ALL THAT ALSO MEANS TO SEE
All That Also Means To See, a solo-exhibition by Maria Gaspar.
All That Also Means To See investigates spatial transformations, blurred places, and other imaginings through a series of drawings, sculptures and a site-responsive work that will be located in Woman Made Gallery’s atrium space. Inspired from landscapes and social spaces, she creates ambiguous forms, brown blobs and other unnamed forms that dwell in structural limbo or hover in empty space. Gaspar has designed and led many temporary and permanent public arts projects with youth throughout Chicago and in Mexico City. Most recently, she led a temporary public art project on the West Side of Chicago entitled, City As Site with support from the National Endowment for the Arts and in partnership with the Chicago Public Art Group. Her work deals with public space reinventions and interventions using the city’s landscape to produce site-responsive works in collaboration with youth and communities. Gaspar’s investigations in impermanent and transient constructions/situations are brought together in this exhibition.
Opening Reception: Friday, September 9, 2011, 6:00-9:00pm
Exhibition runs through October 27, 2011
Woman Made Gallery
685 North Milwaukee Ave.
Chicago, Illinois 60642
Telephone: 312-738-0400
Fax Number: 312-738-0404
http://womanmade.org/show.html
All That Also Means To See investigates spatial transformations, blurred places, and other imaginings through a series of drawings, sculptures and a site-responsive work that will be located in Woman Made Gallery’s atrium space. Inspired from landscapes and social spaces, she creates ambiguous forms, brown blobs and other unnamed forms that dwell in structural limbo or hover in empty space. Gaspar has designed and led many temporary and permanent public arts projects with youth throughout Chicago and in Mexico City. Most recently, she led a temporary public art project on the West Side of Chicago entitled, City As Site with support from the National Endowment for the Arts and in partnership with the Chicago Public Art Group. Her work deals with public space reinventions and interventions using the city’s landscape to produce site-responsive works in collaboration with youth and communities. Gaspar’s investigations in impermanent and transient constructions/situations are brought together in this exhibition.
Opening Reception: Friday, September 9, 2011, 6:00-9:00pm
Exhibition runs through October 27, 2011
Woman Made Gallery
685 North Milwaukee Ave.
Chicago, Illinois 60642
Telephone: 312-738-0400
Fax Number: 312-738-0404
http://womanmade.org/show.html
City As Site Catalog Released
The City As Site Project that I led and curated last summer 2010 has recently been published and is available for purchase at blurb.com: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore
In addition, a free catalog copy is available at: http://www.box.net/shared/6o0u
Description:
City As Site documents an innovative temporary public arts project that took place on Chicago's Lawndale communities of the West Side in the summer of 2010 with support from the Chicago Public Art Group, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Enlace Chicago. The project was led by Maria Gaspar, with assistance from Emily Grelck and in collaboration with performance, sculpture and sound artists, such as Sebastian Alvarez, Carla Duarte, and Benjamin Thorp. This publication includes youth journal writings, drawings and images based on the performance based projects youth created throughout the six-week duration.
In addition, a free catalog copy is available at: http://www.box.net/shared/6o0u
Description:
City As Site documents an innovative temporary public arts project that took place on Chicago's Lawndale communities of the West Side in the summer of 2010 with support from the Chicago Public Art Group, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Enlace Chicago. The project was led by Maria Gaspar, with assistance from Emily Grelck and in collaboration with performance, sculpture and sound artists, such as Sebastian Alvarez, Carla Duarte, and Benjamin Thorp. This publication includes youth journal writings, drawings and images based on the performance based projects youth created throughout the six-week duration.
GROUND FLOOR
August 29 - October 31, 2010
Opening Reception: Sunday, August 29th 3pm-5pm
Ground Floor is a survey exhibition of multi-media work by 20 promising artists who recently emerged from Chicago’s top level MFA programs. Filling the three galleries that make up the entire ground floor of the Art Center, the artwork included illustrate the exciting state of these artist’s career ready to take off. This biannual show of new art and artists brings together under one roof the stylistic trends and innovative talent of the moment produced throughout the city.
With a history of shows like Hairy Who?, a definitive exhibition featuring the Chicago Imagists movement of the late 60s, Hyde Park Art Center has been at the forefront of encouraging Chicago-based artistic practice. In keeping with the mission to ‘stimulate and sustain visual arts in the city of Chicago’, this exhibition questions if there is a decisive Chicago style happening in art being produced right now.
The 2010 exhibition features new and never before exhibited work by the following artists: Daniel Bruttig, Katy Collier, Chris Cuellar, Bonnie Fortune, Maria Gaspar, Joe Grimm, Adam Grossi, Emily Hermant, Aaron Hughes, Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford, Samantha Jaffe, Daniel Lavitt, Lisa Lindvay, Brian Matthews, Jesse McLean, Matthew Metzger, Jessica Mott, Eliza Myrie, Jennifer Ray, Mia Rollow, Michael Sirianni, and Olivia Valentine. The artists hail from a broad range of schools that offer graduate level fine art degrees, including University of Chicago, University of Illinois (-Chicago and Springfield), Northwestern University, Columbia College and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
The Exhibitions Committee is led by the Chair Dawoud Bey, and includes Huey Copeland, Matthew Girson, Kelly Kaczynski, Sze Lin Pang and Art Center Staff Allison Peters Quinn, Chris Hammes, and Kate Lorenz. The committee received over 100 recommendations from faculty in the local art schools. After conducting slide reviews then studio visits, the committee rigorously narrowed down the candidates to a final shortlist of artists.
http://www.hydeparkart.org/exh Hyde Park Art Center|
Opening Reception: Sunday, August 29th 3pm-5pm
Ground Floor is a survey exhibition of multi-media work by 20 promising artists who recently emerged from Chicago’s top level MFA programs. Filling the three galleries that make up the entire ground floor of the Art Center, the artwork included illustrate the exciting state of these artist’s career ready to take off. This biannual show of new art and artists brings together under one roof the stylistic trends and innovative talent of the moment produced throughout the city.
