Routine
@ President’s Gallery HWC
30 E Lake St, 1105, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, March 4th, from 4:30PM - 6:30PM
On view through Friday, April 9th
Routine presents seven artists interpreting feminism through a wide variety of media in commemoration of March as Women’s History Month. While all the artists have a background in clay-based work, the themes of the show will be taken on through carving, photography, sculptural installation, and new media performance as well as clay.
In this exhibition, images and references to female identity as handed down through the popular culture of past eras are critiqued and deconstructed. Jess Bader’s work consists of an installation of clayware referencing the forms of 1950s china settings, but are glazed with images of Wonder Woman, captured in the moment before she spins, using her powers to transport herself to another place. Heather Coffey’s fragile installation of printed aprons memorializes the art of women’s labor, as past generations have known it. Mi-Yeon Kwon and Paul Richter’s live performance and off-site installation give multiple readings of gestures as they are transmitted between the gallery and an off-site projection. Through the displacement of time and media, the works on display emphasize questions about how ideas and figures from the past are viewed in the present moment.
Routine includes work by Jess Bader, Heather Coffey, Rima Gryboskas, Mi-yeon Kwon, Carrie Ohm and Rebecca Walz.
« previous event
next event »