Scavenger Constructs: Site-Specific Sculptures
September 2 - October 18, 2008
Reception September 4, 5:00-8:00pm
Lecture by Mara Baker, October 16, 6pm
Artists: Mara Baker (Chicago)
Soyen Cho (New York City)
Sally Heller (New Orleans)
Melissa Pokorny (Champaign)
Karen Rifas (Miami)
Scavenger Constructs: Site-Specific Sculptures features five visual artists who re-contextualize everyday objects to create sculptures and installations which reveal the delicate and transient balance between humans and nature, order and chaos. Artists create works that ask viewers to contemplate the surroundings of their everyday life and find potential in common mass-produced objects. Acting as scavengers, they gather and reinterpret objects destined for the landfill and link them together to create new forms which pay homage to nature as a mystical and ever-evolving force.
[C]Spaces is presenting a student response exhibition entitled, Scavenger Response: Satellite Projects which runs September 29 – December 1, 2008 at various locations all over the campus.
Scavenger Constructs is curated by Mark Porter, [C]Spaces Exhibition Coordinator.
Catalogues are available.
Cover Image: Sally Heller, detail of Uprooted, 2007, mixed media installation
Hours: 9 am - 5 pm Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday and 9 am - 7 pm on Thursday
Location: 1104 S. Wabash Ave., 1st Floor
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Located in the south loop at the historic Ludington building, the Glass Curtain Gallery's 2,200 square foot space welcomes Columbia College Chicago resident artists, students, and alumni and non-Columbia College Chicago professional artists to exhibit a variety of contemporary media in a professional environment. The gallery offers professional exhibition opportunities, performance workshops, visiting artist lectures, and dialogue essential for student development and growth within the arts.
Glass Curtain Gallery gets its name from the architectural landmark that houses the gallery. This landmark, with its terra-cotta façade, was commissioned in 1891 by lumber heiress Mary Ludington to house the American Book Company. Once regarded as Chicago's earliest skyscraper, it is considered a high point in the artistic career of architect William le Baron Jenney. Jenney revolutionized high-rise construction with his innovative design: a steel skeletal frame, which incorporated structural Z-bar shaped columns for strength and versatility, freeing the exterior from its load-bearing role. The exterior became nothing more than a "curtain wall" made exclusively of glass.
The Ludington building also houses the Hermann D. Conaway Multicultural Center.
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