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<url>http://thevisualist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/13715238_1656465681341114_192907186_a1-200x200.jpg</url> <title>Anne Harris - The Visualist</title> <link>http://thevisualist.org</link> <width>32</width> <height>32</height> </image> <site xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">232801582</site> <item> <title>Survey</title> <link>http://thevisualist.org/2025/02/survey-3/</link> <comments>http://thevisualist.org/2025/02/survey-3/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[flor123]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Exhibition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Aidan Lapp]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Alex Both]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Alex Schubert]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Aliyah Rain Newman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Andrew Falkowski]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anna Brown]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anne Harris]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ava June Hazelmyer]]></category> 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<category><![CDATA[Logan Square]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Maddie Knight]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Maeve Coughlin]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mary Amelia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Michael Cuadrado]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Milo Christie]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nell McKeon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nick Chiado]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nick Jorgenson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Noah Towne]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Olivia Martin]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Paola Cabal]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Peter Fagundo]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rachel Bos]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Reece Francis Perkins]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Richard Hull]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sam Dybeck]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sam Jaffe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sam Oh]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Survey]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tatiana Sky]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Taylor Payton]]></category> <category><![CDATA[unda.m.93]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Vim Grace Hile]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Wolfe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Yifan Li]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Yigit Ural]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://thevisualist.org/?p=171616</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Unda.m.93 is thrilled to present “Survey”, a group show of over 70 artists. #timecapsule Opening February 9th from 6-9pm Closing event March 2nd, TBA DM or email for address Artist: Isabelle Adams, Emma Aguillera, Mary Amelia, Emily Baird, Gabor Bata, Justin Beachler, Rachel Bos, Jesse Bond, Alex Both, Isabelle Brawley, Anna Brown, Paola Cabal, Max<a href="http://thevisualist.org/2025/02/survey-3/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p> <p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2025/02/survey-3/">Survey</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Unda.m.93 is thrilled to present “Survey”,<br /> a group show of over 70 artists. #timecapsule<br /> Opening February 9th from 6-9pm Closing event March 2nd, TBA<br /> DM or email for address</p> <p>Artist: Isabelle Adams, Emma Aguillera, Mary Amelia, Emily Baird, Gabor Bata, Justin Beachler, Rachel Bos, Jesse Bond, Alex Both, Isabelle Brawley, Anna Brown, Paola Cabal, Max Capus, Pete Carney, Daniel Champion, Nick Chiado, Milo Christie, Jacob Ciocci, Collin Clarke, Maeve Coughlin, Michael Cuadrado, Justin D’Acci, Em Davenport, Garrett M Davis, Dan Devening, Sam Dybeck, Liza Jo Eilers, Jake Fagundo, Peter Fagundo, Andrew Falkowski, JB Fry, Vim Grace Hile, Anne Harris, Edwin Hartlove, Ava June Hazelmyer, Kate Hefferan, Richard Hull, Hannah Ivanov, Sam Jaffe, Dylan Jones, Nick Jorgenson, Maddie Knight, Aidan Lapp, Yifan Li, Julia Marks, Olivia Martin, Jacob Mattingly, Gabriel Mcgee, Nell Mckeon, Diana Motta, Aliyah Rain Newman, Elijah Newman, Sam Oh, Justin Ortiz, Liam Owings, Taylor Payton, Carolina Pereira de Almeida, Reece Francis Perkins, Hugo Zelada Romero, Leomi Sadler, Alex Schubert, Darius Shaoul, Cj Shaw, Tatiana Sky, Karmel Span-ier, Laurel Sparks, Cameron Spratley, Henry Tegethoff, Noah Towne, Yigit Ural, Eleanor Wardlaw, Leroy Winter, Wolfe, Harrison Wyrick, Benjamin Zumbrun</p><p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2025/02/survey-3/">Survey</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://thevisualist.org/2025/02/survey-3/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">171616</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Words of Art: Anne Harris in conversation with Riva Lehrer</title> <link>http://thevisualist.org/2024/09/words-of-art-anne-harris-in-conversation-with-riva-lehrer/</link> <comments>http://thevisualist.org/2024/09/words-of-art-anne-harris-in-conversation-with-riva-lehrer/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[flor123]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2024 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Exhibition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Talk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anne Harris]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Riva Lehrer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Riva Lehrer: The Monster Studio]]></category> <category><![CDATA[River North]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Words of Art: Anne Harris in conversation with Riva Lehrer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Zolla Lieberman]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://thevisualist.org/?p=166471</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Join us on Saturday, September 28th at 2pm for Words of Art: Anne Harris in conversation with Riva Lehrer. Artist, author, critic, and educator Anne Harris will lead a discussion with Riva Lehrer exploring the ambitions of her current exhibition, “The Monster Studio.” Harris and Lehrer will trade perspectives on a variety of topics that<a href="http://thevisualist.org/2024/09/words-of-art-anne-harris-in-conversation-with-riva-lehrer/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p> <p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2024/09/words-of-art-anne-harris-in-conversation-with-riva-lehrer/">Words of Art: Anne Harris in conversation with Riva Lehrer</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Join us on Saturday, September 28th at 2pm for Words of Art: Anne Harris in conversation with Riva Lehrer.</p> <p>Artist, author, critic, and educator Anne Harris will lead a discussion with Riva Lehrer exploring the ambitions of her current exhibition, “The Monster Studio.” Harris and Lehrer will trade perspectives on a variety of topics that have informed Lehrer’s work for more than 30 years, including embodiment, cultural depictions of disability, contemporary portraiture, art as activism, and much more.</p> <p>Coffee, pastries, and light refreshments will be served.</p> <p>Words of Art: Anne Harris in conversation with Riva Lehrer</p> <p>Saturday, September 28th @ 2pm</p> <p>Zolla/Lieberman Gallery | 325 W Huron St, Chicago, IL 60654<br /> Contact Brian Gillham | 312-944-1990 | info@zollalieberman.com</p> <p>Riva Lehrer is an artist, writer and curator who focuses on the socially challenged body. She is best known for representations of people whose physical embodiment, sexuality, or gender identity have long been stigmatized. Her work has been exhibited in venues including the Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago, National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian, the Hirshhorn Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art of San Diego, Yale University, the United Nations, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Arnot Museum, the DeCordova Museum, the Frye Museum and the Chicago Cultural Center.</p> <p>Awards include the 2020 Ford Foundation Fellowship, 2017 3Arts MacDowell Fellowship, 2014 Carnegie Mellon Fellowship, 2006 Wynn Newhouse Foundation Grant, Illinois Arts Council Grants, and National Endowment for the Arts Grant.</p> <p>Lehrer’s memoir, Golem Girl (October 2020, One World/ Penguin Random House) won the 2020 Barbellion Prize for Literature and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.</p> <p>Lehrer was a longtime faculty member at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently an instructor in Medical Humanities at Northwestern University.</p><p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2024/09/words-of-art-anne-harris-in-conversation-with-riva-lehrer/">Words of Art: Anne Harris in conversation with Riva Lehrer</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://thevisualist.org/2024/09/words-of-art-anne-harris-in-conversation-with-riva-lehrer/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">166471</post-id> </item> <item> <title>RAC Limited Edition Prints</title> <link>http://thevisualist.org/2024/05/rac-limited-edition-prints/</link> <comments>http://thevisualist.org/2024/05/rac-limited-edition-prints/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[flor123]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2024 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Exhibition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Reception]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Aimee Beaubien]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Alice Hargrave]]></category> <category><![CDATA[anna Kunz]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anne Harris]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Azadeh Gholizadeh]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bob Faust]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Claire Ashley]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Erin Washington]]></category> <category><![CDATA[FlexSpacee]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jay Wolke]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jennifer Taylor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Joanne Aono]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Kelli Connell]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Kim Piotrowski]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Laura Husar Garcia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Luis Sahagun]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Matthew Girson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Michelle Wasson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nancy Hejna]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Natalie Krick]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Oli Watt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Paola Cabal]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Past Perfect]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Paul D’Amato]]></category> <category><![CDATA[RAC Limited Edition Prints]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Riva Lehrer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Riverside]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Riverside Arts Center]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tony Phillips]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thevisualist.org/?p=160942</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>RAC LIMITED EDITION PRINTS Opening: Friday, May 24, 2024, 6:00 – 8:00 pm Exhibition Dates: May 24 – June 22, 2024 Gallery Hours: Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays 1:00 – 5:00 pm Selections from the Riverside Arts Center’s 2022 and 2023 Limited Edition Print Portfolios will be on exhibit in the FlexSpace. Curated by Paul D’Amato,<a href="http://thevisualist.org/2024/05/rac-limited-edition-prints/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p> <p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2024/05/rac-limited-edition-prints/">RAC Limited Edition Prints</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>RAC LIMITED EDITION PRINTS<br /> Opening: Friday, May 24, 2024, 6:00 – 8:00 pm<br /> Exhibition Dates: May 24 – June 22, 2024<br /> Gallery Hours: Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays 1:00 – 5:00 pm</p> <p>Selections from the Riverside Arts Center’s 2022 and 2023 Limited Edition Print Portfolios will be on exhibit in the FlexSpace. Curated by Paul D’Amato, twenty-three artists who have exhibited at the Arts Center, were invited to respond conceptually and formally to the phrases The Shape of Things to Come and Past Perfect.</p> <p>The artists created a set of unique images, which were made into limited editions of 20 high quality ink jet prints.The images are printed on 11” x 17” Canson Arches 310 gsm paper and are signed, titled and numbered by the artists. The sale of these prints raise funds to support exhibitions and programming at RAC, .</p> <p>The artists in The Shape of Things to Come include Claire Ashley, Aimée Beaubien, Paola Cabal, Bob Faust, Matthew Girson, Azadeh Gholizadeh, Anna Kunz, Anne Harris, Kim Piotrowski, Luis Sahagun, and Jay Wolke.</p> <p>The artists in Past Perfect include Riva Lehrer, Tony Phillips, Nancy Hejna, Michelle Wasson, Laura Husar Garcia, Oli Watt, Erin Washington, Alice Hargrave, Jennifer Taylor, Paul D’Amato, Joanne Aono, Kelli Connell and Natalie Krick.</p> <p>The production of these prints was made possible by the generous support of Document, Chicago’s preeminent digital print facility, and IT Supplies, who donated the paper on which they are printed.</p> <p>Each print is available for purchase for $100 each. Entire suites of The Shape of Things to Come and the Past Perfect portfolios are available for $1000.</p> <p>For press inquiries and high-resolution images or for additional information, please contact Gallery Director, Joanne Aono at jaono@riversideartscenter.com</p> <p>Riverside Arts Center<br /> 32 East Quincy St<br /> Riverside, IL 60546<br /> www.riversideartscenter.com</p><p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2024/05/rac-limited-edition-prints/">RAC Limited Edition Prints</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://thevisualist.org/2024/05/rac-limited-edition-prints/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">160942</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Anne Harris & Noelle Africh: eyemind</title> <link>http://thevisualist.org/2024/05/anne-harris-noelle-africh-eyemind/</link> <comments>http://thevisualist.org/2024/05/anne-harris-noelle-africh-eyemind/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[flor123]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2024 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Exhibition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Reception]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anne Harris]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anne Harris & Noelle Africh: eyemind]]></category> <category><![CDATA[eyemind]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Near North Side]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Noelle Africh]]></category> <category><![CDATA[STASIAS]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Stasias Gallery]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://thevisualist.org/?p=159590</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Stasias Gallery is pleased to present eyemind, a two-person exhibition with Chicago based painters, Anne Harris and Noelle Africh. Stasias is located at 44 E. Cedar St. in Chicago, IL. The exhibition will run from May 4th – June 8th, 2024. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, May 4th, 5-9 pm. Free and<a href="http://thevisualist.org/2024/05/anne-harris-noelle-africh-eyemind/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p> <p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2024/05/anne-harris-noelle-africh-eyemind/">Anne Harris & Noelle Africh: eyemind</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Stasias Gallery is pleased to present eyemind, a two-person exhibition with Chicago based painters, Anne Harris and Noelle Africh. Stasias is located at 44 E. Cedar St. in Chicago, IL. The exhibition will run from May 4th – June 8th, 2024. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, May 4th, 5-9 pm. Free and open to the public.</p> <p>Anne and Noelle exchanged words (and bits of favorite poems):<br /> presence<br /> flesh<br /> poetry<br /> face<br /> subtlety<br /> intensity<br /> nuance<br /> touch<br /> uncanny<br /> ephemeral<br /> anticipation<br /> transition<br /> contradiction<br /> ghosts keep speaking<br /> The absence of the Witch does not<br /> Invalidate the spell–<br /> Harbingers warn<br /> embitterment<br /> Hints, suggestions, digressions<br /> things are not what they seem<br /> benefit of the doubt<br /> Blindingly sharp<br /> arrow of sheer light<br /> I know not what<br /> ritual of Reexamination<br /> waiting<br /> waiting<br /> Where’s the body?</p> <p>Anne Harris (b. Cleveland, 1961) lives and paints in Chicago, IL. She received her MFA from the Yale School of Art and her BFA from Washington University in St. Louis. Her work has been exhibited at venues ranging from Alexandre Gallery (NYC), DC Moore Gallery (NYC), Goldfinch Gallery (Chicago), to the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institute, the Portland Museum of Art, and Espacio Andrea Brunson (Santiago, Chile). Her work is in such public collections as The Fogg Museum at Harvard, The Yale University Art Gallery, The New York Public Library and The DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Garden. Grants and awards received include a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and an NEA Individual Artists Fellowship. Harris is an Associate Professor in the Painting and Drawing Department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her next upcoming solo show is Anne Harris WIP, at Serious Topics (Los Angeles), opening May 18, 2024.</p> <p>Noelle Africh (b. Chicago, 1992) lives and works in Chicago. They received their MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Their work has been exhibited at Galerie Gisela Clement (Bonn, Germany), RUSCHWOMAN (Chicago, IL), Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago, IL), The Plan (Chicago, IL), SHED Projects (Cleveland, OH), The Green Gallery – West (Milwaukee, WI), Switch-Hook Projects (Chicago, IL), Patient Info (Chicago, IL), and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. They are currently a Lecturer in the Painting and Drawing program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Forthcoming exhibitions include an upcoming solo exhibition at Slow Dance Gallery (Chicago, IL) in June 2024.