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| [Nettime-bold] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE : DECEMBER 2001 EXHIBITIONS |
ARTEMISIA GALLERY
700 N. Carpenter
Chicago, Illinois 60622
ph: 312 / 226-7232 ... fx: 312 / 226-7756
ANNOUNCEMENT: Opening Reception .
. . ARTIST'S TALKS
Beginning at 7:30 at the opening reception, each exhibiting Artist
will give a short gallery talk
EXHIBITIONS:
Main Gallery: JOANNA K. MAZUREK, ILLUSION
Chicago artist Joanna K. Mazurek has long been inspired by ideas of
human solitude “where human
circumstantial dependency creates anxiety.” Her questions about
‘place’ come from the illusion of what
was once there, i.e., the historical power left in the wake of the
present moment. Through a combination
of photography and drawing, Mazurek brings us a new series of abstract
and vibrant digital ‘paintings.’
As we are prompted to push aside the notion of reality, she asks us
whether or not we could live a life
without this idea of illusion.
Gallery A: KAREN SAVAGE, THE LOST DRESSES
Savage creates life-size photograms (or x-rays) using the dress as
the personification of the female, hence, “referencing the relationship
between these articles of clothing and the absence of the person who wore
them.” Alluding to passages of time, the lost dress is merely a specter
from the past—the remaining evidence of a vanishing presence. Savage
believes that as much as this series speaks to ideas surrounding memory
and death, absence is brought back to life in each picture. It is,
indeed,
a group of photographs commemorating her own absence through the image
of each “lost” dress.
Gallery B: SILVIA DINALE, STILL-LIVES AND DETAILS
Silvia Dinale’s large-scale, lushly colored photographs present a contemporary
reinterpretation
of traditional painted still-lives. As Dinale creates a dichotomy
between the familiar and disorienting,
sensual and grotesque, intimate and claustrophobic, she travels us
through natural forms in their various
stages of beauty, ripeness and decomposition, “...the creative process
which places us all within the limits
of the cycles of life and death.”
Gallery C: MARIANETT PORTER, DEBRA BOSIO-RILEY,
IRINA NAKHOVA, NICOLE GORDON
FOUR WOMEN AND THEIR IRONING BOARDS
A concept that found its beginnings in 1994, has at last evolved into
this collaborative installation between four women--one Jewish, one Russian,
one African-American and one Italian-American. They come to Artemisia
sharing a common thread of interests, associations, passions and vision
all using the nontraditional surface of the ironing board. This humble
symbol becomes the catalyst to connect their collective, yet individual,
expressions.
Gallery D: SHANNON JOHNSTONE, BY NOW YOU KNOW
By Now You Know traces the emotional journey during a near-drowning
event that Johnstone experienced as a young child. Sinking to the
bottom of a swimming pool and experiencing the
void of silence while under water, has become the impetus for most
of Johnstone’s work. Her large-scale atmospheric images that are
dripping with saturated color venture forth in her effort
to inscribe the intangible.