ACRE

5/20: HOW THINGS STAND // new works by JANINE BIUNNO

theacreproject — Mon, 14 May 2012 17:27:43 +0000

HOW THINGS STAND

new works by JANINE BIUNNO

MAY 20-21, 2012

Opening Reception: Sunday, May 20, 4-8pm

Open Hours: Monday, May 21, noon-4pm

ACRE Projects

1913 W 17th Street, Chicago 60608

HOW THINGS STAND
Janine Biunno’s body of work exhibited in How Things Stand is visually informed by the continual gathering of images, both via photographing her daily commute across New York City and by simultaneously searching the internet for existing imagery of the same spaces. These reference images, equal parts original and digitally sourced, investigate the relationship between representation and interpretation in the built environment. As an artist Biunno is primarily interested in the often overlooked in-between spaces and physical boundaries of the structures that comprise cities. The work presented here is a distillation of the dense visual information of urban space. How Things Stand includes thirty Constructivist-inspired paper cutouts and an accompanying take-away zine of a selection of the reference materials, intended to provide context to the minimalist works.

JANINE BIUNNO is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work typically interprets the subjective view of the city dweller, addressing how the architecture and infrastructure found in the cities we inhabit function as signifiers for location, identity and economy. Janine earned her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / Tufts University and BFA from Carnegie Mellon University. She currently works for architect Steven Holl, as the Director of Publications.

More info about Janine Biunno can be found at www.janinebiunno.com

5/13: CROSSING SPACE // new works by EUNHYEA CHOI

theacreproject — Mon, 07 May 2012 17:17:51 +0000

CROSSING SPACE

new works by EUNHYEA CHOI

MAY 13-14, 2012

Opening Reception: Sunday, May 13, 4-8pm

Open Hours: Monday, May 14, noon-4pm

ACRE Projects

1913 W 17th Street, Chicago 60608

CROSSING SPACE

Eunhyea Choi’s work is conducted within the frame of internal abstraction, perception of light and ephemeral visions, expressed through drawings, paintings, and installations involving light. This imaginative and emotional flow allows Choi to feel the consensual movement between space, time, and light to draw out vague outlines of unseen existences. Lights merge with one another, move, and dissolve within a fluid space. Through these various transformation stages, visual illusions expand their spheres and meanings by making connections with new spaces. Through these connections informed by the fragments of life, she is striving to create works that could be overlapped with endless imagination and numerous interpretations.

Crossing Space 2012 oil on shaped canvas,mixed media on wall size variable

EUNHYEA CHOI is an artist based out of Seoul, Korea. She received her MFA in 2010 from Ewha Womans University. Since then has shown around the world including Blank Space in Chelsea, NY, Tohoku University of Art & Design, Yamagata, Japan, Seoul Museum of Art and an upcoming exhibition at Forman’s Smokehouse Gallery in London, England.

More information about Eunhyea Choi can be found at www.choieunhyea.com

5/12: 1:1// new works by OLIVIA VALENTINE @ HAPPY COLLABORATIONISTS

theacreproject — Mon, 07 May 2012 17:12:15 +0000

1:1
new work by OLIVIA VALENTINE
May 12-26, 2012

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 12, 6-10PM
Open Hours: by appointment

Happy Collaborationists Exhibition Space
1254 N Noble St

1:1
Olivia Valentine creates relationships between textile and architectural structures. Often working in site-specific installation using methods such as photography, drawing and textile construction, her work addresses the threshold spaces in both buildings and textiles. Recently these have taken the form of 1:1 scale lace windows.

This exhibition will feature a new site specific installation, 1254 N Noble (Constructed Orthographic Drawing in Blue), as well as a series of recent small scale works entitled Field Edgings, that emerged from a series of photographs taken at the ACRE Residency in 2011.

1254 N Noble (Constructed Orthographic Drawing in Blue), Process View, 2012.

OLIVIA VALENTINE is a Chicago based artist. Her architectural scale textile installations have been shown both nationally and internationally. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. She will be travelling to Turkey this fall as a Fulbright Fellow.

