2.25.11
Friday, February 25 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location
West Loop, Swimming Pool Project Space
120 N. Green St. Apt. 5E
Created By
Swimming Pool Project Space
More Info
Swimming Pool Project Space is proud to present “Swimsuit Edition: A Visceral Body” curated by Lisa Majer. The exhibition will be a one-night show coupled with a 13 month exhibition calendar. It opens on Friday, February 25th, from 7-10pm, offsite from the storefront space, at 120 N. Green Street, apartment 5E, in the west loop.
"Swimsuit Edition: A Visceral Body - Relating to deep inward feelings rather than to the intellect.... The artists, designers, performers, and thinkers in this edition elicit profound primal sensations through their craft. From the base to the sublime, from the personal to the social, from introspective to active, and from seductive to confrontational, the sensations and sensationalism of the works are ports of entry as points of departure."
--Lisa Majer
Artists featured:
Eli Borrowman
Rae Langes
Katrin Schnabl
Carrie Gundersdorf
Danielle Paz
Amy Honchell
Jaime Lynn Henderson
Jessie Mott
Shannon Faseler
Kristina Sparks
Steve Reinke
Jim Sorfleet
Carolina Wheat
SweetDevil Red
Image: Danielle Paz, video still from "I Played my Best"
The Swimming Pool Project Space is bringing the catalogue back from near extinction and hanging it on the walls of fans, gallerists and collectors. Lisa Majer has compiled artists and designed a Swimsuit Issue for the finale one night show at the all new Swimming Pool. It is dedicated to 13 artists, each presenting a month for 2011 and into 2012. The opening night brings a group show and features the release of the printed, functional, mini-catalogue.
Usually, an exhibition catalogue comes to the gallery as a resource for a special event. It is a remnant of a particularly thoughtful curatorial expression ready to sit on a coffee table or bookshelf waiting to be read in order to prove its relevance. Not many museum or gallery goers choose to purchase the copy, however, it continues to be a permanent reminder of an experience. The viewing of art between specific white walls, recorded and clarified. The catalogue may include elaborate essays outlining the curatorial vision of the show, and images within and without the show in order to provide context for the viewer. Or perhaps it’s meant to explain its arrangement and vision more explicitly leading the reader to the water hole and intravenously delivering the liquid ‘knowledge’. Here, we’ve decided to simply expose the figure for your own wall.
The timelessness of print coupled with the impermanence of an opening, are together now. These images are capturing a moment. You too can capture a moment with your pen, your memory of the day, your reminder for the future or for the eventual past. The momentum of the Pool’s closing wraps around the year of the Rabbit and draws you to make marks and enjoy the sights.
As the year of the lucky bunny scampers in, we look forward to the fortune and fashion before us. This compilation is a celebration of exposure, a letting loose and letting it all hang out attitude. There are few secrets involved with a swimsuit. We are not and haven’t ever attempted to cover up anything. Rather, the Pool wants to perpetually present art whether at a risk or in the raw. Emerging from the water and allowing the lens of the bright sun to capture our environment, our bodies or our dedication to presenting art in a space or on a wall. We choose to suspend images in your home’s space by collapsing time. As the Pool takes its last stand in Chicago, we hope you will remember our humor, our playfulness and our dedication to enjoying the moment in art. For after the moment’s no longer, the Swimsuit Issue will linger. We trust it is going to be a remarkable year to remember.
---Carolina Wheat
Location
West Loop, Swimming Pool Project Space
120 N. Green St. Apt. 5E
Created By
Swimming Pool Project Space
More Info
Swimming Pool Project Space is proud to present “Swimsuit Edition: A Visceral Body” curated by Lisa Majer. The exhibition will be a one-night show coupled with a 13 month exhibition calendar. It opens on Friday, February 25th, from 7-10pm, offsite from the storefront space, at 120 N. Green Street, apartment 5E, in the west loop.
"Swimsuit Edition: A Visceral Body - Relating to deep inward feelings rather than to the intellect.... The artists, designers, performers, and thinkers in this edition elicit profound primal sensations through their craft. From the base to the sublime, from the personal to the social, from introspective to active, and from seductive to confrontational, the sensations and sensationalism of the works are ports of entry as points of departure."
