<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" > <channel> <title>Erin Nixon - The Visualist</title> <atom:link href="https://thevisualist.org/tag/erin-nixon/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>https://thevisualist.org</link> <description>Chicago Visual Arts Calendar</description> <lastBuildDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2021 11:36:40 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en-US</language> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1</generator> <image> <url>https://thevisualist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/13715238_1656465681341114_192907186_a1-200x200.jpg</url> <title>Erin Nixon - The Visualist</title> <link>https://thevisualist.org</link> <width>32</width> <height>32</height> </image> <site xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">232801582</site> <item> <title>This is what we know so far</title> <link>https://thevisualist.org/2021/09/this-is-what-we-know-so-far/</link> <comments>https://thevisualist.org/2021/09/this-is-what-we-know-so-far/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hannah McHugh]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2021 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Exhibition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Reception]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ben Driggs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chicago Art Department]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Erin Nixon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Leonardo Kaplan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Liz McCarthy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lower West Side]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Michael Lopez]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sara Condo]]></category> <category><![CDATA[This is what we know so far]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thevisualist.org/?p=126258</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>This is what we know so far Chicago Art Department 1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608 September 10 – September 30 Opening Reception: Friday, September 10, 6-9pm Featuring works by: Sara Condo, Ben Driggs, Leonardo Kaplan, Michael Lopez, and Liz McCarthy Organized by: Erin Nixon It feels like we are on the other side<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2021/09/this-is-what-we-know-so-far/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p> <p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2021/09/this-is-what-we-know-so-far/">This is what we know so far</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is what we know so far<br /> Chicago Art Department<br /> 1926 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60608<br /> September 10 – September 30<br /> Opening Reception: Friday, September 10, 6-9pm</p> <p>Featuring works by:<br /> Sara Condo, Ben Driggs, Leonardo Kaplan, Michael Lopez, and Liz McCarthy</p> <p>Organized by:<br /> Erin Nixon</p> <p>It feels like we are on the other side of something. What has shifted leaves something raw about the labor of making Art; who it serves, what it takes, what it’s for. A practice needs to hold a plan, a hope, of how to live, of what to do. Making is an action, and hopefully, a continuing.</p> <p>The artists in this exhibition—Sara Condo, Ben Driggs, Leonardo Kaplan, Michael Lopez, and Liz McCarthy—are experimenting with their mediums on a path that’s thorny, gnarly, layered, and anti-finished. They’re getting into the muck, with materials, with feelings. There is a seemingly endless relationship with these materials that doesn’t feel comfortable or antagonizing, but open and exploratory. Clay, wood, fabric, aluminum, ink, pages, and plants are intuitive guides, informing the objects made, with their own agency in the process.</p> <p>In their idiosyncratic forms, each artist is expressing the content of their lives: taking walks in nature, digging up a basement, buying a marker at CVS, pouring metal into sand, and dredging up the contents of their studio. There’s a digging, pressing, carving, bleeding, and layering with these everyday elements that gets to something primordial. The systems and repetition used are habitual, but sustainable and rhythmic.</p> <p>There’s no big answer here, more like a shared mystical purpose, a spiritual pursuit that rewards those who seek it. Looking at the work of these artists in communion with each other feels to me like a lesson in living. There is a comfort in fucked-up, a resistance to completeness, a feral commitment to getting down to the essence of something. There’s an aesthetic of sincerity that feels accessible, like a guide for a fellow hobbyist. I’ll follow their lead, learning to embrace the vulnerable art of experimenting and revealing together.</p> <p>—August 28, 2021<br /> Erin Nixon</p> <p>About the artists:<br /> Sara Condo is an interdisciplinary artist based in Chicago, Illinois. She draws from personal experiences as a living site for exploration into complexities of gender, technology, environment and the sublime. Condo works with multimedia to explore unwritten stories and deploys them in the present form to envision new futures.</p> <p>Ben Driggs (b. Pekin, IL, 1981) lived next to a farm tool junkyard in rural Wisconsin during a formative period. He works in sun prints, concrete, ceramic, and metal in Little Village.</p> <p>Leonardo Kaplan is a working artist in Chicago, IL. He has exhibited in Chicago with New Capital Projects and Graham Foundation, in Cincinnati at Basketshop, in Berlin at the Freies Museum, and in Miami at the NADA Art Fair with ACRE projects. He has co-directed two artist-run spaces, The Hills Esthetic Center and BOYFRIENDS.</p> <p>Michael Lopez is a public school educated, married, Chicago native whose interdisciplinary practice skirts around and sometimes focus directly on lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. I am magical and if you like or own the work I make it magically absolves you of all guilt and replaces it with a feeling of perpetual authenticity and freedom.