Third-Shifters: Art that Comes Alive at Night seeks to identify both the disparate and the shared characteristics of visual art created in and vivified by the twilight hours.

This exhibition aims to enrich viewers’ experiences of the night, wherever they find themselves. Further writing and information about the exhibition will be available at The Martin between September 21st – September 23rd, and in an exhibition catalog that will be made available as a free PDF online in the weeks following the show.

Featured Artists:

CHRIS WILLIFORD
Chris is an interdisciplinary artist working in Chicago. His draped fabric installations explore the mystical power of symbolism and iconography where they intersect with youthful queer communities. The soft sculptures are insistently tactile, imbuing them with an almost looming quality. In May of 2018, he received an MFA in Printmedia from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Chris is also a graduate of the Maryland Institute and College of Art.
www.chriswilliford.com

LAUREN REA
Lauren is currently working on her BA in Fine Arts from the University of Creative Arts in London. She uses her materially-rich practice to explore the relationships between vulnerability and the landscapes of the domestic spaces . The individual pieces are surprising, even misleading, intentionally subverting assumptions surrounding weakness and fragility.
Instagram: @lauren.rea

MARGIE CRINER
Margie is an artist whose work is both mysterious and captivating. Her sculptures, constructed from the inside-out are reminiscent of bee hives or hawks nests: they are miniature fortifications, whose outer mass both obscures and invites . Inside, empty human terrains appear to wait for minuscule constituencies. By hiding the mundane from view, she encourages us to look at places that we might otherwise ignore. Margie’s practice is based in Chicago, and she holds a BS in Textiles from Michigan State University.
www.mcriner.com

CANDICE BLOCK
Candice’s paintings embody the often turbulent dualities unique to the human emotional experience. She employs a a combination of careful painterly technique and hazardous , uncontrollable “pours” to develop complex systems of color and pattern that seem to reach well beyond the surfaces of each painting. Candice is currently working towards an MA in Art Therapy at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. She also holds an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, and a BA from Mount Mary University.
www.candiceblock.com

CRISTINA MARQUEZ
Cristina is a painter who focuses on depicting humans in the domestic spaces where they can most authentically be themselves. Her unflinching portraits illustrate people in moments that they might rather not be seen, doing things that might perhaps be embarrassing outside of their spheres of privacy. Cristina holds a BFA from the University of Saint Francis in Fort Wayne.
www.cristinamarquez.gallery

DARREN ELLIS
Darren is a digital photographer who spends many of his nights taking long-exposure photos of the built environment. His work focuses on common structures that, once emptied of their diurnal inhabitants, become striking in their fluorescent loneliness. Darren lives in Seattle and has been featured in such online publications as Standby and Nightwalker Magazine.
Instagram: @backwardsdrifting

KLAUS PINTER
Klaus Pinter is a mixed media artist working primarily in varied forms of conceptual sculpture. His creations draw on the uncanny qualities achievable with commonplace materials, often allowing visitors to handle the materials themselves, giving them a personal stake in transforming otherwise ordinary products into uncannily familiar phantoms. Klaus lives and works in Vienna, Austria.
www.klaus-pinter.net

RACHEL AHAVA ROSENFELD
Rachel is the curator and originator of the Third-Shifters exhibition. She maintains active art and research practices at her River North studio. Her most recent paintings combine the eeriness of the city at night in shared spaces with fragmentary vignettes drawn from archival snapshots. Rachel holds an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis and a BA from Hollins University, and has studied at both the University of Chicago and the Jerusalem Studio School.
www.rachelahavarosenfeld.com

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