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threewalls announces: Things to Be Next
ToNovember 5th,
2010
threewalls
annouces:
THINGS TO BE NEXT TO
Featuring new and recent work by
Alberto Aguilar (Chicago), Peter Fagundo (Chicago),
Warren Rosser (Kansas City), James Woodfill (Kansas City)
Co-curated by Kate Hackman (CSF) and Shannon Stratton
(threewalls)
THINGS TO BE NEXT TO: November 5 –December 11, 2010
threewalls / www.three-walls.org
119 North Peoria #2C, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening reception: Friday, November 5, 6-9pm
Public roundtable conversation with artists + curators: Saturday November 6,
1pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday,
11am-5pm
CHICAGO: Developed as a collaborative project where artists from each partner
city would exhibit in the other, Hackman and Stratton settled on a group show
that addressed the conditions of creative production, in terms of studio and
exhibition space, unique to each city. Whereas Kansas City might enjoy ample
real estate options for making and exhibiting, Chicago artists frequently work
out of their home and curators often find their footing curating out of
apartments. For THINGS TO BE NEXT TO the curators selected work by four artists
that reflected those conditions, and in their work, evidence of the
site-specificity of their studio and city in terms of space, architecture and
intimacy are apparent in their objects and their
materiality.
Pete Fagundo and Alberto Aguilar, Chicago based artists, have their studios at
home. Their work reflects that domestic environment in their choice of
materials, scale, and in Aguilar’s on-going collaboration with his
children. The work is humble in its production, much of it requiring a close,
intimate consideration. Fagundo’s work includes small spaces within his
constructions that the viewer must be close to consider; Aguilar constructs
sculpture in his home and documents it – notifying the viewer that they
must be on intimate terms with Aguilar’s family to have experienced much
of it first hand. In contrast, Warren Rosser and Jim Woodfill work away from
home, in expansive, high-ceilinged studios in the kind of industrial building
characteristic of downtown Kansas City. Woodfill’s sculptural
installations and Rosser’s fabric and carpet
“paintings” respond to and integrate the architectures of these
spaces, extending across walls and floors, and are calibrated to be experienced
incrementally, from a range of perspectives and views enabled by the spaces they
inhabit.
The exhibit will also address the difference in exhibition venues for similar
not-for-profit organizations. In Kansas City, THINGS TO BE NEXT TO will be on
view at Charlotte Street Foundation’s spacious La Esquina warehouse
gallery. In Chicago, the same work will appear considerably different as it
moves to threewalls smaller and more informal setting. THINGS TO BE NEXT TO
calls attention to the idea of sculpture, architecture and ideas of
monumentality as the objects’ humble materiality calls into question how
scale, both of a thing and its context, can shift perception of its meaning and
significance.
About the Artists:
Alberto Aguilar
Alberto Aguilar was born in Chicago, IL in 1974 and raised in Cicero, IL. In
1997, he received his BFA in painting and drawing from The School of the Art
Institute of Chicago and was married. Alberto had his first child in 1998 during
a two-year hiatus in Phoenix, AZ, then returned to Chicago to receive his MFA in
painting and drawing from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and
purchased his first home in Cicero, IL in 2001. For five years Alberto taught
part-time at various colleges throughout the Chicago area. With the assistance
of students, he painted several murals in and around Chicago. In 2004 Alberto
had his last child, bringing the total to four. Also in 2004, Alberto got his
first full-time job at McHenry County College in Crystal Lake, IL, where he was
appointed as Professor of Art History. In 2005 he took part in Blue Sky Project,
a summer arts community and
residency program, which opened him up to a more direct mode of collaboration
with other artists and youth. Around the same time Alberto started documenting
everyday occurrences, family life and household chores and designating them as
his artwork. In 2006 he was appointed as a full-time Professor of Art at Harold
Washington College in downtown Chicago where he teaches painting, drawing and
art appreciation. In 2007 Alberto started Pedestrian Project, an art initiative
dedicated to making art accessible and available to people from all walks of
life. Alberto currently lives on the southwest side of Chicago, on the path of
airplanes, near Midway airport. In his current work, every aspect of his daily
life and exchanges with others are treated as creative acts.
