“Full Body Support” Exhibition
Songs For Presidents
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Songs for Presidents presents Full Body Support, new work by two artists who share interests in the everyday: communication failures, background television, lingering perfume, and what it means to give yourself away.
At first glance, Annie Bielski’s paintings are a mess. Densely packed compositions are barely contained on canvases that will never be big enough. Yet as one begins to peel away at the layers, familiar forms begin to emerge. The surfaces feel like a battleground of disparate shapes and colors, with swaths of sloppy black paint redacting confessions and tempering the fervor. Each canvas is evidence of a process of learning oneself. Bielski has recently turned to performance and writing to articulate the absurd, stretching banal moments of the contemporary time into a repetitive process that gently prods us to face ourselves.
Ben Regozin works primarily in sculpture and painting. His sculptures are often loose imitations of recognizable forms. Fussy details are washed away to leave objects coded by the absence of certain characteristics and a melancholic tone. The latent potential in these objects leaves one in a state of unsettling anticipation. Regozin’s sculptures do not ask you to read between the lines, because they are continuously giving themselves away through the simplicity of their form, with all of the artist’s decisions laid bare to be considered. His recent works are characterized by subtlety and surface.
Annie Bielski (b 1990 Toledo, OH) received a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012. Recent group exhibitions include Basilica Hudson’s Back Gallery in Hudson, NY; 99 Cent Plus Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, and Lodos Contemporañeo in Mexico City, MX. She has performed at Still//Life at Back Gallery in Hudson, NY and on stage with musician Jenny Hval during US and EU Apocalypse, girl tours. She is based in Hudson, NY.
Ben Regozin (b. 1988, NY) and received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. He currently lives and works in Chicago, IL. His interdisciplinary practice includes sculpture, painting, and video. He has most recently exhibited at Alcatraz and Hume Gallery, both in Chicago.
Tara Plath (b. 1990, Lowell MA) is an artist and writer currently living in Brooklyn, NY. She received a BFA in sculpture and BA in Visual and Critical Studies in 2013 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a contributing writer to Expo Chicago’s online journal of contemporary and modern art, THE SEEN.
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Schedule
from July 31, 2015 to August 11, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-07-31 from 19:00 to 21:00