</p> <p>Liz McCarthy is a Chicago-based artist combining ceramics with other mediums to interrogate material and cultural modes of collective performativity. Her mix of performance, sculpture, and installation have been exhibited at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago; Ghebaly Gallery in Los Angeles; ExGirlfriend in Berlin; and numerous Chicago galleries. Currently she acts as Founding Director of the GnarWare Workshop ceramics school, and is Faculty in Ceramics at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.</p> <p>About the curator:<br /> Erin Nixon is an art worker, writer, and film programmer. Her practice is focused on keeping artist-centered culture sustainable and preserving alternative art histories. She is currently the Development Director of ACRE Residency.</p> <p>About Chicago Art Department:<br /> Chicago Art Department (CAD) provides space and resources for socially minded artists to grow and question the city we live in. CAD accomplishes this mission by providing artists with equitable and accessible opportunities for artistic development through Studio Residencies, Think-Tank Programs, Public Events, and contemporary Exhibitions.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2021/09/this-is-what-we-know-so-far/">This is what we know so far</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://thevisualist.org/2021/09/this-is-what-we-know-so-far/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">126258</post-id> </item> <item> <title>…Is Never Done: Films on Gender and Labor</title> <link>https://thevisualist.org/2019/05/is-never-done-films-on-gender-and-labor/</link> <comments>https://thevisualist.org/2019/05/is-never-done-films-on-gender-and-labor/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hannah McHugh]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2019 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Screening]]></category> <category><![CDATA[...Is Never Done: Films on Gender and Labor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Abigail Child]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Block Museum of Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cristiana Miranda]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Erin Nixon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Evanston]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Janie Geiser]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Josh B Mabe]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thevisualist.org/?p=97266</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Block Cinema welcomes Channels: A Quarterly Film Series, organized by local film programmers Josh B. Mabe and Erin Nixon, to present its newest installment in response to Visual Pleasures: The Work and Play of Women’s Liberation. This program features filmmakers that consider structures of the workplace, gendered labor, and the issues surrounding work and class, including films by Abigail<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2019/05/is-never-done-films-on-gender-and-labor/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p> <p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2019/05/is-never-done-films-on-gender-and-labor/">…Is Never Done: Films on Gender and Labor</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="p1">Block Cinema welcomes <i>Channels: A Quarterly Film Series, </i>organized by local <span class="s1">film programmers Josh B. Mabe and Erin Nixon</span>, to present its newest installment in response to <i>Visual Pleasures: The Work and Play of Women’s Liberation</i>. This program features filmmakers that consider structures of the workplace, gendered labor, and the issues surrounding work and class, including films by Abigail Child, Janie Geiser, Cristiana Miranda, and others. <i>Channels: A Quarterly Film Series </i>presents experimental film, expanded cinema, documentary, installation, and video and new media art to audiences across Chicago.</p> <p class="p1">72 min</p> <p class="p1">2000–2018, digital/16mm/35mm</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2019/05/is-never-done-films-on-gender-and-labor/">…Is Never Done: Films on Gender and Labor</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://thevisualist.org/2019/05/is-never-done-films-on-gender-and-labor/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">97266</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Nightingale 10! Sleepover with Channels: A Quarterly Film Series</title> <link>https://thevisualist.org/2018/04/nightingale-10-sleepover-with-channels-a-quarterly-film-series/</link> <comments>https://thevisualist.org/2018/04/nightingale-10-sleepover-with-channels-a-quarterly-film-series/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Meg Duguid]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2018 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Screening]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Andrew Mausert-Mooney]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chloe Reyes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Erin Nixon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Josh Mabe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Kera MacKenzie]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Madison Brookshire]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nightingale 10!]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sleepover with Channels: A Quarterly Film Series]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Terra Long]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Nightingale]]></category> <category><![CDATA[West Town]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thevisualist.org/?p=80147</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>FREE!!! SLEEPOVER WITH CHANNELS: A QUARTERLY FILM SERIES at 10 PM Channels: A Quarterly Film Series, curated by Erin Nixon and Josh Mabe, presents avant-garde, experimental, expanded cinema, performance, experimental narrative, documentary, and video and new media art at venues throughout Chicago. For our BYOB (Bring Your Own Bedding) microcinema sleepover, Channels will present films<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2018/04/nightingale-10-sleepover-with-channels-a-quarterly-film-series/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p> <p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2018/04/nightingale-10-sleepover-with-channels-a-quarterly-film-series/">Nightingale 10! Sleepover with Channels: A Quarterly Film Series</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>FREE!!!