AUTUMN ARTS
1. Join us for threewallsSOLO exhibitions:
Diana Guerrero-Maciá's The Uncertainty of Signs
Jessie Mott's A Day for Cake and Accidents (project room.)
NOVEMBER 2 â DECEMBER 15, 2012
OPENING RECEPTION: NOVEMBER 2, 6-9 PM
Artist Talks: Saturday, December 1, 2 PM
2. Artist-in-Research Project:
Sara Daleiden of Friends of Blue Dress Park
3. Black Utopia LP now on sale
4. Save the Date for MDW Fair, November 9, 10, 11 at Mana Contemporary
5. The Propeller Fund Award Ceremony, Friday, November 9th, 7-8:30 PM
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1. threewallsSOLO:
With hybrid material use bringing into conflict modernist histories of collage, craft, textiles, design and painting, Diana Guerrero-Maciá’s work suggests a new relationship between these histories. She makes surfaces and objects that question their own classification and reference literary and scientific representations of archetypes, symbols, and signs through her interests in abstraction, representation, and semiotics. By employing hand mechanical processes in her works, Guerrero-Maciá adds both a dialogue of material protest as well as a dismantling of art and craft hierarchies. The Uncertainty of Signs
is a body of work comprised of thirty-two pieces, all using Guerrero-Maciá’s densely researched and complex deployment of destabilized signs and signifiers.
Guerrero-Maciá’s show will be accompanied by a bifold with an essay by critic and historian, Jenni Sorkin.
Jessie Mott will debut A Day for Cake and Accidents,
which completes the trilogy of short collaborative animations with Steve Reinke. Mott creates the drawings, writes the script, and records the voices; Reinke constructs the soundtrack and animates her drawings. A Day for Cake and Accidents features a cast of animal characters - each of a different, though often indeterminate, species - who struggle with impending astrological despair and engage in absurdist dialogs, confessing various melancholic desires and transgressive secrets in poetic cartoon abjection. As in the previous Mott/Reinke collaborations, non-actors from the local art community will voice the characters and the incidental music will be constructed from Madonna and Karlheinz Stockhausen samples. Mott will also include drawings and assorted sculptural objects that are informed by the video.
About the Artists:
Diana Guerrero-Maciá’s solo shows include Artpace; San Antonio, The Museum of Contemporary Art; Chicago, Bodybuilder & Sportsman, Forum for Contemporary Art; St. Louis, Tony Wight Gallery, and Traywick Contemporary; Berkeley, CA. Group shows include the Pera Museum; Istanbul, The Bronx Museum; NYC, Arena, LA, The Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, and MOCA Detroit. She has created several public art commissions for the Public Art Fund, NYC, and the Chicago Public Art Foundation. Visiting artists lectures include, University of Nevada Las Vegas Graduate School of Art, Harold Arts Residency, Burren College of Art; Ballyvaughan, Ireland, Savannah College of Art & Design, Graduate Painting Department, National Institute of Design; Ahmedabad, India & Washington University, St. Louis School of Art & Architecture. She is currently an Associate
Professor in the Fiber & Material Studies Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Guerrero-Maciá earned an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, a BFA from Villanova University, and studied at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She has been awarded the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, multiple residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Senior Residency at Oregon College of Art & Craft, and a letterpress residency at Penland School of Craft. She lives with her husband and son in Chicago.
Jessie Mott is an artist living and working in Chicago, IL, using a variety of media that includes drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, and writing about a menagerie of human, animal and celestial bodies. Her work has recently been included in group shows at devening projects + editions, The Hyde Park Art Center, Gallery 400, and Swimming Pool Project Space. Her writing has been featured in Blast Counterblast, edited by Steve Reinke and Anthony Elms and published by Mercer Union/WhiteWalls. Mott received an MFA from Northwestern University and a BFA from New York University. She lives and works in Chicago, IL. www.jessiemott.com
2. Artist-in-Research Resident Sara Daleiden and Friends of Blue Dress Park
October 19 - November 7
Project Room Installation at threewalls, November 2, 6-9 PM and at MDW in the Publications Section
Anti-places can be social.