More information about Olivia Valentine can be found at www.oliviavalentine.net

5/6: COOKBOOK SHUFFLE @ ACRE Projects

theacreproject — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:15:34 +0000

COOKBOOK SHUFFLE
A party to celebrate the release of

KADABRA VOL II
Sunday, May 6, 1-5pm

ACRE Projects
1913 W 17th Street

ACRE’s COOKBOOK SHUFFLE will be an afternoon of treats and libations featuring performances and happenings to celebrate the release of Kadabra Vol II. Donate $5 to feast on a buffet prepared by the ACRE kitchen witches or just feast your eyes on our new collection of recipes and artwork out of the ACRE kitchen. Performances include an experimental operatic violin and voice conversation between Meg Leary and Allison Trumbo, the synchronized dances and theatrical anger of Forced into Femininity, and a quiet set from the always dramatic electro-dance group Xina Xurner.

KADABRA VOL II pairs delectable recipes from the ACRE kitchen with artists’ renditions of those recipes in a set of 25 cards packaged in a limited edition screen-printed tea towel designed by Ciara Ruffino. Contributing artists include: Zacharias Abubeker, Caitlin Arnold, Matt Austin, Becca Brown, Emily Clayton, Caleb Cole, Ben Driggs, Emily Green, James Green, Maggie Haas, Ashley Hudson, Matthew Lane, Bryan Lear, David Moré, Kristina Paabus, Joseph Rynkiewicz, Erin Washington, and Nicholas Wylie. Plus some extra special entries from 2011 visiting artists Selena Abbott & Ariel Diamond, Jenny Kendler, Lora Lode, and Courtney Nulicek. Compiled and edited with love and care by ACRE chefs Melissa Damasauskas and Rachel Ettling.

4/29: ACRE Scholarship Fundraiser / After Party!

theacreproject — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:17:38 +0000

Come hang out at Simone’s after this week’s ACRE show! 20% of bar sales will be donated to ACRE’s scholarship fund for incoming 2012 residents. Have a drink and help an emerging artist be able to attend the summer residency program.

Simone’s Bar
960 W 18th Street
8-11PM

4/29: PUER AETERNUS // new work by TODD KING & NICHOLAS WYLIE

theacreproject — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:15:23 +0000

PUER AETERNUS

new works by TODD KING and NICHOLAS WYLIE

APRIL 29-30, 2012

Opening Reception: Sunday, April 29, 4-8pm

Open Hours: Monday, April 30, noon-4pm

ACRE Projects

1913 W 17th Street, Chicago 60608

PUER AETURNUS

Growing up gay is clearly different, in a lot of ways, from growing up straight. Sometimes, though, those differences aren’t always as clear. One notion is that queer kids put off their adolescences until later in life than their straight counterparts. While dated, this idea is still one that many identify with. However, it’s not always easy to understand the often surprising implications of this anomolous developmental calendar. Wylie and King, who both grew up gay, will exhibit new work that explores their experiences with postponed adolescence. The third of ACRE’s series of 2012 staff shows, Puer Aeternus promises to be a little juvenile and a little queer.

Todd’s new suite of 2D fiber work abstractly reflects stories of his first girlfriend’s tongue, the anxiety of surname transmission and other (mildly traumatic) character-defining moments in his early history. In a sense, he views these stories as a celebration; because without each tiny piece, the entire infrastructure would surely crumble.

Nick employs less subtle references in drawings, video and sculpture to the historical and fictional heroes of his adolescence, and whines about the dearth of their real-world counterparts. He worries about 15th century anticipations of enlightenment in Dürer’s Nuremberg, and the similarly paradigmatically tenuous 1st century Ephesus. He finds in comic books exclamations that echo his saudade for metanarative. All this to say: he is afraid to jettison the vestiges of Christian, Trotskyist and Mutant confederations of his teen years.

Top: Supermen Prefigured: Dürer’s Solid, design rendering, Nicholas Wylie, Kyle Cronan + Phillip Kaufman, 2012

Bottom: How Dramatic, cut thread in frame, Todd King, 2012

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TODD KING received his BFA from Miami University in 2008 with a double major in graphic design and printmaking. He currently works full-time as a designer for Leo Burnett, and as ACRE’s head designer.

