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ARTEMISIA GALLERY
700 N. Carpenter
Chicago, Illinois 60660
ph: 312 / 226-7323 ... fx: 312 / 226-7756
EXHIBITIONS:
Main Gallery: CAROL PADBERG, WORKS ON PAPER
Inspired by language and how it is formed and developed from infancy,
Minnesota artist and Artemisia Associate Member, Carol Padberg, creates
work that addresses the spoken and written word. From the sounds
of an infant’s first utterance to a toddler’s crude alphabet made from
drinking straws, Padberg’s interest lies in the opacity and transparency
of language, wanting to “evoke the strange way that words disappear and
yield to meaning as we are reading—how words that are illegible to us appear
more physical and concrete.” Choosing to work by hand on paper, Padberg
draws the audience to a place where they can contemplate language and representation—the
play and work inherent in the written word.
Galleries A, B & C: STEPHEN MUELLER, ROGER
F. BLAKLEY, CECILIA ALLEN
(painting, prints, and sculpture)
Chicago based painter, Stephen Mueller and sculptors Roger F. Blakley
and Cecilia Allen, join Artemisia Gallery in this group proposed exhibition.
Mueller’s paintings and etchings, spanning the time period of 1993 to 2001,
are eloquent conversations between the hand of man and its relationship
to and through a political/social construct. Bosnia, the CIA, the
beginnings of time and simple mark making are the driving forces in this
work that inevitably return to ideas of cyclical identity.
Blakley considers himself an “emotive formalist” whose large scale, abstract,
cast bronze sculptures find ground in a figural message that repeatedly
ends in questions. Relying on his reflections of the past to take
him to the present realization of his work, Blakley moves through sculptural
decisions that are visceral in nature but come equipped with the “halation
of experience.” Cecilia Allen is “drawn to sculpture because it requires
my whole being in its pursuit.” Her cast bronze reliefs resonate
with gesture and textural surface, “ruled exclusively by neither passion
nor reason; it is not intellectually contrived or emotionally effusive.”
Her relationship with texture is derived from the worn ground planes of
workspace. For her, that texture is the reflection “of the constant
and changing struggle to learn, grow and create.”
Gallery D: ERIKA R. NELSON
SELECTIONS FROM THE INSTALLATION, DOMESTICATED, IN HONOR OF PORK
In her installation, Domesticated, Kansas artist, Erika Nelson examines
the American Dream and its intersection with her now current Erikan Dream.
Her assembled vignettes are comments about the stuff that we live with—the
reference to suburbia and white trash culture that draws from a Dadaist
love of found objects. Through her explorations, Nelson reflects
on ideas of personal identification from the influences of a greater whole.
The environments she creates transform her questions into statements that
the viewer can use as an aid in understanding one’s place within the confines
of an American culture.