Seen & Unseen: Closing Screening
@ The Plan
610 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Sunday, June 29th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, June 29th
Please join us on Sunday June 29th for the Closing Screening and Q+A of Seen and Unseen at The Plan located at 610 N Albany Ave in Chicago, Illinois on June 29th from 6-10pm. Local filmmakers, Alycia Kamil, Francisco Bongarzone, and Glenn Sonnie Wooden, will be present to discuss their pieces in relation to the 8 visual artists represented in the gallery space (Yigit Ural, Ellie Stark Manos, Isaiah Lee, Eva Geczy, Tong Pan, Reevah Agarwaal, Jeremy David Carter, and Van Payne.) This will be the final opportunity to see the works in conversation and watch the films in full, with time afterwards for an open dialogue with the artists included
Alycia Kamil (@yeyekamil) is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist, educator, and freedom fighter from the South Side of Chicago highlighting Blackness across the diaspora and the global culture surrounding it in a variety of mediums. Her featured film, What’s My School Worth?, is a multimedia project documenting the aftermath of the 2013 school closures under the Rahm Emanuel administration, putting forcibly forgotten narratives at the forefront highlighting the voices of Destiny Brady, Mariam Prater, Pavlyn Jankov, Breyona Lampley, and Savaun Stokes
Francisco Bongarzone (@francisco_bongarzone) is an award-winning Argentine-Italian-American filmmaker born in Los Angeles and raised in Chicago and Milan, Italy. Bongarzone graduated with a BA in Psychology and Minor in Art from the University of Illinois at Chicago and received an MFA in Film Directing from CalArts. His featured short film The African Cowboy – Paintings by Braimah Tayo Lawal is a observational documentary on the importance of family and identity within the paintings of artist Braimah TemiTayo Lawal (@braimahlawal.art) commissioned for the artist’ solo exhibition at the Union League Club of Chicago
Glenn Sonnie Wooden (@sonniewooden) is an artist, filmmaker, designer, and collector creating works of art interrogating perspectives of both a Black working class man and that of an upper class Black man. Glenn’s featured short film Godspeed is a nonlinear collage of meditative portraits made within the artist’s Westside community.
Co-curated by Chloe Taylor Harrington and Cameron Leslie “Crum” Crumley for The Plan in Chicago, Illinois
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Tags: Alycia Kamil, Camron Leslie "Crum" Crumley, Chicago, Chloe Taylor Harrington, Ellie Stark Manos, Eva Geczy, Franciso Bongarzone, Glenn Sonnie Wooden, Humboldt Park, Isaiah Lee, Jeremy David Carter, Reevah Agarwaal, Seen & Unseen: Closing Screening, Seen and Unseen, the PLAN, Tong Pan, Van Payne, Yigit Ural
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