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		<title>Outside Jokes / to Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2017 06:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>DEMO Project is pleased to present two December exhibition openings: “Outside Jokes,” a group exhibition featuring Kelly Lloyd, Alberto Aguilar, Jessica Campbell, Oli Watt, Neal Vandenbergh, Joshua Albers, Selina Trepp, Lauren Anderson, Jeffrey Austin, Misael Soto, Tegan Brace, Alex Schmidt, Kyle Schlie, Allison Lacher, Alex Bradley Cohen, Julie Potratz, Eric Fleischauer, Ellen Nielsen, Jeff Robinson,<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2017/12/outside-jokes-to-home/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2017/12/outside-jokes-to-home/">Outside Jokes / to Home</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>DEMO Project is pleased to present two December exhibition openings: </p>
<p>“Outside Jokes,” a group exhibition featuring Kelly Lloyd, Alberto Aguilar, Jessica Campbell, Oli Watt, Neal Vandenbergh, Joshua Albers, Selina Trepp, Lauren Anderson, Jeffrey Austin, Misael Soto, Tegan Brace, Alex Schmidt, Kyle Schlie, Allison Lacher, Alex Bradley Cohen, Julie Potratz, Eric Fleischauer, Ellen Nielsen, Jeff Robinson, Stephanie Graham, Dan Miller, Lauren Taylor, Gabe Holcombe, Maire and Mia, Thad Kellstadt, Victoria Martinez and emcee Jesse Malmed.</p>
<p>“to Home” from Denver-based artist Jade Hoyer and Knoxville-based artist Tatiana Potts. </p>
<p>These exhibitions will serve as our final openings that follow our established format, only to be followed by a farewell exhibit before the demolition of our space takes place in January 2018.</p>
<p>Both exhibitions will open at DEMO Project on Friday, December 8 from 6:00 – 8:30 PM and run through Saturday, December 30.</p>
<p>“Outside Jokes”<br />
This, here is the have to having been t/here: a series of site-gags, working lines and chasing spotlights. A bill (or, for those whose approach is more formal, a william) stuffed to its gills with genius jokesters and jesturers, as concerned with the aha! in each haha! as gaps between gasps. Comedy is serious business, like writing “shibboleth” in camouflage ink or whispering savory somethings to a street sign. We’ll check back in early 2018, but early reports are that the works here killed, that they literally destroyed the place. </p>
<p>Abject-oriented in its hauntology, “Outside Jokes” gathers together works by two dozen artists that take site-dn-ess as integral to the read of any art, any joke, any interaction, and mucks and musses it. What are the rhythms of pithy patter in a language you don’t speak? Is there any such thing as a thing about nothing, Springfeld? What is two drink minimalism? </p>
<p>Outside Jokes takes and makes place on the grounds around and in the back room of DEMO Project and on acretv.org.</p>
<p>Participating artists include Kelly Lloyd, Alberto Aguilar, Jessica Campbell, Oli Watt, Neal Vandenbergh, Joshua Albers, Selina Trepp, Lauren Anderson, Jeffrey Austin, Misael Soto, Tegan Brace, Alex Schmidt, Kyle Schlie, Allison Lacher, Alex Bradley Cohen, Julie Potratz, Eric Fleischauer, Ellen Nielsen, Jeff Robinson, Stephanie Graham, Dan Miller, Lauren Taylor, Gabe Holcombe, Maire and Mia, Thad Kellstadt, Victoria Martinez and emcee Jesse Malmed.</p>
<p>“to Home”<br />
Artists Jade Hoyer (Denver, CO) and Tatiana Potts (Knoxville, TN) address the idea of home and place in their upcoming exhibition, “to Home.” As artists who both identify with the immigrant experience &#8211; Potts is from Slovakia and Hoyer is a first-generation Filipina-American- Hoyer and Potts often address the intersection of place and identity. Using imagery of both specific location and domestic spaces, this collaboration addresses the theme of belonging in printmaking and installation media. </p>
<p>Jade Hoyer is an Assistant Professor of Art at Metropolitan State University of Denver whose work utilizes printmaking, installation, and social practice. She addresses social issues in both research and practice. She has exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including the Minnesota Center for Book Arts and Philippine Women’s University. Jade has been recognized by organizations such as the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Cultural Center of the Philippines, and she has also held leadership positions on international print organizations like SGC International and the Association of Print Scholars. Jade completed her MFA with a printmaking emphasis at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, (2016) and her BA in Studio Art and Environmental Studies at Carleton College (2007).</p>
