Artist Talk with Bartholomew Ryan, Assistant Curator of Visual Art at the Walker Art Center: 4-5pm
Reception: 5-7pm

For her on the wall project at moniquemeloche, Abigail DeVille will produce a new installation in situ, continuing her investigation into the 18th-century idea of dark stars and the rejection of black holes. DeVille creates lush, textured environments that occupy a space between the claustrophobia of the urban environment and the expansiveness of the universe. Utilizing a site-responsive technique, DeVille cultivates an awareness of material culture through the collection of its discarded remnants. The artist states:

‘Through the poetry of everyday experience and American history I create black hole room-sized sculptures that speak to different strands in American society’s material culture. Black holes are containers that are laden with forgotten information, the absence of light, power, knowledge and the harbinger of historical inaccuracies. I use celestial forms to think about our place in history, that links us to the beginning of time. Garbage contains the material history of the present and links to the past.’

Abigail DeVille (American, b. 1981, New York, NY, lives New York) received her MFA from Yale University in 2011 and her BFA from the Fashion Institute of Technology in 2007. DeVille has exhibited a growing constellation of site-specific installations in the United States and Europe. Her most recent exhibitions include Material Histories at the Studio Museum in Harlem (2014); Outside the Lines at the Contemporary Art Museum Houston (2014); Gastown Follies, Artspeak, Vancouver, BC, (2013); Bronx Calling, The Bronx Museum of the Arts (2013); Future Generation Art Prize at Venice, The 55th Venice Biennale (2013); XXXXXXX, at Iceberg Projects, Chicago (2013); Fore, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2012); Future Generation Art Prize Exhibition at the Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine (2012); If I don’t think I’m sinking, look what a hole I’m in, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2012); First Among Equals, ICA, Philadelphia, PA (2012); The Ungovernables, New Museum, NY (2012); Bosch Young Talent Show, Stedelijk Museum, s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands (2011). Her work has been written about in New York Magazine, The New York Times, Artforum, Time Out New York, CAPITAL, Philadelphia Weekly, Interview, Black Book, Nylon, Art News and Paper Magazine. DeVille is a 2012 Joan Mitchell Foundation grant recipient, a 2013/14 Artist-in-Residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, a 2014/15 recipient of The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship at Harvard, and a 2015 Creative Capital Visual Artist Award.

On the wall is generously supported by a grant from the Wicker Park Bucktown SSA #33.

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