FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

contact: Emily Green

847.778.5946

info@acreresidency.org

COWBOY

new works by YASI GHANBARI

Nov 12-13, 2011

Opening Reception: Saturday, November 12th, 6-9

Open Hours: Sunday, November 13th, 1-4

ACRE Projects

1913 W 17th Street

ACRE Projects hosts an opening reception on Saturday, November 12, 2010 from 6-9pm at 1913 West 17th Street, Chicago, IL. ACRE Projects is proud to present YASI GHANBARI: COWBOY, the next installment in ACRE's year-long series of solo exhibitions by 2011 ACRE summer residents.

COWBOY

Hello Yasi

I'm Bill Harms, senior instructor from the International Graphoanalysis Society; I began studying GA in 1970. So many people do not understand that there is lots of misinformed graphology in the world. If they would study Graphoanalysis, developed by the American genius M.N. Bunker, follow it carefully and refuse to mix in other graphology, then they would be amazed at how accurate it really is. But if I pick up a book on some other graphology, I'm disgusted by the vagueness and varied interpretations given the strokes in their writing samples. A most frustrating thing to me is how many people who studied our course years ago insisted in bringing in other graphology, and polluting a really accurate, pure product.

Is the piece of writing you talk about is lengthy – and for some reason you'd like to get the analytical comments on audio? We can accurately identify 125 personality traits, and I can take over 20 hours on a full written analysis. If you're interested in something recorded, it sounds like it would be just a personality sketch--something pretty short. Still, I can sum up the essential personality in not so many words because I've been working for Headquarters for decades.

Let me know some more specifics. Possibly you could send a copy of the writing via email or even via snail mail to me--

Bill Harms

Oprah, 2011, Screenprinted director's chair

YASI GHANBARI (b. 1984) is an artist living and working in Chicago. She received a BA from Oberlin College in 2007 and an MFA in Film & Video in 2010 from School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Eleanor Roosevelt/horticulture, defense mechanisms, “installation”, masterworks, feminism, set design, bio pics, interpassivity, guilt, reference, “mark making”, and Sigmund Freud.

More information about Yasi Ghanbari can be found at www.yasighanbari.com

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