Events
Constellations: Paintings from the MCA Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago, Illinois
July 25, 2009 – October 18, 2009
Constellations: Paintings from the MCA Collection explores various approaches to painting represented in the MCA Collection -- from the 1940s to the present -- that focus on how painting communicates ideas about life and art. On view from July 25 to October 18, 2009, Constellations is arranged in a series of "constellations," or groupings, that are related under the vast universe of painting, that includes works that range from non-objective formalism to figurative representation; and generationally from the Surrealists to emerging artists; with content that represents a myriad of subjects, while highlighting the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago particular strengths in this medium.
Augmented by major works from important private collections, the work of approximately 75 of the most important artists of the last 60 years are featured in this exhibition. Featured Chicago artists include Kerry James Marshall, Judy Ledgerwood, Scott Reeder, Marie Krane Bergman, and Vera Klement.
This exhibition is organized by Julie Rodrigues Widholm, Pamela Alper Associate Curator. A documentary film produced by Rodrigues Widholm shares artists’ responses to the question, “Why paint?” Many of the interviewed artists are part of Constellations including Kerry James Marshall, Judy Ledgerwood, Marie Krane Bergman, and Scott Reeder.
Visit: http://www.mcachicago.org/
One Year, One Year Later
Herron Galleries
Indiana University
Indianapolis, Indiana
March 27, 2009 – April 25, 2009
http://www.herron.iupui.edu/galleries/prest-reese-berkshire/mariebergman
http://www.mariekranebergman/HerronText.html
No End In Sight
Sullivan Galleries
School of The Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
December 13, 2008 – January 10, 2009
Some art is never meant to be completed. From December 13, 2008 to January 10, 2009, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Curatorial Practice students present No End in Sight, a multimedia exhibition that investigates perpetuity in artistic practice.
This exhibition explores works that are perpetual in nature, including works that have an undefined or unreachable endpoint; series composed of multiples the artist is compelled to continue; and projects that incorporate viewer participation as a way to continue regeneration of the piece. Blurring the borders between life and artistic practice, selected artworks provoke the audience to consider art as an ongoing process, as opposed to a static event.
Featured artists approach these ideas with innovative forms and techniques. Each piece goes beyond the here and now, suggesting an art form that endures not through historical canonization, but through active methods of repetition, regeneration, and recognition of the infinite. Collectively, these works encourage the audience to redefine its role from traditional viewer to witness of, or active participant in, the process.
http://www.saic.edu/webspaces/noendinsight/
Four Paintings
Song Song
Vienna, Austria
October 28 – November 23, 2008
http://www.songsong.at/LuncheonMKB.html
Not Just Another Pretty Face
Hyde Park Art Center
Galleries 1 & 2
Chicago, Illinois
OCTOBER 18, 2008 – JANUARY 11, 2009
New work by over 70 artists involved in the Center’s project to bring together artists and patrons.
http://www.hydeparkart.org/exhibitions/2008/10/not_just_another_pretty_face_2.php
EARTH BECOMES YOU
Song Song
Vienna, Austria
JULY 23 – AUGUST 20, 2008
http://www.songsong.at
"What is an Image?"
Co-organized by James Elkins and Gottfried Boehm
Stone Summer Theory Institute
Trustees' Room
Art Institute of Chicago
JULY 14 – JULY 18, 2008
http://www.stonesummertheoryinstitute.org/
Not Fade Away
Curated by John Brunetti
Evanston Arts Center
Evanston, Illinois
JANUARY 7 – FEBRUARY 11, 2007
Opening reception January 7, 1-4 pm
Not Fade Away features the work of five artists who investigate optical and material disintegration. Through meticulous and obsessive paintings, drawings and time-based works these artists call attention to the phenomenon in which the fragmentation of an object reveals more, not less, about itself and the world around it.
http://www.evanstonartcenter.org/exhibitions.html
Figures in the Field
Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago, Illinois
FEBRUARY 4 – APRIL 30, 2006
Today, figurative art has re-emerged with a very strong presence while non-representational abstract painting is less emphasized in the discourse of contemporary art. Figures in the Field is an exhibition that aims to reinvigorate the dialogue between these two different languages and traditional modes of creative production while questioning how they create meaning today.
