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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
 
 
Stephen Lapthisophon:
The Construction of a National Identity
January 30-May 22, 2011
 
Exhibition Reception:
Sunday, March 20, 3-5pm
 
Gallery 5
Gallery Hours:
Monday - Thursday: 10am-8pm
Friday - Saturday: 10am-5pm
Sunday: 12pm-5pm
 
 
Image:
Stephen Lapthisophon, Untitled, 2009, saffron ink on paper, 22 x 30 inches 

Chicago (December 2010) -  Nourishment returns to contemporary art in more ways than one in the upcoming solo exhibition The Construction of National Identity by Stephen Lapthisophon at the Hyde Park Art Center from January 30 until May 22, 2011. The recent work by Lapthisophon addresses issues of place, identity, and history through the acts of the hand, including drawing, writing and preparing food.
 
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Police and Thieves 
February 13-May 29, 2011
Curated by Karla Diaz and Mario Ybarra Jr.

Work by: Gusmano Cesaretti, Megan Cranston, Los Angeles Poverty Department Collective, Amitis Motevalli, Ray CRO Noland, Ben Stone and Arnoldo Vargas
 
Exhibition Reception
Sunday, March 20, 3-5pm
 
Gallery 4
Gallery Hours:
Monday - Thursday: 10am-8pm
Friday - Saturday 10am-5pm
Sunday: 12pm-5pm
 
 
 
 
 
Image:
Arnoldo Vargas, Memoriam: Bike Misdemeanor leads to Post-Injunction 'Officer Involved Shooting' Watson and L St., March 13, 2008 (detail), 2010, Lightjet print, 20 x 30 inches

Chicago (December 2010) - The Hyde Park Art Center presents Police and Thieves, a provocative group exhibition guest-curated by artists Karla Diaz and Mario Ybarra Jr., and on view from February 13 until May 29, 2011. The exhibition features a variety of work by contemporary artists, including Gusmano Cesaretti, Megan Cranston, Los Angeles Poverty Department Collective, Amitis Motevalli, Ray CRO Noland, Ben Stone and Arnoldo Vargas. Police and Thieves brings together current artistic production in Los Angels and Chicago that deal with the historical and inherently conflicting relationship of power between those who enforce the laws and those who break them.
 
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Conrad Freiburg:
It Is What It Isn't
March 20-June 26, 2011
 
Exhibition Reception:
Sunday, March 20, 3-5pm
 
Gallery 1 & The Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery
Gallery Hours:
Monday - Thursday: 10am-8pm
Friday - Saturday 10am-5pm 
Sunday: 12pm-5pm
 
 
 
Image: Conrad Freiburg, Harmonograph #40, 2010, ink on paper, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches
 
Chicago (December 2010) - What does Nothing look and feel like? Artist Conrad Freiburg invites the public to experience the possibilities of the Void in his exhibition It Is What It Isn't, on view at the Hyde Park Art Center from March 20 through June 26, 2011. The interactive sculptural installation in the Art Center's main gallery will include a large-scale wooden drawing machine, a hand-crafted telescope, musical instruments and a "destruction station." It Is What It Isn't will also utilize the Art Center's garage door feature on the facade to allow passers-by a chance to view and enter the main gallery directly from the sidewalk.
 
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