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, will discuss this exhibition.

Art on the Move

Tuesday, June 21
Meet at the Chicago Cultural Center at 9:15am
Fee required

Join an all day bus tour visiting both the Ruth Duckworth exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center and the modern ceramic exhibition at the Smart Museum of Art in Hyde Park. Additional events of the day include an exploration of some of Ruth Duckworth’s installations, a special visit to the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago to explore their extensive holdings of ancient ceramic and sculptural works, and the opportunity to see ceramists at work.

Call Joan Arenberg at 847.432.6265 to reserve your space

Ruth Duckworth, Modernist Sculptor @ The Chicago Cultural Center

April 30 - July 10, 2005
Chicago Cultural Center, Exhibit Hall
78 E. Washington Street
Free

Celebrated as one of the nation’s leading ceramists, Ruth Duckworth has been recognized for her creative influence on the art of ceramics, her work gracing museums and private collections around the world. For ten weeks only, a lifetime retrospective exhibition of her work comes to Chicago as the second stop on its national tour.

More information on this exhibit visit: The Chicago Cultural Center


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Rebecca Morris @ The Renessaince Society

Event: Exhibition of paintings by Rebecca Morris
Starts: 5/8/2005
Ends: 6/19/2005
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Location: The Renaissance Society, Cobb Hall, 5811 South Ellis Avenue, 4th Floor
Contact Name: The Renaissance Society
Phone: 773-702-8670
Email: info@renaissancesociety.org

Picking up where the likes of Hans Hoffman, Larry Poons, and Jules Olitski left off, Rebecca Morris' paintings are a lovingly destructive embrace of high modernist tenets as espoused by critics such as Clement Greenberg and Michael Fried. What was once celebrated as pure painting had degenerated into a ubiquitous abstraction that Morris redeems through congealed layers of paint that are a testament to her conviction. Her Paintings say it loud. Abstract and I'm Proud!

Opening reception May 8 from 4 to 7 with a discussion with the artist from 5 to 6.
Hours: Tues – Fri 10-5, Sat & Sun 12-5.
Closed Mon.
Admission to the gallery and all events is free.

Art Chicago 2005 @ Butler Field

Friday, April 29: Noon - 8pm
Saturday, April 30: Noon - 8pm
Sunday, May 1: Noon - 6pm
Monday, May 2: Noon - 6pm

General Admission: $15
Art Chicago


Art Chicago 2005 will take place at Butler Field, adjacent to Chicago'sspectacular new Millennium Park, in a state of the art tent structure of 125,000 square feet.

Annual Fashion Show May 5 & 6, 2005

Annual Fashion Show May 5 & 6, 2005 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Ballroom

More info:
http://www.artic.edu/saic/public/events/fashionshow.html

To reserve tickets or for more information please contact Meagan McMullen, mmcmul@artic.edu or 312. 899-5155.

Head to Toe

Head to Toe Fashion Gala opens May 7th - 6:30 PM - 11:00 PM

The School of the Art Institute's annual fashion gala, which celebrates the achievements of the Fashion Department and awards the Legend of Design Award to Patricia Field, costume designer for "Sex and the City".

Location: Art Institute of Chicago museum

http://www.artic.edu/saic/public/events/gala.html

Gisela Insuaste @Bucket Rider - Opening April 29

Gisela Insuaste
aerial nomads

opening April 29 6-9 PM
continues Through May 28
Hours 12-6 Tuesday-Saturday

Bucket Rider Gallery
119 N. Peoria #3D
Chicago IL 60607
312-421-6993
info@bucketridergallery.com

Gisela Insuaste was born in New York City in 1975 and received her BA in studio art and anthropology from Dartmouth in 1997. She completed her MFA in painting and drawing at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2003. Aerial Nomads is Insuaste's second solo show with Bucket Rider Gallery. Her first exhibition, Clandestino, took place in October 2003. Her installation work can currently be seen in a group show, Research, at the NIU gallery, and she has forthcoming shows Cultural Center of Chicago and the Three Arts Club. She is the recent recipient of the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Individual Artist Award, in the newly added 'Emerging Artist' category.

Insuaste's work is based on episodic memories that are triggered by real and imagined ethnographic experiences in rural and urban landscapes. These landscapes are precarious: shifty, unstable, unpredictable, unsettled and ambiguous. They reflect the physically, emotionally, and socio-politically charged spaces we currently live in, where political unrest, social unease, and economic instability affect our individual and collective concepts of space, time, history, and memory.

Aerial Nomads is inspired by Paul Virilio's idea of history as a "landscape of events," a landscape having no fixed meaning, no privileged vantage but is oriented by the itinerary passerby. This perspective is also informed by the interconnectedness of people, places, and things in the artist's life and her personal landscape. The new objects in this exhibition resemble vertical structures, 4 and 3 legged tower-like things that allude to forms that are inherently objects of 'power' ready to be activated. Her new paintings and drawings are based on travel sketches from of objects on stilts, such as houses, boats, and kiosks. These structures, built to keep people and things off the ground and into safer space, also reference the fragility of a landscape and its inherent power dynamics. Ultimately, Insuaste is creating a new eschatology, providing a space for new hopefulness and possibility. She is examining, the "threads that connect each of us to each other, to a place that shifts and transforms itself over and over again."

The SAIC 2005 Graduate Exhibition Opens May 7!

The 2005 Graduate Exhibition
Opens Saturday, May 7 from 5:00pm to 8:00 pm.
847 West Jackson Boulevard!