http://albertoaguilar.carbonmade.com
Peter Fagundo
Peter Fagundo was born in St. Cloud, Minnesota in 1971 and lives and works in
Evanston, Illinois. He received his BS in Psychology and Fine Art from Regis
University, Denver, Colorado in 1997, and his MFA in painting and drawing from
the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2003. His work has been exhibited
at venues including Devening Projects and Editions, Chicago (where he is
represented), boom, Oak Park, IL; Hudson Franklin, NY; Hyde Park Art Center,
Chicago; Acuna Hanson Gallery, Los Angeles, among many others. He is an
instructor at the School of the Art Institute Chicago and curator of ETF
(Essential Transmutation Frequency), his home, studio and a space where he
curates work from artists whose work interests me and which is presented in
direct relationship to a domestic space. He is former co-curator of The Pond,
which organized group exhibitions in a storefront gallery in
Chicago’s Westtown area, championing issues of artist’s
intentionality, art objects’ discretion and the conversation between
makers and viewers. http://peterfagundo.com
Warren Rosser
Warren Rosser is the William T. Kemper Distinguished Professor of Painting and
Chair of the Painting Department at the Kansas City Art Institute. Born in
Wales, he moved to the United States in 1972. Solo exhibitions of his work have
been presented at University of Leeds, England; Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City,
Missouri; Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis; Epsten Gallery at Village Shalom,
Overland Park, Kansas; Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St Joseph, Missouri; South
Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, South Dakota; Bemis Center for Contemporary Art,
Omaha, Nebraska; and Review Studios Exhibition Space. His work has also been
presented in group exhibitions nationally and internationally. Rosser is
currently an artist in residence at Review Studios. http://warrenrosser.com
James Woodfill
James Woodfill is a 1980 graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute, who has
lived and worked as an artist in Kansas City since his graduation. For the
majority of his career he has concentrated on installation art, with numerous
solo shows in galleries and museums throughout the region, most recently at
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska. His work has been included
in a number of exhibits both nationally and internationally. His installation
work has been reviewed extensively, including reviews in Art in America, Art
Papers, The New Art Examiner, and Sculpture Magazine. Woodfill has also worked
extensively in the Public Art realm along with privately commissioned sculptural
installations in public spaces. His public work has been widely recognized with
numerous awards from the American Institute of Architects, and it has been
included twice in the Americans for the
Arts/Public Art Network annual “Year in Review.” Woodfill is
currently an artist in residence at Review Studios.
http://www.jameswoodfill.com/
About Charlotte Street Foundation:
Charlotte Street Foundation (CSF) is a nationally leading non-profit arts
organization that supports and recognizes outstanding artists in Greater Kansas
City; presents, promotes, enhances and encourages the visual, performing and
interdisciplinary arts; and fosters economic development in the urban core of
Kansas City, MO. Through a range of initiatives and partnership programs, CSF
cultivates an environment in Kansas City where artists and art thrive.
Charlotte Street Foundation was established in 1997 in response to needs
articulated by artists and those who saw the arts as a valuable creative, social
and economic resource to the city. Charlotte Street Foundation’s vision
describes a vibrant city where artists are cultivated, respected and admired by
leaders in the business, political, philanthropic and civic communities, as well
as by a significant segment of the general public. The resulting support for
artists leads artists to participate more fully in our community and attracts
artists from other cities and the region. Visit www.charlottestreet.org for more
information.
About
threewalls:
Founded in 2003, threewalls’ is dedicated to increasing Chicago’s
cultural capital by cultivating contemporary art practice and discourse. With a
focus on the practices of local artists and administrators or visiting artists
interested in regional history and culture, we aim to create a locus of exchange
between local, national and international contemporary art communities that
builds Chicago’s reputation as an important site for creative research and
production.
threewalls operates three programs: six exhibitions per year that support
local artists through SOLO and group exhibitions; a series of public programs
that explore current ideas in art and culture (The Public Culture Lecture
Series, threewallsSALONS and a biannual symposium on grass-roots and community
organized cultural administration) and a residency that invites artists from
around the world to engage in regionally site-specific research or projects.
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