Michelle Wasson – A Sizable Unencumbered Aesthetic Approach
Without doubt, entering the massive studio of Michelle Wasson one will note a sense of ephemeral thoughts in contemplation. An immediate realization of scale is located due to the size of the space, the large works, and her apparent reflective production. Wasson's practice and conceptual approach is fluid, substantial, ...
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Zachary Cahill – Contemplating & In Search of the Divine
With the release of his recent novel, The Black Flame of Paradise, and an invested art practice, Zachary Cahill has located an aesthetic voice that combines thoughtful analysis with an in-studio physicality that clearly reflects the relationary content that defines our current milieu. Though, upon initial encounter with Cahill's ...
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Allison L. Wade – Transformations of Language Into Form
With a background in literature, Allison L. Wade has been carving out a visual vocabulary that references past and present experience while simultaneously establishing a consistent aesthetic vocabulary that explores contemporary tenets of abstraction. This can be seen in her recent exhibitions here in Chicago at Devening Projects, in ...
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Susan Giles – Translating Hand Gestures & Space
Currently, on view at the Chicago Cultural Center is a mammoth work produced by Susan Giles. This piece, "A Large Reference Corral..." is the culmination of extensive research, adept skill in translating precise details at various sizes, unequalled patience, and an ability to realize a vision that extends beyond ...
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Jeff Carter – Functional Formats of Occupying
Currently, Jeff Carter, along with Susan Giles and Faheem Majeed, is presenting works in Tuned Mass at the Chicago Cultural Center through January 6, 2019. Carter's aesthetic practice merges his interest in early 20th c. Modernism with ideas that address our mass consumer culture, polarizing political commentary, and a ...
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Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford – Transient Sculptural Assemblies
Working in terrain that straddles social possibilities and aesthetic innovation, Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford has carved out an uncommon practice that assembles unique methods of collaboration while simultaneously investigating new methods of production and installation. This week the COMP Magazine caught up with Husebos-Spofford at his Mana studio in Pilsen to ...
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Gina Hunt – From the Badlands to Azimuth
Raised in South Dakota, Gina Hunt's aesthetic practice focuses upon ephemeral modes of experience, cerebral and visceral. In addition to traditional formats of presentation, Hunt has expanded her investigation via production of site-specific works in contrasting environments in national parks and urban centers. This week the COMP Magazine caught ...
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Heather Mekkelson – Crepuscular Beam & Other Recent Works
Working through a transitional period in recent years, Heather Mekkelson has found solid footing in raising a family while investigating new modes of looking at and translating contemporary aesthetic perceptions as they relate to empirical and speculative sciences: anthropology, astrophysics, cosmology, myth, and mysticism. This week the COMP Magazine ...
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SaraNoa Mark – A Conversation with Ancient Objects
Residing in a place that initially appears to be from some distant time and place, SaraNoa Mark's contemporary aesthetic practice requires thoughtful observation. Engaged with trying to decipher the invisible activity of time, Mark creates artworks that could easily sit alongside artifacts and tablets created over a millennium ago. ...
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2018 Art & Design Senior Thesis Exhibit
2018 Art & Design Senior Thesis Video & Exhibition
USF Art Gallery
25 East Van Buren
Joliet, IL 60432
Opening reception: Friday, April 27, 2018, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Exhibiting Artists and Designers:
Abdul Abohmoud: presenting a series of graphic works focusing on historical sites in Saudi Arabia
Gloria Allen: created a series of ...
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