With a history of shows like Hairy Who?, a definitive exhibition featuring the Chicago Imagists movement of the late 60s, Hyde Park Art Center has been at the forefront of encouraging Chicago-based artistic practice. In keeping with the mission to ‘stimulate and sustain visual arts in the city of Chicago’, this exhibition questions if there is a decisive Chicago style happening in art being produced right now.
The 2010 exhibition features new and never before exhibited work by the following artists: Daniel Bruttig, Katy Collier, Chris Cuellar, Bonnie Fortune, Maria Gaspar, Joe Grimm, Adam Grossi, Emily Hermant, Aaron Hughes, Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford, Samantha Jaffe, Daniel Lavitt, Lisa Lindvay, Brian Matthews, Jesse McLean, Matthew Metzger, Jessica Mott, Eliza Myrie, Jennifer Ray, Mia Rollow, Michael Sirianni, and Olivia Valentine. The artists hail from a broad range of schools that offer graduate level fine art degrees, including University of Chicago, University of Illinois (-Chicago and Springfield), Northwestern University, Columbia College and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
The Exhibitions Committee is led by the Chair Dawoud Bey, and includes Huey Copeland, Matthew Girson, Kelly Kaczynski, Sze Lin Pang and Art Center Staff Allison Peters Quinn, Chris Hammes, and Kate Lorenz. The committee received over 100 recommendations from faculty in the local art schools. After conducting slide reviews then studio visits, the committee rigorously narrowed down the candidates to a final shortlist of artists.
http://www.hydeparkart.org/exh Hyde Park Art Center|
AFTER ADELITA: MYTHS, HEROES AND REVOLUTIONARIES
Woman Made Gallery
Opening Reception: September 10th from 6-9 pm
Exhibition: September 10th - October 28th
http://womanmade.org/aboutus.h
Opening Reception: September 10th from 6-9 pm
Exhibition: September 10th - October 28th
http://womanmade.org/aboutus.h
NATIONAL
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 18 from 5 to 7 pm
Exhibition: September 18 through October 17, 2010
University Galleries
Illinois State University
110 Center for Visual Arts
Campus Box 5600
Normal, IL 61790-5600
http://www.cfa.ilstu.edu/galle
Exhibition: September 18 through October 17, 2010
University Galleries
Illinois State University
110 Center for Visual Arts
Campus Box 5600
Normal, IL 61790-5600
http://www.cfa.ilstu.edu/galle
MANO/MUNDO/CORAZON: ARTISTS INTERPRET LA LOTERIA
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 9, 2010 from 6-9PM
Exhibition: September 9th-December 10th, 2010
La Lotería, the Mexican game of chance, has a centuries-long social history, and a broad reach in contemporary art. This exhibition features a culturally and geographically diverse group of artists in three distinct sections
A curated selection of films, photographs, installations and paintings featuring work by Jim Finn, Maximo Gonzalez, Jill Hartley, Luis Delgado, Adolfo Patiño and others.
Newly commissioned works on paper, each based on a Lotería card. Participating artists include Maria Gaspar, Daniel Guzman, Gabriela Alva Cal y Mayor, Fred Stonehouse, Marilyn Propp, Mauricio Limon, Michael Pajon, Miguel Cortez, Javier Carmona, Michael Scoggins, Humberto Duque, Alexis MacKenzie and more.
The LA Loteria: a series of Lotería-inspired prints from the Los Angeles-based Aardvark Letterpress
This exhibition is organized with the help and support of the Illinois Arts Council, National Museum of Mexican Art, Mexican Consulate in Chicago, Poetry Magazine, and Anchor Graphics, Critical Encounters and Latino Cultural Affairs at Columbia College Chicago. Presented in association with Chicago Artists Month.
Center for Book and Paper Arts
1104 S Wabash, Chicago, IL 60605
P 312 369 6684
F 312 369 8082
www.bookandpaper.org
Exhibition: September 9th-December 10th, 2010
La Lotería, the Mexican game of chance, has a centuries-long social history, and a broad reach in contemporary art. This exhibition features a culturally and geographically diverse group of artists in three distinct sections
A curated selection of films, photographs, installations and paintings featuring work by Jim Finn, Maximo Gonzalez, Jill Hartley, Luis Delgado, Adolfo Patiño and others.
Newly commissioned works on paper, each based on a Lotería card. Participating artists include Maria Gaspar, Daniel Guzman, Gabriela Alva Cal y Mayor, Fred Stonehouse, Marilyn Propp, Mauricio Limon, Michael Pajon, Miguel Cortez, Javier Carmona, Michael Scoggins, Humberto Duque, Alexis MacKenzie and more.
The LA Loteria: a series of Lotería-inspired prints from the Los Angeles-based Aardvark Letterpress
This exhibition is organized with the help and support of the Illinois Arts Council, National Museum of Mexican Art, Mexican Consulate in Chicago, Poetry Magazine, and Anchor Graphics, Critical Encounters and Latino Cultural Affairs at Columbia College Chicago. Presented in association with Chicago Artists Month.
Center for Book and Paper Arts
1104 S Wabash, Chicago, IL 60605
P 312 369 6684
F 312 369 8082
www.bookandpaper.org
*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