</p><p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2024/05/anne-harris-noelle-africh-eyemind/">Anne Harris & Noelle Africh: eyemind</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://thevisualist.org/2024/05/anne-harris-noelle-africh-eyemind/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">159590</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Susan Giles: Words to Grasp Artist Talk with Anne Harris</title> <link>http://thevisualist.org/2024/04/susan-giles-words-to-grasp-artist-talk-with-anne-harris-2/</link> <comments>http://thevisualist.org/2024/04/susan-giles-words-to-grasp-artist-talk-with-anne-harris-2/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[flor123]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Exhibition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Talk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anne Harris]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Freeark Gallery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Riverside]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Riverside Arts Center]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Susan Giles]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Words to Grasp]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thevisualist.org/?p=159331</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Susan Giles: Words to Grasp Artist Talk: Saturday, April 27, 2024, 2:00 pm Exhibition Dates: April 7 – May 11, 2024 Gallery Hours: Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays 1:00 – 5:00 pm The Riverside Arts Center’s Freeark Gallery invites you to an artist talk with Susan Giles and curator Anne Harris, coinciding with Words to Grasp,<a href="http://thevisualist.org/2024/04/susan-giles-words-to-grasp-artist-talk-with-anne-harris-2/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p> <p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2024/04/susan-giles-words-to-grasp-artist-talk-with-anne-harris-2/">Susan Giles: Words to Grasp Artist Talk with Anne Harris</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Susan Giles: Words to Grasp<br /> Artist Talk: Saturday, April 27, 2024, 2:00 pm</p> <p>Exhibition Dates: April 7 – May 11, 2024<br /> Gallery Hours: Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays 1:00 – 5:00 pm</p> <p>The Riverside Arts Center’s Freeark Gallery invites you to an artist talk with Susan Giles and curator Anne Harris, coinciding with Words to Grasp, a solo exhibition of sculpture, drawing, and video.</p> <p>“Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it.”<br /> –Martha Graham (1991), Blood Memory</p> <p>Susan Giles uses motion-capture technology to record the moving hands of speakers as they express emotion. She then gives sculptural form to these emphatic gestures. The result is monumental ephemerality — fluid stillness suspended in space and time. Built with honeycombed layers of cardboard (the most ordinary stuff), Giles’s recent site-specific sculptures swirl through large institutional spaces, unfurling and floating. They are weightless and uncanny, like ballet or baroque sculpture. The flying robes of Bernini’s twisting David come to mind.</p> <p>The organic drama of this experience is at odds with its technologically sophisticated, analytical beginnings. In the end, we’re suspended between sensations: the magical marvel of tour-de-force construction, and the quiet poetry of dispassionate observation — that emotion can be recorded, measured, and translated into data, like any other natural phenomenon.</p> <p>In the context of this evolving extended project, we’re excited to see how Giles responds directly to the human scale, domestic character, and intimacy of RAC’s Freeark Gallery.<br /> –Anne Harris, Curator</p> <p>—–</p> <p>Susan Giles is an artist working in interdisciplinary media. Her work has been shown in Chicago at the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Hyde Park Art Center, THE MISSION Gallery, and The Renaissance Society, as well as Mixed Greens in New York, Five Years in London, and Galeria Valle Orti in Valencia, Spain. Among her honors are a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, a Fulbright Grant, Individual Artist Project Grants from Chicago’s DCASE, and multiple Illinois Arts Council grants. Major commissions include a permanent sculpture for the University of Chicago and a public art commission with Jason Rosenthal in memory of Amy Krouse Rosenthal for the Chicago Park District.</p> <p>Giles holds a MFA from Northwestern University and a MA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is Associate Professor in the Department of Contemporary Practices at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Visiting Teaching Fellow in Built Environment, Arts, Design & Architecture at University of New South Wales in Sydney.<br /> https://www.susangiles.net</p> <p>—–</p> <p>Anne Harris’s paintings and drawings have been exhibited at venues ranging from Alexandre Gallery, DC Moore Gallery and Nielsen Gallery to the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institute, The Portland Museum of Art, and the California Center for Contemporary Art. Her art is in such public collections as The Fogg Museum at Harvard, The Yale University Art Gallery and The New York Public Library. Grants and awards received include a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and an NEA Individual Artists Fellowship.</p> <p>Harris is an Associate Professor in the Painting and Drawing Department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is Chair of the Exhibition Committee at the Riverside Arts Center and has curated numerous exhibitions there. She also is the originator of The Mind’s I—an expanding traveling drawing project she does with other artists, which is designed to investigate the complexities of perception and self-perception.<br /> https://anneharrispainting.com/home.html</p> <p>—–</p> <p>Riverside Arts Center<br /> Freeark Gallery + Sculpture Garden<br /> 32 East Quincy Street<br /> Riverside, Illinois 60546</p> <p>Gallery Hours: Thursday – Saturday, 1-5pm, Closed Sundays – Wednesdays and major holidays.<br /> All of our exhibitions are free and open to the public.</p> <p>For press inquiries and high-resolution images or for additional information contact Gallery Director, Joanne Aono at jaono@riversideartscenter.com</p> <p>www.riversideartscenter.com</p><p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2024/04/susan-giles-words-to-grasp-artist-talk-with-anne-harris-2/">Susan Giles: Words to Grasp Artist Talk with Anne Harris</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://thevisualist.org/2024/04/susan-giles-words-to-grasp-artist-talk-with-anne-harris-2/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">159331</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Susan Giles: Words to Grasp</title> <link>http://thevisualist.org/2024/04/susan-giles-words-to-grasp/</link> <comments>http://thevisualist.org/2024/04/susan-giles-words-to-grasp/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[flor123]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2024 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Exhibition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Reception]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anne Harris]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Freeark Gallery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Riverside]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Riverside Arts Center]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Susan Giles]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Susan Giles: Words to Grasp]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Words to Grasp]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thevisualist.org/?p=157551</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Susan Giles: Words to Grasp Exhibition Dates: April 7 – May 11, 2024 Opening Reception: Sunday, April 7, 2024, 3:00 – 6:00 pm Join us afterwards for a private happy hour across the street at the Quincy Street Distillery. Gallery Hours: Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays 1:00 – 5:00 pm Artist Talk: Saturday, April 27, 2024,<a href="http://thevisualist.org/2024/04/susan-giles-words-to-grasp/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p> <p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2024/04/susan-giles-words-to-grasp/">Susan Giles: Words to Grasp</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Susan Giles: Words to Grasp<br /> Exhibition Dates: April 7 – May 11, 2024</p> <p>Opening Reception: Sunday, April 7, 2024, 3:00 – 6:00 pm<br /> Join us afterwards for a private happy hour across the street at the Quincy Street Distillery.</p> <p>Gallery Hours: Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays 1:00 – 5:00 pm</p> <p>Artist Talk: Saturday, April 27, 2024, 2:00 pm</p> <p>The Riverside Arts Center’s Freeark Gallery is pleased to present Words to Grasp, a solo exhibition of sculpture, drawing, and video by Susan Giles, curated by Anne Harris.</p> <p>“Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it.”<br /> –Martha Graham (1991), Blood Memory</p> <p>Susan Giles uses motion-capture technology to record the moving hands of speakers as they express emotion. She then gives sculptural form to these emphatic gestures. The result is monumental ephemerality — fluid stillness suspended in space and time. Built with honeycombed layers of cardboard (the most ordinary stuff), Giles’s recent site-specific sculptures swirl through large institutional spaces, unfurling and floating. They are weightless and uncanny, like ballet or baroque sculpture. The flying robes of Bernini’s twisting David come to mind.</p> <p>The organic drama of this experience is at odds with its technologically sophisticated, analytical beginnings. In the end, we’re suspended between sensations: the magical marvel of tour-de-force construction, and the quiet poetry of dispassionate observation — that emotion can be recorded, measured, and translated into data, like any other natural phenomenon.</p> <p>In the context of this evolving extended project, we’re excited to see how Giles responds directly to the human scale, domestic character, and intimacy of RAC’s Freeark Gallery.<br /> –Anne Harris, Curator</p> <p>—–</p> <p>Susan Giles is an artist working in interdisciplinary media. Her work has been shown in Chicago at the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Hyde Park Art Center, THE MISSION Gallery, and The Renaissance Society, as well as Mixed Greens in New York, Five Years in London, and Galeria Valle Orti in Valencia, Spain. Among her honors are a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, a Fulbright Grant, Individual Artist Project Grants from Chicago’s DCASE, and multiple Illinois Arts Council grants. Major commissions include a permanent sculpture for the University of Chicago and a public art commission with Jason Rosenthal in memory of Amy Krouse Rosenthal for the Chicago Park District.</p> <p>Giles holds a MFA from Northwestern University and a MA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is Associate Professor in the Department of Contemporary Practices at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Visiting Teaching Fellow in Built Environment, Arts, Design & Architecture at University of New South Wales in Sydney.<br /> https://www.susangiles.net</p> <p>—–</p> <p>Anne Harris’s paintings and drawings have been exhibited at venues ranging from Alexandre Gallery, DC Moore Gallery and Nielsen Gallery to the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institute, The Portland Museum of Art, and the California Center for Contemporary Art. Her art is in such public collections as The Fogg Museum at Harvard, The Yale University Art Gallery and The New York Public Library. Grants and awards received include a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and an NEA Individual Artists Fellowship.</p> <p>Harris is an Associate Professor in the Painting and Drawing Department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is Chair of the Exhibition Committee at the Riverside Arts Center and has curated numerous exhibitions there. She also is the originator of The Mind’s I—an expanding traveling drawing project she does with other artists, which is designed to investigate the complexities of perception and self-perception.<br /> https://anneharrispainting.com/home.html</p> <p>—–</p> <p>Riverside Arts Center<br /> Freeark Gallery + Sculpture Garden<br /> 32 East Quincy Street<br /> Riverside, Illinois 60546</p> <p>Gallery Hours: Thursday – Saturday, 1-5pm, Closed Sundays – Wednesdays and major holidays.<br /> All of our exhibitions are free and open to the public.</p> <p>For press inquiries and high-resolution images or for additional information contact Gallery Director, Joanne Aono at jaono@riversideartscenter.com</p> <p>www.riversideartscenter.com</p><p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2024/04/susan-giles-words-to-grasp/">Susan Giles: Words to Grasp</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://thevisualist.org/2024/04/susan-giles-words-to-grasp/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">157551</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Past Perfect: Celebrating 30 Years with 30 Artists – Artist Panel Talk</title> <link>http://thevisualist.org/2023/12/past-perfect-celebrating-30-years-with-30-artists-artist-panel-talk-2-2/</link> <comments>http://thevisualist.org/2023/12/past-perfect-celebrating-30-years-with-30-artists-artist-panel-talk-2-2/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Meg Duguid]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 09 Dec 2023 20:41:24 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Exhibition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Talk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ali Feser]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Andreas Fischer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[anna Kunz]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anne Harris]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bob Faust]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Camille Silverman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Colleen Plumb]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Erin Washington]]></category> <category><![CDATA[FlexSpace]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Freeark Gallery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Indira Freitas Johnson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[jason lazarus]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jennifer Taylor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Joanne Aono]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Kim Piotrowski]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Larry Bookbinder]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Matthew Girson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nancy Hejna]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Past Perfect: Celebrating 30 Years with 30 Artists]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Past Perfect: Celebrating 30 Years with 30 Artists - Artist Panel Talk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Riva Lehrer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Riverside]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Riverside Arts Center]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tim Lowly]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tom Burtonwood]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Whitney Bradshaw]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Yoonshin Park]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thevisualist.org/?p=153684</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Past Perfect: Celebrating 30 Years with 30 Artists Join Us for the first Artist Panel Talk Saturday, December 2nd at 2pm Exhibition Dates: November 5, 2023 – January 6, 2024 Gallery Hours: Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays 1 – 5 pm Artist Panel Discussions: Saturdays at 2pm December 2nd: Artists Tom Burtonwood, Andreas Fischer, Riva Lehrer,<a href="http://thevisualist.org/2023/12/past-perfect-celebrating-30-years-with-30-artists-artist-panel-talk-2-2/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p> <p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2023/12/past-perfect-celebrating-30-years-with-30-artists-artist-panel-talk-2-2/">Past Perfect: Celebrating 30 Years with 30 Artists – Artist Panel Talk</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Past Perfect: Celebrating 30 Years with 30 Artists</p> <p>Join Us for the first Artist Panel Talk<br /> Saturday, December 2nd at 2pm</p> <p>Exhibition Dates: November 5, 2023 – January 6, 2024</p> <p>Gallery Hours: Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays 1 – 5 pm</p> <p>Artist Panel Discussions: Saturdays at 2pm<br /> December 2nd: Artists Tom Burtonwood, Andreas Fischer, Riva Lehrer, Tim Lowly, Yoonshin Park, Kim Piotrowski, and Colleen Plumb, with curators Anne Harris, Laura Husar Garcia, and Joanne Aono</p> <p>December 9th: Artists Larry Bookbinder and Matthew Girson, Jason Lazarus (via zoom) and Ali Feser, Erin Washington, and Camille Silverman, with curators Laura Husar Garcia, and Joanne Aono</p> <p>January 6th Closing Reception and Artist Panel Talk: Artists Whitney Bradshaw, Bob Faust, Nancy Hejna, Indira Freitas Johnson, Anna Kunz, and Jennifer Taylor, with curators Anne Harris and Joanne Aono</p> <p>(More artists to be added to panel talks; look for future emails)</p> <p>The Riverside Arts Center is pleased to present Past Perfect: Celebrating 30 Years with 30 Artists, a group exhibition commemorating our thirtieth anniversary. This exhibition is on view in RAC’s Freeark Gallery, FlexSpace, and Sculpture Garden through January 6, 2024.</p> <p>Established in 1993, the Riverside Arts Center has evolved into a respected destination led by its world-class exhibition programming. In recognition of the hundreds of artists whose art has similarly grown through the years, thirty extraordinary artists were selected from RAC’s solo and two-person exhibitions.</p> <p>Representing a diverse range of artistic mediums, the exhibition includes a wood sculpture by one of the Riverside Arts Center’s founders, Ruth Freeark; a colorful multimedia installation by Aimée Beaubien; and a figurative oil painting by Janice Nowinski. Photography and video are explored by Whitney Bradshaw and Colleen Plumb, while painting is represented by respected artists such as Kim Piotrowski, Anna Kunz, Candida Alvarez, and Andreas Fischer. In addition, we honor Sabina Ott and Deborah Boardman posthumously through their art.</p> <p>The artists in Past Perfect: Celebrating 30 Years with 30 Artists include:</p> <p>Candida Alvarez, Karen Azarnia, Aimeé Beaubien, Deborah Boardman, Larry Bookbinder, Whitney Bradshaw, Tom Burtonwood, Paola Cabal, Bob Faust, Andreas Fischer, Ruth Freeark, Nancy Hejna, Heather Hug, Indira Freitas Johnson, Anna Kunz, Jason Lazarus, Riva Lehrer, Tim Lowly, Janice Nowinski, Nnenna Okore, Sabina Ott, Yoonshin Park, Tony Phillips, Kim Piotrowski, Colleen Plumb, Judith Raphael, Camille Silverman, Altoon Sultan, Jennifer Taylor, and Erin Washington.</p> <p>Riverside Arts Center’s exhibitions are free and open to the public.</p> <p>Gallery Hours: Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays 1:00 – 5:00 pm</p> <p>For exhibition information, press inquiries and high-resolution images contact Gallery Director, Joanne Aono at jaono@riversideartscenter.com</p> <p>The Riverside Arts Center is a 501(c)(3)nonprofit organization.</p> <p>Our programs are partially supported by grants from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency; the Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation; the Village of Riverside, sponsorship from the Riverside Township, and by the Arts Midwest GIG Fund, a program of Arts Midwest that is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts with additional contributions from the Illinois Arts Council.