HOW TO MAKE A SCENE #7

Ben Foch @benbabychi (New Capital) in conversation with Iain Muirhead @iain_muirhead (NFA SPACE) & Taylor Payton @taylor_payton (Grunts Rare Books @gruntsrarebooks /Sulk Chicago)

Saturday, October 26, 2024 3-5pm CST
Discussion 3:30-4:30pm @
Co-Prosperity 3219 S Morgan

The FINAL in-person How to Make a Scene of the season is taking place Saturday, October 26 3-5pm with panel discussion commencing at 3:30. Join us or tune in for a compelling intergenerational mix of founders of prominent Chicago independent art spaces from the 90s to the present.

Moderator:
Ben Foch (b. 1977) is an artist living and working in Chicago, IL. Recent solo exhibitions include “PROOF OF WERQ” (2024) and “Hood Ornament” (2021) at M. LeBlanc, Chicago, IL, and inclusion in the group exhibition “Tricky Passage” (2022) curated by Ben Gill at Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago IL. In March of 2022 he launched “Cult of Cheetah” an NFT project. He co-founded and directed New Capital (2010-2017) an artist-run exhibition space in Chicago’s East Garfield Park neighborhood.

Panelists:
Iain Muirhead co-founded the artist-run gallery NFA SPACE (1996-2002) in Chicago. NFA SPACE (1996-2002) was a youthful and aggressive program of curated exhibitions challenging artists to work in site-specific environments produced at museum quality standards. NFA SPACE presented more than 30 shows in just over 5 years. The program was recognized critically in Art Forum, Art Papers, Sculpture Magazine, Contemporary Visual Arts, Zing Magazine and New Art Examiner.

Iain is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Los Angeles. Muirhead’s practice often involves collaboration with unstable situations. Recent studio work characteristically includes geometry, material, and a changing environment. Muirhead lived and worked in Chicago for 20 years as an artist, arts worker, educator and creative entrepreneur before relocating to Los Angeles in 2012. Muirhead exhibited throughout Chicago in venues including Northern Illinois University, Evanston Art Center, Dogmatic Gallery, Clutch Gallery, and Hyde Park Art Center. He was awarded professional artist residencies at The Ragdale Foundation (2008) and The Cliff Dwellers Club (2006). Iain Muirhead received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago [SAIC] where he was an award winning founder and director of the Student Union Galleries Program [SUGS]. SUGS is now known as SITE and celebrates its 30 year anniversary in 2024. Muirhead received an MFA from Claremont Graduate University where he was awarded the Ahmanson Foundation Fellowship and Karl Benjamin Painting Prize.

Iain was co-owner and principal partner at an international contemporary art and exhibition services firm with special interest in art fair project management (2000-2021). He also joined the Visual Arts Department Faculty at Chicago High School for the Arts [ChiArts] teaching Painting I and II (2010-2012) and co-founded ChonJi Dojang (2006-2012), a martial arts school with youth and adult programs directed at self-cultivation and violence prevention. Muirhead previously served on the Executive Board of Directors for threewalls, a not-for-profit supporting Chicago-based contemporary art practice and discourse (2010-2012).

Taylor Payton is a researcher and curator based in Chicago, IL. Payton co-founded Grunts Rare Books in October 2024. Grunts Rare Books is a programmatic bookstore and project space in Douglass Park specializing in uncommon publications of modern and contemporary art as well as rotating exhibitions by emerging artists(…)

For past recordings and to learn more about HTMS at: https://coprosperity.org/chicago/2024/6/20/how-to-make-a-scene

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