<?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>Wendy Greenhouse - The Visualist</title> <atom:link href="https://thevisualist.org/tag/wendy-greenhouse/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>https://thevisualist.org</link> <description>Chicago Visual Arts Calendar</description> <lastBuildDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2019 00:03:39 +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>Wendy Greenhouse - 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>Maggie Taft and Robert Cozzolino: Art in Chicago</title> <link>https://thevisualist.org/2019/01/maggie-taft-and-robert-cozzolino-art-in-chicago/</link> <comments>https://thevisualist.org/2019/01/maggie-taft-and-robert-cozzolino-art-in-chicago/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hannah McHugh]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2019 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Talk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art in Chicago]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hyde Park]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Maggie Taft]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Robert Cozzolino]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Seminary Co-op Bookstores]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Wendy Greenhouse]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thevisualist.org/?p=92231</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>“The most comprehensive treatment of the topic to date… The book conspicuously lacks timelines and keywords, avoiding the encyclopaedic approach of past efforts. At the heart of this new history is instead a compelling story about how artistic identity is formed in the shadows. . . . All of these topics are deeply covered in<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2019/01/maggie-taft-and-robert-cozzolino-art-in-chicago/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p> <p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2019/01/maggie-taft-and-robert-cozzolino-art-in-chicago/">Maggie Taft and Robert Cozzolino: Art in Chicago</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“The most comprehensive treatment of the topic to date… The book conspicuously lacks timelines and keywords, avoiding the encyclopaedic approach of past efforts. At the heart of this new history is instead a compelling story about how artistic identity is formed in the shadows. . . . All of these topics are deeply covered in the book’s excellent essays.” — Art Newspaper</p> <p>Coeditors Maggie Taft and Robert Cozzolino discuss “Art in Chicago: A History from the Fire to Now”. They will be joined in conversation by Wendy Greenhouse. A Q&A and signing will follow the discussion.</p> <p>At the Co-op</p> <p>About the book: “Art in Chicago” is a magisterial account of the long history of Chicago art, from the rupture of the Great Fire in 1871 to the present, Manierre Dawson, László Moholy-Nagy, and Ivan Albright to Chris Ware, Anne Wilson, and Theaster Gates. The first single-volume history of art and artists in Chicago, the book—in recognition of the complexity of the story it tells—doesn’t follow a single continuous trajectory. Rather, it presents an overlapping sequence of interrelated narratives that together tell a full and nuanced, yet wholly accessible history of visual art in the city. From the temptingly blank canvas left by the Fire, we loop back to the 1830s and on up through the 1860s, tracing the beginnings of the city’s institutional and professional art world and community. From there, we travel in chronological order through the decades to the present. Familiar developments—such as the founding of the Art Institute, the Armory Show, and the arrival of the Bauhaus—are given a fresh look, while less well-known aspects of the story, like the contributions of African American artists dating back to the 1860s or the long history of activist art, finally get suitable recognition. The six chapters, each written by an expert in the period, brilliantly mix narrative and image, weaving in oral histories from artists and critics reflecting on their work in the city, and setting new movements and key works in historical context. The final chapter, comprised of interviews and conversations with contemporary artists, brings the story up to the present, offering a look at the vibrant art being created in the city now and addressing ongoing debates about what it means to identify as—or resist identifying as—a Chicago artist today. The result is an unprecedentedly inclusive and rich tapestry, one that reveals Chicago art in all its variety and vigor—and one that will surprise and enlighten even the most dedicated fan of the city’s artistic heritage.</p> <p>About Maggie Taft: Maggie Taft is an independent scholar and founding director of the Haddon Avenue Writing Institute, a community-based writing center for teenage girls. Before establishing the Institute, she earned a PhD in art history from the University of Chicago, where her dissertation “Making Danish Modern, 1945–1960” received the 2015 Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award in the Humanities. From 2014–16 she served as Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry at Washington University in St. Louis. Taft’s writing and reviews have appeared in many magazines and journals including Artforum, The Point, Texte Zur Kunste, Design and Culture, and The Journal of Design History. She is coeditor of “Art in Chicago: From the Fire to Now” (University of Chicago Press, 2018), the first single volume history of art in Chicago from the nineteenth century through the present day. Her book, The Chieftain and the Chair: Danish Design in Postwar America is under contract with the University of Chicago Press.</p> <p>About Robert Cozzolino: Robert Cozzolino is Patrick and Aimee Butler Curator of Paintings at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. He has been called the “curator of the dispossessed” for championing underrepresented artists and uncommon perspectives on well-known artists. At the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia (2004-16) he oversaw more than 30 exhibitions, including retrospectives of George Tooker and Peter Blume, the largest American museum exhibition of David Lynch’s visual art, plus thematic exhibitions such as “World War I and American Art.” He is co-editor of and contributor to “Art in Chicago: A History from the Fire to Now” (University of Chicago Press, 2018) and is curating a major survey of the paranormal in American art from the Salem Witch Trials to U.F.O.s.