</p> <p>image: Kim Piotrowski | Detail, Parting Gift, 2023, Onsite painting</p> <p>32 East Quincy Street, Riverside, Illinois 60546<br /> www.riversideartscenter.com</p><p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2023/12/past-perfect-celebrating-30-years-with-30-artists-artist-panel-talk-2-2/">Past Perfect: Celebrating 30 Years with 30 Artists – Artist Panel Talk</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://thevisualist.org/2023/12/past-perfect-celebrating-30-years-with-30-artists-artist-panel-talk-2-2/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">153684</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Past Perfect: Celebrating 30 Years with 30 Artists – Artist Panel Talk</title> <link>http://thevisualist.org/2023/12/past-perfect-celebrating-30-years-with-30-artists-artist-panel-talk-2/</link> <comments>http://thevisualist.org/2023/12/past-perfect-celebrating-30-years-with-30-artists-artist-panel-talk-2/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[flor123]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 02 Dec 2023 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Exhibition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Talk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ali Feser]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Andreas Fischer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[anna Kunz]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anne Harris]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bob Faust]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Camille Silverman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Colleen Plumb]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Erin Washington]]></category> <category><![CDATA[FlexSpace]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Freeark Gallery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Indira Freitas Johnson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[jason lazarus]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jennifer Taylor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Joanne Aono]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Kim Piotrowski]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Larry Bookbinder]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Matthew Girson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nancy Hejna]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Past Perfect: Celebrating 30 Years with 30 Artists]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Past Perfect: Celebrating 30 Years with 30 Artists - Artist Panel Talk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Riva Lehrer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Riverside]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Riverside Arts Center]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tim Lowly]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tom Burtonwood]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Whitney Bradshaw]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Yoonshin Park]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://thevisualist.org/?p=153617</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Past Perfect: Celebrating 30 Years with 30 Artists Join Us for the first Artist Panel Talk Saturday, December 2nd at 2pm Exhibition Dates: November 5, 2023 – January 6, 2024 Gallery Hours: Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays 1 – 5 pm Artist Panel Discussions: Saturdays at 2pm December 2nd: Artists Tom Burtonwood, Andreas Fischer, Riva Lehrer,<a href="http://thevisualist.org/2023/12/past-perfect-celebrating-30-years-with-30-artists-artist-panel-talk-2/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p> <p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2023/12/past-perfect-celebrating-30-years-with-30-artists-artist-panel-talk-2/">Past Perfect: Celebrating 30 Years with 30 Artists – Artist Panel Talk</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Past Perfect: Celebrating 30 Years with 30 Artists</p> <p>Join Us for the first Artist Panel Talk<br /> Saturday, December 2nd at 2pm</p> <p>Exhibition Dates: November 5, 2023 – January 6, 2024</p> <p>Gallery Hours: Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays 1 – 5 pm</p> <p>Artist Panel Discussions: Saturdays at 2pm<br /> December 2nd: Artists Tom Burtonwood, Andreas Fischer, Riva Lehrer, Tim Lowly, Yoonshin Park, Kim Piotrowski, and Colleen Plumb, with curators Anne Harris, Laura Husar Garcia, and Joanne Aono</p> <p>December 9th: Artists Larry Bookbinder and Matthew Girson, Jason Lazarus (via zoom) and Ali Feser, Erin Washington, and Camille Silverman, with curators Laura Husar Garcia, and Joanne Aono</p> <p>January 6th Closing Reception and Artist Panel Talk: Artists Whitney Bradshaw, Bob Faust, Nancy Hejna, Indira Freitas Johnson, Anna Kunz, and Jennifer Taylor, with curators Anne Harris and Joanne Aono</p> <p>(More artists to be added to panel talks; look for future emails)</p> <p>The Riverside Arts Center is pleased to present Past Perfect: Celebrating 30 Years with 30 Artists, a group exhibition commemorating our thirtieth anniversary. This exhibition is on view in RAC’s Freeark Gallery, FlexSpace, and Sculpture Garden through January 6, 2024.</p> <p>Established in 1993, the Riverside Arts Center has evolved into a respected destination led by its world-class exhibition programming. In recognition of the hundreds of artists whose art has similarly grown through the years, thirty extraordinary artists were selected from RAC’s solo and two-person exhibitions.</p> <p>Representing a diverse range of artistic mediums, the exhibition includes a wood sculpture by one of the Riverside Arts Center’s founders, Ruth Freeark; a colorful multimedia installation by Aimée Beaubien; and a figurative oil painting by Janice Nowinski. Photography and video are explored by Whitney Bradshaw and Colleen Plumb, while painting is represented by respected artists such as Kim Piotrowski, Anna Kunz, Candida Alvarez, and Andreas Fischer. In addition, we honor Sabina Ott and Deborah Boardman posthumously through their art.</p> <p>The artists in Past Perfect: Celebrating 30 Years with 30 Artists include:</p> <p>Candida Alvarez, Karen Azarnia, Aimeé Beaubien, Deborah Boardman, Larry Bookbinder, Whitney Bradshaw, Tom Burtonwood, Paola Cabal, Bob Faust, Andreas Fischer, Ruth Freeark, Nancy Hejna, Heather Hug, Indira Freitas Johnson, Anna Kunz, Jason Lazarus, Riva Lehrer, Tim Lowly, Janice Nowinski, Nnenna Okore, Sabina Ott, Yoonshin Park, Tony Phillips, Kim Piotrowski, Colleen Plumb, Judith Raphael, Camille Silverman, Altoon Sultan, Jennifer Taylor, and Erin Washington.</p> <p>Riverside Arts Center’s exhibitions are free and open to the public.</p> <p>Gallery Hours: Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays 1:00 – 5:00 pm</p> <p>For exhibition information, press inquiries and high-resolution images contact Gallery Director, Joanne Aono at jaono@riversideartscenter.com</p> <p>The Riverside Arts Center is a 501(c)(3)nonprofit organization.</p> <p>Our programs are partially supported by grants from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency; the Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation; the Village of Riverside, sponsorship from the Riverside Township, and by the Arts Midwest GIG Fund, a program of Arts Midwest that is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts with additional contributions from the Illinois Arts Council.</p> <p>image: Kim Piotrowski | Detail, Parting Gift, 2023, Onsite painting</p> <p>32 East Quincy Street, Riverside, Illinois 60546<br /> www.riversideartscenter.com</p><p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2023/12/past-perfect-celebrating-30-years-with-30-artists-artist-panel-talk-2/">Past Perfect: Celebrating 30 Years with 30 Artists – Artist Panel Talk</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://thevisualist.org/2023/12/past-perfect-celebrating-30-years-with-30-artists-artist-panel-talk-2/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">153617</post-id> </item> <item> <title>BODY [ ] SPACE</title> <link>http://thevisualist.org/2023/08/body-space-2/</link> <comments>http://thevisualist.org/2023/08/body-space-2/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[flor123]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2023 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Exhibition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Reception]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Adam Scott]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anne Harris]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Body/Space]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Hatton]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Joanna Sit]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Logan Square]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Michael Nauert]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Oliva Gallery]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thevisualist.org/?p=142819</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Join us at Oliva Gallery on Friday, August 11, from 5 to 9 pm for the opening reception of BODY [ ] SPACE, a groundbreaking group exhibition curated by Elizabeth Hatton. The exhibition explores the relationship between the body and internal and external space through a diverse range of artworks. Featuring the works of Adam<a href="http://thevisualist.org/2023/08/body-space-2/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p> <p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2023/08/body-space-2/">BODY [ ] SPACE</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Join us at Oliva Gallery on Friday, August 11, from 5 to 9 pm for the opening reception of BODY [ ] SPACE, a groundbreaking group exhibition curated by Elizabeth Hatton. The exhibition explores the relationship between the body and internal and external space through a diverse range of artworks.</p> <p>Featuring the works of Adam Scott, Anne Harris, Elizabeth Hatton, Joanna Sit, and Michael Nauert, the exhibition challenges the viewer to consider what it means to inhabit a body and step into another’s experience. The works are interrogative, encouraging viewers to consider their own experiences in relation to what is exhibited, whether through humor, historical reference, illusion, abstraction, or relation to the environment.</p> <p>As Aristotle said, “If the eye were an animal, sight would be its soul,” and in BODY [ ] SPACE, the viewer is invited to experience the soul of the eye through the expressive and thought-provoking artworks on display.</p> <p>Don’t miss this exciting event at Oliva Gallery, located at 3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60647. The exhibition will run from August 11t to September 2, 2023. For more information, visit <a href="https://www.olivagallery.com/">www.olivagallery.com</a> or call 847–922–5736. We can’t wait to see you there!</p> <p> </p> <p> </p><p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2023/08/body-space-2/">BODY [ ] SPACE</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://thevisualist.org/2023/08/body-space-2/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">142819</post-id> </item> <item> <title>A Flatfiles Show</title> <link>http://thevisualist.org/2023/03/a-flatfiles-show/</link> <comments>http://thevisualist.org/2023/03/a-flatfiles-show/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hannah McHugh]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 05 Mar 2023 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Exhibition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Reception]]></category> <category><![CDATA[A Flatfiles Show]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Amanda Joy Calobrisi]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anne Harris]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cameron Harvey]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cassie Tompkins]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Damon Locks]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Diana Gabriel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dianna Frid]]></category> <category><![CDATA[East Garfield Park]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Edra Soto]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Erin Patton-McFarren]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Flatfiles]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Goldfinch]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gwendolyn Zabicki]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Holly Cahill]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Holly Murkerson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Howard Fonda]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Irene Wa]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jasper Goodrich]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jenny Kendler]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jessie Mott]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jordan Martins]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Kate McQuillen]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Kevin Blake]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Kuras-MacKenzie]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Leslie Baum]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Madeline Gallucci]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mara Baker]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Marina Ross]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Marissa Chris Zain Neuman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mary Bergs and Robin Dluzen]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Matt Brett]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Meghan Borah]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Melissa Oresky]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Minami Kobayashi]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Miranda Javid]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Monika Muller]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nicole Mauser]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Robin Dluzen]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Scott Wolniak]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sherwin Ovid]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tsai-Ling Tseng]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Victoria Martinez]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Xinyan Wang]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Yesenia Bello]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thevisualist.org/?p=140688</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Take advantage of this rare opportunity to view works from our Flatfiles on gallery walls! We’ve taken numerous works out of the Flatfiles and displayed them throughout Gallery 2, thereby giving visitors a chance to view the breadth of this program of accessibly-priced artworks in person and without an advanced appointment. Goldfinch’s Flatfiles Program aims<a href="http://thevisualist.org/2023/03/a-flatfiles-show/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p> <p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2023/03/a-flatfiles-show/">A Flatfiles Show</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Take advantage of this rare opportunity to view works from our Flatfiles on gallery walls! We’ve taken numerous works out of the Flatfiles and displayed them throughout Gallery 2, thereby giving visitors a chance to view the breadth of this program of accessibly-priced artworks in person and without an advanced appointment. Goldfinch’s Flatfiles Program aims to make original contemporary artworks available to a wider audience. It encompasses painting, drawing, collage, prints, photographs, small sculptures, mixed media pieces and any other work that can be housed in the drawers of our flatfile cabinet, the vast majority of which are priced at $1500 or below — and many can be acquired for $600 or less.</p> <p>THE FLATFILES CURRENTLY INCLUDES WORKS BY:</p> <p>Mara Baker, Leslie Baum, Yesenia Bello, Mary Bergs and Robin Dluzen, Matt Brett, Robin Dluzen, Kevin Blake, Meghan Borah, Holly Cahill, Amanda Joy Calobrisi, Howard Fonda, Dianna Frid, Diana Gabriel, Madeline Gallucci, Jasper Goodrich, Anne Harris, Cameron Harvey, Miranda Javid, Minami Kobayashi, Jenny Kendler, Kuras & MacKenzie, Damon Locks, Victoria Martinez, Jordan Martins, Nicole Mauser, Kate McQuillen, Jessie Mott, Monika Müller, Holly Murkerson, Marissa Chris Zain Neuman, Melissa Oresky, Sherwin Ovid, Erin Patton-McFarren, Marina Ross, Edra Soto, Cassie Tompkins, Tsai-Ling Tseng, Irene Wa., Xinyan Wang,Scott Wolniak, Gwendolyn Zabicki</p><p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2023/03/a-flatfiles-show/">A Flatfiles Show</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://thevisualist.org/2023/03/a-flatfiles-show/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">140688</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Matthew Girson Artist Talk with Anne Harris</title> <link>http://thevisualist.org/2022/12/matthew-girson-artist-talk-with-anne-harris/</link> <comments>http://thevisualist.org/2022/12/matthew-girson-artist-talk-with-anne-harris/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hannah McHugh]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2022 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Exhibition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Talk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anne Harris]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Matthew Girson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Matthew Girson Artist Talk with Anne Harris]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Plot Structure]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Riverside]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Riverside Arts Center]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Riverside Arts Center + Freeark Gallery]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thevisualist.org/?p=138687</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Matthew Girson Artist Talk with Anne Harris Saturday, December 10, 2022 at 2PM Riverside Arts Center’s Freeark Gallery 32 East Quincy Street, Riverside, IL Plot Structure: Matthew Girson Exhibition Dates: November 13 – December 30, 2022 On View: Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, 1:00 – 5:00 PM Artist Talk: Saturday, December 10, 2022, 2:00 PM Join<a href="http://thevisualist.org/2022/12/matthew-girson-artist-talk-with-anne-harris/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p> <p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2022/12/matthew-girson-artist-talk-with-anne-harris/">Matthew Girson Artist Talk with Anne Harris</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Matthew Girson Artist Talk with Anne Harris<br /> Saturday, December 10, 2022 at 2PM</p> <p>Riverside Arts Center’s Freeark Gallery<br /> 32 East Quincy Street, Riverside, IL</p> <p>Plot Structure: Matthew Girson<br /> Exhibition Dates: November 13 – December 30, 2022<br /> On View: Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, 1:00 – 5:00 PM</p> <p>Artist Talk: Saturday, December 10, 2022, 2:00 PM<br /> Join us after the talk at the Quincy Street Distillery for handcrafted artisanal spirits and further conversation.</p> <p>Exhibition Catalogue: Will be available for purchase including a special edition with a limited edition print by Matthew Girson</p> <p>————</p> <p>Reflections on Facts and Fictions</p> <p>I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.<br /> Whatever I see I swallow immediately<br /> Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.<br /> I am not cruel, only truthful‚<br /> The eye of a little god, four-cornered.<br /> –Excerpted from Mirror by Sylvia Plath</p> <p>Matthew Girson’s recent paintings are mirrors. I mean this literally. Actual mirrors are embedded. Silver paints are used. These mimic surfaces ranging from chrome to pewter. The paint is used to depict muted interiors which abut the actual mirrors. These show us the actual interiors we stand in, and our reflected selves, peering into the painting, trying to sort out what we see.</p> <p>Matthew’s paintings are also mirrors, metaphorically. The illusory sensation of space is the physical depth of a mirror—that fraction of an inch suspended between the surface of the glass and the silvered backing. The images are oddly flat, pressed back at us, impassive and neutral. Every reflected millimeter is equal.</p> <p>These are also experiential mirrors, capturing many reflective possibilities, from breath-steamed, to satin-finished, to sparklingly clear. But they’re at odds with the traditional expected fiction of painting, that paintings are like windows, not mirrors.</p> <p>We expect to look through a painting as we do a window. The window pane is the picture plane; the world of the painting exists behind that plane. But Matthew’s painted world slides against that plane. It lives where our world meets its opposite. He paints the moment of reflected flip, the liminal shimmer.</p> <p>****</p> <p>The Larry Bookbinder paintings are windows. We look through them and see painterly interpretations of observed objects on surfaces. Described by Matthew, “They are small (and odd?) windows into densely filled, colorful, bright, reflective narrow spaces.” Understood this way, they are part of the tradition of perceptual still-life painting, in conversation with Chardin, Cezanne, and more recent painters like Albert York and Lois Dodd. These artists work interpretively from life, using paint as a sensory thing, each mark a felt response to specific observation.