“Laughing as a Young Man: New Art from Chicago” Exhibition
Southfirst
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Timothy Bergstrom: “My works compress, shift, and mix several visual languages with the aim of creating a sense of discord.” Samantha Bittman: “My paintings follow a predetermined set of guidelines dictating color, pattern, and texture in order to explore the relationship between structure and image. Zebra 1 and Zebra 2 are on stretched her own hand-woven cloth. A balance of play and logic becomes evident as underlying texture and form melds with a rational but imperfect overlay of painted areas. This subtle juxtaposition often gives way to an optical buzz that breaks down upon close inspection, making perception elusive and fully dependent on the viewer's physical proximity to the work.” Jonathan Gardner: “Most of what I paint is culled from memory, or invented as I go along. The characters are often vague self-portraits and fantasy figures, which develop meaning and build a kind of narrative. The entire work comes to represent an idea, a problem, a dilemma, or just a poetic notion, which bears weight for me. The end result could be a portrait of a metaphysical character, or an investigation into human behavior, culture, and social stereotypes.” Fatima Haider: “Consider the difference between ‘looking’ and ‘staring.’ A look is (at least, in part) voluntary; it is also mobile, rising and falling in intensity as its foci of interest are taken up and then exhausted. A stare has, essentially, the character of a compulsion; it is steady, unmodulated, ‘fixed.’ Jang Soon Im: “The world is always at war. This war is not to be won, but is war for its own sake. No start, no end. It is a performance.”
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Schedule
from September 17, 2010 to October 18, 2010