With works dating from 1960s to the present and based on the MCA Collection, Figures in the Field will include works such as Jeff Koons’s Pink Panther, Matthew Barney’s The Cabinet of Frank Gilmore, Yinka Shonibare’s Alien Obsessives: Mum, Dad and the Kids, Tom Friedman’s Untitled, David Hammons’s Praying to Safety, as well as several important loans from other Chicago collections including figurative sculptures by Maurizio Cattelan, Ron Mueck, Marc Quinn, Stephan Balkenhol, and Charles Ray, among others. These will be interspersed with non-objective paintings by artists such as Jules Olitski, Josef Albers, Ad Reinhardt, Kenneth Noland, Brice Marden, Imi Knoebel, Gary Hume, Gaylen Gerber, Judy Ledgerwood, and paintings by a younger generation of artists including Mark Grotjahn, Carrie Gundersdorf, Marie Krane Bergman, and Rebecca Morris.
-from the MCA’s website
The exhibition is co-curated by Manilow Senior Curator at Large Francesco Bonami and Assistant Curator Julie Rodrigues Widholm.
http://mcachicago.org/exhibitions/exh_detail.php?id=4/
For Real, a Cream Co. production
curated by Bill Brown
Hyde Park Art Center
Chicago, Illinois
JANUARY 29 - MARCH 26, 2006
Opening reception, January 29, 2006, 3-5 pm
The Art Center will begin the year with its final show in the Del Prado building: For Real, proposed by Marie Krane Bergman and curated by Bill Brown. The exhibition will highlight the Center’s many roles as a multi-faceted cultural site, at once bringing the administrative background of the Center into the foreground, and pursuing Chicago’s contemporary aesthetic with works by artists connected with Cream Co., a fluid practice/theory collective of artists and others.
The Art Center will produce a catalogue including essays by Bill Brown, the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago, and by Lawrence Rinder, Dean of Graduate Studies, California College of the Arts.
http://www.hydeparkart.org/exhibitions/2006/04/first_post.php
http://www.creamco.net/4R33L.html
Petal Plucking Party
October 28, 2005
A “Cream Co. creative takeover” for the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
RxART BALL 2005
NOVEMBER 3, 2005
Fifteen esteemed curators each select 5 artists to create small canvases for
the RxArt Ball Auction.
http://www.rxart.net/events/
Photography: Double Exposure
OCTOBER 8, 2005
The Renaissance Society's Annual Benefit Auction
New Turf
JULY 6 – OCTOBER 30, 2005
Fleming Museum
University of Vermont
East Gallery
New Turf upends conventional notions about the means by which we represent the landscape. This exhibition brings together 15 artists who draw inspiration from the rural, urban, and suburban environments around them. The American landscape has long exerted a strong pull on artists. These contemporary artists have distinguished themselves with thought-provoking, abstract works that make use of humor, politics, memory, and perception to evoke the rapidly changing American scene. Featuring works ranging from aerial photographs of environmentally impacted sites and pencil drawings charting the layout of suburban big-box stores to paintings offering rigorous, formal explorations of nature’s light, color, space, and mood, New Turf maps the diverse terrain where landscape and abstraction meet.
Exhibited artists: Anne Appleby, Louise Belcourt, Janice Caswell, Marsha Cottrell, Jane Fine, Tom Fruin, Richard Garrison, John Hudak, McKendree Key, Marie Krane/Cream Co., Sandy Litchfield, David Maisel, Sam Prekop, Lordy Rodriguez, and Gail Salzman.
Information:
http://www.uvm.edu/~fleming/index.php?category=exhibitions&page=newturf
Essay from the exhibition catalog:
http://www.mariekranebergman.com/NewTurf.html