</p> <p>About Wendy Greenhouse: Wendy Greenhouse is an independent art historian who has written extensively on Chicago’s historical artists and art. At the Chicago History Museum, where she served as curator of paintings and sculpture, she curated the first retrospective exhibition on Archibald J. Motley Jr. In addition to Chapter 1 of “Art in Chicago: A History From the Fire to Now”, Greenhouse’s many publications include the co-authored “Chicago Painting 1895 to 1945: The Bridges Collection” (Illinois State Museum); “Union League Club of Chicago Art Collection”; “Chicago Modern, 1893-1945: Pursuit of the New” (Terra Museum of American Art); and “Art of Illinois”, catalogue for the exhibition currently at the Illinois Governor’s Mansion in Springfield. Greenhouse earned her PhD in the history of art at Yale.</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2019/01/maggie-taft-and-robert-cozzolino-art-in-chicago/">Maggie Taft and Robert Cozzolino: Art in Chicago</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://thevisualist.org/2019/01/maggie-taft-and-robert-cozzolino-art-in-chicago/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">92231</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Expo Chicago Dialogues: Friday, September 28</title> <link>https://thevisualist.org/2018/09/dialogues-friday-september-28/</link> <comments>https://thevisualist.org/2018/09/dialogues-friday-september-28/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Meg Duguid]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2018 05:00:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Talk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Amy Beste]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art Design Chicago]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Artist Brendan Fernandes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[by Jenni Sorkin]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Corinne Granof]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dialogues: Friday September 28]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Erin Hogan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[EXPO CHICAGO 2018]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gerald Williams]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Goldsholl and Associates]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jae Jarrell]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jenni Sorkin]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jennifer Jane Marshall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Judith Kirshner]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Kay Rosen]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lara Allison]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lynne Warren]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Maggie Taft]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mary Patten]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Michael Golec]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Navy Pier]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Near North Side]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rebecca Zorach]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Robert Cozzolino]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sarah Thornton]]></category> <category><![CDATA[School of the Art Institute of Chicago]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Theaster Gates]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Torkwase Dyson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Wadsworth Jarrell]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Wendy Greenhouse]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thevisualist.org/?p=85914</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Presented in partnership with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, /Dialogues offers panel discussions, conversations and provocative artistic discourse with leading artists, curators, designers and arts professionals on the current issues that engage them. ____ 2018 SYMPOSIUM PRESENT HISTORIES: ART & DESIGN IN CHICAGO Presented in alignment with Art Design Chicago and the<a href="https://thevisualist.org/2018/09/dialogues-friday-september-28/" class="read-more">Continue Reading</a></p> <p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2018/09/dialogues-friday-september-28/">Expo Chicago Dialogues: Friday, September 28</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Presented in partnership with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, /Dialogues offers panel discussions, conversations and provocative artistic discourse with leading artists, curators, designers and arts professionals on the current issues that engage them.<br /> ____</p> <p>2018 SYMPOSIUM<br /> PRESENT HISTORIES: ART & DESIGN IN CHICAGO</p> <p>Presented in alignment with Art Design Chicago and the Terra Foundation for American Art, the program will trace select artistic and design legacies produced in the city, spanning from 1968–2018, as well as their impact on the larger social, aesthetic, and cultural movements from the twentieth-century to the present.</p> <p>11:30AM<br /> PERFORMANCE: RÉVÉRENCE</p> <p>12:00PM<br /> BRENDAN FERNANDES | IN CONVERSATION WITH SARAH THORNTON<br /> Initiating the Symposium, Artist Brendan Fernandes (Artist | Monique Meloche Gallery, b. 1979 in Nairobi, Kenya) stages a site-specific iteration of his performative work Révérence (2015), featuring a series of choreographed dancers to both welcome and confront the audience. Using his training in classical ballet, alongside his unique cultural background as a Kenyan-Indian-Canadian, the performance features classically-trained dancers from the Joffrey Academy of Dance, Official School of The Joffrey Ballet to question identity and power dynamics. As the first discussion of the program, author and sociologist of culture Sarah Thornton will interview Fernandes, tracing the impact of his work, as well as the role of performance in his practice, which questions positions of power, control, and ‘queering space.’