A Celebration of Markets
Friday December 12, 2008
http://www.saic.edu/webspaces/noendinsight/
Some art is never meant to be completed. From December 13 to January 10, 2008, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Curatorial Practice students present No End in Sight, a multimedia exhibition that investigates perpetuity in artistic practice.
This exhibition explores works that are perpetual in nature, including works that have an undefined or unreachable endpoint; series composed of multiples the artist is compelled to continue; and projects that incorporate viewer participation as a way to continue regeneration of the piece. Blurring the borders between life and artistic practice, selected artworks provoke the audience to consider art as an ongoing process, as opposed to a static event.
Featured artists approach these ideas with innovative forms and techniques. Each piece goes beyond the here and now, suggesting an art form that endures not through historical canonization, but through active methods of repetition, regeneration, and recognition of the infinite. Collectively, these works encourage the audience to redefine its role from traditional viewer to witness of, or active participant in, the process.
Artists include: Aviva Alter, Marie Krane Bergman/Cream Co., You Are Beautiful, Burtonwood and Holmes, Young Cho, Grayson Cox, Masaco Kuroda, Tim Louis, Fred Nocella, Tim Pannell, Josue Pellot, ks rives and Nicole Kenney, Jesse Seay, Sighn
Curated by: Claudia Arzeno, Kelly Chen, Jenay Gordon, Joe Iverson, Alison Kleiman, Katherine Pill, Kat Ramsland, Angela Samuels Bryant, Ania Szremski, Cecila Vargas, He Wang, Jacqueline WayneGuite.
Highlights from Bridge Miami Wynwood
Thursday December 4, 2008
Woodland Camo Santa
Bridge Miami Wynwood
Working hard
New York Art Exchange Lounge at Bridge
No End in Sight
Thursday November 27, 2008
No End in Sight
December 13 – January 10, 2008
Exhibition Reception
Friday, Dec. 12, 4:30 – 7 p.m.
With live performance of “Before I Die” Polaroid project
Public event:
Saturday, Dec. 13, 2 p.m.
“Temple of Awesome” folding party and No End in Sight artist panel discussion
Sullivan Galleries
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Chicago, IL (December 2008) – Some art is never meant to be completed. From
December 13 to January 10, 2008, the Sullivan Galleries presents No End in
Sight—a multimedia exhibition that investigates perpetuity in artistic
practice, curated by SAIC’s Curatorial Practice class.
This exhibition seeks to explore works that are perpetual in nature. These
include works that have an undefined or unreachable endpoint, like Aviva
Alter’s Crochet Reef; work that is composed of multiples the artist is
compelled to continue, including projects by artists Burtonwood and Holmes,
Sighn, Masaco Kuroda, Tim Pannell, and Young Cho; and work that incorporates
viewer participation as a way to continue regeneration of the piece, as
exemplified by Josue Pellot, Timothy Graham, and Grayson Cox.
Blurring the borders between life and artistic practice, these artworks will
provoke the audience to consider art as an ongoing process, as opposed to a
static event.
The artists listed above, in addition to many more, approach these ideas with
innovative forms and techniques. Each piece goes beyond the here and now,
suggesting an art form that endures not through historical canonization, but
through active methods of repetition and regeneration. Collectively, these
works will encourage the audience to redefine their role from traditional
viewer to witness of, or active participant in, the process.
Beyond the Fluff and Fold: Contemporary Artists and the T-Shirt
Thursday November 27, 2008
UPCOMING
Our T-Shirts produced in collaboration with Inthang (Chika Ito and Massimo Arena) are going to be featured in a group show at the The Art Institute of Boston Gallery. The show is curated by Andrew Mroczek. We’re pretty hyped to be showing in Boston and hopefully we’ll get out there for the show.
NEW SHIRT!!!!!
URBAN CAMO SANTA, front and back print!!! coming soon, very excited! (can u tell).
Interview on chicagoist.com with Lauri Apple
Tuesday September 30, 2008
Checkout our interview with Lauri Apple in the Chicagoist. We talk a bit about our work, the themes we’re dealing with and motivations about making it. Some really good stuff came out in the process! Thank you Lauri!
*September 25, 2008
An Interview with Artists Burtonwood and Holmes*
Giant tanks made from supermarket flyers, inflatable missiles, skulls covered with military symbols: The duo of Tom Burtonwood & Holly Holmes creates these and other works that combine pop culture and anti-war messages in surprising, memorable ways. Last weekend they unveiled this camouflage Santa Claus at artXposium 2.0 in West Chicago, and currently have a piece in Tel Aviv, Israel. Recently we spoke with Burtonwood about B&H’s oeuvre, politics, and the industrial complexes that fuel their creativity.READ ON….
Urban Camo Santa @ artXposium 2.0, Sept 19th - 21st
Monday September 15, 2008
Urban Camo Santa our newest sculpture will be premiered as part of artXposium 2.0
On September 19, 2008 the former home of Grobe’s True Value located at 103 W. Washington St.
in West Chicago will once again open the doors to: artXposium, a 3-day multimedia art
experience, involving more than 80 artists*. Local, national and international talent will come
together to display a variety of art work ranging from traditional painting and sculpture, to interactive
and multimedia installations. Besides the “Grobe’s” location, artXposium 2.0 events and exhibitions
will take place at Gallery 200, West Chicago City Museum, West Chicago Public Library District and
Orleans Street Gallery, (last mentioned located in St. Charles).