More information about Todd King can be found at toddallthetime.com.

NICHOLAS WYLIE received his BFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 2004 and MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2010. He co-founded Harold Arts, a Chicago-based non-profit arts organization centered around a residency program in rural Ohio in 2006, and was its co-director until 2009. He co-founded ACRE in early 2010, and currently serves as one of its two executive directors. For a day job, he currently works as artist Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle’s studio manager.

Deadline Extended for 2012 Applications!

theacreproject — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:32:59 +0000

Exciting news for those interested in applying to ACRE’s 2012 Residency Program:
You now have two extra days to get those applications in!

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO APRIL 22

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More news about this year’s residency:

Admissions Panel announced
This year we have decided to take the blindfold off our admissions panel, so those reviewing applications will know whose work they are looking at. This means that just by applying you’ll get your work in front of the eyes of esteemed artists and curators from around the country including: Tricia Van Eck, Jenny Kendler, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Greg Stimac, Duncan MacKenzie, Jan Tichy, Annika Marie, Steve Wetzel, Sarah Workneh, Jason Lazarus, Paul Erschen, Mikale De Graff, Abigail Satinsky, Carole Francis Lung, Thad Kellstadt, Diana Berek, Lora Lode, Kevin Kaempf, Benjamin Funke, and more.

Visiting Artists
Each summer we invite a slew of established artists, critics and curators to take part in the residency programming. Leading workshops, giving lectures, and instigating projects of all sorts, these artists offer a resource to new and emerging artists through studio visits and engagement with the residency community, forming relationships often lasting beyond the residency experience itself.

We are pleased to announce a number of artists who are confirmed to be participating in the residency program this year. Stay tuned to the news section of our website as more artists are announced.

Duncan MacKenzie

Industry of the Ordinary

Jason Lazarus

Irena Knezevic

Sarah and Joseph Belknap

Steve Wetzel

Claire Ashley

4/22: SET THEORY // new work by ANGELA JERARDI & SAMANTHA REHARK

theacreproject — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:52:13 +0000

SET THEORY
new works by ANGELA JERARDI + SAMANTHA REHARK

Opening Reception: Sunday, April 22, 4-8pm

ACRE Projects

1913 W 17th Street, Chicago 60608

SET THEORY
Week of Depth (Scorpio II) & Week of the Loner (Pisces II)

A highly seductive combination, and not just physically. Bringing out their partners’ most determined sides enables them to achieve together what they might not achieve alone. Trine to each other on the zodiac calendar suggests an easy and sensuous orientation. Relationships in this combination are oftentimes very tightly knit. In some ways, in fact, they are indissoluble, since their watery nature is already so fluid. Colleagues in this combination work side by side for years in relative harmony, with a steady output and little fuss.

Strengths: Responsible, fluid, goal-oriented

Weaknesses: Distractive, secretive, procrastinating

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ANGELA JERARDI (Scorpio II) is an independent curator and artist currently based in Philadelphia. From 2008 to 2011 she held the position of director and co-collaborator of FLUXspace, a non-profit alternative art space and collective creative endeavor. Angela studied Cultural Anthropology and Art History at Earlham College. Prior to joining FLUXspace, she worked with arts organizations and institutions including the Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD, and Transformer, Washington, DC. Recent projects with FLUXspace include Mia Feuer: Displacement(2009), No Soul for Sale at the X Initiative, NYC (2010), and at the TATE Modern, London, UK (2011), and Kat Culchur (2011). Angela will be attending the de Appel Curatorial Programme in Amsterdam this Fall.

More information about Angela Jerardi can be found at www.thefluxspace.org

SAMANTHA REHARK (Pisces II) lives and works both on the road and in Ohio. Her current works explore subconscious obsession and its effect as a habitual mode of self-therapy. In addition to her role as a member of the keyboard kid-pop group THREESOME, Sam leads a series of informatively fun events forEmerging Artists Columbus through ROYGBIV Gallery, and is one half of the self-publishing team NO SKY Publications.

