As part of the IN>TIME16 Performance Art Festival, view High Concept Labs Sponsored Artist Nicole Mauser’s ongoing work, paired with a performance by Anna Martine Whitehead.

Thursday, February 11
Friday, February 12
Saturday, February 13

6 PM Installation (5th Floor)
7 PM Performance (4th Floor)

High Concept Labs at Mana Contemporary Chicago
2233 S Throop St, Chicago, IL 60608

“The Light Drips Down” is an on-going series of collages by artist Nicole Mauser that have been expanded to confront architecture. Formally, the images function similar to paintings, possessing illusionistic depth of space, yet the space is compressed to cause uncanny visual echoes to the nearby surroundings by drawing upon and enlarging existing architecture/landscape in combination with color fields. Mauser views collage as a form of ‘trespassing visually.’ Clashing architectural elements with floral and fauna with abstract color fields to flatten and undermine hierarchies, physics, and logic rooted in the everyday. This approach to collage is related to The Situationists’ historical practice of the ‘derive’, the intentional act of ‘the drift’ a wandering or going against the grid. The artist creates an experience for the viewer that emphasizes a physical confrontation with color, abstraction, and space.

Nicole Mauser’s paintings investigate the tensions at play between the physicality of paint itself and the speed at which images congeal within a language of abstraction. Mauser obtained her MFA from The University of Chicago in (2010) and BFA from Ringling College of Art and Design (2006). Paintings have been featured at Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Brooklyn); Reynolds Gallery (Richmond, VA); Carrie Secrist Gallery (Chicago); Missouri Western State University (St. Joseph); AR Gallery (Milan); and Centre pour l’Art et le Culture (Aix-en-Provence, France). Works have been featured in New American Paintings, The New York Times, and The Kansas City Star amoung others. Her writings have been published in Newcity, Art Practical, 8 1⁄2 x 11, and Bad at Sports Blog. Mauser was a recipient of The University of Chicago Student Arts Council Student Grant for painting research in Berlin, Germany (2010), and a Post-MFA Teaching Fellowship at The University of Chicago (2011). Mauser was co-founder of the artist-run gallery, PLUG Projects (2011-2012) as well as KCPAC (Kansas City Plein Air Coaterie). Collections include The Alexander (Indianapolis) and The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (Overland Park). She lives/works in Chicago, IL and is a Lecturer at The University of Chicago.

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