<p>Tatiana Potts is a native of Slovakia. She received her MFA degree in printmaking at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and her BFA at the University of North Carolina, Asheville. She is currently based in Knoxville, Tennessee, where teaches at area colleges and is the Printshop Technician at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She has exhibited at venues including the International Print Center New York; the Ann Arbor Art Center, Michigan; the University of Denver, Colorado; and Polk State College, Florida. Recent exhibitions include at Frogman’s Printmaking Workshop in Omaha, Nebraska, and Belmont University, in Nashville, Tennessee.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2017/12/outside-jokes-to-home/">Outside Jokes / to Home</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Maria Lux: Dominus, Kaveri Raina and Katie Kirk: Exchange Between,  and Garry Noland: Failed Flag</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2017 05:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>DEMO Project, a space for contemporary art in Springfield, Illinois, presents three exhibitions opening on Friday, August 11: MARIA LUX Washington-based artist Maria Lux will present a solo project, “Dominus,” in the front gallery. “Dominus” leverages the cues of domestic space still present in DEMO Project&#8217;s converted-home gallery as a backdrop for a new project<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2017/08/maria-lux-dominus-kaveri-raina-and-katie-kirk-exchange-between-and-garry-noland-failed-flag/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>DEMO Project, a space for contemporary art in Springfield, Illinois, presents three exhibitions opening on Friday, August 11:</p>
<p>MARIA LUX<br />
Washington-based artist Maria Lux will present a solo project, “Dominus,” in the front gallery. “Dominus” leverages the cues of domestic space still present in DEMO Project&#8217;s converted-home gallery as a backdrop for a new project considering resistance—in both animal and machine—against the human force to domesticate and dominate. In this work, raccoons (notoriously impossible to domesticate but known for their fondness of human trash) and Roombas (self-driven robotic vacuum cleaners that often make bigger messes than they clean up) join forces to create chaos in the gallery space, emphasizing their perversely pleasurable defiance of human will.</p>
<p>KATIE KIRK and KAVERI RAINA<br />
Los Angeles-based artist Katie Kirk and Chicago-based artist Kaveri Raina will present a two person show, “Exchange Between,” in the back gallery. Matter and material serve as principle metaphors in Katie Kirk and Kaveri Raina’s work. They posit ideas about the role of pleasure in art and life. The experience of their work is sometimes confounding, but they strive for it to also be gratifying, providing a physical, psychological, and optical whole that is perceived as more than the sum of its parts. </p>
<p>STNDRD: GARRY NOLAND<br />
Lastly, DEMO Project welcomes STNDRD, a curatorial project driven by St. Louis artist Sage Dawson that will presets an outdoor flag pole mounted to the façade of DEMO Project as an exhibition space. Garry Noland, based both in Los Angeles and Kansas City, will present his work, “Failed Flag.” In the sense that everything’s a flag, everything emblazons some proposition by what it is or what it is not. Sports teams, ISIS, countries, for instance, use a flag to deliver a message–a short cut, in a way, or a kind of meme. “Failed Flag” takes cues from earlier work by Garry Noland such as “Failed Axle” and “Failed Alphabet.” The flag is functional but not fully so.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2017/08/maria-lux-dominus-kaveri-raina-and-katie-kirk-exchange-between-and-garry-noland-failed-flag/">Maria Lux: Dominus, Kaveri Raina and Katie Kirk: Exchange Between,  and Garry Noland: Failed Flag</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Weight of Light / Succulent Succulent</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Thomas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2017 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>DEMO Project presents two exhibition openings on Friday, March 10 from 6:00 – 8:30 p.m. “Weight of Light,” a group exhibition, and “Succulent Succulent,” a solo project from Melissa Oresky, will run through Thursday, April 6. DEMO Project is open for the duration of the exhibits on Saturday afternoons from 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. or<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2017/03/weight-of-light-succulent-succulent/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2017/03/weight-of-light-succulent-succulent/">Weight of Light / Succulent Succulent</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>DEMO Project presents two exhibition openings on Friday, March 10 from 6:00 – 8:30 p.m. “Weight of Light,” a group exhibition, and “Succulent Succulent,” a solo project from Melissa Oresky, will run through Thursday, April 6. DEMO Project is open for the duration of the exhibits on Saturday afternoons from 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. or by appointment.</p>
<p>“Weight of Light”<br />
DEMO Project, with its blocked out windows and silenced domesticity, invites an exploration of light and of its absence. “Weight of Light” brings together four artists whose work suggests that light be viewed as inextricable from the material. Their insistence on binding light to substance questions Western pictorial tradition, in which light is used metaphorically and illustratively to indicate the immaterial: clarity, divinity, truth, ephemerality. These works suggest that the interaction of light and substance is specific and complicated—dirty, tactile, thick, solid, or even dark. The works in “Weight of Light” hold and bind light to phenomena in a way that approaches permanence. They treat light as something to catch, follow, filter, reflect, and absorb. Light is contingent on the weight of conditions.</p>
<p>Featured artists are Paola Cabal, Gina Hunt, Vincent Como, and Angelina Gualdoni. “Weight of Light” is curated by Melissa Oresky. The exhibition will close with an artist talk and reception on Thursday, April 6, from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.</p>
