June, 2006
Press
Release
Dates:
06.16.2006 – 07.07.2006
Gosia Koscielak Studio & Gallery is pleased to
announce “13”, an exhibition of recent work by
Advanced Sculpture students from The School of the Art Institute
of Chicago.
Exhibition
dates: June 16th – July 7th, 2006
Opening
reception/vernissage: Friday, June 16th, 2006 6:00
– 10:00 pm
Closing reception/finissage: Friday, July
07th, 2006 6:00 – 10:00 pm
The
Advanced Sculpture Studio is an honors tutorial studio course
for Junior and Senior BFA students who are focusing on sculpture
as their primarily discipline. The students selected for this
studio are chosen from a competitive applicant pool and study
with two faculty. Professors Stephanie Brooks and Frances
Whitehead, active working artists and long term faculty at
SAIC, team taught the course this Spring semester, 2006 during
which time, these works were produced.
Stephanie
Brooks, who exhibits nationally and internationally, works
with language and material reference to produce witty and
playful commentary on daily life.
Frances
Whitehead works in the public sphere with issues of art and
sustainability. She is currently working with municipalities
on strategies for innovative implementation of sustainable
principles in public works projects.
Exhibition
13 Participants:
Sarah Baylinson’s work derives from the paraphernalia
used for animal husbandry and poses intriguing questions,
both biological and ethical, about the status of humans and
their relations to other animals,
Michael Beradino is exploring the realm of video games and
virtual economies to question real estate and real-ity itself.
Allison
L. Compton creates situations for inter-actions with hand-held,
found objects. These situations generate awareness of the
objects within the intimacy of human relations and social
context, rather than thru independent or private spaces.
Michael
Coyle works with the relationship between material, object,
and image, probing questions such as: Why are some materials
and objects privileged? Is there a place in the contemporary
or postmodern setting for traditional materials? How do context
and expectation influence perception? In our mass media world,
where everything is looked at, what do we really understand
about what we see?
Wyatt
Arden Kahn's sculpture installations poetically combine experiences
and revelations about his personal life in dialogue with Ideologies
in contemporary society. The resulting works hold the viewer
through a streamlined, melancholy mood, mixed with cynical
humor.
Andres
Laracuente is living the American dream. An advocate of the
strange, his work often aligns video/photography with performance.
A common focus is on media from popular culture, as internalized
by the individual.
Elliot
Layda explores constructions, physical and cultural, and the
sculptural potential of common structures to address contemporary
topics.
Eber
Palomares’ site works emerge from the wall like the
biology they represent. Made from the stuff of the DIY universe,
the new species seem oddly at home in our artificial nature.
Megan
Ransmeier’s quiet sculpture, breathe, grow, drip, leak
and stick. Simply drawn from the world around us, they oddly
anthropomorphize into bodies and landscapes when we least
expect it.
Maximilian
Schubert says of his new works, "Limp truths, science
fictions, and memorials in transit. Stifled transformations
could be added to the list if necessary.”
Vanessa
Smith uses mundane materials like copper, paper hole punch-outs,
and thread to make objects that encapsulate personal memory.
The labor in the process of the work and the entropy of the
materials, trace the passage of time, and create an analogue
to lived experience, much like memories and experiences changing
as layers of time accumulate.
Bless
Tive’s work is engaged in the legitimacy and meaning
of markings in the landscape, such as graffiti, utility, primitivism.
The tension between material and form strives to communicate
a sense of ambiguity, and serve as a contemplation of the
nature of the thing.
Harley
Young explores ideas concerning how the environments to which
we are subjected (the institutional), and the environments
to which we subject ourselves (the domestic), play a crucial
role in the development of identity, and how, by consequence,
objects become symbols and stand-ins for human presence.
Images:
Megan Ransmeier, Painting, 2006, rubber, water
Max Schubert, Desk, 2006, ceramics
Michael Coyle, Object, 2006, glue bottl
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