SWEEPING THE INSIDE OUT
Opening Reception, Oct. 24th 5-9pm
Curated by Michael Kaysen & Carl Baratta
Side Car Gallery
Hammond, IN
Sarah Hicks
Dan Gunn
Karolina Gnatowski
Chris Miller
Jeremy Price
Bob Reinard
Jeremy Somer
Mindy Schwawrtz
Opening Reception, Oct. 24th 5-9pm
Curated by Michael Kaysen & Carl Baratta
Side Car Gallery
Hammond, IN
Sarah Hicks
Dan Gunn
Karolina Gnatowski
Chris Miller
Jeremy Price
Bob Reinard
Jeremy Somer
Mindy Schwawrtz
ULTRASHEEN
John Coyle Steinbrunner
Alex Menocal
Rosalynn Gingerich
Sarah Hicks
Friday, October 9, 2009 6-10pm
1806 W. Cuyler, Floor 2
Chicago, IL
Please join us for a showing of new paintings and sculptures, as well as a presentation and tasting of The Glenrothes Scotch. Light refreshments available.
Parking is available, or take CTA brown line to Irving Park or CTA buses 80 Irving Park to brown line or 50 Damen to Damen/Irving Park/Lincoln.
John Coyle Steinbrunner
Alex Menocal
Rosalynn Gingerich
Sarah Hicks
Friday, October 9, 2009 6-10pm
1806 W. Cuyler, Floor 2
Chicago, IL
Please join us for a showing of new paintings and sculptures, as well as a presentation and tasting of The Glenrothes Scotch. Light refreshments available.
Parking is available, or take CTA brown line to Irving Park or CTA buses 80 Irving Park to brown line or 50 Damen to Damen/Irving Park/Lincoln.
Collective Conversations in Clay: Merging Media
Saturday October 10th 6-10pm
Artists of EastBank Building at 35th/Racine
1200 W. 35th Street, Chicago
Entrance on North side of building
Saturday October 10th 6-10pm
Artists of EastBank Building at 35th/Racine
1200 W. 35th Street, Chicago
Entrance on North side of building
PETER BARRETT and SARAH HICKS - Taxonomies
June 19 through August 1, 2009
Opening reception Friday June 19, 5:00 – 8:00 pm
Thomas Robertello Gallery is pleased to present Taxonomies: a two-person exhibition of new work by Peter Barrett and Sarah Hicks. By balancing known forms with complex permutations, and exploring fascinations with object obsession and indexical classifications, Barrett and Hicks offer two independent bodies of work in painting and ceramic sculpture.
The large wall painting and smaller works on paper by Peter Barrett reference Op art, Minimalism, and complex geometric forms that somehow manage to avoid the cloying dazzle, austere meditations, and cold finite resolutions of all three influences. Ambitiously rendered, the infinite forms pulse with obsessive detail and confounding spatial orientations. While seducing the sense of vision with boggling complexity, Barrett leads the viewer toward environments built using the properties of physics, cosmology, and retinal occult.
Peter Barrett lives and works in Woodstock and Brooklyn, NY. Recent exhibitions include KMOCA Kingston, NY, Dorsch gallery Miami, and group shows in New York at Claire Oliver Fine Art curated by Shamim Momin, and Bellwether Gallery. He graduated the School of the Art Institute Chicago’s MFA painting program in 1996, and received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 1990.
The ceramic sculptures of Sarah Hicks begin with molds of mass produced domestic and found objects that are cut and reassembled into objects of familiar but indeterminate origin. Manipulating common notions of design, the artist borrows organic and graphic elements to treat surfaces with fluidity, color, line, and texture. The resulting chic tchotchkes are abstract sculptures imbued with an optimistic dynamism and placed in orbit somewhere outside traditional and contemporary decorative arts.
Sarah Hicks lives and works in Chicago and received a BFA in photography from the School of the Art Institute in 1999. She has exhibited her work locally at Gallery 40000, Lill Street Art Center, and in Shape-Shifters at Alfedena Gallery, curated by Jason Foumberg.
Thomas Robertello Gallery
939 W Randolph St
Chicago, IL 60607
312.421.1587
www.thomasrobertello.com
Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday 11-6
June 19 through August 1, 2009
Opening reception Friday June 19, 5:00 – 8:00 pm
Thomas Robertello Gallery is pleased to present Taxonomies: a two-person exhibition of new work by Peter Barrett and Sarah Hicks. By balancing known forms with complex permutations, and exploring fascinations with object obsession and indexical classifications, Barrett and Hicks offer two independent bodies of work in painting and ceramic sculpture.