--Lisa Majer
Artists featured:
Eli Borrowman
Rae Langes
Katrin Schnabl
Carrie Gundersdorf
Danielle Paz
Amy Honchell
Jaime Lynn Henderson
Jessie Mott
Shannon Faseler
Kristina Sparks
Steve Reinke
Jim Sorfleet
Carolina Wheat
SweetDevil Red
Image: Danielle Paz, video still from "I Played my Best"
The Swimming Pool Project Space is bringing the catalogue back from near extinction and hanging it on the walls of fans, gallerists and collectors. Lisa Majer has compiled artists and designed a Swimsuit Issue for the finale one night show at the all new Swimming Pool. It is dedicated to 13 artists, each presenting a month for 2011 and into 2012. The opening night brings a group show and features the release of the printed, functional, mini-catalogue.
Usually, an exhibition catalogue comes to the gallery as a resource for a special event. It is a remnant of a particularly thoughtful curatorial expression ready to sit on a coffee table or bookshelf waiting to be read in order to prove its relevance. Not many museum or gallery goers choose to purchase the copy, however, it continues to be a permanent reminder of an experience. The viewing of art between specific white walls, recorded and clarified. The catalogue may include elaborate essays outlining the curatorial vision of the show, and images within and without the show in order to provide context for the viewer. Or perhaps it’s meant to explain its arrangement and vision more explicitly leading the reader to the water hole and intravenously delivering the liquid ‘knowledge’. Here, we’ve decided to simply expose the figure for your own wall.
The timelessness of print coupled with the impermanence of an opening, are together now. These images are capturing a moment. You too can capture a moment with your pen, your memory of the day, your reminder for the future or for the eventual past. The momentum of the Pool’s closing wraps around the year of the Rabbit and draws you to make marks and enjoy the sights.
As the year of the lucky bunny scampers in, we look forward to the fortune and fashion before us. This compilation is a celebration of exposure, a letting loose and letting it all hang out attitude. There are few secrets involved with a swimsuit. We are not and haven’t ever attempted to cover up anything. Rather, the Pool wants to perpetually present art whether at a risk or in the raw. Emerging from the water and allowing the lens of the bright sun to capture our environment, our bodies or our dedication to presenting art in a space or on a wall. We choose to suspend images in your home’s space by collapsing time. As the Pool takes its last stand in Chicago, we hope you will remember our humor, our playfulness and our dedication to enjoying the moment in art. For after the moment’s no longer, the Swimsuit Issue will linger. We trust it is going to be a remarkable year to remember.
---Carolina Wheat
9.20.10 - 10.1.10
Fantastic Landscapes
Gallery/Exhibit Name: 310 conTEMPORARY / Fantastic Landscapes
Gallery Dates: August 3rd - October 1st
Gallery Address: 310 S. Michigan
This gallery is presented in association with Hyde Park Art Center and Columbia College Chicago
Exhibition Statement:
A selection of photography, sculpture and painting that distorts, challenges, expands, alters and makes abstract the traditional notion of landscape in art.
Fantastic Lanscapes Artists:
Isak Applin, Garrett Baumer, Alison Carey, Paul D'Amato , Jane Fulton Alt
Lenny Gilmore, Karen Glaser, Lisa Majer, Juan Manuel Fernandez, Judy Natal,
Jennifer Ray, Mike Reinders, Renee Robins, Alison Ruttan, Casey Wasniewski
Josh Winegar
Gallery/Exhibit Name: 310 conTEMPORARY / Fantastic Landscapes
Gallery Dates: August 3rd - October 1st
Gallery Address: 310 S. Michigan
This gallery is presented in association with Hyde Park Art Center and Columbia College Chicago
Exhibition Statement:
A selection of photography, sculpture and painting that distorts, challenges, expands, alters and makes abstract the traditional notion of landscape in art.
