FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: ACRE Projects presents Justin Block: Art of the Material opening November 14

Art of the material is a reaction to the outpacing of culture by high technology. It extrapolates an actual presence for an art object through the methods of self-projection, emergent behavior, and the exploitation of physical laws. Through sonic art, electronics, found object sculpture and drawing, Block attempts to create something not infinitely copyable and thus allow it to maintain its solidarity of existence.

Justin Block is a 2009 MFA graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago whose focus was experimental technological works and electronic hardware. He is experienced in many art forms from printmaking to sonic art.

ACRE (Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibition) was founded in 2010 with the ambition to provide the arts community with an affordable, cooperative, and dialogue-oriented residency program. The residency itself takes place each summer in rural southwest Wisconsin and brings together artists from across disciplines and levels of experience to create a regenerative community of cultural producers. Over the course of the following year ACRE endeavors to further support its residents by providing venues for exhibitions, idea exchange, interdisciplinary collaboration, and experimental projects.

ACRE Projects is a new space in Pilsen presenting weekly art events every Sunday evening. Each of ACRE's 70+ residents are given the keys to the space for one week to do with it what they will. Additional exhibitions will be hosted by a number of local galleries and alternative spaces.

More information about ACRE can be found at www.acreresidency.org