The large wall painting and smaller works on paper by Peter Barrett reference Op art, Minimalism, and complex geometric forms that somehow manage to avoid the cloying dazzle, austere meditations, and cold finite resolutions of all three influences. Ambitiously rendered, the infinite forms pulse with obsessive detail and confounding spatial orientations. While seducing the sense of vision with boggling complexity, Barrett leads the viewer toward environments built using the properties of physics, cosmology, and retinal occult.
Peter Barrett lives and works in Woodstock and Brooklyn, NY. Recent exhibitions include KMOCA Kingston, NY, Dorsch gallery Miami, and group shows in New York at Claire Oliver Fine Art curated by Shamim Momin, and Bellwether Gallery. He graduated the School of the Art Institute Chicago’s MFA painting program in 1996, and received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 1990.
The ceramic sculptures of Sarah Hicks begin with molds of mass produced domestic and found objects that are cut and reassembled into objects of familiar but indeterminate origin. Manipulating common notions of design, the artist borrows organic and graphic elements to treat surfaces with fluidity, color, line, and texture. The resulting chic tchotchkes are abstract sculptures imbued with an optimistic dynamism and placed in orbit somewhere outside traditional and contemporary decorative arts.
Sarah Hicks lives and works in Chicago and received a BFA in photography from the School of the Art Institute in 1999. She has exhibited her work locally at Gallery 40000, Lill Street Art Center, and in Shape-Shifters at Alfedena Gallery, curated by Jason Foumberg.
Thomas Robertello Gallery
939 W Randolph St
Chicago, IL 60607
312.421.1587
www.thomasrobertello.com
Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday 11-6
LILLSTREET ART CENTER
Collective Conversations in Clay
October 4-31, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, Oct. 4th, 4-7pm
4401 North Ravenswood
*Chicago, IL *
773.769.4226
Jay Strommen & Debra Fritts
Emily Murphy & Gary Jackson
Joanna Kramer & Dustin Yager
Gina Hutchings & Sarah Hicks
Shane Grimes & Nanci Pirri
Collective Conversations in Clay
October 4-31, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, Oct. 4th, 4-7pm
4401 North Ravenswood
*Chicago, IL *
773.769.4226
Jay Strommen & Debra Fritts
Emily Murphy & Gary Jackson
Joanna Kramer & Dustin Yager
Gina Hutchings & Sarah Hicks
Shane Grimes & Nanci Pirri
Remnants of Digested Culture Re-Purposed in
Shape Shifters
Presented by the Contemporary Arts Council
Curated by Jason Foumberg
May 23-July 3, 2008
Opening reception May 23, 5pm-8pm. Performance at 7pm.
Chicago --- Alfedena Gallery is pleased to host the Contemporary Arts Council’s 14th annual show of emerging artists, Shape-shifters, curated by critic Jason Foumberg. There will be an opening reception for the artists on Friday, May 23rd from 5-8 pm. A performance to be held in the gallery by artist Brian Getnick the evening of the reception will start at 7 pm. The exhibition is free and open to the public.
Like a whale’s vacuum-suck mouth that efficiently consumes the ocean, we too devour our surrounds. The art objects in Shape-shifters are remnants of digested culture, re-shaped and re-purposed. Olympiad bodies, zombies, household gods, and urban myths: by holding many pieces of culture in balance inside us, we become a conglomerate body—an animate spawn of the culture that nourishes us.
Mike Andrews’ sculptural materials include foam, knitted yarn, ceramic, plastic tubing and more. Reed Barrow presents two sculptures, a ghost and a wolf-man, respectively. Brian Getnick’s performance activated sculpture will come to life at the opening reception. Sarah Hicks’ interchangeable ceramic sculptures reinterpret the knick-knack idiom. Chris Kerr lives joyously in a world populated by zombies, ghosts, and witches. Elliot Layda thrusts and contorts his body with krump-style dancing. Josh Mannis is the master of immortal arts. Samia Mirza’s character sculptures live fantastical lives. Melissa Pokorny marries found objects to deduce their irrational destinies. Mindy Rose Schwartz awakens the living-dead by feeding them treasure.
