Ground Floor
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 South Cornell Ave. Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Sunday, September 23rd, from 3PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, November 11th
Hyde Park Art Center is proud to announce the artists selected for inclusion in the 2012 Ground Floor exhibition. The exhibition, which opened August 19, introduces Chicago to new talent to watch, spotlighting the most promising artists who have recently emerged from Chicago’s top level MFA programs.
A survey exhibition of fresh art that brings together work by Chicago’s most promising emerging talent, Ground Floor acts as a biennial best-of show that challenges and transforms Chicago’s existing artscape. Ground Floor, so named because it fills the entire lower level of the Art Center—over 6,000 square feet of gallery space—gives young artists a major public venue in one of Chicago’s premiere exhibition spaces, delivers a diverse audience via one of the most trusted authorities on great art in the city, and provides a crucial springboard into the professional art world following completion of the MFA. At the same time, Ground Floor offers the arts community a consistent yet dynamic destination where they are introduced to artists whose work demands to be seen and supported.
Ground Floor is the brainchild of art world luminary Dawoud Bey, who together with Sze Lin Pang, Jason Salavon, and other members of the Art Center’s Exhibitions Committee selects Ground Floor artists based on recommendations by local faculty, artists, and curators. Exhibiting artists in the 2012 Ground Floor exhibition hail from a broad range of schools that offer graduate level fine art degrees, including the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois at Chicago, Northwestern University, Columbia College Chicago, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Ground Floor features work by Jeremy Bolen, Guillermo R. Gudiño, Julie Renée Jones, Tony Lewis, Andrew Thomas Lopez, Eric May, Rachel Niffenegger, Josh Reames, Casilda Sánchez, Neal Vandenbergh, and Shane Ward.
We invite the Chicago community to join us in celebrating these emerging artists and their work at a free exhibition reception on Sunday, September 23 from 3-5 pm at the Hyde Park Art Center.
Lead sponsorship support for Ground Floor provided by BMO Harris Bank.
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Tags: Andrew Thomas Lopez, Casilda Sánchez, Eric May, Ground Floor, Guillermo R. Gudiño, Hyde Park Art Center, Jeremy Bolen, Josh Reames, Julie Renée Jones, Neal Vandenbergh, Rachel Niffenegger, Shane Ward, Tony Lewis
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