Out of Easy Reach
@ DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Thursday, April 26th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Sunday, August 5th
“Out of Easy Reach” is a cross-institutional exhibition hosted by DePaul Art Museum, Gallery 400 at UIC, and the Rebuild Foundation, guest curated by Allison Glenn, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Countering conventional accounts of art history that have often overlooked the artistic contributions of women of color, Out of Easy Reach presents the work of 24 artists.
From traditional approaches to the more challenging usage, this exhibition will investigate the contemporary and conceptual expansion of abstraction by American, female-identifying artists from the Black and Latina Diasporas; through work made from 1980-2018. “Out of Easy Reach” proposes that there are myriad ways artists are employing abstraction as a tool to explore histories both personal and universal, with a focus in mapping, migration, archives, landscape, vernacular culture, language, and the body.
Each exhibition venue will feature artists and artworks that are grouped based on thematic affinities, and conceptual pairings will happen throughout. At DePaul Art Museum, artists and artworks will be presented that consider landscape, the body and the archive. Gallery 400 will include artists and artworks that are concerned with spatial politics, mapping and migration. Stony Island Arts Bank will feature works that consider process, time and material culture.
www.outofeasyreach.com
Out of Easy Reach will consecutively open across three venues in Chicago:
DePaul Art Museum: Thursday, April 26, 2018, 6-8 pm
Gallery 400 at University of Illinois Chicago: Friday, April 27, 2018,
5-8 pm
Stony Island Arts Bank: Saturday, April 28, 2018, 5-8 pm
Artists:
Lisa Alvarado, Candida Alvarez, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Bethany Collins, Abigail Deville, Torkwase Dyson, Maren Hassinger, Leslie Hewitt, Sheree Hovsepian, Juliana Huxtable, Ariel Jackson, Steffani Jemison, Jennie C. Jones, Caroline Kent, Yvette Mayorga, Ayanah Moor, Howardena Pindell, Kellie Romany, Xaviera Simmons, Shinique Smith, Edra Soto, Martine Syms, Zipporah Camille Thompson, Brenna Youngblood
Also opening April 26 at DPAM are “BEVERLY FRESH: Really Somethin Else” and “DPAM Collects: Happy Little Trees and Other Recent Acquisitions.”
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Tags: Abigail DeVille, Allison Glenn, Ariel Jackson, Ayanah Moor, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Bethany Collins, Brenna Youngblood, Candida Alvarez, Caroline Kent, Chicago, DePaul Art Museum, Edra Soto, Gallery 400, Howardena Pindell, Jennie C. Jones, Juliana Huxtable, Kellie Romany, Leslie Hewitt, Lincoln Park, Lisa Alvarado, Maren Hassinger, Martine Syms, Out of Easy Reach, Sheree Hovsepian, Shinique Smith, Steffani Jemison, Stony Island Arts Bank, Torkwase Dyson, Xaviera Simmons, Yvette Mayorga, Zipporah Camille Thompson
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