*Helen Maureen Cooper & Maria Gaspar: New Work*
January 20 – February 28, 2010
Please join the Dominican University Department of Art, Art History and Design
for an Artist Talk and Opening Reception in the O’Connor Art Gallery
Wednesday, January 20:
Artist Talk with Helen Maurene Cooper and Maria Gaspar: 3pm | Lewis 404
Reception: 4-8pm | O’Connor Art Gallery
Refreshments will be provided. All are welcome!
Questions? Contact Jessica Cochran, jcochran@dom.edu
About the Exhibition:
Helen Maurene Cooper and Maria Gaspar: New Work will include new photography by Cooper and installation-based work by Gaspar. Each artist takes a critical and self-reflexive investigative approach, using urban cultural detritus or social rituals- most of which share an interesting connection to commodity- as material to explore identity, gender and history. Essential to the work of both artists is the time spent outside the studio, or in the ‘field’ – primarily in Chicago locations. Cooper’s colorful portraits of upper middle class women ‘performing’ urban fashion, beautiful and grotesque, are end results of a process that begins with Cooper’s numerous activities like shopping and spending hours in Nail shops on Chicago far west side. Cooper's work as a faculty member in the art department of several of Chicago's Community colleges has led her into a complex conversation of the politics of fashion in rearguards to class and racial identity. Likewise, Maria Gaspar’s installations, which utilize celebratory detritus such as candy, parade scraps combined with more “abject” materials such as dirt are clearly informed by time spent working on public art projects with the Chicago Public Art Group and as a teaching artist. Maria Gaspar will create a large “brown landscape” that combines a site-specific use of the gallery architecture with the intuitive use of displaced objects, such as festive props.
7900 West Division Street | Lewis Hall, 4th Floor
River Forest, IL 60305
Hours: M-Sat, 10-6
Web: http://www.dom.edu/departments
Please join the Dominican University Department of Art, Art History and Design
for an Artist Talk and Opening Reception in the O’Connor Art Gallery
Wednesday, January 20:
Artist Talk with Helen Maurene Cooper and Maria Gaspar: 3pm | Lewis 404
Reception: 4-8pm | O’Connor Art Gallery
Refreshments will be provided. All are welcome!
Questions? Contact Jessica Cochran, jcochran@dom.edu
About the Exhibition:
Helen Maurene Cooper and Maria Gaspar: New Work will include new photography by Cooper and installation-based work by Gaspar. Each artist takes a critical and self-reflexive investigative approach, using urban cultural detritus or social rituals- most of which share an interesting connection to commodity- as material to explore identity, gender and history. Essential to the work of both artists is the time spent outside the studio, or in the ‘field’ – primarily in Chicago locations. Cooper’s colorful portraits of upper middle class women ‘performing’ urban fashion, beautiful and grotesque, are end results of a process that begins with Cooper’s numerous activities like shopping and spending hours in Nail shops on Chicago far west side. Cooper's work as a faculty member in the art department of several of Chicago's Community colleges has led her into a complex conversation of the politics of fashion in rearguards to class and racial identity. Likewise, Maria Gaspar’s installations, which utilize celebratory detritus such as candy, parade scraps combined with more “abject” materials such as dirt are clearly informed by time spent working on public art projects with the Chicago Public Art Group and as a teaching artist. Maria Gaspar will create a large “brown landscape” that combines a site-specific use of the gallery architecture with the intuitive use of displaced objects, such as festive props.
7900 West Division Street | Lewis Hall, 4th Floor
River Forest, IL 60305
Hours: M-Sat, 10-6
Web: http://www.dom.edu/departments
UBS 12 x 12: New Artists/New Work
OBLATION FOR A PARADE
Museum Of Contemporary Art, Chicago
UBS, 12 x 12: New Artists/New Work
October 2nd - November 1st, 2009
Exhibition Preview in conjunction with First Fridays
Friday, October 2nd, 6-10pm
$16 general admission, $11 advance tickets, $8 MCA members
Artists' Gallery Talk:
Tuesday, October 13th, 6:00 pm (Free on Tuesdays)
Museum of Contemporary Art
220 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611
312.280.2660
http://www.mcachicago.org
Museum Of Contemporary Art, Chicago
UBS, 12 x 12: New Artists/New Work
October 2nd - November 1st, 2009
Exhibition Preview in conjunction with First Fridays
Friday, October 2nd, 6-10pm
$16 general admission, $11 advance tickets, $8 MCA members
Artists' Gallery Talk:
Tuesday, October 13th, 6:00 pm (Free on Tuesdays)
Museum of Contemporary Art
220 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611
312.280.2660
http://www.mcachicago.org
