After...

AFTER...MFA

 
SAIC 2012 MFA Thesis Show Opening After Party

Friday, April 27th

following the opening of the thesis show

Featuring Sound Art by:

Daniel Luedtke
The North
Robby MacBain
Eddie Breitweiser
Alex Valentine

Special Thanks to GURL DON'T BE DUMB!

JACK & JILL

Friday, March 9
6-10pm
The Carousel Space Project
1310 N. Hoyne Ave.

JACK & JILL showcases the works of Deb Handler and Alex Valentine.
Both artists worked in response to each other in preparation for the
show. Deb Handler presents her ceramic work along with recent
drawings. Alex Valentine presents new experimental offset prints with
a focus on monoprints and assembled work.

Assemble

Assemble
Sat. 3/3/12
8:30pm-11pm
The Carousel Space Project
1310 N. Hoyne Ave.

The process of “assembling” is a progression wherein the gathering and collecting of components builds for a common purpose, yet the pieces remain self-subsistent. In the art realm, the notion of assemblages builds on remix practices, which blur distinctions between invented and borrowed work. Similarly, the act of “assembling” refers to the congregation of individuals for such a common purpose, where the experience is the final product. This exhibition aims to utilize both applications of assembling in bringing together current and future SAIC students of all disciplines to view works that feature a mixture of various elements and composites.

Featuring Works By:
Ali Aschman
Greg Bae
Ryan Coffey
Blake Daniels
Kathryn Drury
Miriam Dubinsky
Liz Ensz
Kevin Goodrich
Nick Henning
Annie Kielman
Tony Lewis
Dan Luedtke
Kristin Nason
Dao Nguyen
Joel Parsons
Brian Rush
Rose Sexton
Chanel Thomas
Silvia Vasilescu

New Wave Ladies Nite

The Carousel Space Project Presents:

New Wave Ladies Nite
Saturday Feb. 4th 6pm-10pm
A group exhibition of a new wave of female artists to a backdrop of synthpop.
(part of the 2nd Floor Rear festival of alternative spaces)

Featuring works by:

Susannah Dotson
Heeran Lee
Christalena Hughmanick
Angela Marie Hoener
Annie Kielman
Christina Long
Michaela Murphy
Rose Sexton
Curated by Robin Kang

2nd Wave, 3rd Wave, New Wave, No Wave...Although the current timeline for the feminist movement may be blurry or undefined, the quality of the artwork created by emerging female artists is clearly strong. Amid powerful movements of globalization, eco-feminism, cyber-feminism, a return to craft movement, and even progress in female candidates for political positions, the soil is rich for gender issue conversation and headway.

“New Wave” is both a verbal pun and a comparison to punk music’s electronic daughter. The sub-genre of rock music that emerged in the mid to late 1970s saw revivals in the 1990s and early 2000s. Common characteristics of New Wave music, aside its punk influences, include the usage of synthesizers and electronic productions, the importance of styling and the arts, as well as a great amount of diversity.

Juxtaposing a group exhibition of a new wave of female artists to a background of synthpop, draws comparisons to the similar timelines of the two movements and highlights their repetitive persistence and evolution over the years with bit of humor.

Carousel Space Project
1310 N. Hoyne Ave.
Chicago, IL 60622

2nd Floor Rear 24 hour Alternative Space Festival
http://2ndfloorrear.wordpress.com/

Back2Back2Back: Remix + Multiple

1Night Exhibition: Printmaking/DJs/Pattern/Glitch/Gif

Alex Valentine
Nick Briz
Corkey Sinks
Caleb Sheridan
Daniel Luedtke
Matthew Cummings
Christina Long

organized by: Robin Kang & Silvia Vasilescu

The remix and the multiple have become an interdisciplinary language. The hybrid process of combining fragments in a non-linear re-interpretation has found an essential voice in today's visual practice. The remix allows for a major conceptual leap in making art on a meta-structural level. Artists draw together and make sense of a much larger body of information by threading a continuous narrative through it. The machine has allowed us the ability to re-conceptualize our relation to knowledge and to organize it, rather than merely accumulate information.

BYOB (After party @ Rainbo!)

Carousel Space Project
1310 N. Hoyne Ave.
Chicago, IL 60622
http://carouselproject.blogspot.com/

"Intimacy Issues"

Carrousel Space Project Presents:

"Intimacy Issues"
One Night Performance/Exhibition/Happening

Saturday, Sept. 24th, 7pm-10pm 

Performances will be at 8pm and 8:30pm

Dealing with issues of intimacy in a domestic setting through
performance, video, food, text and photography.

organized by Katya Grokhovsky

Artists:

Kitty Huffman,  Sabri Reed,  Michaela Murphy, 
Dao Nguyen,  Lantian Xie, Victoria Bradford,  
                    Katya Grokhovsky                        

 

--Nor There (A temporary exhibition)

Friday, May 13 · 7:00pm - 11:00pm

 

Can a labradoodle have a hybrid identity? What about a spork, a prose poem, Pajamajeans, studio apartments, or a futon? Seems flippant in light of the weightiness of sociopolitical categorical identities, but it illustrates both the arbitrariness of such categories and their perceived importance. In the wake of cultural collision, mash-ups pervade and persist. Without the traditional categories of identification framing our unde...rstanding, how are we to perceive ourselves and our world?

So what constitutes hybrid identity today? Or transnational identity? Or transgendered identity? Transethnic, transgenerational, or transeconomic identity?

We live in a multiplicitous world. Inevitably, many people identify as ____ and _____, or neither ______ nor _____, as in, both Columbian and American, neither feminine nor masculine, both rebel and patriot, neither young nor adult (read: twentysomething), or both traditional and cosmopolitan. The pervasiveness of dual/multiple/and hybrid identity calls into question the traditional boundaries that make a person, a culture, or a...n object either one thing or another. It initiates the destabilization of identity, and unravels into crisis, and/or underscores the relative comfort and ease with which people traverse traditional boundaries and categories today.

--Nor There is a one-night exhibition of intersections of identities.

Participants:
Bruce Iberg, Ashley D. Hairston, Alex Z.

A show produced by Silvia Vasilescu and Katie Waddell

Carousel Space Project

1310 N. Hoyne Ave.

Chicago, IL 60622

516.582.0954

robin.j.kang(at)gmail.com

gallery hours:

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