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For Immediate Release
Contact: Crystal C. Pernell
Marketing and Communications Manager
Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S. Cornell, Chicago, IL 60615
773-324-5520 ext. 1003
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The Precession
By Mark Jeffery and Judd Morrissey
Events
Image: The Precession, installation view
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Goat Island Dance Film Screening with Lucy Cash
February 22, 6-8pm
FREE
Dance Films Kino curator Sarah Best and Art Center artists-in-residence Mark Jeffery and Judd Morrissey present a free screening and dicussion of short films by UK-based artist Lucy Cash. The films on view were created in collaboration with the fomer Chicago-based performance group Goat Island.
The Precession Performances
Friday, March 4- Saturday, March 5; 7:30pm
Sunday, March 6; 6:30pm
Artists-in-residence, Mark Jeffery and Judd Morrissey present the second installment of their exhibition The Precession; three choreographed performances in the Hyde Park Art Center's main gallery. Each performance embodies Busby Berkeley-esque choreography representing movements indicative of labor. The durational performance will pull the virtual into the physical, taking the digital images seen on the Art Center's facade and translating them into the movement.
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Conrad Freiburg: It Is What It Isn't
Events
Image: Conrad Freiburg, Harmonograph #40, 2010, ink on paper, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches
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The Empty Set
Friday, April 29; 7-9pm
FREE
Visiting and local musicians offer their musical interpretations of the Void. Live performances by Jason Ajemian, Bill Mackay, Mississippi Gabe Carter, Steve Lacy, Andy Hall, Frank Van Duerm, and others.
Harmony in Three Parts
Saturday, May 7; 2-3:30pm
An AXIS Chicago Program in partnership with teh Graham School, University of Chicago
$15 for AXIS and Hyde Park Art Center members; $20 for general public
Explore the many facets of harmony with artist Conrad Freiburg, physicist Heinrich Jaeger, and musicologist Larry Zbikowski through Freiburg's current exhibition It Is What It Isn't. This multi-disciplinary discussion and demonstration will allow three scholars to examine how different types of knowledge inform our thinking and how each of these ways of thinking converge and diverge on the subject of harmony, movement, and language.
Drink, Draw, Destroy
Friday, May 13; 7pm-11pm
$15 Suggested donation
For a sping on the regular Cocktails & Clay program, Drink, Draw, Destroy combines a late night class with a drawing party. Teaching artist Jeriah Hildwine instructs visitors on simple drawings, while Conrad Freiburg uses his SCUE machine to destroy small objects. The event also features a live DJ and a cash bar featuring drink specials from Chant Restaurant.
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The Havana Project
March 6-June 12, 2011
Exhibition Reception
Sunday, March 20, 3-5pm
Gallery 2
Gallery Hours:
Monday - Thursday: 10am-8pm
Friday - Saturday 10am-5pm
Sunday: 12pm-5pm
Image:
Morgan Alexander and Kate Mack, One Eyeball, Two Hands (Fuster; Jaimanitas, Havana, Cuba), 2009, 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches
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Chicago (January 2011) - Hyde Park Art Center students contribute to the vibrancy of public art in Cuba through The Havana Project, on view in Gallery 2 of the Hyde Park Art Center from March 13 until June 12, 2011. Initiated by Morgan Alexander and Kate Mack with teaching artist Mary Tepper, the cross-cultural collaborative exhibition will present clay tiles made at the Art Center. After exhibiting here in the USA the tiles will be incorporated into an outdoor installation in Havana, Cuba by self-taught Cuban artist Jose Fuster. The Havana Project gives a celebratory send-off to work by Lorraine Brochu, Constance Lange, Mary Tepper, Mary Ruth Yoe and Norma Zarris, along with photographs documenting Fuster's installations by Morgan Alexander and Kate Mack.
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Betsy Odom: Sis Boom Bah
March 13 - June 19, 2011
Exhibition Reception:
Sunday, March 20, 3-5pm
Cleve Carney Gallery
Gallery Hours:
Monday - Thursday: 10am-8pm
Friday - Saturday: 10am-5pm
Sunday: 12pm-5pm
Image:
Double Whistle, 2009, silver, felt, 6 x 2.5 x 2.5 inches
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Chicago, IL (January 2011) - Sis Boom Bah, new work by Betsy Odom, cheers up the Hyde Park Art Center's Cleve Carney Gallery from March 13 - June 12, 2011. Double whistles, flower-adorned baseball mitts, baby blue satin-lined football pads; these hybrid sporting accessories suggest the softer, prettier, and more ambiguously sexual side of organized competitive games. In Sis Boom Bah, Odom investigates organized sports as a way to defy social constructions of gender, identity and sexuality.
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