Upcoming Exhibitions

09.02 - 09.30.2008

Pe Lang + Zimoun, materials on vibrating glass plates, 2006;Susan Michod, Perception: the trick of the eye, 2007, acrylic on canvas, 3' x 5'

Untitled Sound Objects

sound installation

Susan Michod: Paintings

Opening reception

Friday, September 12, 2008

5 - 9 pm

In early 2004, Pe Lang and Zimoun began their collaboration Untitled Sound Objects, a project in which physical materials are made to generate sound by vibrating them using computer controlled machines and robots. The artists focus on creating acoustic architecture with an organic feel, investigating the properties of sound, materials, resonance and generative systems. The work is presented as sound installations and as live performances.These works are created by using small machines comprised of computer-monitored and programmed electromagnetic lifts, electromagnets and vibrating motors, in combination with different kinds of materials. Often the installations are used as a source for creating sounds as well as to continually evolve new acoustic spaces. Pe Lang and Zimoun create works through reduction and simplicity to attain a minimalist aesthetic. This aesthetic reaches the public in a direct and immediate way so as to stimulate visitors into making their own discoveries through the works. As the individual spaces and their material constituents often form the basis for the works, most of the installations are specifically adapted for each room with regards to the architecture, function, sound design and use of acoustic materials. The works of Pe Lang and Zimoun have been exhibited or shown as live performances in Switzerland, Germany, The Netherlands, France, China, England, Italy, Belgium, USA, Canada, Egypt and Spain.

The Untitled Sound Objects by Pe Lang and Zimoun convince through their elegant and clever simplicity in an inconspicuously complex setting. Stephen Braun

Susan Michod received a B.S. from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and an M.F.A. from Pratt Institute Graduate School of Art & Design in New York. For a number of years she was a Professor at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, where she taught courses on painting and also art history, and she served on the Illinois Arts Council Visual Arts Panel. Michod has been included in shows at the Jean Albano, the Gwenda Jay and the Nancy Lurie Galleries, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, the State of Illinois Gallery, and the Hyde Park and Evanston Art Centers here in Chicago, and was in shows at the Bronx and the Queens Museums. Her work has also traveled to St. Louis and the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and to China and Germany, and it is in many private and public collections. Susan Michod participated 22 solo shows and many group shows the most important of which are The 181st Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, The National Academy Museum, New York City; Biennale Internazionale Dell Arte Contemporaenea, Florence, Italy; New Dimensions: Surface, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. She had always worked with pattern and was included in John Perraults Pattern and Decoration at P.S. 1. In her painting, Michod uses the language of figuration and of abstraction. Her inspirations are both Joseph Albers isometric perspective drawings and her art history analyses.