“Attention is the beginning of devotion” – Mary Oliver

An exhibition of works by multidisciplinary artists Joanne Aono and Kate Ingold, curated by Sherri Denault.

Reception on Saturday, April 8th from noon until 2pm.

Joanne Aono’s recent drawings, paintings, and installations examine identity, assimilation, the passage of time, and universal dualities emanating from her experiences as an identical twin and Japanese American. Research and writing provide a literal foundation of obscured text for her quiet, layered art.

She has exhibited in solo, two person, and group exhibitions in various Midwest museums, galleries, art centers, and alternative spaces. She has received City of Chicago Arts grants and a fellowship residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her art has been reviewed in publications such as Hyperallergic, ArtLetter, Northwest Indiana Times, Chicago Magazine, and the Huffington Post. In addition, Aono runs the alternative art project, Cultivator – Chicago art exhibitions & farm art projects.
www.JoanneAono.com

Kate Ingold is a visual artist and poet working in a variety of media, from textiles made from recycled and new materials, to stitched and etched drawings on digital-photograph substrates, sculptural and video installation, and image/text collage. She examines issues of disturbance, reparation and collapse, and the nostalgia and regret that can accompany loss. She works in series/projects and often pairs her visual work with poems.

She received her BA in English-Rhetoric with a minor in Visual Art from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and her MFA in Studio Writing (Image/Text) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was awarded an Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowship Finalist Award in 2009, the Poetry Society of America’s National Chapbook Fellowship in 2007, and a CAAP Grant from the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs in 2001. Ingold’s poetry chapbook, Dream of Water, was published by the Poetry Society of America in 2008. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Fisher Museum of Art and the Illinois State Museum. She was represented by the Roy Boyd Gallery in Chicago until its closing in fall 2014.
www.KateIngold.com

Images:
Joanne Aono, Detail, “Changing Identical” sterling and silverpoint drawn while holding implements like hashi (chopsticks) over inscribed text on panel, 11 x 14 inches
Kate Ingold, Detail, “Cutter, You Are Beautiful” (diptych), discarded “cutter” remnants of antique quilt repaired and reinforced with 24K real gold thread made of paper and gold leaf, 26 x 26 inches each

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