Friends of Blue Dress Park explore underused, overlooked urban environmentsâBlue Dress Park spacesâin order to cultivate value in marginal public resources. Based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the organization fosters creative and critical inquiry into relationships between cultural legacy, social identity, and public space. If you are curious about our values, stop by the project room on November 2, 6-9 PM or at MDW to become a friend, to speak with a representative of our board and to experience a representation of the park. We seek friends in Chicago for we believe there are Blue Dress Park spaces here too! Friendship is FREE! To become a friend, please visit www.bluedresspark.org.
3. Black Utopia LP for Sale!
In conjunction with Cauleen Smith’s recently closed exhibition The Journeyman
at threewalls, Black Utopia culminates a two-year research project of the phenom Sun Ra. In collaboration with the Experimental Sound Studio’s 700-tape Sun Ra/El Saturn Collection in the Creative Audio Archive, Cauleen integrates recordings to resurrect the spirit of the Afro-Futurist jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer performer, and philosopher. Smith’s contemporary arrangement of Ra’s cosmic riffings, both musical and verbal, includes rehearsals with the Arkestra, solo performances, sound effects, tunings, lectures and interviews, resulting in a unique document. Integrating the historical with the contemporary, Smith includes interview material from as recent as 2011 and sounds her own voice reading a list of Arkestra names. Executive Director Lou Mallozzi of ESS says, “the project combines historical interrogation and
innovation, and the result is a four-sided Afro-Futurist vinyl spiral.”
2 LP set, pressed in color vinyl with hand-silk screened cover with an accompanying booklet. A must for record, artist multiple and Sun-Ra collectors!
Available in two editions here
4. Save the Date: MDW FAIR
November 9th Vernissage Opening Party 7 PM - 12 AM
November 10th and 11th: Open Hours 12 â 6 PM
at Mana Contemporary, 2233 South Throop Street Chicago, IL 60608.
Formed in spring 2011 as a collaborative project between the Public Media Institute, Document, Roots & Culture and threewalls, the MDW Fair is a showcase for independent art initiatives, spaces, galleries and artist groups, highlighting artist-run activities and experimental culture locally, nationally and internationally. Featuring more than 75 exhibitors, publishers and performers, the MDW Fair is the world’s premier event for grassroots and independent art culture. Utilizing Mana Contemporary Art Center’s newly opened branch in Chicago, MDW has a packed schedule of performances, artist projects, and events over the course of the weekend.
All information on the MDW Fair here
Schedule of Events and Performances here
5. SAVE THE DATE: Propeller Fund Award Ceremony!
Propeller Fund Award Ceremony 7 PM - 8:30 PM, featuring Chances Dances DJs and free refreshments @ The MDW Fair
In conjunction with the MDW Fair, please visit our booth to see work by the 2011 Propeller Fund awardees and join us Friday to congratulate this years winners!
The Propeller Fund is a grant joint administrated by Gallery 400 and threewalls, that awards artists working collaboratively in the creation of new public culture. Each year we award $50,000 in grant money to 15 groups from the Cook County region.
The Propeller Fund recognizes that small, self-organized operations constitute a large catalyst for the creative activity and vitality of the Chicago visual art world. These projects are responsible for much of the complexity and richness in the art community.
From artist organized events, informal roundtables and workshops, collectively organized exhibition spaces, and publishing endeavors, a large number of the activities that actively sustain Chicago's artists are informal, anti-institutional, or inconsistent in public presentation. These three attributes simultaneously fuel projects and disqualify them from traditional funding sources.
This informal and self-organized creative activity is abundant in Chicago. Propeller Fund is conceptualized to stimulate its further growth; to encourage more varied models; to spread the activities into more diverse areas; to promote the public's interaction with, and public recognition of such activities; and to spark ambitions beyond current formats.
To find out how you can support Propeller Fund, contact us: info@propellerfund.org.
threewalls booth will be featuring 2011 Propeller Fund Awardees
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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 four programs: six exhibitions per year that support local artists through SOLO and group exhibitions; a curated subscription of art multiples by Chicago and region artists; a series of public programs that explore current ideas in art and culture (threewallsSALONS and the biannual Hand-in-Glove 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 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.
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