Chicago Artists Coalition proudly presents Vanishing Point, a two-person exhibition by 2023-24 HATCH Residents Nicole Leung and Ruby Que, curated by Kat Bawden.

Nicole Leung approaches their practice with a fascination for adaptation, particularly in how we (consciously or unconsciously) choose to internalize, process, and interact with our surroundings. Through their process of collecting, accumulating, and arranging neglected objects, Leung takes an interest in the habits we adopt and the delusions we construct to feel safe amidst irrepressible fear and uncertainty.

Ruby Que is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus on site-specific intervention and expanded cinema performance. In their work they open portals and create hauntings. Many projects grapple with absence: the missing person, the deserted land, the obsolete media, the traumatic memory. Drawing on their lived experience as a queer, itinerant immigrant, they meditate on yearning and find home in transit. They have exhibited and performed at Kavi Gupta, Roman Susan, Comfort Station (Chicago, IL), Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art (Ithaca, NY), Coco Hunday (Tampa, FL), SOLOS (Karlsruhe, Germany) and elsewhere. They have been awarded residencies at Vermont Studio Center, ACRE, and Ellis-Beauregard Foundation. Their work has been featured in The Chicago Reader, Performance Review Journal, and Sixty Inches from Center; Newcity Magazine named them a 2023 Breakout Artist. Que holds an MFA in Film, Video, New Media and Animation from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA in Comparative Literature from Cornell University.

Kat Bawden is an artist, educator, and curator in Chicago whose work explores and mediates relationships between the body, memory, and the self. Kat holds an MFA in Photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and runs Murmuration, an exhibition space, publisher, and residency.

The opening reception will be on September 6 from 5-8pm.

Image: Composite image of Puzzle Piece (2024) by Nicole Leung and Closer (2024) by Ruby Que

Nicole Leung approaches their practice with a fascination for adaptation, particularly in how we (consciously or unconsciously) choose to internalize, process, and interact with our surroundings. Through their process of collecting, accumulating, and arranging neglected objects, Leung takes an interest in the habits we adopt and the delusions we construct to feel safe amidst irrepressible fear and uncertainty.

Ruby Que is a Chicago-based installation artist and experimental filmmaker who occasionally performs, carves, and weaves. In their work they open portals and create hauntings. They engage with celluloid film both as a medium and as a material, with a specific interest in the vulnerability of film as a metaphor for the cycle of life. They’ve attended residencies at Vermont Studio Center, ACRE, and No Nation Art Lab amongst others. Their works have been exhibited at Kavi Gupta, Comfort Station, Mana Contemporary, and Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. They hold a BA from Cornell University and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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