Fantastic Lanscapes Artists:
Isak Applin, Garrett Baumer, Alison Carey, Paul D'Amato , Jane Fulton Alt
Lenny Gilmore, Karen Glaser, Lisa Majer, Juan Manuel Fernandez, Judy Natal,
Jennifer Ray, Mike Reinders, Renee Robins, Alison Ruttan, Casey Wasniewski
Josh Winegar
7.23.10
Milwaukee Ave Art Fest July 23-25
2628 N. Milwaukee, 2nd floor (apartment above Disco City)
Friday - Opening 6-10pm
Sat & Sun noon-11pm
...
Danny Think Tank will feature recent work of 11 Chicago based artists, showcasing a survey of contemporary practices. The ongoing dialogue within Danny Think Tank will guide the curatorial decisions as the group responds to the unique location. The exhibition will take place in a vacant loft/apartment, exhibiting a collection of paintings, photography, collage, sculpture and video.
Danny Think Tank is:
Curt Bozif
Derek Chan
Ryan Fenchel
Dan Gunn
Roxane Hopper
Lisa Majer
Stephen Nyktas
Cole Pierce
Julie Rudder
Kendrick Shackleford
&
Craig Yu
2628 N. Milwaukee, 2nd floor (apartment above Disco City)
Friday - Opening 6-10pm
Sat & Sun noon-11pm
...
Danny Think Tank will feature recent work of 11 Chicago based artists, showcasing a survey of contemporary practices. The ongoing dialogue within Danny Think Tank will guide the curatorial decisions as the group responds to the unique location. The exhibition will take place in a vacant loft/apartment, exhibiting a collection of paintings, photography, collage, sculpture and video.
Danny Think Tank is:
Curt Bozif
Derek Chan
Ryan Fenchel
Dan Gunn
Roxane Hopper
Lisa Majer
Stephen Nyktas
Cole Pierce
Julie Rudder
Kendrick Shackleford
&
Craig Yu
1.10.10
11.20.09
Technically, It's Art
Friday, November 20, 6:00PM
1842 North Damen 4th floor
Chicago, IL US
Abryant Gallery Presents:
Technically, It's Art
An exhibition presenting artwork that involves technology as material or inspiration.
Featured Artists: Eric Ashcraft, Madeleine Bailey, Mark Beasley, Rebecca Berman, GROUP CABIN, Andy Cahill, Lauren Gregory, Maxon Higbee, Aaron Hoffman, Nadia Hotait, Mik Kastner, Lisa MAjer, Gary Pennock, Sarah Perez, Micah Schippa, Briana Schweizer, Alan Strathmann and Synica Whitney.
Curated by Angela Bryant and Patrick Cunningham
Friday, November 20, 6:00PM
1842 North Damen 4th floor
Chicago, IL US
Abryant Gallery Presents:
Technically, It's Art
An exhibition presenting artwork that involves technology as material or inspiration.
Featured Artists: Eric Ashcraft, Madeleine Bailey, Mark Beasley, Rebecca Berman, GROUP CABIN, Andy Cahill, Lauren Gregory, Maxon Higbee, Aaron Hoffman, Nadia Hotait, Mik Kastner, Lisa MAjer, Gary Pennock, Sarah Perez, Micah Schippa, Briana Schweizer, Alan Strathmann and Synica Whitney.
Curated by Angela Bryant and Patrick Cunningham
11.15.09 - 11.19.09
http://artgrads.com/abjectandsShock and Awe
Sunday, November 15
5pm-7pm
Both the abject and sublime throw all boundaries into question. Bodies leak and the sublime gets sticky. Is the abject, then, sublimity's other or its double viewed from a slightly skewed position? Shock and Awe: where the abject and sublime converge examines these questions through the works of 21 contemporary artists.
@ Gatov Galleries
California State University, Long Beach
1250 Bellflower Blvd.
Long Beach, CA 90840
November 15 - November 19
artslant
Sunday, November 15
5pm-7pm
Both the abject and sublime throw all boundaries into question. Bodies leak and the sublime gets sticky. Is the abject, then, sublimity's other or its double viewed from a slightly skewed position? Shock and Awe: where the abject and sublime converge examines these questions through the works of 21 contemporary artists.