</p> <p>SLEEPOVER WITH CHANNELS: A QUARTERLY FILM SERIES at 10 PM<br /> Channels: A Quarterly Film Series, curated by Erin Nixon and Josh Mabe, presents avant-garde, experimental, expanded cinema, performance, experimental narrative, documentary, and video and new media art at venues throughout Chicago. For our BYOB (Bring Your Own Bedding) microcinema sleepover, Channels will present films and videos by Madison Brookshire, Terra Long, Kera MacKenzie, Andrew Mausert-Mooney, Chloe Reyes, and more!</p> <p>Madison Brookshire: Veils (Part 1); 16mm<br /> Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney: new work; digital<br /> Victoria Ruhe: Shanghai Trippy/Romantic Period/Parental Advisory; digital<br /> Chloe Reyes: New Sun Breathing In; 16mm<br /> Fern Silva: Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder; 16mm<br /> Terra Long: 350 MYA; 16mm</p> <p>Afterwards feel free to settle in for an all-night movie watching slumber party featuring deep cuts from the Nightingale archive and snacks.</p> <p>This screening is part of NIGHTINGALE 10! To celebrate being a part of Chicago’s film and video community for a decade, we are hosting a weekend of screenings and events at our beloved rough and ready cinema.</p> <p> </p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2018/04/nightingale-10-sleepover-with-channels-a-quarterly-film-series/">Nightingale 10! Sleepover with Channels: A Quarterly Film Series</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://thevisualist.org/2018/04/nightingale-10-sleepover-with-channels-a-quarterly-film-series/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">80147</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Accompanied by Image</title> <link>https://thevisualist.org/2014/05/accompanied-by-image/</link> <comments>https://thevisualist.org/2014/05/accompanied-by-image/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Meg Duguid]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2014 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Erin Nixon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fabrice Croize]]></category> <category><![CDATA[High Concept Labs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mana Contemporary]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pilsen]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thevisualist.org/?p=40635</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>High Concept Laboratories is pleased to present Accompanied by Image: An evening of film featuring a screening curated by Erin Nixon and video installation by Fabrice Croizé. Erin Nixon is an art writer and curator living in Chicago. She organizes experimental arts programming, self-publishes, and writes about alternative art histories and autonomous creative projects. She<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2014/05/accompanied-by-image/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p> <p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2014/05/accompanied-by-image/">Accompanied by Image</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>High Concept Laboratories is pleased to present</p> <p>Accompanied by Image: An evening of film featuring a screening curated by Erin Nixon and video installation by Fabrice Croizé.</p> <p>Erin Nixon is an art writer and curator living in Chicago. She organizes experimental arts programming, self-publishes, and writes about alternative art histories and autonomous creative projects. She is a co-curator of Extinct Entities, a project that explores the various histories of Chicago-based art spaces and collectives that no longer exist, and a former co-curator of the alternative exhibition space, Noble & Superior Projects. Erin received her MA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and recently completed the Artistic Associates residency at Links Hall. Her writing has been published by Make: A Literary Magazine and Idiom Magazine and her self-published books are available at local bookstore Quimby’s.</p> <p>Fabrice Croizé is a video installation artist and a photographer based in Paris and Brussels. Calvacreation is an independent platform of<br /> experimentation, reflection and creation cofounded by Croizé and Sabrina MontielSoto. Together they create immersive video installations and performances by confronting new technologies with traditional methods. They question notions of space and vertigo, when reality flips into imaginary perspectives.<br /> www.calvacreation.net</p> <p>Screening Program:</p> <p>Local Ads From Faraway Places<br /> Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney, 2014, Video, 5 min.</p> <p>I Love(Hate) You: Rita, The Blonde Reprise<br /> Kate Raney, 2012, Video, 3 min.</p> <p>They Have a Name for Girls Like Me<br /> Julie Perini, 2008-ongoing, Video, 10 min.</p> <p>Marie<br /> Karen Yasinsky, 2010, Video, 6 min.</p> <p>French Words<br /> Heather Brown, 2013, Super 8 on Video, 3 min.</p> <p>Sleeping Beauty<br /> Amy Lockhart, 2013, Amiga, 1 min.</p> <p>Adult Movie<br /> Jennifer Sullivan, 2011, Video, 25 min.</p> <p>Swimlaps<br /> Daviel Shy, 2011, Super 8, 3 min.</p> <p>Gold Moon, Sharp Arrow<br /> Malic Amalya, 2012, 16mm, 10 min.</p> <p>Tropical Depression<br /> Kelly Sears, 2012, Video, 3 min.</p> <p>Woman Without a Past<br /> Lisa Barcy, 2003, 16mm on Video, 5 min.</p> <p>Apologies<br /> Anne Charlotte Robertson, 1986, Video, 17 min.</p> <p>Oh Happy Day<br /> Emilie Crewe, 2008, Single-Channel SD Video, 6 min.</p> <p>Mouth Blood<br /> Amy Lockhart, 2013, Amiga, 1 min.</p> <p>Total Running Time: 1 hour and 25 minutes</p> <p>Special thanks to Josh Mabe and Lori Felker.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2014/05/accompanied-by-image/">Accompanied by Image</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://thevisualist.org/2014/05/accompanied-by-image/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">40635</post-id> </item> </channel> </rss>