</p> <p>The Bookbinder paintings can be read this way; however, adding one contextual fact changes everything. Larry Bookbinder, himself, is a metaphor. He is part of a layered story whose characters include both Bookbinder and the paintings. When we know this, these paintings flip from windows to mirrors. They reflect their actual maker, who is obsessed with shifting fact to fiction and back again.</p> <p>The mirror is his subject, muse and metaphor. It holds both fact and fiction at once. Light bounces off its surface to reflect the world and ourselves, while holding the window’s experience—that we look through it to see another world. This embodies an essential human trait, that we reflect upon our existence through metaphor and story-telling.<br /> —Anne Harris</p> <p>——————–</p> <p>Somewhere, if not now, then maybe years in the future, a future that we may have yet to dream of, someone may risk his or her life to read us. Somewhere, if not now, then maybe years in the future, we may also save someone’s life (or mind) because they have given us a passport, making us honorary citizens of their culture.<br /> —Edwidge Danticat,<br /> “Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work,” 2010</p> <p>All artworks are passports. This is especially true for paintings. When we engage them we are invited into the window of when and where they were made. Paintings collapse our time and place into the objects of our attention. Additionally, the paintings we make invite others into our time and place, no matter when or where they happen to engage the work.</p> <p>Extending Danticat’s logic, paintings are also passportals onto other planes. They are windows where ghosts and other lesser known entities enter and exit. Every painting collapses time and space and invites others artists and audiences, the dead, the living, and the yet-to-be, into the time and space of our witnessing and engaging with the painting. The conversations are endless. Their murmur is always present, if not always immediately audible.</p> <p>Just as paintings are windows, they are also mirrors although their function as either is never stable. Paintings flip and flit from window to mirror and back again. In the flipping, what we see and don’t see interact. In the flitting, facts and fictions interplay. This is true for the facticity of the materials on one side, and any representational form or illusion on another. But seeing and not seeing and fact and fiction and materiality and illusion are not sets of polar opposites on two-dimensional axes. Rather they constitute an ever-shifting and amorphous platform that grows and shrinks and rolls and tips and sometimes – although only fleetingly – offers grounded stability.</p> <p>(The sense of stability that Brunelleschi’s pictorial invention delivered was revolutionary. It was both grounding and uplifting. When mixed with the material flexibility of paint and the believability of the spatial illusions it could be used to render the grounding was so sobering. The uplifting quality of the illusions was just as intoxicating and it still is. And it all happens simultaneously. That grounded stability gave Descartes his ability to frame himself as an agent of his own will and intuition. And from there came the modern rendition of a democratic republic, built toward vast and diverse populations of individuals with agency. Freedoms of expression and association were necessary and glorious founding principles.)</p> <p>Through all of it, paintings locate and dislocate us. They reaffirm who, where, and when we think we are, and invite us into other points of view from other times, locations, and planes. My work gropes for poetry in this grounding and elevating, sobering and intoxicating, and locating and dislocating. I don’t have it all down and the language shifts as much as anything else, but Danticat’s quotation – and the essay from which it was drawn – clarifies so much. And to think, it starts with the idea that a story, an essay, or an artwork, maybe even a painting, could save a life or a mind.<br /> —MG, November 2022</p> <p>——————</p> <p>Matthew Girson has been exhibiting his paintings, drawings and other work locally, nationally, and internationally since the mid 1990s. The full breadth of his creative output includes sculpture, sound installations, a perfume, a type-face, and the adaptation of the correspondence between poets Paul Celan and Nelly Sachs into a theatrical production called Dear Poet, All Light. From January 2017 through January 2021 he hosted monthly Murmurs of Democracy performances inviting people to reflect on the successes and failures of our democratic republic. He laments that he’s never written a novel though that has not stopped him from exploring narrative, character development, and setting in his work.</p> <p>He teaches painting, drawing, and seminars on contemporary art at the Art School at DePaul University in Chicago. He lives, works, and gardens in Oak Park, IL.<br /> www.matthewgirson.com</p> <p>The exhibition also includes paintings by Larry Bookbinder. Details about Bookbinder’s life are vague, though we can glean clues about him from his correspondences and poems. The correspondence is divided into a small collection of letters he received in the 1940s while still living in Europe, and other letters that he wrote in the 1960/70s after moving to the U.S. One of the late letters refers to a fictional character he invented named Matthew Girson who says, “Sometimes we wrap ourselves up in the warmth of the stories we’ve inherited. At other times we spin, weave, and create our own stories. And sometimes our stories fray and tear. None of these options are pure and I prefer none over any other.”<br /> https://www.larrybookbinder.net/</p> <p>———–</p> <p>Anne Harris’s paintings and drawings have been exhibited at venues ranging from Alexandre Gallery, DC Moore Gallery, and Nielsen Gallery to the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institute, The Portland Museum of Art, the California Center for Contemporary Art, and the North Dakota Museum of Art. In addition, her work is in such public collections as The Fogg Museum at Harvard, The Yale University Art Gallery, and The New York Public Library. Grants and awards include a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and an NEA Individual Artists Fellowship.</p> <p>Harris is an Associate Professor in the Painting and Drawing Department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She also is Chair of the Exhibition Committee at the Riverside Arts Center and has curated numerous exhibitions there.<br /> https://anneharrispainting.com/home.html</p> <p>——————-</p> <p>Coinciding with Plot Structure is a three-person exhibition, Continue a Poem in RAC’s FlexSpace, featuring the artists Nicholas Frank, Lauren Fueyo, and Nyeema Morgan, curated by Mathew Girson.</p> <p>——</p> <p>Photo by Tom Van Eynde</p><p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2022/12/matthew-girson-artist-talk-with-anne-harris/">Matthew Girson Artist Talk with Anne Harris</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://thevisualist.org/2022/12/matthew-girson-artist-talk-with-anne-harris/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">138687</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Matthew Girson: Plot Structure</title> <link>http://thevisualist.org/2022/11/matthew-girson-plot-structure/</link> <comments>http://thevisualist.org/2022/11/matthew-girson-plot-structure/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hannah McHugh]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2022 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Exhibition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Reception]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anne Harris]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Freeark Gallery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Matthew Girson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Plot Structure]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Riverside]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Riverside Arts Center]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thevisualist.org/?p=137776</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Matthew Girson: Plot Structure The Riverside Arts Center is pleased to present Plot Stucture, a solo exhibition of paintings by Matthew Girson in our Freeark Gallery, curated by Anne Harris. Opening Reception: Sunday, November 13, 2022, 3:00-6:00 PM Exhibition Dates: November 13 – December 30, 2022 On View: Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, 1:00 – 5:00<a href="http://thevisualist.org/2022/11/matthew-girson-plot-structure/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p> <p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2022/11/matthew-girson-plot-structure/">Matthew Girson: Plot Structure</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Matthew Girson: Plot Structure</p> <p>The Riverside Arts Center is pleased to present Plot Stucture, a solo exhibition of paintings by Matthew Girson in our Freeark Gallery, curated by Anne Harris.</p> <p>Opening Reception: Sunday, November 13, 2022, 3:00-6:00 PM</p> <p>Exhibition Dates: November 13 – December 30, 2022</p> <p>On View: Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, 1:00 – 5:00 PM</p> <p>Artist Talk: Saturday, December 10, 2022, 2:00 PM</p> <p>Exhibition Catalogue: Will be available for purchase including a special edition with a limited edition print by Matthew Girson</p> <p>————-</p> <p>Reflections on Facts and Fictions</p> <p>I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.<br /> Whatever I see I swallow immediately<br /> Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.<br /> I am not cruel, only truthful‚<br /> The eye of a little god.<br /> –Sylvia Plath, Mirror</p> <p>Matthew Girson’s recent paintings are mirrors. I mean this literally. Actual mirrors are embedded. Silver paints are used. These mimic surfaces ranging from chrome to pewter. The paint is used to depict muted interiors which abut the actual mirrors. These show us the actual interiors we stand in, and our reflected selves, peering into the painting, trying to sort out what we see.</p> <p>Matthew’s paintings are also mirrors, metaphorically. The illusory sensation of space is the physical depth of a mirror—that fraction of an inch suspended between the surface of the glass and the silvered backing. The images are oddly flat, pressed back at us, impassive and neutral. Every reflected millimeter is equal.</p> <p>These are also experiential mirrors, capturing many reflective possibilities, from breath-steamed, to satin-finished, to sparklingly clear. But they’re at odds with the traditional expected fiction of painting, that paintings are like windows, not mirrors.</p> <p>We expect to look through a painting as we do a window. The window pane is the picture plane; the world of the painting exists behind that plane. But Matthew’s painted world slides against that plane. It lives where our world meets its opposite. He paints the moment of reflected flip, the liminal shimmer.</p> <p>****</p> <p>The Larry Bookbinder paintings are windows. We look through them and see painterly interpretations of observed objects on surfaces. Described by Matthew, “They are small (and odd?) windows into densely filled, colorful, bright, reflective narrow spaces.” Understood this way, they are part of the tradition of perceptual still-life painting, in conversation with Chardin, Cezanne, and more recent painters like Albert York and Lois Dodd. These artists work interpretively from life, using paint as a sensory thing, each mark a felt response to specific observation.</p> <p>The Bookbinder paintings can be read this way; however, adding one contextual fact changes everything. Larry Bookbinder, himself, is a metaphor. He is part of a layered story whose characters include both Bookbinder and the paintings. When we know this, these paintings flip from windows to mirrors. They reflect their actual maker, who is obsessed with shifting fact to fiction and back again.</p> <p>The mirror is his subject, muse and metaphor. It holds both fact and fiction at once. Light bounces off its surface to reflect the world and ourselves, while holding the window’s experience—that we look through it to see another world. This embodies an essential human trait, that we reflect upon our existence through metaphor and story-telling.</p> <p>—Anne Harris</p> <p>——————–</p> <p>Paintings can be dizzying and intoxicating when they open our senses and curiosities. At the same time, they can be sobering and grounding when they remind us where, when, and how we experience them and the world at large. Paintings are never just one thing and are at their best when they are all of the above: slippery, shifting, complex and – ideally – very simple and straight forward.</p> <p>Following the lead of Polish poet Wyslava Szymborska, Girson prefers the absurdity of making paintings to the absurdity of not making paintings.</p> <p>—Matthew Girson</p> <p>——————-</p> <p>Matthew Girson has been exhibiting his paintings, drawings and other work locally, nationally, and internationally since the mid 1990s. The full breadth of his creative output includes sculpture, sound installations, a perfume, a type-face, and the adaptation of the correspondence between poets Paul Celan and Nelly Sachs into a theatrical production called Dear Poet, All Light. From January 2017 through January 2021 he hosted monthly Murmurs of Democracy performances inviting people to reflect on the successes and failures of our democratic republic. He laments that he’s never written a novel though that has not stopped him from exploring narrative, character development, and setting in his work.</p> <p>He teaches painting, drawing, and seminars on contemporary art at the Art School at DePaul University in Chicago. He lives, works, and gardens in Oak Park, IL.</p> <p>www.matthewgirson.com</p> <p>The exhibition also includes paintings by Larry Bookbinder. Details about Bookbinder’s life are vague, though we can glean clues about him from his correspondences and poems. The correspondence is divided into a small collection of letters he received in the 1940s while still living in Europe, and other letters that he wrote in the 1960/70s after moving to the U.S. One of the late letters refers to a fictional character he invented named Matthew Girson who says, “Sometimes we wrap ourselves up in the warmth of the stories we’ve inherited. At other times we spin, weave, and create our own stories. And sometimes our stories fray and tear. None of these options are pure and I prefer none over any other.”</p> <p>https://www.larrybookbinder.net/</p> <p>Anne Harris’s paintings and drawings have been exhibited at venues ranging from Alexandre Gallery, DC Moore Gallery, and Nielsen Gallery to the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institute, The Portland Museum of Art, the California Center for Contemporary Art, and the North Dakota Museum of Art. In addition, her work is in such public collections as The Fogg Museum at Harvard, The Yale University Art Gallery, and The New York Public Library. Grants and awards include a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and an NEA Individual Artists Fellowship.</p> <p>Harris is an Associate Professor in the Painting and Drawing Department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She also is Chair of the Exhibition Committee at the Riverside Arts Center and has curated numerous exhibitions there.</p> <p>https://anneharrispainting.com/home.html</p> <p>Riverside Arts Center<br /> 32 East Quincy Street<br /> Riverside Illinois 60450<br /> www.riversideartcenter.com</p><p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2022/11/matthew-girson-plot-structure/">Matthew Girson: Plot Structure</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://thevisualist.org/2022/11/matthew-girson-plot-structure/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">137776</post-id> </item> <item> <title>SAIC Faculty Sabbatical Triennial</title> <link>http://thevisualist.org/2022/09/saic-faculty-sabbatical-triennial/</link> <comments>http://thevisualist.org/2022/09/saic-faculty-sabbatical-triennial/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hannah McHugh]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2022 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Exhibition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Reception]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Aimee Beaubien]]></category> <category><![CDATA[andida Alvarez]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Andrew S. Yang]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anke Loh]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anne Harris]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bess Williamson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Beth Wright]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bruce Jenkins]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Claire Pentecost]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Claudia Hart]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dan Price]]></category> <category><![CDATA[David Raskin]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Diana Guerrero-Maciá]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dushko Petrovich]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Eia Radosavljevic]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Freeland]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Faculty Sabbatical Triennial]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Frank Piatek]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jim Trainor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[jonCates]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Kate Dumbleton]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Katrin Schnabl]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lan Tuazon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Linda Keane]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Loop]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lora Lode]]></category> <category><![CDATA[lou mallozzi]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Maria Gaspar]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mark Jeffery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mary Patten]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Melissa Raman Molitor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Myungah Hyon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nic Collins]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Oli Watt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pablo Garcia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Romi Crawford]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ruth Margraff]]></category> <category><![CDATA[SAIC Faculty Sabbatical Triennial]]></category> <category><![CDATA[SAIC Galleries]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Scott Reeder]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Stephen Farrell]]></category> <category><![CDATA[William O’Brien]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thevisualist.org/?p=135764</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>This fall, SAIC Galleries is pleased to present the SAIC Faculty Sabbatical Triennial exhibition, featuring a wide range of work across multiple disciplines by 38 School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) faculty who have completed a sabbatical or other paid leave over the past three academic years. Significant gallery-based presentations, lectures and events,<a href="http://thevisualist.org/2022/09/saic-faculty-sabbatical-triennial/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p> <p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2022/09/saic-faculty-sabbatical-triennial/">SAIC Faculty Sabbatical Triennial</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This fall, SAIC Galleries is pleased to present the SAIC Faculty Sabbatical Triennial exhibition, featuring a wide range of work across multiple disciplines by 38 School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) faculty who have completed a sabbatical or other paid leave over the past three academic years. Significant gallery-based presentations, lectures and events, and a dedicated website represent the research and practices of these SAIC faculty members.