Antena and Polvo @ Hyde Park Arts Center
Antena artists:
Sebastian Alvarez
Georgina Valverde
Polvo artists:
Juan Compean
Elvia Rodriguez-Ochoa
Tracy Rose
Artists Run Chicago
May 10 – July 5, 2009
Exhibition Reception:
Sunday, May 10, 3 – 5pm
Gallery 1
Gallery Hours:
Monday – Thursday: 10am – 8pm
Friday – Saturday: 10am – 5pm
Sunday: 12pm – 5pm
The Hyde Park Art Center will feature Artists Run Chicago, an exhibition showcasing the energy and audacity of some of the most noteworthy artist-run spaces that have influenced the Chicago contemporary art scene over the past decade on view from May 10 – July 5, 2009 in Gallery 1. Chicago has long been known for cultivating a strong entrepreneurial/Do-It-Yourself spirit in business and the arts. The participating artist-run venues have transformed storefronts, sheds, apartments, lofts, industrial spaces, garages and roving spaces into contemporary art galleries testing the notion of exhibition while complicating the definition of art. Coinciding with the Hyde Park Art Center’s 70th anniversary, Artists Run Chicago reconnects the Art Center to its beginnings as an artist-run space by bringing much deserved attention to those outstanding spaces that continue to reinvent the mold unique to Chicago.
Artists Run Chicago will include installations, performances, video, art objects and ephemera provided by artist-run galleries both currently in operation and those dearly departed. Venues include:
1/Quarterly
65 GRAND
Alogon
Antena
artLedge
Butchershop
Co-Prosperity
Dan Devening
Deluxe Projects
Fraction Workspace
Fucking Good Art (FGA)
Green Lantern
He Said-She Said
Hungry Man
Joymore
Julius Caesar
Law Office
LiveBox
Margin
Medicine Cabinet/Second Bedroom Project Space
Mini Dutch
Modest Contemporary Art Projects
NFA Space
Normal Projects
Old Gold
Polvo
Roots & Culture
Scott Projects
Standard
Suitable
Swimming Pool Projects
Teti
VONZWECK
and many more.
This exhibition is curated by Britton Bertran and Allison Peters Quinn with assistance from Jacob C. Hammes and Francesca Wilmott.
A program of events related to the exhibition will coincide with the Hyde Park Art Center’s 70 Days for 70 Years programming series commemorating the Art Center’s anniversary. Programs will range from tours to artist-run spaces, panel discussions and public performances to reenactments of memorable happenings from the participating galleries. In addition to the exhibition and events, the Center plans to build and house a permanent and public archive documenting Chicago’s past and present artist run spaces through the gathering of materials for Artists Run Chicago. A publication documenting the exhibition will be produced by Threewalls/Green Lantern Press.
Artists Run Chicago will be on view from May 10 – July 5, 2009 at the Hyde Park Art Center, 5020 South Cornell Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60615; 773.324.5520 and www.hydeparkart.org. Exhibitions are always free and open to the public. Advertising and publicity for Artists Run Chicago is sponsored by Proximity Magazine.
The Hyde Park Art Center is a not-for-profit organization that presents innovative exhibitions, primarily work by Chicago-area artists, and educational programs in the visual arts for children and adults of diverse backgrounds. The Center is funded in part by the Alphawood Foundation; The Chicago Community Trust; a City Arts III grant from the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and the Illinois Arts Council; The Lloyd A. Fry Foundation; The Leo S. Guthman Fund; The Irving Harris Foundation; The Illinois Arts Council, a state agency; The Joyce Foundation; JPMorgan Chase Foundation; The Mayer & Morris Kaplan Family Foundation; The MacArthur Foundation; The MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture at Prince; The Orbit Fund; Polk Bros. Foundation; The Clinton Family Fund; The Sara Lee Foundation; South East Chicago Commission; The Wallace Foundation; and the generosity of its members and friends.
Hyde Park Art Center
5020 South Cornell Avenue
Chicago, IL 60615
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"Antena" is a new project space headed by Miguel Cortez of Polvo and located in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood. The spanish word "Antena" means a device that is a transducer designed to transmit or receive electromagnetic waves but in this case it is meant to define it as a cultural space that transmits/broadcasts symbolically art ideas, new media and installation projects on a local and global scale.
"Polvo" was an alternative space run by Miguel Cortez, Elvia Rodriguez-Ochoa and Jesus Macarena-Avila. Polvo's history included organizing artistic and cultural venues with Chicago/Pilsen-based community spaces. In addition to venues, Polvo generated a magazine in 1996 focused on arts and culture followed by an online website that initiated an international array of visual artists, writers, and cultural critics. The Polvo space existed on and off from 1998-2007.
Sebastian Alvarez
What would you say if the Earth could hear you? (2009)
Sebastian Alvarez
A single channel video installation.
Variable dimentions.
A group of individuals talks to their relatives and close ones with their heads under a pile of soil. Once under the pile, they were asked to think of someone they needed to apologize to, or confess regret about something they did wrongly. The title of the piece was only mentioned to the volunteers after they delivered their message. In this video, the volunteers speak in their original languages without subtitles, and the translation is only provided on a physical text.
Georgina Valverde
Self-avoidance, 2009
Georgina Valverde
VHS tape, cement, wood, plastic and paint
60" x 60"
Georgina Valverde uses sewing, embroidery, crocheting, video, photography, drawing, and objects and materials from daily life to create seductive minimal structures and installations.
Self-avoidance explores the role of technology in constructing memory and our sense of self. A VHS tape crocheted into a single chain is displayed as a self-avoiding walk (SAW), a mathematical model where a path never visits the same site more than once. By analogy, lived experience is also impossible to revisit even with the aid of technology. Crocheting VHS tape alludes to planned obsolescence and meditates on our obsession with recording memory even in the face of inadequate technologies.
Juan and Ricardo Compean
Immigration World Cup
Juan and Ricardo Compean
Mixed Media (foosball table)
2008
dimension (inches). 35"H x 31"W x 56"L
The IMMIGRATION WORLD CUP PROJECT was originally created for the "Declaration of Immigration" group exhibit at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago. It continues to serve as an unbiased and engaging look at the immigration debate in America today. This customized foosball features hand painted images of US and Mexican national icons in a heated battle over immigration. It also includes 26 handmade foosball figures which represent the many voices heard throughout the debate.
Elvia Rodriguez-Ochoa
Meditations on Faith
Elvia Rodriguez-Ochoa
Mixed media puppets
2005-2008
Tracey Rose
The Prelude The Gardenpath
Tracey Rose
DVD video, performance, 2003
Tracey Rose's work reflects on the cultural, economic and political differences that mark the world today, along with identity-related and ethnic issues. Rose graduated from the Fine Arts Department from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Her career as an artist started at that moment, with a series of exhibitions that included the Johannesburg Biennial (1997) and most recently, her work has been included in the critically acclaimed exhibit, "Africa Remixed" travelling in museum venues around the globe.