Jason Foumberg is art editor at Newcity.
This is the Contemporary Arts Council’s 14th annual exhibition of new and emerging Chicago-based artists. In order to support contemporary art and artists in Chicago, to seek out the new and valuable, and to foster the insight and enjoyment that good art provides, the Contemporary Arts Council works each year with an independent curator to flesh out his or her idea.
A catalog in the form of an exquisite corpse game is available with essays by Jesse Ball, Reed Barrow, Elijah Burgher, Jason Foumberg, Brian Getnick, and Dan Gleason.
Alfedena Gallery is located at 434 W. Ontario in Chicago. Gallery hours: Tuesday - Friday, 10am - 6pm. Saturday, 10am - 5pm. For more information contact gallery director John Brunetti, 312.944.4340, john@alfedenagallery.com.
www.contemporaryartscouncil.org
www.alfedenagallery.com
Shape Shifters
Presented by the Contemporary Arts Council
Curated by Jason Foumberg
May 23-July 3, 2008
Opening reception May 23, 5pm-8pm. Performance at 7pm.
Chicago --- Alfedena Gallery is pleased to host the Contemporary Arts Council’s 14th annual show of emerging artists, Shape-shifters, curated by critic Jason Foumberg. There will be an opening reception for the artists on Friday, May 23rd from 5-8 pm. A performance to be held in the gallery by artist Brian Getnick the evening of the reception will start at 7 pm. The exhibition is free and open to the public.
Like a whale’s vacuum-suck mouth that efficiently consumes the ocean, we too devour our surrounds. The art objects in Shape-shifters are remnants of digested culture, re-shaped and re-purposed. Olympiad bodies, zombies, household gods, and urban myths: by holding many pieces of culture in balance inside us, we become a conglomerate body—an animate spawn of the culture that nourishes us.
Mike Andrews’ sculptural materials include foam, knitted yarn, ceramic, plastic tubing and more. Reed Barrow presents two sculptures, a ghost and a wolf-man, respectively. Brian Getnick’s performance activated sculpture will come to life at the opening reception. Sarah Hicks’ interchangeable ceramic sculptures reinterpret the knick-knack idiom. Chris Kerr lives joyously in a world populated by zombies, ghosts, and witches. Elliot Layda thrusts and contorts his body with krump-style dancing. Josh Mannis is the master of immortal arts. Samia Mirza’s character sculptures live fantastical lives. Melissa Pokorny marries found objects to deduce their irrational destinies. Mindy Rose Schwartz awakens the living-dead by feeding them treasure.
Jason Foumberg is art editor at Newcity.
This is the Contemporary Arts Council’s 14th annual exhibition of new and emerging Chicago-based artists. In order to support contemporary art and artists in Chicago, to seek out the new and valuable, and to foster the insight and enjoyment that good art provides, the Contemporary Arts Council works each year with an independent curator to flesh out his or her idea.
A catalog in the form of an exquisite corpse game is available with essays by Jesse Ball, Reed Barrow, Elijah Burgher, Jason Foumberg, Brian Getnick, and Dan Gleason.
Alfedena Gallery is located at 434 W. Ontario in Chicago. Gallery hours: Tuesday - Friday, 10am - 6pm. Saturday, 10am - 5pm. For more information contact gallery director John Brunetti, 312.944.4340, john@alfedenagallery.com.
www.contemporaryartscouncil.org
www.alfedenagallery.com
GUNS & AMMO
A Group Show @ 40000
October 19 – November 17, 2007
119 N. Peoria, #2C
Chicago, Illinois 60607
Mike Andrews
Amanda Barr
Libby Black
Zac Buchner
Chris Caccamise
Sarah Hicks
Taylor Hokanson
Jo Hormuth
Ryan Humphrey
Yoko Inoue
Rich Mansfield
Sze Lin Pang
Roberto Visani
anonymous collection
A Group Show @ 40000
October 19 – November 17, 2007
119 N. Peoria, #2C
Chicago, Illinois 60607
Mike Andrews
Amanda Barr
Libby Black
Zac Buchner
Chris Caccamise
Sarah Hicks
Taylor Hokanson
Jo Hormuth
Ryan Humphrey
Yoko Inoue
Rich Mansfield
Sze Lin Pang
Roberto Visani
anonymous collection