More information about Samantha Rehark can be found at samantharehark.com

4/21: SPATIAL REASONING // new work by Alan & Michael Fleming

theacreproject — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:49:06 +0000

SPATIAL REASONING
new work by ALAN + MICHAEL FLEMING
April 21- May 5, 2012

Opening Reception: Saturday, April 21, 6-10PM
Open Hours: by appointment

Happy Collaborationists Exhibition Space
1254 N Noble St

Scale, 2012, C-print

SPATIAL REASONING

This exhibition will include new photography and video work made by the Fleming brothers over the past year. Being shown for the first time in the United States, one of the central works on display for this exhibition is a video shot on location in Denmark. Returning to their embodied practice of relating to architectural spaces, the artists present us with a unique glimpse of various engagements with buildings and sites around Copenhagen. As an international hub for architecture and design, the city provides a dynamic backdrop for the Flemings’ performative interventions.

ALAN + MICHAEL FLEMING are twin brothers who have been making art together over the past 7 years. They attended graduate school as a collaborative and each received an MFA in Studio from the Performance Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2010. Their work ranges from performance, to video, to sculpture. Their recent solo exhibition, GAME ON, at threewalls presented a poignant and humorous body of work that the artists made while living apartfor a year. In 2012 they were selected for the Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) Program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts and as a result their work will be included in the 2013 Bronx Biennial. Currently, they are both based in Brooklyn.

More information about Alan + Michael Fleming can be found at: www.spatialinterventions.com

4/15: BOYS’ LIFE // new works by ADAM BLUMBERG

theacreproject — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:41:04 +0000

BOYS’ LIFE
new works by ADAM BLUMBERG
APRIL 15-16, 2012

Opening Reception: Sunday, April 15, 4-8pm
Open Hours: Monday April 16, noon-4pm

ACRE Projects
1913 W 17th Street, Chicago 60608

Untitled, Archival Ink Jet Print, 2011

BOYS’ LIFE brings together photographs, sculptures and found and ephemeral objects that reflect on personal memories and popular culture to explore and examine perceptions of masculinity and cultural archetypes. Pragmatic images and symbols extol and critically articulate various iterations of masculinity in the American middle class. With a muted gaze that guiltily but inevitably verges on exploitation, these images and objects strive to retain evidence of Blumberg’s shared cultural heritage and participation in the events in and around the works while also addressing how the subjects view each other. Created with a playful spirit, the works serve as a commentary and celebration of American leisure in the language of popular culture and working class signifiers.

ADAM BLUMBERG (b. 1978, lives Philadelphia) – Raised amongst the horseradish fields and abandoned coal mines of a rural St. Louis suburb, Adam Blumberg is an avid baseball fan and enjoys collecting smashed pennies. He earned an MFA from ICP-Bard in 2007 and a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2002. From 2004 to 2005, Adam participated in the Research Program at the Center for Contemporary Art in Kitakyushu, Japan. His work has been exhibited in England, Germany and Japan in addition to the United States, including recent exhibitions at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA and Unit B Gallery, San Antonio, TX. He is currently curating an upcoming exhibition at Storage Gallery, Philadelphia for the summer 2012.

ACRE

5/20: HOW THINGS STAND // new works by JANINE BIUNNO

5/13: CROSSING SPACE // new works by EUNHYEA CHOI

5/12: 1:1// new works by OLIVIA VALENTINE @ HAPPY COLLABORATIONISTS

5/6: COOKBOOK SHUFFLE @ ACRE Projects

4/29: ACRE Scholarship Fundraiser / After Party!

4/29: PUER AETERNUS // new work by TODD KING & NICHOLAS WYLIE

Deadline Extended for 2012 Applications!

Exciting news for those interested in applying to ACRE’s 2012 Residency Program: You now have two extra days to get those applications in!

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO APRIL 22

4/22: SET THEORY // new work by ANGELA JERARDI & SAMANTHA REHARK

4/21: SPATIAL REASONING // new work by Alan & Michael Fleming

4/15: BOYS’ LIFE // new works by ADAM BLUMBERG

Exciting news for those interested in applying to ACRE’s 2012 Residency Program:
You now have two extra days to get those applications in!