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Mindy Rose Schwartz: New Work
threewalls
annouces:
MINDY ROSE SCHWARTZ
New
Work
January 14th- February 26th, 2011
www.three-walls.org
119 North Peoria #2C, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening reception: Friday, January 14th, 6-9pm
Artist talk: Thursday, February 10, 7pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday,
11am-5pm
CHICAGO: Certain conventions of American home decorating and interior design
from the seventies and eighties and the mundane domestic objects featured in
that décor become fantastic when in the hands of Mindy Rose Schwartz.
Working in ceramics, paper, and plaster, Schwartz’s sculptural
installations blur the boundaries between recognizable household trappings and
almost nightmarish manifestations from the natural world that encroach upon and
overtake their environments. Schwartz is interested in the mutability of those
sentimental objects and surroundings that absorb our personal histories and
accompanying emotions. Her final installations seem animated with the drama of
everyday life, becoming monstrous, ghostly or otherwise charmed by the
sentiments they have been repository
for.
In Evocative Objects, Sherry Turkle describes how “when an object is
lost, a subject is found.” Objects, once disparaged as excess, hobbyism or
perversion, are actually the centerpieces of emotional life and provocations to
thought. Schwartz’s work explores this rich territory, where objects
become container for feelings and desire and move into the magical and uncanny.
She traps the moment when things morph into the meaningful, loaded with the
‘people’ who chose, cherished and projected onto
them.
Mindy Rose Schwartz has shown her sculpture and installations throughout the
United States with exhibitions in Houston, TX; Brooklyn, NY; St. Louis and
Kansas City, MO; Miami, FL and Chicago. Her work has been written about in
artnet Magazine, Beautiful Decay (online), Time Out Chicago, The Chicago
Tribune, Newcity, ArtForum, Frieze Magazine, Art in American and Whitewalls. She
was the recipient of a 3Arts Fellowship to Ragdale in 2010 and a Frankel
Foundation Full Fellowship Award to the Vermont Studio Center in 2005. Schwartz
earned her MFA at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
www.mindyroseschwartz.com
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.
threewalls is also joint administrator of The Propeller Fund with Gallery 400 at
The University of Illinois at
Chicago.
threewalls is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council,
a state agency; by a CityArts Program I grant from the City of Chicago
Department of Cultural Affairs; The Chicago Community Trust; The Cliff Dwellers
Foundation for the Arts; ArtsWork Fund for Organizational Development; The
Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation; The Alphawood Foundation; The
MacArthur Fund for Arts & Culture at the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation;
3Arts Chicago; and major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for
the Visual Arts. threewalls is sponsored by Pernod Absinthe. Support threewalls
by visiting our website and making a tax-deductible donation:
www.three-walls.org/about/support/.
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