</p> <p>SAIC offers sabbaticals, or salaried leaves-of-absence, to eligible full- and part-time faculty after seven years of service. During a sabbatical, faculty are relieved of their teaching and administrative duties so they may embark on a dedicated period of inquiry, experimentation, and production to help sustain their instructional and professional excellence. The past three years, however, have been unlike any other, and sabbatical plans and experiences were dramatically altered by the pandemic. Nonetheless, SAIC’s resourceful educators used this time of isolation and uncertainty to develop and expand their practices, often finding inspiration in the familiar and exploring new ways of making. This exhibition and related programs celebrate the unrelenting creativity and resilience of SAIC’s renowned faculty.</p> <p>This 2022 edition of the Triennial marks the first in a newly conceived series dedicated to faculty work, which will occur every three years at SAIC Galleries as the featured exhibition of the fall semester. Participating faculty include Candida Alvarez, Aimée Beaubien, jonCates, Nic Collins, Romi Crawford, Kate Dumbleton, Stephen Farrell, Elizabeth Freeland, Pablo Garcia, Maria Gaspar, Diana Guerrero-Maciá, Anne Harris, Claudia Hart, Myungah Hyon, Mark Jeffery, Bruce Jenkins, Linda Keane, Lora Lode, Anke Loh, Lou Mallozzi, Ruth Margraff, William O’Brien, Mary Patten, Claire Pentecost, Dushko Petrovich, Frank Piatek, Dan Price, Eia Radosavljevic, Melissa Raman Molitor, David Raskin, Scott Reeder, Katrin Schnabl, Jim Trainor, Lan Tuazon, Oli Watt, Bess Williamson, Beth Wright, and Andrew S. Yang.</p> <p>The 2022 SAIC Faculty Sabbatical Triennial is organized by Staci Boris, Director of Exhibitions, and Graduate Curatorial Assistants Clayton Kennedy (Dual MA 2023) and Christine Magill (Dual MA 2023).</p> <p>SAIC Faculty Sabbatical Triennial<br /> August 31-December 3, 2022<br /> Opening Reception: September 9, 5-8 p.m.</p><p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2022/09/saic-faculty-sabbatical-triennial/">SAIC Faculty Sabbatical Triennial</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://thevisualist.org/2022/09/saic-faculty-sabbatical-triennial/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">135764</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Kevin Wolff: Never Not Looking</title> <link>http://thevisualist.org/2021/04/kevin-wolff-never-not-looking/</link> <comments>http://thevisualist.org/2021/04/kevin-wolff-never-not-looking/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hannah McHugh]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2021 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Exhibition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anne Harris]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ben Murray]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category> <category><![CDATA[David Scott]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Devening Projects]]></category> <category><![CDATA[East Garfield Park]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Julia Fish]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Kay Rosen]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Kevin Wolff]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mark Pascale]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Never Not Looking]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Richard Rezac]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thevisualist.org/?p=122455</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Devening Projects is so pleased to invite you to Never Not Looking, a survey of paintings and drawings by Chicago artist Kevin Wolff (1955–2O18). Never Not Looking acknowledges the important contributions Kevin made to the discipline of painting, the intimacy of drawing and the legacy of perceptual strategies in image-making. Kevin’s incredible impact on the<a href="http://thevisualist.org/2021/04/kevin-wolff-never-not-looking/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p> <p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2021/04/kevin-wolff-never-not-looking/">Kevin Wolff: Never Not Looking</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Devening Projects is so pleased to invite you to Never Not Looking, a survey of paintings and drawings by Chicago artist Kevin Wolff (1955–2O18). Never Not Looking acknowledges the important contributions Kevin made to the discipline of painting, the intimacy of drawing and the legacy of perceptual strategies in image-making. Kevin’s incredible impact on the New York and Chicago art scenes is reflected in this collection of work from the late 8Os to 2O18. We are delighted and proud to host this significant exhibition by an artist whose singular approach to figure painting delighted in the body-as-subject with humor, irony and adoration.</p> <p>A catalog with essays and reflections by friends and colleagues Julia Fish, Anne Harris, Ben Murray, Mark Pascale, Kay Rosen, Richard Rezac and David Scott accompanies this project. The catalog can be viewed and downloaded at Issu: <a href="https://issuu.com/home/published/kevin_wolff_catalog">https://issuu.com/home/published/kevin_wolff_catalog</a></p> <p>The exhibition opens by appointment on April 9th and continues until May 15th, 2O21. Appointments for safe and private viewings of this exhibition can be made by visiting our scheduler at <a href="http://deveningprojects.com/appointments/">www.deveningprojects.com/appointments.</a> The gallery is open on Saturdays from 12 – 5pm.</p> <p>In his essay for the catalog for this exhibition, Kevin Wolff’s husband, David Scott says:</p> <p>“The sense that most informed his work, was touch. You can see it on the extraordinary surfaces of his paintings and drawings. It’s why nearly everything he created at least references the body or flesh. Kevin’s process evolved into something he called—again, only when pressed—abstract realism. His initial source was often a photograph, one he found or took himself. He next would create a rough sculpture using flesh-colored clay. He would meticulously light the resulting maquette, photograph it again and then begin to paint using the manipulated photo as his source. He was thrilled when I showed him how he could further manipulate images using Photoshop and layout programs. While I’m not sure he ever articulated it or perhaps even realized it, this grew from his conviction that a thing was not good enough. He needed to make it better. Touch it. Re-create it.”</p> <p>Kevin Wolff (1955–2O18) was a Chicago-based artist and teacher was born Buffalo, N.Y. He received his undergraduate degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology and his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Wolff had a long and impactful career as a mainstay of both New York City and Chicago’s art scenes, exhibiting at, among other venues, Feature Gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Renaissance Society, Gallery 4OO at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Suburban. His work has also been exhibited at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, the New Museum, the Grey Art Gallery and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. Wolff’s reputation was in part solidified by his inclusion in the 1993 Whitney Biennial, but it was his 3O-year association with Feature Gallery and its director, Hudson, that epitomized Wolff’s artistic personality. Wolff was with Feature from its early days in Chicago through its relocation to New York and up to Hudson’s death in 2014. Hudson cited Wolff as the artist with whom he had the longest running association, and he explained that longevity by stating simply: “I’m in love with the way he paints.” For over two decades, Wolff taught figure painting and drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and at the Herron School of Art and Design at Indiana University–Purdue University at Indianapolis.</p><p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2021/04/kevin-wolff-never-not-looking/">Kevin Wolff: Never Not Looking</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://thevisualist.org/2021/04/kevin-wolff-never-not-looking/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">122455</post-id> </item> <item> <title>In Performance, In Conversation: Jerry Bleem and Anne Harris</title> <link>http://thevisualist.org/2020/10/in-performance-in-conversation-jerry-bleem-and-anne-harris/</link> <comments>http://thevisualist.org/2020/10/in-performance-in-conversation-jerry-bleem-and-anne-harris/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hannah McHugh]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2020 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Exhibition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Reception]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anne Harris]]></category> <category><![CDATA[In Conversation: Jerry Bleem and Anne Harris]]></category> <category><![CDATA[In Performance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jerry Bleem]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Riverside]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thevisualist.org/?p=118533</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>In Performance, In Conversation: Jerry Bleem and Anne Harris This Performance, Conversation will take place on Zoom Saturday, October 10, 2020 2:00 – 3:00 PM REGISTER on Eventbrite A Zoom link will be sent to the email address you provide. As part of his exhibit at the Riverside Arts Center, Jerry Bleem: STILL, Bleem performs<a href="http://thevisualist.org/2020/10/in-performance-in-conversation-jerry-bleem-and-anne-harris/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p> <p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2020/10/in-performance-in-conversation-jerry-bleem-and-anne-harris/">In Performance, In Conversation: Jerry Bleem and Anne Harris</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In Performance, In Conversation:<br /> Jerry Bleem and Anne Harris<br /> This Performance, Conversation will take place on Zoom<br /> Saturday, October 10, 2020<br /> 2:00 – 3:00 PM</p> <p><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/in-performance-in-conversation-jerry-bleem-and-anne-harris-tickets-123552036467">REGISTER on Eventbrite</a></p> <p>A Zoom link will be sent to the email address you provide.<br /> As part of his exhibit at the Riverside Arts Center, Jerry Bleem: STILL, Bleem performs the constructive process to keep building Nationalism Draws a Line (in the Sand).</p> <p>Anne Harris, curator of the exhibition, joins him to animate an interview and conversation about Bleem’s work.</p><p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2020/10/in-performance-in-conversation-jerry-bleem-and-anne-harris/">In Performance, In Conversation: Jerry Bleem and Anne Harris</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://thevisualist.org/2020/10/in-performance-in-conversation-jerry-bleem-and-anne-harris/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">118533</post-id> </item> <item> <title>2020 RAC Online Auction</title> <link>http://thevisualist.org/2020/09/2020-rac-online-auction/</link> <comments>http://thevisualist.org/2020/09/2020-rac-online-auction/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hannah McHugh]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2020 05:00:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Fundraiser]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anne Harris]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Camille Silverman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Claire Ashley]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dan Gamble]]></category> <category><![CDATA[David Hauptchein]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Burke-Dain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ellen Campbell]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jay Wolke]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jenny Holzer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jeremy Black]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Joanne Aono]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Karen Azarnia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Katherine Nemanich]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Kim Piotrowski]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Laura Husar Garcia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Liz Chilsen]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Matthew Girson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Oli Watt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Paul D’Amato]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Riverside]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Riverside Art Center]]></category> <category><![CDATA[robert burnier]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sandra Ragan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Shawn Vincent]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sheri Rush]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Stephanie Brooks]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tariq Tamir]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Teresa Getty]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Theresa Paris]]></category> <category><![CDATA[vito desalvo]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Yoonshin Park]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thevisualist.org/?p=118027</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Let the bidding begin at the 2020 RAC Online Fine Art Auction! This fine art auction helps support and celebrate the Riverside Arts Center. We have a great selection of work from many talented and prestigious artists who have proudly supported us over the years. Thank you for your bids! Proceeds from this auction provide<a href="http://thevisualist.org/2020/09/2020-rac-online-auction/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p> <p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2020/09/2020-rac-online-auction/">2020 RAC Online Auction</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let the bidding begin at the 2020 RAC Online Fine Art Auction!</p> <p>This fine art auction helps support and celebrate the Riverside Arts Center. We have a great selection of work from many talented and prestigious artists who have proudly supported us over the years.</p> <p>Thank you for your bids! Proceeds from this auction provide critical support for the RAC during these challenging times. Collectors and supporters can directly support the continued health of our galleries and studios through our online auction. You may also donate dollars by pressing the “Donate” link on the auction homepage at <a href="https://www.32auctions.com/2020RAC">www.32auctions.com/2020RAC!</a> We cannot thank you enough for all you do to help us in our mission to bring you exciting exhibits and classes. We are here for you and because of you.</p> <p>All Auction events are free and open to the public.</p> <p>2020 artists: Joanne Aono, Claire Ashley, Karen Azarnia, Jeremy Black, Elizabeth Burke- Dain, Robert Burnier, Stephanie Brooks, Ellen Campbell, Liz Chilsen, Paul D’Amato, Vito Desalvo, Dan Gamble, Teresa Getty, Matthew Girson, Anne Harris, Laura Husar Garcia, Jenny Holzer, David Hauptchein, Katherine Nemanich, Yoonshin Park, Theresa Paris, Kim Piotrowski, Sandra Ragan, Sheri Rush, Camille Silverman, Tariq Tamir, Shawn Vincent, Oli Watt and Jay Wolke.</p> <p>AUCTION SCHEDULE OF EVENTS</p> <p>September17-October 8pm: Online Art Auction Bidding www.32auctions.com/2020RAC<br /> Auction sponsors: Frame Doctor, Riverside Foods and Streeting Designs</p><p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2020/09/2020-rac-online-auction/">2020 RAC Online Auction</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://thevisualist.org/2020/09/2020-rac-online-auction/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">118027</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Anne Harris and José Lerma in Conversation</title> <link>http://thevisualist.org/2020/02/anne-harris-and-jose-lerma-in-conversation/</link> <comments>http://thevisualist.org/2020/02/anne-harris-and-jose-lerma-in-conversation/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hannah McHugh]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 22 Feb 2020 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Exhibition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Talk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anne Harris]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category> <category><![CDATA[East Garfield Park]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Goldfinch]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jose Lerma]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thirty-nine Eyelids]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thevisualist.org/?p=112082</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Please join us on Saturday, February 22nd at 2pm for a conversation between painters Anne Harris and José Lerma in conjunction with our current exhibition, “Anne Harris: Thirty-nine Eyelids.”</p> <p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2020/02/anne-harris-and-jose-lerma-in-conversation/">Anne Harris and José Lerma in Conversation</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Please join us on Saturday, February 22nd at 2pm for a conversation between painters Anne Harris and José Lerma in conjunction with our current exhibition, “Anne Harris: Thirty-nine Eyelids.”</p><p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2020/02/anne-harris-and-jose-lerma-in-conversation/">Anne Harris and José Lerma in Conversation</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://thevisualist.org/2020/02/anne-harris-and-jose-lerma-in-conversation/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">112082</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Anne Harris: Thirty-nine Eyelids</title> <link>http://thevisualist.org/2020/01/anne-harris-thirty-nine-eyelids/</link> <comments>http://thevisualist.org/2020/01/anne-harris-thirty-nine-eyelids/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hannah McHugh]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2020 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Exhibition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Reception]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anne Harris]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category> <category><![CDATA[East Garfield Park]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Goldfinch Gallery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thirty-nine Eyelids]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thevisualist.org/?p=110464</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Goldfinch is thrilled to announce its first exhibition of the new decade: “Thirty-nine Eyelids,” a solo exhibition by Anne Harris occupying Galleries I and II. The show features a new body of paintings and a series of drawings, all of which are rooted in–yet deviate imaginatively from–traditions of self-portraiture. The exhibition is on view from<a href="http://thevisualist.org/2020/01/anne-harris-thirty-nine-eyelids/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p> <p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2020/01/anne-harris-thirty-nine-eyelids/">Anne Harris: Thirty-nine Eyelids</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Goldfinch is thrilled to announce its first exhibition of the new decade: “Thirty-nine Eyelids,” a solo exhibition by Anne Harris occupying Galleries I and II. The show features a new body of paintings and a series of drawings, all of which are rooted in–yet deviate imaginatively from–traditions of self-portraiture. The exhibition is on view from January 19 through February 29, 2020. This is Harris’ first large-scale solo exhibition in Chicago.</p> <p>Artist’s Biography: Anne Harris has been painting slowly, and drawing quickly, variants of self-portraiture for the last thirty years. She has exhibited at venues ranging from Alexandre Gallery (NYC), DC Moore Gallery (NYC) and Nielsen Gallery (Boston), to the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institute, The Portland Museum of Art, the California Center for Contemporary Art and the North Dakota Museum of Art. Her work is in such public collections as The Fogg Museum at Harvard, The Yale University Art Gallery and The New York Public Library. Grants and awards received include a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and an NEA Individual Artists Fellowship.