Seeing the familiar for the first time
@ Filter Photo
1821 W Hubbard St, Ste 207, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, September 20th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, October 19th
Filter Photo is pleased to announce Seeing the familiar for the first time, a small works exhibition juried by Industry of the Ordinary. Join us for a public reception concurrent with our other exhibition, The Universal, on September 20th, 6 – 9 pm during the 2019 Filter Photo Festival and Expo Chicago’s Art After Hours.
From 6:30pm – 8:30pm there will be The Slide Ride Food Truck in the parking lot of the Hubbard St Lofts.
“When I was a small boy, my parents would take me on road trips to see interesting things. In my child’s mind, they seemed to have an encyclopedic knowledge of the interesting. They had, I imagined, always known what they knew, and their jobs as parents essentially entailed enumerating the many things that my mind should find wonder in. But I found so many of these experiences at the time to be oddly underwhelming. Instead, I was struck by their wonder and enthusiasm – and I noted how they would turn to see if I was seeing the world they saw.
In time we must surely turn to our own children and, pointing at some important object, look to see if wonder has flickered across the faces of our charges. We wander through the world pointing, counting, and turning to the faces of the uninitiated. And slowly we come to know that no amount of castles can populate the imagination of a child. Theirs’ are minds of infinite wonder, but they examine their lives as they find them. Their streets, their friends, their favorite trees to climb. Extraordinary things are beyond counting, but the wonder that we pass on to the ones we love is an ordinary thing. And no less precious for it.
Industry of the Ordinary’s approach to selecting work for this exhibition is akin to wandering as a child might.”
— Industry of the Ordinary
Participating Artists
Tuan Bui
Tag Christof
Jacob Foster
Lori Kella
James Kuan
Kevin Lyle
Ashley Miller
Diego Rodriguez
Samantha VanDeman
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