Not Just Another Pretty Face
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Thursday, September 14th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
On view through Sunday, November 5th
The exhibition commemorates the 2020 and 2023 iterations of Not Just Another Pretty Face. The triennial program, created by Hyde Park Art Center in the mid-1990s, introduces artists and potential art buyers. This project facilitates a fun and accessible commissioning process that builds lasting relationships between artists and patrons, creates a new base of support for artists, and invests in the vitality of Chicago’s cultural community.
Not Just Another Pretty Face cultivates collectors, who are essential to the “ecosystem” that artists need to thrive,by embracing and encouraging the concept of patronage in contemporary art. Artists need not only consumers (i.e. collectors,) but also a community of people who know, support, and value what they do.
To date, the Art Center has raised more than $1,000,000—half of which goes directly into the hands of artists, with the other half supporting Art Center programs. Through Not Just Another Pretty Face, 375+ original works of art have been commissioned by 275 new and established collectors interested in investing in Chicago’s artists.
September 14 – November 5, 2023
Gallery 1, 2 & Cleve E. Carney Gallery
Unveiling Day: Thursday, September 14, 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Commissioned Artists:
Ani Afshar, Rubén Aguirre, Dabin Ahn, Alexandra Antoine, Narseal Batiste, Cecilia Beaven, Paul Branton, Dalton Brown, Jonathan Castillo, Cesar Conde, Maggie Crowley, Lenin Delsol, Jenal Dolson, Jason Dunda, Lora Fosberg, Peter Frederiksen, Madeline Gallucci, Azadeh Gholizadeh, Susan Giles, Peter N. Gray, Rhonda Gray, Max Guy, D. Lammie Hanson, Alice Hargrave, Brooke Hummer, Candace Hunter, Industry of the Ordinary (Adam Brooks and Mathew Wilson), Janis Kanter, Jackie Kazarian, Chad Kouri, Joe Kraft, Mayumi Lake, Rodrigo Lara Zendejas, Juan Lazaro Gutierrez, Melissa Leandro, Sophie Lucido Johnson, Joel Maxime Jr., Cecil McDonald, Jessie Mott, Sunny Neater Dubow, Sarah Nishiura, zakkiyyah najeebah dumas o’neal, Louise Pappageorge, Chris Pappan, Yoonshin Park, Pooja Pittie, Renee Robbins, Cristal Sabbagh, Tony Smith, Deb Sokolow, Kushala Vora, Martha Wade, Messejah Washington, Mel Watkin, Melissa Weber, Marvin Wells, Daniel Wilson, and Scott Wolniak.
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