@ Gatov Galleries
California State University, Long Beach
1250 Bellflower Blvd.
Long Beach, CA 90840
November 15 - November 19
artslant
8.15.09 - 9.13.09 *solo show*
"Swimming Pool Project Space is proud to present New Work by Lisa Majer. Through the use of crude materials and intuitive techniques, Majer's paintings and videos activate a dialogue between urban and Romantic landscape. At the abject edge of the sublime, the point where vastness becomes claustrophobic, the work moves towards a visceral psychic experience. Skies are surfaces and horizons are positioned as objects obliterated, under which foregrounds recede."
5.10.09 - 7.05.09
Swimming Pool Project Space at the Hyde Park Art Center for Artist Run Chicago
Artists Run Chicago is an exhibition showcasing the energy and audacity of some of the most noteworthy artist-run spaces that have influenced the Chicago contemporary art scene over the past decade. Chicago has long been known for cultivating a strong entrepreneurial/Do-It-Yourself spirit in business and the arts. The participating artist-run venues have transformed storefronts, sheds, apartments, lofts, industrial warehouses, garages and roving spaces into contemporary art galleries testing the notion of “exhibition” while complicating the definition of art. Coinciding with the Hyde Park Art Center’s 70th anniversary, Artists Run Chicago reconnects the Art Center to its beginnings as an artist-run space by showcasing spaces that continue the legacy.
HPAC
5020 S. Cornell Avenue
Chicago, IL 60615
t: 773-324-5520
Mon-Thurs: 9am-8pm
Fri-Sat: 9am-5pm
Sun: 12pm-5pm
Artists Run Chicago is an exhibition showcasing the energy and audacity of some of the most noteworthy artist-run spaces that have influenced the Chicago contemporary art scene over the past decade. Chicago has long been known for cultivating a strong entrepreneurial/Do-It-Yourself spirit in business and the arts. The participating artist-run venues have transformed storefronts, sheds, apartments, lofts, industrial warehouses, garages and roving spaces into contemporary art galleries testing the notion of “exhibition” while complicating the definition of art. Coinciding with the Hyde Park Art Center’s 70th anniversary, Artists Run Chicago reconnects the Art Center to its beginnings as an artist-run space by showcasing spaces that continue the legacy.
HPAC
5020 S. Cornell Avenue
Chicago, IL 60615
t: 773-324-5520
Mon-Thurs: 9am-8pm
Fri-Sat: 9am-5pm
Sun: 12pm-5pm
1.03.09
Fight or Flight
Mercury Cafe
1505 West Chicago Ave.
7 - 11 pm
Mercury Cafe
1505 West Chicago Ave.
7 - 11 pm
5.17.08
Vega Estates presents The Vega Caucas
One night only: May 17th 7 pm - 10 pm
Exhibiting artists include:Lauren Anderson, Curt Bozif, Michael Corra, Chelsea Culp, Ryan Hays, Matthew Hilshorst, Matt Irie, Kirsten Leenaars, Michael Lehman, Caleb Lyons, Lisa Majer, Tim Mazurek, Jessie Mott, Rudy Montez, Cole Pierce, Katie Scanlan, Ryan Scheidt, LeRoy Stevens, Michael Thibault, Vanesa Zendejas.
One night only: May 17th 7 pm - 10 pm
Exhibiting artists include:Lauren Anderson, Curt Bozif, Michael Corra, Chelsea Culp, Ryan Hays, Matthew Hilshorst, Matt Irie, Kirsten Leenaars, Michael Lehman, Caleb Lyons, Lisa Majer, Tim Mazurek, Jessie Mott, Rudy Montez, Cole Pierce, Katie Scanlan, Ryan Scheidt, LeRoy Stevens, Michael Thibault, Vanesa Zendejas.
4.24.08 - 6.22.08
Thesis Exhibition from the Department of Art Theory and Practice
Northwestern University
April 25–June 22, 2008
Alsdorf Gallery at the Block Museum
Northwestern University
April 25–June 22, 2008
Alsdorf Gallery at the Block Museum