</p> <p>Harris teaches at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She heads the Riverside Art Center’s Exhibition Committee and has curated numerous exhibitions there. She is also the originator of The Mind’s I—a traveling expanding drawing conversation about the universality and malleability of self-perception and drawing. This project began at Julius Caesar Gallery in Chicago (2012) and most recently took place at Espacio Andrea Brunson in Santiago, Chile (August 2019).</p> <p>****</p> <p>Header image: Anne Harris, Portrait (Pigtails), 2019, detail. Oil on panel, 12 x 12 inches.</p><p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2020/01/anne-harris-thirty-nine-eyelids/">Anne Harris: Thirty-nine Eyelids</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://thevisualist.org/2020/01/anne-harris-thirty-nine-eyelids/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">110464</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Janice Nowinski: Bodies of Paint</title> <link>http://thevisualist.org/2019/09/janice-nowinski-bodies-of-paint/</link> <comments>http://thevisualist.org/2019/09/janice-nowinski-bodies-of-paint/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hannah McHugh]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2019 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Exhibition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Reception]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anne Harris]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bodies of Paint]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Freeark Gallery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Janice Nowinski]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Kyle Staver]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Riverside]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Riverside Arts Center]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.thevisualist.org/?p=103308</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>RAC’s Freeark Gallery is pleased to announce a new exhibition: Janice Nowinski: Bodies of Paint. A reception and gallery talk will take place on Saturday, September 28th from 2-5pm, with a conversation between Janice Nowinski and Kyle Staver, moderated by Anne Harris, at 3pm. The exhibition is on view from September 8 – October 12,<a href="http://thevisualist.org/2019/09/janice-nowinski-bodies-of-paint/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p> <p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2019/09/janice-nowinski-bodies-of-paint/">Janice Nowinski: Bodies of Paint</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>RAC’s Freeark Gallery is pleased to announce a new exhibition: Janice Nowinski: Bodies of Paint. A reception and gallery talk will take place on Saturday, September 28th from 2-5pm, with a conversation between Janice Nowinski and Kyle Staver, moderated by Anne Harris, at 3pm. The exhibition is on view from September 8 – October 12, 2019, and is curated by Anne Harris.</p> <p>RAC is thrilled to present Brooklyn-based painter Janice Nowinski’s solo exhibition Bodies of Paint. This is the artist’s first exhibition in the Chicago area. We’ll be exhibiting nineteen paintings. The earliest is from 2009, but most were made in the last four years.</p> <p>Janice Nowinski spends months, sometimes years, working on small figurative paintings. Her subjects are suspended between flesh and paint. They barely cohere—one slip, and they’re just a smear. The paintings are felt into place to find a just-so balance of opposites: blunt, tender, awkward, graceful, remote, intimate and exposed. This is the result of perfect pitch painting—the subtlest color, the most nuanced edges, figure/ground finesse, and again, that tightly stretched line between paint and its transformation into light, air, space, weight and flesh.</p> <p>Nowinski is now associated with current trends in contemporary figuration—painterly allegorical inventions that channel art history and politics. However, that connection is happenstance. Her work today actually reflects 40 years of slow maturation. She is sincerely old-school, part of a tribe of painters who build on tradition and share faith that tenacity and dissatisfaction will lead to originality. Her inspirations are numerous but obviously include Rembrandt, Cezanne and Soutine. She’s in conversation with leading contemporary figurative artists but also stands alone. Her work’s intimacy, subtlety, slowness and deliberate lack of grandeur sets it apart. Leon Kossoff comes to mind. She’s a painter’s painter.</p> <p>“Painting is damn difficult—you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.” –Paul Cezanne</p> <p>–Anne Harris</p><p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2019/09/janice-nowinski-bodies-of-paint/">Janice Nowinski: Bodies of Paint</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://thevisualist.org/2019/09/janice-nowinski-bodies-of-paint/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">103308</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Kim Piotrowski: While Here: Artist’s Talk, Catalogue Release and Closing Reception</title> <link>http://thevisualist.org/2019/01/kim-piotrowski-while-here-artists-talk-catalogue-release-and-closing-reception/</link> <comments>http://thevisualist.org/2019/01/kim-piotrowski-while-here-artists-talk-catalogue-release-and-closing-reception/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hannah McHugh]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2019 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Exhibition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Reception]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anne Harris]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Kim Piotrowski]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Riverside]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Riverside Arts Center]]></category> <category><![CDATA[While Here]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thevisualist.org/?p=91109</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Join us for an artist’s talk, catalogue release and closing reception for our current RAC Spotlight exhibition, “Kim Piotrowski: While Here.” Exhibition curated by Anne Harris. The RAC is pleased to present Kim Piotrowski’s solo exhibition “While Here.” This is part of RAC’s Spotlight Exhibitionseries, which highlights artists who are part of the RAC community.<a href="http://thevisualist.org/2019/01/kim-piotrowski-while-here-artists-talk-catalogue-release-and-closing-reception/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p> <p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2019/01/kim-piotrowski-while-here-artists-talk-catalogue-release-and-closing-reception/">Kim Piotrowski: While Here: Artist’s Talk, Catalogue Release and Closing Reception</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Join us for an artist’s talk, catalogue release and closing reception for our current RAC Spotlight exhibition, “Kim Piotrowski: While Here.”</p> <p>Exhibition curated by Anne Harris.</p> <p>The RAC is pleased to present Kim Piotrowski’s solo exhibition “While Here.” This is part of RAC’s Spotlight Exhibitionseries, which highlights artists who are part of the RAC community.</p> <p>For sixteen years Kim Piotrowski has balanced parenting and art-making here in Riverside. In that time, she’s made hundreds of paintings and drawings, exhibited across the country and in Europe, while developing a vivid body of work notable for its fluid restlessness. Although defined as an abstract painter, she still depicts. Guns, crowns, beds, water and war are among her subject matter, but all congeal and melt into Piotrowsk’s marks — torqued, attenuated, with a graphic snap and deftness. Her touch is liquid and gentle. The overall effect, even in tiny pieces, combines intimacy with the monumental baroque. Mass spirals and space unfolds into painted worlds that are both tangible and enigmatic.</p> <p>This site-specific exhibition will represent Piotrowski’s artistic growth and her personal balancing act. Every year of her life in Riverside will be represented in an installation that will fill the entire Freeark Gallery as well as our Flex Space. Old and new work will hang together, connected by marks—a visual thread formed by painting, drawing, writing and personal ephemera applied directly to the gallery walls. Our entire space will transform into a grand-scale embodiment of private experience — extroverted action depicting sixteen years of life, love, and painting. — Anne Harris</p><p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2019/01/kim-piotrowski-while-here-artists-talk-catalogue-release-and-closing-reception/">Kim Piotrowski: While Here: Artist’s Talk, Catalogue Release and Closing Reception</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://thevisualist.org/2019/01/kim-piotrowski-while-here-artists-talk-catalogue-release-and-closing-reception/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">91109</post-id> </item> <item> <title>RAC 25th Anniversary Art Auction</title> <link>http://thevisualist.org/2018/08/rac-25th-anniversary-art-auction/</link> <comments>http://thevisualist.org/2018/08/rac-25th-anniversary-art-auction/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hannah McHugh]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2018 05:00:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Fundraiser]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Alison Ruttan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Allison Wade]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Alpha Lubicz Deal]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Amy Babinec]]></category> <category><![CDATA[anna Kunz]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anne Harris]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Betsy Odom]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bob Thall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Brent Fogt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Brian Dettmer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Camille Silverman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Celeste Rapone]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Claire Ashley]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dan Gamble]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Darrell Roberts]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Duncan Robert Anderson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Frank Spidale]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gwendolyn Zabicki]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Holly Holmes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jaclyn Jacunski]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jay Wolke]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jennifer Mannebach]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jennifer Taylor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jeremy Black]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jeroen Nelemans]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jim Lutes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Joanne Aono]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Judith Brotman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Karen Azarnia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Katie Hammond]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Kelli Connell]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Kim Piotrowski]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lindsey Hook]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Matthew Girson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Michelle Wasson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nancy Hejna]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Natalie Jacobson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Paul Collins]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Paul D’Amato]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Phyllis Bramson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[RAC 25th Anniversary Art Auction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Renee McGinnis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Renee Robbins]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Riverside]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Riverside Arts Center]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Scott Stack]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Shawn Vincent]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Stephanie Brooks]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Susanne Doremus]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tariq Tamir]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tom Burtonwood]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tom Torluemke]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thevisualist.org/?p=85162</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>This fine art auction celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Riverside Arts Center. We have a great selection of work from many artists who have proudly supported us over the years. This year’s online auction is being held in combination with the Hop Stop Not-for-Profit Craft Beer Festival (https://www.riversidehopstop.com/) supporting Art and Ecology Design in<a href="http://thevisualist.org/2018/08/rac-25th-anniversary-art-auction/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p> <p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2018/08/rac-25th-anniversary-art-auction/">RAC 25th Anniversary Art Auction</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This fine art auction celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Riverside Arts Center. We have a great selection of work from many artists who have proudly supported us over the years. This year’s online auction is being held in combination with the Hop Stop Not-for-Profit Craft Beer Festival <a href="https://www.riversidehopstop.com/">(https://www.riversidehopstop.com/)</a> supporting Art and Ecology Design in our community.</p> <p>Auction: <a href="https://www.32auctions.com/RAC2018">https://www.32auctions.com/RAC2018</a></p> <p>SCHEDULE</p> <p>Tuesday, August 21- Saturday, August 25, 1pm-5pm: Open auction viewing in Riverside Arts Center (32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546)</p> <p>Saturday, August 25, 5pm-8pm: Hop Stop Craft Beer, Fine Art, Music and Food Event. Tickets are available at the link above. If you do not attend you can continue to bid online.</p> <p>Image: Paul D’Amato, Girl with Laundry, Chicago 2004</p><p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2018/08/rac-25th-anniversary-art-auction/">RAC 25th Anniversary Art Auction</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://thevisualist.org/2018/08/rac-25th-anniversary-art-auction/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">85162</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Joanne Aono and Kristine Aono: Align</title> <link>http://thevisualist.org/2017/11/joanne-aono-and-kristine-aono-align/</link> <comments>http://thevisualist.org/2017/11/joanne-aono-and-kristine-aono-align/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Meg Duguid]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 05 Nov 2017 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Talk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Align]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anne Harris]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Joanne Aono]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Kristine Aono]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Riverside]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Terrain Biennial]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thevisualist.org/?p=74143</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Terrain Biennial fans, friends and neighbors: Please join Paul D’Amato and Anne Harris, along with Jim and Cathy Louthen at our homes, next Sunday, November 5th, from 3-5, for a reception and artists’ talk between Joanne Aono and Kristine Aono. 280 Gage Road, Riverside, IL They will be discussing their Terrain Biennial collaborative installation, curated<a href="http://thevisualist.org/2017/11/joanne-aono-and-kristine-aono-align/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p> <p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2017/11/joanne-aono-and-kristine-aono-align/">Joanne Aono and Kristine Aono: Align</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Terrain Biennial fans, friends and neighbors: Please join Paul D’Amato and Anne Harris, along with Jim and Cathy Louthen at our homes, next Sunday, November 5th, from 3-5, for a reception and artists’ talk between Joanne Aono and Kristine Aono.</p> <p>280 Gage Road, Riverside, IL</p> <p>They will be discussing their Terrain Biennial collaborative installation, curated by Anne Harris, which converses between the two yards. Their piece, “Align” is inspired by these neighbors’ friendship (which involves many shared meals) and by this:</p> <p>“If you really want to make a friend,<br /> go to someone’s house and eat with him…<br /> the people who give you their food give you their heart.”<br /> –Cesar Chavez</p> <p>This is the 3rd Terrain Biennial. We are one of 120 exhibition sites around the Chicago area, and nationally and internationally, ranging from Los Angeles to Marnay-sur-Seine, France.</p> <p>Terrain is an exhibition program founded by the superb Sabina Ott. Exhibitions take place on the outside of her home, 704 Highland Ave., Oak Park, IL.</p> <p>www.TerrainExhibitions.com<br /> www.JoanneAono.com<br /> www.KristineAono.com</p><p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2017/11/joanne-aono-and-kristine-aono-align/">Joanne Aono and Kristine Aono: Align</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://thevisualist.org/2017/11/joanne-aono-and-kristine-aono-align/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">74143</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Riva Lehrer: Exquisite Radical</title> <link>http://thevisualist.org/2016/09/riva-lehrer-exquisite-radical/</link> <comments>http://thevisualist.org/2016/09/riva-lehrer-exquisite-radical/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Meg Duguid]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2016 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Exhibition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anne Harris]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Exquisite Radical]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Riva Lehrer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Riverside]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Riverside Art Center Freeark Gallery]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thevisualist.org/?p=60289</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>The Riverside Arts Center is pleased to present Riva Lehrer’s solo exhibition Exquisite Radical. Riva Lehrer’s figurative paintings and drawings challenge conventional notions of beauty. She exquisitely depicts bodies we are told not to look at, certainly not to stare at—not to see. She does this through portraiture, which traditionally focuses on unique individuals deemed<a href="http://thevisualist.org/2016/09/riva-lehrer-exquisite-radical/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p> <p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2016/09/riva-lehrer-exquisite-radical/">Riva Lehrer: Exquisite Radical</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Riverside Arts Center is pleased to present Riva Lehrer’s solo exhibition Exquisite Radical. Riva Lehrer’s figurative paintings and drawings challenge conventional notions of beauty. She exquisitely depicts bodies we are told not to look at, certainly not to stare at—not to see. She does this through portraiture, which traditionally focuses on unique individuals deemed worthy of being “the stars of their own lives.”