Chris Ware "Building Stories"

Adam Baumgold Gallery (60 E 66th St.)

poster for Chris Ware "Building Stories"

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Adam Baumgold Gallery and Carl Hammer Gallery (Chicago) present an exhibition of 126 drawings by Chris Ware to coincide with the release of his new book "Building Stories" (Pantheon). Over ten years in the making, several of the drawings from this series were first published in the New York Times Sunday Magazine and The New Yorker. "Building Stories" takes its final form as 14 discrete books and booklets collected in a printed box. The result is something utterly unique-part graphic novel, part sculpture, and part mobius strip.

In these drawings, Chris Ware imagines the inhabitants of a three-story Chicago apartment building: a 30-something woman who has yet to find someone with whom to spend the rest of her life; a couple, possibly married, who wonder if they can bear each other's company another minute; and the building's landlady, an elderly woman who has lived alone for decades. Each drawing details the inner life of these neighbors; their thoughts, ambitions, daydreams, second guesses, and real life interactions are scrutinized and in some cases amplified into seemingly monumental events. In his drawings, Ware "speeds and slows time, stops it, and can even seem to run it backward, revisiting and revising recent events, or sideways, incorporating alternative accounts of what's happening. All this is done with utmost precision." For the exhibition, Ware is also producing a special edition of prints that can be assembled to make a model of the building. This will be Chris Ware's fourth solo exhibition at the gallery.

[Image: Chris Ware "Double-sided Exhibition Poster (front)" (2012) 28 x 18.25 in.]

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Schedule

from September 08, 2012 to October 27, 2012

Opening Reception on 2012-09-08 from 17:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Chris Ware

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