Human Resources
@ Chicago Artists Coalition
2130 W Fulton St, Unit B, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Friday, July 12th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Thursday, August 29th
Human Resources
Chicago Artist Coalition
July 5 – August 29
Renata Berdes – Austin Boehs – Andreana Donahue – Rio Goodwin Perez – Payton Harris-Woodard – Aaron Kleeblatt – David Krueger – Laura Mcmanus – Travis Morehead – Ingrid Olson – Susan Pasowicz – Tim Stone
Arts of Life and Chicago Artist Coalition are pleased to present Human Resources an exhibition of 12 artists who utilize and work for the Arts of Life studio program.
There’s a particular quote by Gustave Moreau (b. France 1868 – d. France 1898) the famed Symbolist painter and teacher that goes “I am the bridge over which certain of you will pass”. Expressed to some of Moreau’s students, this sentiment is simultaneously hopeful and troubling. Bridges help people to cross something otherwise impassible, but if a person is a bridge, that means they often spend their life getting walked on. The utility of this thought lies in the realization that we all use each other to a certain extent. And, most certainly, it is in the recognition of those moments when we become aware of the fact that another artist’s painting or writing or performance has become a bridge between oneself and the crossing of some raging river of self-doubt, or some impossibly deep canyon of inactivity.
The title of this exhibition, Human Resources, is a tongue in cheek nod that conjures the bureaucratic world of sprawling, inhumane corporate structures run amok. However, the works on view in the exhibition intend the opposite. An intimate, more humane approach to making that is steeped in materiality and forms that are inseparable from the ideas they hold.
This exhibition lays bare those nooks and crannies of sage materiality that churn the influence of a group of artists who become bridges for one another.
Opening reception
Friday July 12, 2024
5-8 pm
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Tags: Aaron Kleeblatt, Andreana Donahue, Austin Boehs, Chicago, Chicago Artists' Coalition, Circle Contemporary Chicago, David Krueger, Human Resources, Ingrid Olson, Laura McManus., Payton Harris Woodard, Renata Berdes, Rio Goodwin Perez, Susan Pasowicz, Tim Stone, Travis Morehead, West Town
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