</p> <p>Born with spina bifida, Riva was told in art school that “bodies like yours are not acceptable subject matter for art.” She has gone on to radicalize that which is labeled deformed, forcing us to see a new beauty through her anti-normal lens. With this, we’re given emotional intensity, insight, empathy, dignity and intelligence, all wrapped in fantastical narratives and the seductive luxury of rendered illusion. The exhibition is curated by Anne Harris.</p> <p>About the Artist</p> <p>Riva Lehrer is a Chicago-based artist, writer and activist for the disabled. Her paintings and drawings have been exhibited at museums such as the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art. She’s been the recipient of awards such as The Carol J. Gill Award for Disability Culture, The Wynn Newhouse Award for Artists of Excellence, and a 3Arts Residency Fellowship at the University of Illinois.</p><p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2016/09/riva-lehrer-exquisite-radical/">Riva Lehrer: Exquisite Radical</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://thevisualist.org/2016/09/riva-lehrer-exquisite-radical/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">60289</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Conversation & Cocktails</title> <link>http://thevisualist.org/2016/07/conversation-cocktails/</link> <comments>http://thevisualist.org/2016/07/conversation-cocktails/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Thomas]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2016 05:00:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Talk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anne Harris]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Coversation and Cocktails]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Efforts of Affection]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jeffly Gabriela Molina]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Kruger Gallery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lakeview]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thevisualist.org/?p=59747</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Please join us for a brunch inspired Conversation and Cocktails with Jeffly Gabriela Molina and Anne Harris. Join us in a lively discussion of Molina’s work as Harris moderates questions regarding her process, work and current exhibition. Donuts and mimosas will be served.</p> <p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2016/07/conversation-cocktails/">Conversation & Cocktails</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Please join us for a brunch inspired Conversation and Cocktails with Jeffly Gabriela Molina and Anne Harris. Join us in a lively discussion of Molina’s work as Harris moderates questions regarding her process, work and current exhibition. Donuts and mimosas will be served.</p><p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2016/07/conversation-cocktails/">Conversation & Cocktails</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://thevisualist.org/2016/07/conversation-cocktails/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">59747</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Anne Harris: Coddled and Bruised</title> <link>http://thevisualist.org/2015/12/anne-harris-coddled-and-bruised-2/</link> <comments>http://thevisualist.org/2015/12/anne-harris-coddled-and-bruised-2/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Meg Duguid]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2015 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anne Harris]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cultivator]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ravenswood]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thevisualist.org/?p=55837</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>  Cultivator is pleased to present Coddled and Bruised, a solo exhibition of work by Anne Harris. Known for ephemeral figurative paintings, often self-portraits, that push against conventions of portraiture and beauty, Harris states: “I’ve been painting and drawing these malleable self-portraits for the last 25 years. Self-perception is so murky—we see through the lens<a href="http://thevisualist.org/2015/12/anne-harris-coddled-and-bruised-2/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p> <p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2015/12/anne-harris-coddled-and-bruised-2/">Anne Harris: Coddled and Bruised</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> </p> <p>Cultivator is pleased to present Coddled and Bruised, a solo exhibition of work by Anne Harris. Known for ephemeral figurative paintings, often self-portraits, that push against conventions of portraiture and beauty, Harris states:</p> <p>“I’ve been painting and drawing these malleable self-portraits for the last 25 years. Self-perception is so murky—we see through the lens of our expectations. It seems my life’s work is built around an anxious slippage of self-confidence that started about age 12, a combination of self-awareness and self-misunderstanding…. ”</p> <p>This exhibition merges two bodies of work that are ongoing in the artist’s studio. There are refined fictitious portraits that Harris calls eyelid paintings, referring to that convex, fragile membrane as their “operating metaphor.” These are pitted against the project Figuring Ground – essentially painted drawings made with oil and acrylic paint on very heavy paper. They’re blunt, graphic, and play with a visual fundamental – the figure/ground relationship – while parsing an existential question: if figure shapes ground and ground shapes figure, how do we shape our world, and how does our world shape us? (Notably, Harris began making these in reaction to the death of her mother.) Whether slow or fast, fine or crude, this work all shares compressed space and pressurized feeling, a color-light quality ranging from wan to acidic, and an enigmatic psychology–the sense that explicit revelation is somehow masked, hidden just beneath skin that is both human and paint.</p> <p>**********************************************************<br /> Anne Harris has exhibited at museums and galleries ranging from The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art to The National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian, to Alexandre (NYC) and DC Moore (NYC). Her work is in such public collections as The New York Public Library and the Fogg Museum at Harvard, and has been discussed/reviewed in publications such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, Art in American, ARTnews and Art Ltd. She’s received numerous grants and awards, including a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship. Harris teaches in the painting and drawing department at SAIC, and also serves on the board of the Riverside Arts Center, where she is Chair of their Exhibition Committee.</p> <p>Coddled and Bruised is Harris’s second solo exhibition in Chicago, and the first to showcase new work. Concurrent with this exhibition, she has a solo exhibition at MCA, Memphis, TN, titled Invisible Girls and The Mind’s I, and is also included in Threshold, curated by Niki Johnson, at the Charles Allis Museum in Milwaukee.</p> <p>http://anneharrispainting.com/home.html</p> <p>Karen Azarnia is an artist, educator, and independent curator. She received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. She has exhibited widely, with solo exhibitions at Terrain, Oak Park, IL; the Union League Club of Chicago, IL; and recent group exhibitions at Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, NE; The Franklin, Chicago, IL; and Comfort Station, Chicago, IL. She is a grant recipient from the Illinois Arts Council and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, and has been included in Hyperallergic, the Huffington Post and Newcity. She is currently a Lecturer in the Painting and Drawing Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.<br /> www.karenazarnia.com</p> <p>http://www.cultivatorarts.com/</p><p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2015/12/anne-harris-coddled-and-bruised-2/">Anne Harris: Coddled and Bruised</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://thevisualist.org/2015/12/anne-harris-coddled-and-bruised-2/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">55837</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Anne Harris: Coddled and Bruised</title> <link>http://thevisualist.org/2015/11/anne-harris-coddled-and-bruised/</link> <comments>http://thevisualist.org/2015/11/anne-harris-coddled-and-bruised/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Meg Duguid]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2015 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anne Harris]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cultivator]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ravenswood]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thevisualist.org/?p=55228</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Cultivator is pleased to present Coddled and Bruised, a solo exhibition of work by Anne Harris. Known for ephemeral figurative paintings, often self-portraits, that push against conventions of portraiture and beauty, Harris states: “I’ve been painting and drawing these malleable self-portraits for the last 25 years. Self-perception is so murky—we see through the lens of<a href="http://thevisualist.org/2015/11/anne-harris-coddled-and-bruised/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p> <p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2015/11/anne-harris-coddled-and-bruised/">Anne Harris: Coddled and Bruised</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cultivator is pleased to present Coddled and Bruised, a solo exhibition of work by Anne Harris. Known for ephemeral figurative paintings, often self-portraits, that push against conventions of portraiture and beauty, Harris states:</p> <p>“I’ve been painting and drawing these malleable self-portraits for the last 25 years. Self-perception is so murky—we see through the lens of our expectations. It seems my life’s work is built around an anxious slippage of self-confidence that started about age 12, a combination of self-awareness and self-misunderstanding….”</p> <p>This exhibition merges two bodies of work that are ongoing in the artist’s studio. There are refined fictitious portraits that Harris calls eyelid paintings, referring to that convex, fragile membrane as their “operating metaphor.” These are pitted against the project Figuring Ground – essentially painted drawings made with oil and acrylic paint on very heavy paper. They’re blunt, graphic, and play with a visual fundamental – the figure/ground relationship – while parsing an existential question: if figure shapes ground and ground shapes figure, how do we shape our world, and how does our world shape us? (Notably, Harris began making these in reaction to the death of her mother.) Whether slow or fast, fine or crude, this work all shares compressed space and pressurized feeling, a color-light quality ranging from wan to acidic, and an enigmatic psychology–the sense that explicit revelation is somehow masked, hidden just beneath skin that is both human and paint.</p> <p>Anne Harris has exhibited at museums and galleries ranging from The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art to The National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian, to Alexandre (NYC) and DC Moore (NYC). Her work is in such public collections as The New York Public Library and the Fogg Museum at Harvard, and has been discussed/reviewed in publications such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, Art in American, ARTnews and Art Ltd. She’s received numerous grants and awards, including a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship. Harris teaches in the painting and drawing department at SAIC, and also serves on the board of the Riverside Arts Center, where she is Chair of their Exhibition Committee.</p> <p>Coddled and Bruised is Harris’s second solo exhibition in Chicago, and the first to showcase new work. Concurrent with this exhibition, she has a solo exhibition at MCA, Memphis, TN, titled Invisible Girls and The Mind’s I, and is also included in Threshold, curated by Niki Johnson, at the Charles Allis Museum in Milwaukee.<br /> www.anneharrispainting.com</p> <p>Opening Reception Sunday, November 1, 3pm – 6pm</p> <p>Closing Reception and Artist’s Talk Sunday, December 13, 3pm-6pm</p><p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2015/11/anne-harris-coddled-and-bruised/">Anne Harris: Coddled and Bruised</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://thevisualist.org/2015/11/anne-harris-coddled-and-bruised/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">55228</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Graft</title> <link>http://thevisualist.org/2014/11/graft/</link> <comments>http://thevisualist.org/2014/11/graft/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Meg Duguid]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2014 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Aimee Beaubien]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Allison Reimus]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anne Harris]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Christine Remy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Claire Ashley]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Comfort Station]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Erin Minckley Chlagmo]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Karen Azarnia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Logan Square]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Melody Saraniti]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tess Farris]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thevisualist.org/?p=47587</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>A group show within a solo show, GRAFT features the latest work from artist Noelle Allen as well as contributions from artists Claire Ashley, Karen Azarnia, Aimee Beaubien, Erin Minckley Chlagmo, Anne Harris, Allison Reimus, Melody Saraniti, Tess Farris and California-based artist Christine Remy. GRAFT will be on view at Comfort Station from Nov. 8<a href="http://thevisualist.org/2014/11/graft/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p> <p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2014/11/graft/">Graft</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A group show within a solo show, GRAFT features the latest work from artist Noelle Allen as well as contributions from artists Claire Ashley, Karen Azarnia, Aimee Beaubien, Erin Minckley Chlagmo, Anne Harris, Allison Reimus, Melody Saraniti, Tess Farris and California-based artist Christine Remy.</p> <p>GRAFT will be on view at Comfort Station from Nov. 8 – Nov. 30, 2014</p> <p>Family Friendly Reception: Nov. 8th from 4 – 8pm</p> <p>More info on GRAFT:<br /> Graft is a curatorial experiment that will feature work from contributing artists that are influential to, or inspired by, Allen’s artistic practice.</p> <p>For GRAFT, artist Noelle Allen, together with Chicago curator MK Meador, explore the concept of grafting and how it relates to a multi-faceted art contemporary practice. As a horticultural process, grafting involves taking a sample from one plant to fuse and propagate another. For GRAFT, Allen has assembled and reconceptualized older drawings and photograms that date from earlier in her artistic career – before having children and a full-time teaching commitment. Viewing these moments as pivotal turning points in her practice, Allen’s newly realized drawings are, in a very real sense, grafts from her own work. By fusing old work with new, Allen is physically and conceptually bridging two very different time periods. With imagery and ideas in her work making reference to flowers, root structures, rhizomes, and other organic materials – grafting is a concept that warranted further exploration ….</p> <p>Looking at Allen’s work as artist, educator, mentor and mother, Meador and Allen conceived of a show as a curatorial experiment that would invite artists to participate and further explore the notion of grafting. These selected artists will respond to her most recent drawings by contributing a piece of their own for the exhibit at Comfort Station. By grafting the work from these notable Chicago artists, the exhibition will challenge the dichotomy of solo show versus group show models. The GRAFT project will include and document multiple stages of the collaboration between the artists, eventually resulting in a catalogue with interviews, images, and text.</p> <p>The list of confirmed artists include luminaries in the Chicago arts scene: Claire Ashley, Karen Azarnia, Aimee Beaubien, Erin Minckley Chlagmo, Anne Harris, Allison Reimus, Melody Saraniti, Tess Farris and also features work from Allen’s mother, California-based artist Christine Remy.</p> <p>The exhibition is curated by MK Meador for Comfort Station. GRAFT will be on view to the public for the month of November: from November 8-30th, 2014. As special “off-shoot” exhibition, organized by Azimuth Projects, will take place during November and will celebrate the work of selected artists in GRAFT.</p> <p>Opening reception to take place the first Saturday in November from 4pm – 8pm at Comfort Station (2579 N. Milwaukee)</p> <p>Noelle Allen is Associate professor of sculpture at Dominican University, Noelle Allen has recently exhibited her work this past year alone at Furman University, Marquette Cultural Center, Terrain, Riverside Art Center, Design Cloud, and the 22nd Annual Evanston+Vicinity Biennial. For more about Noelle Allen’s work, please visit: noelleallen.com</p><p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2014/11/graft/">Graft</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://thevisualist.org/2014/11/graft/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">47587</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Anne Harris: Voulez-vous Déjeuner sur l’herbe avec moi?</title> <link>http://thevisualist.org/2014/08/anne-harris-voulez-vous-dejeuner-sur-lherbe-avec-moi/</link> <comments>http://thevisualist.org/2014/08/anne-harris-voulez-vous-dejeuner-sur-lherbe-avec-moi/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Meg Duguid]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2014 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anne Harris]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Oak Park]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Terrain Exhibitions]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thevisualist.org/?p=43634</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Anne Harris has been painting, alone in her studio, some version of a self portrait for the last 26 years. She’d like to paint somebody else for a change and would like some company doing it. Anne believes avidly that all art that matters stays contemporary, that all painting is in some respect perceptual (at<a href="http://thevisualist.org/2014/08/anne-harris-voulez-vous-dejeuner-sur-lherbe-avec-moi/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p> <p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2014/08/anne-harris-voulez-vous-dejeuner-sur-lherbe-avec-moi/">Anne Harris: Voulez-vous Déjeuner sur l’herbe avec moi?</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anne Harris has been painting, alone in her studio, some version of a self portrait for the last 26 years. She’d like to paint somebody else for a change and would like some company doing it.</p> <p>Anne believes avidly that all art that matters stays contemporary, that all painting is in some respect perceptual (at minimum, we look at it), that dividing lines based on subject matter or style are superficial, that the human body is a pleasure to paint, and that food is fun, wine is fine, and good conversation is a wonderful thing.</p> <p>She hopes a wide range of people will join her for Voulez-vous Dejeuner sur L’herbe Avec Moi? A Luncheon in the Grass: People Painting People Picnic–that they will define painting as they wish, perception as they wish, “figurative” as they wish and the body as they wish; that together, we will eat, drink, converse and paint. Every luncheon on the grass will feature the artists Caleb Yono and Mikey McParlane, who will be performing as models. After each picnic and painting session, the works will be gathered and hung at Terrain Exhibitions for the duration of the exhibition, and returned to the participants at the closing reception.