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Press Release

WOMAN MADE GALLERY PRESENTS

Group and Solo Exhibitions

Sept. 9 - Oct. 27, 2011

Artwork by Rachel Dawson

Chicago, IL - August 28, 2011 Woman Made Gallery is proud to present the group exhibition "The Project" and solo shows by Maria Gaspar and Mary King. The opening reception is on September 9 from 6 to 9 p.m.

The Project
Opening Reception: Friday, Sept. 9, 6-9 p.m.

Set of 80 slides of durational performance by Hope Esser

"The Project" was an invitation to artists to submit work in any media that involved persons outside the typical gallery sphere in its creation and/or its exhibition--work that is interactive, interdisciplinary, and/or collaborative.

Artists represented in "The Project" are Joan Arbeiter, Indrani Ashe & Arum Prameshwari, Rachel Dawson, Hope Esser, Heather Freeman, Terra Fuller, Whitney Huber in collaboration with David Follmer and Elizabeth Moretti, Elena Katsulis & Erin Peisert, Marjorie Kouns, Lily Mayfield & Jesse Ruff, Perceptual Motion with Lin Shook, Hyun Ji Sim, Pat Swanson, Georgia Wall, and Kay Westhues.

Exhibition Curator: Mary King

Mary King is a professional artist and educator with a BFA from the University of Chicago, and and MFA from Western Michigan University. She has had four solo shows at Denise Bibro Fine Arts in New York, and is currently represented by Sherry Washington Gallery in Detroit. Her work is in collections, including Western Michigan University and Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Michigan. She is a recipient for an artist residency in 2012 at the Vermont Studio Center.

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Sept. 9 - Oct. 27, 2011 - Opening Reception: Friday, Sept. 9, 6-9 p.m.

"All That Also Means to See" by Maria Gaspar

Opening Reception: Friday, Sept. 9, 6-9 p.m

Installation by Maria Gaspar

Maria Gaspar is an interdisciplinary artist whose work includes sculpture, installation, performance, and writing. Gaspar is interested in location as a catalyst for ideas, where reality and fiction collapse into mythological sites and historical mutabilities. She has presented her work at various museums and galleries, including "Oblation for a Parade" at The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in 2009, "National" at Illinois State University, and "Ground Floor" at the Hyde Park Art Center in 2010.

Her solo show, "All That Also Means to See," investigates spatial transformations, blurred places, and other imaginings. It includes the installation of a durational, inflated structure that inhales and exhales every five minutes. This installation will be the first artwork featured in WMG's new multimedia exhibition space.

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Sept. 9 - Oct. 27, 2011 - Opening Reception: Friday, Sept. 9, 6-9 p.m.

"War Stories" by Mary King

Opening Reception: Friday, Sept. 9, 6-9 p.m

Artwork by Mary King

Mary King is a professional artist and educator with a BFA from the University of Chicago and an MFA from Western Michigan University. She is currently represented by Sherry Washington Gallery in Detroit. Her work is in collections, including Western Michigan University and Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Michigan.

Her solo show, "War Stories," is the depiction of the emotional part of war memories of old people in Nebraska and young people in Chicago, with emphasis on World Wars I and II and the Iraq War.

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Sept. 9 - Oct. 27, 2011 - Opening Reception: Friday, Sept. 9, 6-9 p.m.

Reading: The Project

Curated by Nina Corwin

Sunday, October 9, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m

A collection of interdisciplinary and collaborative artists, bringing us Word and Music, Word and Video, Word and Dance and Word-Word (duo and group) pieces.

Chicago Artist Month Open House with

Dance Performance by Perceptual Motion

Created by Lin Shook

Friday, October 14, 6:00-8:00 p.m

As part of "The Project," Woman Made Gallery will be hosting a special dance performance on October 14, 2011 from 6 to 8 p.m. Created by Lin Shook of Perceptual Motion Dance, the performance will feature a structured dance improvisation based on The Luscher Color Test. Its principle is that accurate psychological information can be gained about people through their choices and rejections of colors. A three-dance performance based on Luscher Color Test results will occur every 40 minutes.

For more information about Perceptual Motion see www.perceptualmotiondance.com.

About Woman Made Gallery

Woman Made Gallery is a tax-exempt, not-for-profit organization founded in 1992. Its goal is to support women in the arts by providing opportunities, awareness, and advocacy. It specifically accomplishes this through thematic exhibitions that help raise public awareness and recognition of women's cultural contributions.

Woman Made Gallery is supported in part by grants from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency; a CityArts Program II grant from the City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs; the Arts Work Fund for Organizational Development, a donor-advised fund of the Chicago Community Trust; the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation; The Efroymson Family Fund, a CICF Fund; a major anonymous donor; and the generosity of its members and contributors.

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