Nov 16th 2013

Gabriel Mejia: Journey Into Whatever

@ Bert Green Fine Art

8 S Michigan Ave Suite 1220 Chicago IL 60603

Opening Saturday, November 16th, from 5PM - 8PM

On view through Saturday, December 21st

Gabriel Mejia has been involved in a multi-year project of sourcing subjects for his paintings through social media sites such as Facebook; friending others with the same name as himself and incorporating their identities into his work using himself as a model. With this most recent series of paintings, he has synthesized the various identities of others into a single subject, who is masked and engaged in mundane daily actiivities. These works serve to shatter the artifice and illusion of manufactured identity, and expose the fundamentally banal nature of daily existence. The hero commutes, eats breakfast, does his laundry. He is everyman.

Continuing in the project room is a work from our first solo show by Conceptual artist Stephen Kaltenbach, Shadow Wall (1965), a site-specific installation from the artists “Room Alterations” series, will remain on view through December 21. All other artworks from Kaltenbach’s previous solo exhibiton are available for viewing by appointment.

Stephen Kaltenbach has exhibited nationally and internationally including the current Prada Foundation exhibition in Venice, “When Attitudes Become Form Bern/1969 – Venice/2013” and the traveling exhibition “State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970” currently open at the Smart Museum of Art in Chicago. Kaltenbach’s work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, the Kroeller-Mueller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands Museum of Art, St. Paul, Minnesota, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, The Evanston Museum of Art, IL, the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, as well as multiple private collections.

There will be an Artists reception on Saturday, November 16 from 5-8 pm, and a Closing reception on Saturday, December 21 from 5–8 pm, with an artist’s talk by Gabriel Mejia at 6 pm. Gallery hours are Wednesday–Friday 11–6 and Saturday 12-5, or by appointment at other times.

All gallery events are free and open to the public. Additional exhibition information, press releases and high resolution images may be found at the gallery website at http://bgfa.us.

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