</p> <p>Join artist Anne Harris for a luncheon and painting picnic on the lawn of Terrain South, 710 Highland Ave., on Sundays throughout the month of August from 1pm – 4 pm. Some materials will be provided (but please bring your favorite paints and brushes if you have them) along with food, beverages and good company. Follow our facebook event page for up to date information on each weeks painting picnic!</p> <p>Anne Harris has exhibited at venues ranging from Alexandre Gallery (NYC), DC Moore Gallery(NYC), Nielsen Gallery (Boston), and Corbett vs. Dempsey (Chicago) to the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institute, The Portland Museum of Art, the California Center for Contemporary Art and the North Dakota Museum of Art. Her work is in such public collections as The Fogg Museum at Harvard, The Yale University Art Gallery and The New York Public Library. Grants and awards received include a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and an NEA Individual Artists Fellowship.</p> <p>Harris currently teaches in the BFA and MFA programs at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is vice president of the board of the Riverside Arts Center and chair of its exhibition committee. She also is the originator of The Mind’s I—a drawing project done in conversation with other artists, designed to investigate the complexities of perception and self-perception through drawing.</p> <p>Harris lives with her husband, the photographer Paul D’Amato, and their son Max, in Riverside, IL.</p><p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2014/08/anne-harris-voulez-vous-dejeuner-sur-lherbe-avec-moi/">Anne Harris: Voulez-vous Déjeuner sur l’herbe avec moi?</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://thevisualist.org/2014/08/anne-harris-voulez-vous-dejeuner-sur-lherbe-avec-moi/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">43634</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Anne Harris: Voulez-vous Déjeuner sur l’herbe avec moi?</title> <link>http://thevisualist.org/2014/08/anne-harris-voulez-vous-dejeuner-sur-lherbe-avec-moi-3/</link> <comments>http://thevisualist.org/2014/08/anne-harris-voulez-vous-dejeuner-sur-lherbe-avec-moi-3/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hannah McHugh]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2014 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anne Harris]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Oak Park]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Terrain]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thevisualist.org/?p=44339</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>A Luncheon in the Grass: A People Painting People Picnic Exhibiting: August 10th – 31st Closing Reception: August 31st from 4-8pm Luncheon Dates: August 10th, 17th, & 24th from 1 – 4pm Anne Harris has been painting, alone in her studio, some version of a self portrait for the last 26 years. She’d like to<a href="http://thevisualist.org/2014/08/anne-harris-voulez-vous-dejeuner-sur-lherbe-avec-moi-3/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p> <p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2014/08/anne-harris-voulez-vous-dejeuner-sur-lherbe-avec-moi-3/">Anne Harris: Voulez-vous Déjeuner sur l’herbe avec moi?</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A Luncheon in the Grass: A People Painting People Picnic</p> <p>Exhibiting: August 10th – 31st<br /> Closing Reception: August 31st from 4-8pm<br /> Luncheon Dates:<br /> August 10th, 17th, & 24th from 1 – 4pm</p> <p>Anne Harris has been painting, alone in her studio, some version of a self portrait for the last 26 years. She’d like to paint somebody else for a change and would like some company doing it.</p> <p>Anne believes avidly that all art that matters stays contemporary, that all painting is in some respect perceptual (at minimum, we look at it), that dividing lines based on subject matter or style are superficial, that the human body is a pleasure to paint, and that food is fun, wine is fine, and good conversation is a wonderful thing.</p> <p>She hopes a wide range of people will join her for Voulez-vous Dejeuner sur L’herbe Avec Moi? A Luncheon in the Grass: People Painting People Picnic–that they will define painting as they wish, perception as they wish, “figurative” as they wish and the body as they wish; that together, we will eat, drink, converse and paint. Every luncheon on the grass will feature the artists Caleb Yono and Mikey McParlane, who will be performing as models. After each picnic and painting session, the works will be gathered and hung at Terrain Exhibitions for the duration of the exhibition, and returned to the participants at the closing reception.</p> <p>Join artist Anne Harris for a luncheon and painting picnic on the lawn of Terrain South, 710 Highland Ave., on Sundays throughout the month of August from 1pm – 4 pm. Bring your painting supplies along with food to share and beverages. We’ll supply small surfaces to work on (canvasses, canvas board, yupo, etc.). If you want to work big, bring something big! Follow our facebook event page for up to date information on each weeks painting picnic!</p> <p>Anne Harris has exhibited at venues ranging from Alexandre Gallery (NYC), DC Moore Gallery(NYC), Nielsen Gallery (Boston), and Corbett vs. Dempsey (Chicago) to the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institute, The Portland Museum of Art, the California Center for Contemporary Art and the North Dakota Museum of Art. Her work is in such public collections as The Fogg Museum at Harvard, The Yale University Art Gallery and The New York Public Library. Grants and awards received include a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and an NEA Individual Artists Fellowship.</p> <p>Harris currently teaches in the BFA and MFA programs at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is vice president of the board of the Riverside Arts Center and chair of its exhibition committee. She also is the originator of The Mind’s I—a drawing project done in conversation with other artists, designed to investigate the complexities of perception and self-perception through drawing.</p> <p>Harris lives with her husband, the photographer Paul D’Amato, and their son Max, in Riverside, IL.</p><p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2014/08/anne-harris-voulez-vous-dejeuner-sur-lherbe-avec-moi-3/">Anne Harris: Voulez-vous Déjeuner sur l’herbe avec moi?</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://thevisualist.org/2014/08/anne-harris-voulez-vous-dejeuner-sur-lherbe-avec-moi-3/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">44339</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Figurative vs. Abstract</title> <link>http://thevisualist.org/2014/07/figurative-vs-abstract/</link> <comments>http://thevisualist.org/2014/07/figurative-vs-abstract/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Meg Duguid]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2014 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Amanda Joseph]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anne Harris]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cameron Harvey]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dana DeGiulio]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Judith Geichman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Larissa Borteh]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Maria Vergara]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Robin Dluzen]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thevisualist.org/?p=42735</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Curator and artist Melody Saraniti investigates the relationships that shape artistic practice by inviting artists who work primarily in figuration or abstraction to each select another artist from the other side of the aisle to exhibit alongside them in the gallery. The title for the exhibition comes from the epic battles of 20th century artists<a href="http://thevisualist.org/2014/07/figurative-vs-abstract/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p> <p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2014/07/figurative-vs-abstract/">Figurative vs. Abstract</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Curator and artist Melody Saraniti investigates the relationships that shape artistic practice by inviting artists who work primarily in figuration or abstraction to each select another artist from the other side of the aisle to exhibit alongside them in the gallery. The title for the exhibition comes from the epic battles of 20th century artists acting to define their world view by way of manifesto, exhibition or late night drunken brawl. Using this title as a jumping off point to explore contemporary artistic identity, the exhibition speaks to the fluid relationships among artists and examines the complexity of ways they navigate, appropriate and value the work of others with seemingly oppositional practices.</p> <p>In the exhibition, the works of Midwestern artists Robin Dluzen and Amanda Joseph highlight how identity can inform artistic practice. Judith Geichman and Larissa Borteh illustrate how an immediate attraction to another’s work can present a new perspective on the possibilities of painting. The intersection of vibrant paintings by Maria Vergara and Cameron Harvey stresses the importance of formal considerations of color, composition and light. Anne Harris and Dana DeGiulio bring the visceral presence of a work to the forefront, setting aside attempts at classifications or hierarchies.</p><p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2014/07/figurative-vs-abstract/">Figurative vs. Abstract</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://thevisualist.org/2014/07/figurative-vs-abstract/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">42735</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Autumn Space Benefit Auction</title> <link>http://thevisualist.org/2013/03/autumn-space-benefit-auction/</link> <comments>http://thevisualist.org/2013/03/autumn-space-benefit-auction/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Meg Duguid]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Exhibition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Reception]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Adam Scott]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Andrew Falkowski]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anne Harris]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Candida Alvarez]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dan Devening]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Frank Piatek]]></category> <category><![CDATA[John Phillips]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Josh Reames]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Judith Geichman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mark Booth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Michelle Grabner]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Molly Zuckerman-Hartung]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nazafarin Lotfi]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nick Ostoff]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Richard Rezac]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ron Ewert]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Stephanie Brooks]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Susanne Doremus]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tony Lewis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tyson Reeder]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thevisualist.org/?p=22992</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Autumn Space invites you to a special night in support of our efforts to serve the Chicago art community. Over 60 artists have donated work to be auctioned off and all proceeds go to future programming at the gallery. Tickets cost $10 at the door and cover food, drinks, and a raffle accompanying the silent<a href="http://thevisualist.org/2013/03/autumn-space-benefit-auction/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p> <p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2013/03/autumn-space-benefit-auction/">Autumn Space Benefit Auction</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Autumn Space invites you to a special night in support of our efforts to serve the Chicago art community. Over 60 artists have donated work to be auctioned off and all proceeds go to future programming at the gallery.</p> <p>Tickets cost $10 at the door and cover food, drinks, and a raffle accompanying the silent auction. A few pieces will have reserves, but most will start at $30. Online bidding is currently available and continues through March 9. autumnspace.com/secondary.html</p> <p>Thank you for the support you’ve already given us over the past few years. We look forward to seeing you at the auction!</p><p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2013/03/autumn-space-benefit-auction/">Autumn Space Benefit Auction</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://thevisualist.org/2013/03/autumn-space-benefit-auction/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">22992</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Anne Harris: The Mind’s I (Closing/Artist Talk)</title> <link>http://thevisualist.org/2012/12/anne-harris-the-minds-i-closingartist-talk/</link> <comments>http://thevisualist.org/2012/12/anne-harris-the-minds-i-closingartist-talk/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hannah McHugh]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2012 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Exhibition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Reception]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anne Harris]]></category> <category><![CDATA[April Behnke]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Betsy Odom]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Caleb Yono]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Candida Alvarez]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Carrie Gundersdorf]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chris Toepfer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Claire Ashley]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dana DeGiulio]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Deborah Boardman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Edmund Chia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Eric Lebofsky]]></category> <category><![CDATA[jason lazarus]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jay Wolke]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jerry Bleem]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jim Lutes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jin Lee]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Joanne Aono]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Josh Dihle]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Judith Geichman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Karen Azarnia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Katherine Desjardins]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Kevin Wolff]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Kim Piotrowski]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lindsey Hook]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Louise LeBourgeois]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Maria Vergara]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mario Romano]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Michelle Grabner]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Molly Zuckerman-Hartung]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Paul D’Amato]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Riva Lehrer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sabina Ott]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Steven Carrelli]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Susanne Doremus]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tyson Reeder]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Viki Siliunas]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thevisualist.org/?p=13769</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Participating artists: Candida Alvarez, Joanne Aono, Claire Ashley, Karen Azarnia, April Behnke, Jerry Bleem, Deborah Boardman, Steven Carrelli, Edmund Chia, Paul D’Amato, Dana DeGiulio, Katherine Desjardins, Josh Dihle, Susanne Doremus, Judith Geichman, Michelle Grabner, Carrie Gundersdorf, Lindsey Hook, Jason Lazarus, Eric Lebofsky, Louise LeBourgeois, Jin Lee, Riva Lehrer, Jim Lutes, Betsy Odom, Sabina Ott, Kim<a href="http://thevisualist.org/2012/12/anne-harris-the-minds-i-closingartist-talk/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p> <p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2012/12/anne-harris-the-minds-i-closingartist-talk/">Anne Harris: The Mind’s I (Closing/Artist Talk)</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Participating artists: Candida Alvarez, Joanne Aono, Claire Ashley, Karen Azarnia, April Behnke, Jerry Bleem, Deborah Boardman, Steven Carrelli, Edmund Chia, Paul D’Amato, Dana DeGiulio, Katherine Desjardins, Josh Dihle, Susanne Doremus, Judith Geichman, Michelle Grabner, Carrie Gundersdorf, Lindsey Hook, Jason Lazarus, Eric Lebofsky, Louise LeBourgeois, Jin Lee, Riva Lehrer, Jim Lutes, Betsy Odom, Sabina Ott, Kim Piotrowski, Tyson Reeder, Mario Romano, Chris Toepfer, Viki Siliunas, Maria Vergara, Kevin Wolff, Jay Wolke, Caleb Yono, Molly Zuckerman-Hartung and more.</p> <p>A collaborative drawing project designed to generate questions and conversation about looking with our eyes, hands, bodies. The gallery will serve as a drawing studio, while Harris and over 30 invited artists draw self-portraits, generating an expanding grid of drawings that will cover the gallery’s walls. A life long investigation for Harris, in this project, she asks other artists to ponder with her a number of questions: What is the relationship between self-reflection, self-expression and self-representation, between internal feeling and external appearance? What is the difference between vanity and self-consciousness? How do our minds shape what we see? How does drawing connect to and enhance perception?</p> <p>“Perception and self-perception are murky things, defined not<br /> just by our five senses but by our ability to move, our memory, imagination<br /> and emotions, our personal, cultural and societal expectations, not to mention<br /> the difficulties of being both perceiver and perceived. Fundamentally, perception<br /> is a product of the mind: as each of us is unique, each of us perceives uniquely.<br /> I’m interested in all possibilities.” -Anne Harris</p> <p>Anne Harris received her BFA in 1986 from Washington University in St. Louis, and her MFA from Yale in 1988. Her work has been exhibited at The National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institute, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, the California Center for the Arts, The Portland Museum of Art and The DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, and at galleries such as D.C. Moore (NYC), Alexandre (NYC), Nielsen (Boston) and Corbett vs. Dempsey (Chicago.) She teaches in the BFA and MFA programs at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is vice president of the board and chair of the exhibition committee at the Riverside Arts Center. She is represented by Alexandre Gallery, New York, NY.</p> <p>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-seed/anne-harris_b_842877.html<br /> http://anneharrispainting.com/home.html<br /> http://alexandregallery.com/</p><p>The post <a href="http://thevisualist.org/2012/12/anne-harris-the-minds-i-closingartist-talk/">Anne Harris: The Mind’s I (Closing/Artist Talk)</a> first appeared on <a href="http://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://thevisualist.org/2012/12/anne-harris-the-minds-i-closingartist-talk/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">13769</post-id> </item> </channel> </rss>