The program will offer a grand opening event on Friday, September 19 with performances by
Alison Rhoades, Core Project and Wiener Girls, a fashion show by Kreatia, a book launch by
StepSister Press, DJ T-Solo, food and drinks, and not to forget a extraordinary silent auction. The
rest of the weekend will feature: Gallery 200 Artist Demonstrations, a Curator’s Tour by Anni
Holm & Irene Pérez, an Artist Salon lead by Danish artist in residence: Gudrun Hasle and
local artist Anni Holm, Artist Talks by Gudrun Hasle, Christian Arrecis and Alysia Kaplan, a
Spiderbug Film Screening, a networking brunch, the book exhibition A Book of It’s Own, a Book
Binding Demo by Julia Stotz, along with Creative Interactive Projects for all ages by Imagine
Arts Studio (full detailed program available online).
artXposium is the brainchild of local resident and internationally shown artist Anni Holm and former
Registrar of the West Chicago City Museum, Brian Reis. The ultimate goal of the 2007 edition was
to develop an International Artists Residency in the city of West Chicago. The goal was successfully
achieved and artist Gudrun Hasle from Copenhagen, Denmark will be participating as the first
Residency Artist from September 1-30, 2008 with her project: Demonstrating Dreams
artXposium Hours: Friday 6-11pm, Saturday 12-11pm, Sunday 11-4pm. This event is open to
the general public and free (suggested donation $2).
Reuse 2 Project in Tel Aviv
Sunday September 14, 2008
This massive tank is made with reuse advertising from Burtonwood and Holmes… pasted street-side @ REUSE PROJECT 2!!
The ReUse Project is an on-going street and domestic planning campaign endorsing urban perma-culture and renewal through artistic means. This year , REUSE PROJECT 2 exhibition will challenge the city of Tel Aviv with what it means to reuse and just how many abandoned building can, in fact can be reused:
So, for all those hippies who should be wearing boots…for all of you anarchists and artists who should be living like you mean it,, but also for ALL of us who should be using what we’re refusing: Now open to the public as a tribute to urban art and renewal…
www.idiotthewise.com
www.flickr.com/groups/reuseproject2
www.telavivstreetart.blogspot.com
www.flickr.com/photos/idiotthewise/sets/72057594103444722/
To be added to the mailing list for future INSPIRE Collective events, please email ITW idiotthewisegmail with “street art mailing list please” in the title…
REUSE & INSPIRE!!!
View some video shorts of some of the reusing that has been happening on site:
www.flickr.com/photos/idiotthewise/2831732477/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th7n6TIwiws
Press from "Home of the Brave: Politics, Propaganda and Patriotism"
Sunday September 14, 2008
by charles runnells
09/10/2008
Like a stealth bomber, a new art exhibit is taking explosive aim at politics, racism and the war in Iraq.
Curator Scott Snyder hopes the FGCU show sneaks up on people and gets them thinking about the nature of race, war and imperial power.
Review by Marisa Plumb of ISTW / TWSM in New City 06/19/08
Tuesday July 8, 2008
Bit late getting this on the web but it’s an a really good review of the recent show, Marisa Plumb hits the nail on the head.
As always flickr has the archive of our photos from the show…
I Support The War / The War Supports Me
Monday May 19, 2008
UPCOMING EXHIBITION
View work in progress
Burtonwood & Holmes
“I Support the War / The War Supports Me (ISTW / TWSM)”
GARDENfresh Gallery, Chicago, IL
...Also in the other half of the gallery Alain Douglas Park presents “Pedestal” an exhibition of new work
Artists reception: Friday May 30th, 6 – 10pm
Exhibition continues through June 28th
Gallery hours Fri + Sat noon – 5pm
or by appointment
“… the real business of the War is buying and selling. The murdering and the violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals… True war is a celebration of markets.” —Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
Just over five years on since President Bush announced “Mission Accomplished” on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, artists Burtonwood and Holmes present a new exhibition I Support the War / The War Supports Me (ISTW/TWSM). With this exhibition the artists mark a return to heroic scale painting combined with an all-encompassing installation to assault the viewer with an all over experience of consumption and excess.
“…Logistics is the procedure following which a nation’s potential is transferred to its armed forces, in times of peace as in times of war…” –Paul Virilio, Pure War
For this exhibition at GARDENfresh Gallery the artists split their exhibition space in half.
The first section presents a new installation (Zeitgeist) MMIII – MMVIII that draws upon contributions from over twenty visual artists from the Chicago area. B+H have painted scenes from the Iraq war on directly on the walls of the gallery and invited artists to hang their own art works on top of these painted areas. The images of warfare and violence provide a lens through which we can re-interpret the art works displayed as products of a nation at war.
The artists will wall paper the second section in their trade mark junk mail and sales fliers, to surround the viewer on all sides with everyday images from the grocery store. In this environment B & H have placed interventions in the form of inflatable decoy balloons coupled with small scale diorama pieces all camouflaged with the same marketing material.
Over 5 years ago in the run up to the Iraq war artists Holly Holmes and Tom Burtonwood began a body of work to protest the upcoming conflict and explore the wider implications of materiel culture. In 2006 the artists produced a 3/4 scale sculpture of an Abrams battle tank at the Open Studio Residency in downtown Chicago, an old store front across from the new ABC 7 TV studio. Recent exhibitions include Consuming War at the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago) curated by Barbara Koenen, Capla Kesting Fine Art (Brooklyn) and Subtle Combat at Around the Coyote (Chicago) curated by Alison Stites.
GARDENfresh is an artist run space in Chicago.
Artists reception: Friday May 30th, 6 – 10pm
Exhibition continues through June 28th
Gallery hours Fri + Sat noon – 5pm
or by appointment