<p>Melissa Oresky: “Succulent Succulent”<br />
“Succulent Succulent,” consisting of video and a corresponding collage, uses the form of an agave plant as structure to contain and transmit information. In DEMO’s small back gallery, a monitor faces an image made primarily of reflective surfaces, providing light to view and animate its surface. The plant’s repeating form opens a conversation between stillness and movement, reflection and absorption, singularity and multiplicity.</p>
<p>In her paintings, collages and videos, Melissa Oresky explores aspects of landscape through an evolving vocabulary rooted in abstraction. Her current work looks to plant form, growth, and life processes as models for moving and still images. Solo exhibitions include K. Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco; The Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, Illinois; the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; and The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Group exhibitions and screenings include TSA New York, Brooklyn; OQBO gallery, Berlin; The Engine Room, Massey University, New Zealand; Proof Gallery, Boston; 65GRAND, Chicago; The Franklin, Chicago; Devening Projects, Chicago; and SCA Contemporary, Albuquerque. She has been a fellow at artist’s residencies including Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona; Schloss Pluschow, Germany; Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico; The Thicket, Georgia, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine. She was the recipient of a 2005 Illinois Arts Council fellowship. Oresky received her MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago and BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She currently lives and works in Normal, Illinois where she is an Associate Professor of painting at Illinois State University.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2017/03/weight-of-light-succulent-succulent/">Weight of Light / Succulent Succulent</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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		<title>Unfavored Air: Ron Lambert and Object Flexibility: Benjamin Cook &#038; Cory Imig</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Thomas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2016 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>DEMO Project presents two July exhibits: &#8220;Unfavored Air&#8221; from Pennsylvania-based artist Ron Lambert, and &#8220;Object Flexibility,&#8221; a collaborative effort from Central Illinois-based artists Benjamin Cook and Cory Imig. Both exhibitions respond to/work with the unique and inherent architectural features of DEMO Project. The exhibitions will open on Friday, July 8, from 6:00-8:30pm. Working mainly in<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2016/07/unfavored-air-ron-lambert-and-object-flexibility-benjamin-stone-cory-imig/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>DEMO Project presents two July exhibits: &#8220;Unfavored Air&#8221; from Pennsylvania-based artist Ron Lambert, and &#8220;Object Flexibility,&#8221; a collaborative effort from Central Illinois-based artists Benjamin Cook and Cory Imig. Both exhibitions respond to/work with the unique and inherent architectural features of DEMO Project.</p>
<p>The exhibitions will open on Friday, July 8, from 6:00-8:30pm.</p>
<p>Working mainly in video and sculpture, Ron Lambert investigates the intersection between psychology and the environment. The work in &#8220;Unfavored Air&#8221; was inspired by the elements of the gallery space that remained as a reference to its former use as a home. “The fireplace and built in shelves in particular interested me,” says Lambert. “The work I have been doing over the past couple of years referenced the breakdown of house structures. The materials structures I use as reference in the sculptures address the psychological concerns of safety and security that the home can provide and what issues one would have if that security were disrupted. I feel like the remnants of the gallery&#8217;s past provides a very interesting context for my work.”</p>
<p>Benjamin Cook and Cory Imig will present a two-person collaborative installation: &#8220;Object Flexibility.&#8221; This immersive work &#8212; comprised of site-responsive painting, sculpture, and wall-hung objects &#8212; will question the influence of physical and nonphysical space, phenomenological experience, and the singular nature of a collaborative effort. The installation will rely on the backdrop of an all over and hand-painted striped pattern, applied directly to the gallery walls. Through painting the entire surface of the space, the architecture will be exposed, creating a context for both the space and the works hanging within it.</p>
<p>&#8220;Unfavored Air&#8221; will run from July 8 through Saturday, August 6. &#8220;Object Flexibility&#8221; will run from July 8 through Saturday, July 30. DEMO Project is open for the duration of the exhibits on Saturday afternoons from 1:00pm-4:00pm or by appointment. DEMO Project is located at 732 N 4th Street, Springfield, IL 62702, on the Springfield Art Association campus.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2016/07/unfavored-air-ron-lambert-and-object-flexibility-benjamin-stone-cory-imig/">Unfavored Air: Ron Lambert and Object Flexibility: Benjamin Cook & Cory Imig</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
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