CAC is pleased to announce that Jordan Martins will curate this year’s edition of The ANNUAL. His exhibition, Mixtapes for the Next Millennium, brings together a wide variety of studio practices and backgrounds into proximity with one another to encourage surprising synchronicities or points of overlap between them. The exhibition operates with two notions of the term “mixtape” in mind: 1) an informal compilation of songs that reflect different backgrounds and trans-genre jumps, and 2) the hip-hop use of the term to refer to more raw conjunctions of artists that allow for playful, experimental collaborations or tangents sprouting out of an artist’s more formal output. The freedom and spontaneity of the “mixtape” is embraced here in what kind of work is shown and how it is displayed, eschewing polite spacing between works on white walls for playful molecular combinations that explore how the works of different artists can more directly speak to one another.

Featuring:
Marzena Abrahamik
Claire Ashley
ASMA (Matias Armendaris and Hanya Belia)
Dan Devening
Marianne Fairbanks
Deborah Handler
Cameron Harvey
Daniel Hojnacki
Cathy Hsiao
Cody Hudson
Gina Hunt
Jessica Labatte
Rodrigo Lara
Damon Locks
Marissa Chris Zain Neuman
John Opera
Kaveri Raina
Kellie Romany
Soo Shin
Sonnenzimmer (Nadine Nakanishi and Nick Butcher)
Brittney Leeanne Williams

Curator Bio: Jordan Martins is a Chicago based visual artist, curator, educator, and musician. He received his MFA in visual arts from the Universidade Federal da Bahia in Salvador, Brazil in 2007, and is a lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and North Park University. He is the executive director of Comfort Station, a multi-disciplinary art space. Martins’s visual work is based in collage processes, including mixed media two dimensional work, photography, video and installation, and he has exhibited nationally and internationally. He is co-director of the Perto da Lá, a biennial multidisplinary art event with international artists in Salvador, Brazil.

Public Events
Opening Reception, Friday, September 21, 5-8pm
The ANNUAL Breakfast, Friday, September 28, 9-11am RSVP
All events take place at CAC, 2130 W. Fulton St.

All work in the exhibition will be available for sale

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Past Exhibitions
2017 The Shortest Distance Between Two Points, Curated by Caroline Picard
2016 Showroom, Curated by Edra Soto
2015 An Exhibition of New Chicago Art, Curated by Claudine Isé and Alexandria Eregbu

Image: a mixtape featuring Daniel Hojnacki (left); Brittney Leeanne Williams (right)

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Tags: ASMA, Brittney Leeanne William, Cameron Harvey, Cathy Hsiao, Chicago, Claire Ashley, cody hudson, Damon Locks, Dan Devening, Daniel Hojnacki, Deborah Handler, Gina Hunt, Hanya Belia, Jessica Labatte, John Opera, Jordan Martins, Kaveri Raina, Kellie Romany, Marianne Fairbanks, Marissa Chris Zain Neuman, Marzena Abrahamik, Matias Armendaris, Nadine Nakanishi, Nick Butcher, Rodrigo Lara, Sonnenzimmer, Soo Shin, The Annual: Mixtapes for the Next Millennium, West Town