FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
contact:
Emily Green
847.778.5946
info@acreresidency.org
CRITICAL OF TAN
new works by ERIN LELAND
January 30-31, 2011
Opening Reception: Sunday, Jan 30, 4-8
Open Hours: Monday, Jan 31, noon-4
ACRE Projects
1913 W 17th Street
ACRE Projects hosts an opening reception on Sunday, January
30, 2011 from 4-8pm at 1913 West 17th Street, Chicago, IL. ACRE Projects is
proud to present ERIN LELAND: CRITICAL OF
TAN, the next installment in ACRE's year-long series of solo
exhibitions by 2010 ACRE summer residents.
Erin
Leland’s CRITICAL OF TAN, a
series of glances askew at herself, began with photographing strangers as a live mannequin
through a shop window, continued with attempting to reclaim explicit photographs
inadvertently inherited by two Midwestern strangers, and includes Accidental Sightings, a poem chronicling her attempts to avoid her
image in reflective surfaces. At the heart of all the work is their existence as
encounters. She is currently reinterpreting her own image through autobiographical
retellings.
Hronn Axelsdottir, 2010
ERIN LELAND, a performer,
photographer and writer, recently graduated with an MFA from the
University of Illinois, Chicago. In the Spring of 2010, Erin's work appeared
in the New Insight exhibition at Art Chicago, Iceberg Gallery and Swimming Pool
Project Space. She was a resident this fall at the Watermill Center,
where she undertook an autobiographical re-hanging of pieces from Robert Wilson’s private
art collection. She looks
forward to residence at the Banff Centre in the spring.
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