</p> <p>2:00PM<br /> AFRICOBRA: CHICAGO IN THE AGE OF BLACK POWER<br /> Featuring | Jae Jarrell (Artist, Member of AfriCOBRA), Wadsworth Jarrell (Artist, Member of AfriCOBRA), and Gerald Williams (Artist | Kavi Gupta Gallery, Founding Member of AfriCOBRA).<br /> This panel is presented in alignment with Art Design Chicago exhibitions The Time is Now! Art Worlds of Chicago’s South Side, 1960–1980 at the Smart Museum of Art and The Art and Influence of Dr. Margaret Burroughs at the DuSable Museum of African American History, which focus on artists working in and out of the Black Arts Movement. A solo exhibition of the late member, Barbara Jones Hogu, Resist, Relate, Unite 1968–1975, took place at the DePaul Art Museum earlier this year. An exhibition curated by Williams on the occasion of the fifty-year anniversary of the group, AfriCOBRA 50, is on view at Kavi Gupta Gallery in Chicago to align with EXPO ART WEEK, September 8–November 24, 2018. Followed by a book signing.</p> <p>3:00PM<br /> Book Signing – SOUL OF A NATION: ART IN THE AGE OF BLACK POWER*<br /> Location: /Dialogues Stage</p> <p>4:00PM<br /> ALTERITY AND THE EXHIBITION ENVIRONMENT: FEMINIST HISTORY OF ALTERNATIVE SPACES IN CHICAGO<br /> Panelists | Lynne Warren (Adjunct Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago), Mary Patten (Member, ACT UP; Professor, Film, Video, New Media and Animation and Visual Critical Studies, SAIC), Torkwase Dyson (Artist | Rhona Hoffman Gallery), and Kay Rosen (Artist, former ARC Member). Moderated by Jenni Sorkin (SAIC BFA 1999), Associate Professor, History of Art & Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara.<br /> Alternative spaces are often discussed within the canon of Chicago’s exhibition history. Yet, these spaces also played a parallel role in the activities that defined feminist art and social practice in the city’s scene. In her chapter for the newly launched book Art in Chicago: A History from the Fire to Now, author Jenni Sorkin delivers a survey of communal alternative exhibition spaces from 1973 to 1993 as they built momentum in Chicago alongside the commercial gallery system and during the women’s movement. The panel features Lynne Warren, longtime champion of Chicago’s artists, whose groundbreaking exhibition Alternative Spaces: A History in Chicago (MCA Chicago, 1984) first tracked this history; Mary Patten, one of the founding members of ACT UP, an activist group formed to bring attention to the AIDS crisis; conceptual artist Kay Rosen, a prominent member of the cooperative feminist art gallery Artist Residents of Chicago (ARC, 1973); and Torkwase Dyson, an interdisciplinary artist whose projects such as tiny studio have examined a nomadic practice that generates both environmental interdependency and solitude. This conversation will trace the histories and roles of feminism in Chicago’s alternative spaces from the 1970s to the present.</p> <p>5:00PM<br /> BOOK LAUNCH | ART IN CHICAGO: A HISTORY FROM THE FIRE TO NOW*<br /> Edited by Maggie Taft and Robert Cozzolino (Judith Kirshner, Consulting Editor and Erin Hogan, Sidebars Editor). Chapter Authors: Wendy Greenhouse, Jennifer Jane Marshall, Maggie Taft, Robert Cozzolino, Rebecca Zorach and Jenni Sorkin.</p> <p>SCREENING | DESIGNERS IN FILM: A GLIMPSE INTO THE GOLDSHOLL ARCHIVE<br /> A screening of select films and reels produced by Goldsholl and Associates—whose films, television ads and other moving image work innovated “designs-in-film”—will be on view at the /Dialogues Stage, as an interlude to the final conversation in the Symposium on Chicago’s Mid-Century impact on the advertising and commercial industry at large.</p> <p>5:30PM<br /> MAKING THE MODERN IMAGE: MID-CENTURY COMMERCIAL INDUSTRY IN CHICAGO<br /> Panelists | Theaster Gates (Artist | Rebuild Foundation), Corinne Granof (Curator of Academic Programs, Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University) and Amy Beste (Director of Public Programs, Department of Film, Video New Media and Animation, SAIC), and Lara Allison (Lecturer, Art History, Theory and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago). Moderated by Michael Golec (Associate Professor, Art History, Theory and Criticism, SAIC).<br /> Through recent exhibitions that relate the advertising and commercial publications industries to the context of contemporary art, this discussion will trace Chicago’s contribution to the glossy image that defined the Mid-Century aesthetic. Tracing the political, social, and cultural impact of these design philosophies, this panel will look at the national impact of firms and companies whose work pushed industry boundaries through avant-garde approaches. Under what conditions did these methods co-exist within the Mid-Century moment? Featuring Theaster Gates, whose recent exhibition A Johnson Publishing Story at the Rebuild Foundation explores the enduring role of Ebony Magazine and Jet Magazine in defining and popularizing a black aesthetic and identity around the globe; Corinne Granof and Amy Beste on the work of Goldsholl and Associates, whose films, television ads, and other moving image work innovated “designs-in-film” influenced by László Moholy-Nagy and the Bauhaus approach; and historian Lara Allison, speaking on the seminal legacy of the Great Ideas campaign by the Container Corporation from 1950–80. This discussion, moderated by Michael Golec, will examine the many contributions of Chicago’s enduring impact on a national and international aesthetic.</p> <p>____</p> <p>Image: Work by Gerald Williams, courtesy of Kavi Gupta Gallery</p><p>The post <a href="https://thevisualist.org/2018/09/dialogues-friday-september-28/">Expo Chicago Dialogues: Friday, September 28</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thevisualist.org">The Visualist</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://thevisualist.org/2018/09/dialogues-friday-september-28/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">85914</post-id> </item> </channel> </rss>