Be the first to see the work of over 150 students completing the Master of Fine Arts in Studio and the Master of Fine Arts in Writing Degrees, the Post-Baccalaureate Writing Certificate and the Post-Baccalaureate Studio Certificate will exhibit their work. Studio areas represented are: Art and Technology Studies, Ceramics, Fiber and Material Studies, Film, Video, and New Media, Interior Architecture, Painting and Drawing, Performance, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, Visual Communication, and Writing.

The exhibition runs from May 8th through 20th.
Exhibition Hours (starting May 8) are Monday-Friday, 11:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. and Saturday & Sunday: 12:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m.
Extended public viewing hours are May 11 & 20 from 11:00 a.m.- 9:00 p.m. For additional information please call 312.563.5162,
or visit our web site at http://www.artic.edu/saic/g2.

Graduate and Undergraduate Performance Programs

Performance Space, Room 012, (lower level), 280 S. Columbus Dr.
Program I April 23 + 24, 7:00 p.m. (program repeats)
Program II April 30 + May 1, 7:00 p.m. (program repeats)

Graduate and Undergraduate Film, Video, and Audio Presentations
Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St.
Program I May 2, 7:00 p.m.
Program II May 9, 6:00 p.m.
Program III May 16, 6:00 p.m.
Admission to all Exhibitions and Time Arts Events is open to the public. Unless otherwise noted, admission is free for all Exhibitions and Performance events. Admission for the Graduate and Undergraduate events at the Gene Siskel Film Center is free for students, faculty and staff of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, valid SAIC ID is required; $9 per person for the general public. Tickets can be purchased at the Gene Siskel Film Center during box office hours (after 5:00 p.m. on weekdays, after 2:00 p.m. on weekends), or through Ticketmaster at 312.575-8000. Seating is extremely limited. For additional information about all Exhibitions and Time Arts Events, please call 312.563-5162.

Artbash! Opens April 29th at Gallery 2

Artbash: The First Year Program Exhibition Opens April 29th at Gallery 2!

Artbash: The First Year Program Exhibition
April 29 - May 10, 2005
Opening Reception: Friday, April 29, 5:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Artbash is the culminating event of the First Year Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The exhibition is jointly curated by students and faculty, and presents a diverse selection of 2-D, 3-D, and 4-D artwork created by students within the First Year Program studio courses.

Gallery 2 is an off-campus site that offers extensive programming in all of the visual arts and focuses on the innovative and experimental work of the School's most advanced undergraduate and graduate students through exhibitions, performances, readings, and video, audio, and film screenings.

Gallery 2
847 West Jackson Blvd. Admission is free.
Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

"Drawn to Drawing" opens April 29 at Betty Rymer Gallery

"Drawn to Drawing"
Opening reception: Friday, April 29, 5 - 7 p.m.
Curators' talk: April 29, 6:30 p.m.
Curators' roundtable discussion and gallery tour: Thursday, May 5, 12:00 p.m.
Exhibition on view through: July 1, 2005
This exhibition features contemporary works in all media that engage the concepts and theories of drawing. Responding to both traditional and experimental forms, this project examines definitions and perceptual limits of drawing as an artistic practice. "Drawn to Drawing" is curated by Lindsay Bosch, Claire Chak, Jennifer Gheith, Ezara Hoffman, James Kao, and Laura Smith in consultation with Candida Alvarez and Trevor Martin.

Artists include Héctor Arce-Espasas, Carl Baratta, jelena berenc, Elijah Burgher, Rebecca Carter, Ben Chickadel, Lee Baxter Davis, Matt Dennewitz, Jacob Elliott, Josh Faught, Cayetano Ferrer, Judith Geichman, Jonathan Gillette, Mike Goodlett, Jacqueline Goss, Jennings Hanna, Tiffany Holmes, Ashley Hunt, Amy Jahr, Elena Jovanova, Hyung Gyun Kang, Stuart Keeler, Eric Lebofsky, Judith Leemann, David Leggett, Nikki Lindt, Alex Lu, Teena McClelland, Cole Pierce, David Rodriguez, Luis Romero, Nathaniel Robinson, Travis Saul, Jesse Seay, and Erik Wenzel.

Gallery hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. and by appointment.

Betty Rymer Gallery
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
280 S. Columbus Drive
312.443.3703
saic_brg@artic.edu

21st Chicago LATINO FILM FESTIVAL April 8-20, 2005

Film Screenings at these three locations:

Facets Cinematheque
1517 W. Fullerton
Info: 773-281-4114

Pipers Alley
1608 N. Wells

Landmark's Century Centre Cinema
2828 N. Clark

For daily schedule call 312-409-1757
or visit Latino Cultural Center

Special Events:
Opening Gala-April 8 @Northwestern University Thorne Auditorium

A Night of Spain-April 11@ Pipers Alley

Noche Mexicana- April 16 @Northwestern University Thorne Auditorium

Closing Night Fiesta-April 20 @ AMC River East 21& Pazzo's

Apr.1-5 Chicago International Documentary Film Festival@ DOC FILMS

April 1 8:00
The Real Dirt on Farmer John
2005, 83m
Dir. Taggart Siegel

April 2 9:00
Mad Hot Ballroom
2005, 110m
Dir. Marilyn Agrelo

April 3 9:00
Martin's Passion
2003, 96m
Dir. Irene Langeman

April 4 9:00
Shape of the Moon
2004, 92m
Dir. Leonard Retel Helmrich, in person

April 5 9:00
Darwin's Nightmare
2004, 107m
Dir. Hubert Sauper, in person

Doc Films is located in the Max Palevsky Cinema in Ida Noyes Hall at The University of Chicago.

1212 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
773-702-8574