Michelle Grabner
@ Shane Campbell Gallery (Lincoln Park)
2400 North Lakeview Avenue Chicago IL 60614
On view through Saturday, March 2nd
âI am guilty of repetition, banality and confirmation of the expected”
–From Hephzibah Andersonâs essay In Praise of the Cliché
Shane Campbell Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new work by Michelle Grabner at the galleryâs three locations. This will be Grabnerâs fifth solo exhibition with the gallery.
Grabner will present an installation of paper weavings at the Chicago location as a flatbed of overlapping works.ââIn the Lincoln Park space, Grabner will show a group of small gingham patterned paintings.ââIn Oak Park, Grabner will install three monochromatic woven gesso reliefs on Brendan Fowlerâs sculpture.
Grabnerâs gingham patterned paintings, paper weavings, and gesso reliefs are exercises in visual cliché construction. Valuing sturdy truthfulness and unfailing predictability, Grabner implores the âuncreative,â routinely engaging in acts of conditional boredom.
Michelle Grabner is a Professor and Chair of the Painting and Drawing Department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is represented by Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago and runs The Suburban and The Poor Farm with her husband Brad Killam. She will co-curate the 2014 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art.ââHer work is included in the permanent collections at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; MUDAM – Musée dâArt Moderne Luxemburg; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Daimler Contemporary, Berlin; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
To obtain additional information please call Eric Ruschman at the gallery at 312.226.2223, or email eric@shanecampbellgallery.com.
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