Medicine Cabinet @ Artists Run Chicago
Friday May 8, 2009
Our contribution for Medicine Cabinet at Artists Run Chicago a group exhibition at Hyde Park Art Center.
http://www.hydeparkart.org/exhibitions/2009/05/artists_run_chicago.php
May 10 – July 5, 2009, Gallery 1
For this project we produced GARDENfresh brand tooth paste. GARDENfresh is also an artist run space / collective, active in Chicago since 2002. www.gardenfresh.org
from HPAC website…..“Artists Run Chicago is an exhibition showcasing the energy and audacity of some of the most noteworthy artist-run spaces that have influenced the Chicago contemporary art scene over the past decade. Chicago has long been known for cultivating a strong entrepreneurial/Do-It-Yourself spirit in business and the arts. The participating artist-run venues have transformed storefronts, sheds, apartments, lofts, industrial warehouses, garages and roving spaces into contemporary art galleries testing the notion of “exhibition” while complicating the definition of art. Coinciding with the Hyde Park Art Center’s 70th anniversary, Artists Run Chicago reconnects the Art Center to its beginnings as an artist-run space by showcasing spaces that continue the legacy.”
New diorama at Medicine Cabinet Sat April 18th
Monday April 13, 2009
Medicine Cabinet
3216 S Morgan St, Apt. 4R (at 32nd Pl)
Bridgeport/Chinatown, Chicago
630-849-7750
Bus: 8 Halsted, 35 35th.
http://www.the-medicine-cabinet.blogspot.com
Beyond the Fluff and Fold: Contemporary Artists and the T-Shirt, Art Institute of Boston
Tuesday February 3, 2009
Urban Camo Santa, T-shirt, sml, med, lrg and xl, Printed by Inthang 2009
The Art Institute of Boston Gallery at University Hall
1815 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02140
MBTA Redline to Porter Square
Gallery Hours Tues-Fri, 12:00pm – 6:00pm / Sat 12:00pm – 5:00pm
Beyond the Fluff and Fold, Contemporary Artists & the T-Shirt is curated by Andrew Mroczek with an intorduction by Helen Walters, author of 100%, 200% and 300% Cotton, a series of titles on contemporary T-shirt graphics. Artists featured in the show: Burtonwood and Holmes, Ben Colebrook, Aaron Krach, J. Morrison, Dave Ortega and Dan Rollman.
In Beyond the Fluff & Fold, curator Andrew Mroczek highlights the work of seven artists who continue to use the T-shirt in the creation of conceptual works or to support current visual projects.
"T-shirts are a very unconventional and unlikely medium, but one that’s unquestionably a powerful avenue for self-expression," said Mroczek. "Each of these artists brings a fine art sensibility to an ephemeral object. If they are used in the way each artist intends – as clothing – then they defy most aspects of artistic preservation and expression to exist only the in the present."
Click here for a Flickr set showing some of the T-shirts were sent / show card
Constructions
Monday February 2, 2009
$23,000 buys 11557 pieces of pork cutlet (or 1 smart bomb)
Installation view, dimensions variable, 2008
Orleans St. Gallery, St. Charles IL
January 17th – March 14th, 2009
Artists: Burtonwood & Holmes, Nicole Dulik and Adam Farcus
Constructions is an exhibition of sculptures and installations featuring paper as the primary medium. Constructions explores the relationship of form and production with the concepts and ideas behind the artwork. The creations of Burtonwood & Holmes explore the relationship between politics and economics, Nicole Dulik attempts to counter the lack of green space in the urban landscape with her own organic structures, and the work of Adam Farcus seeks to reveal the irony in pop culture and the everyday. Curated by Irene Perez.
Click here for Flickr set with more images from the show
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).