More information about Tiffany Funk can be found at www.tiffanyannfunk.com
FAITH MADE questions the surface manifestations of those things deep within us, how ritual, tradition, and objects endowed with magical properties have the power to console, motivate and mystify our lives.
Faith Made examines the balancing act that takes place between the rational and emotive faculties, between the desire for the consolation that belief provides and the need to question accepted narratives. As William James observed in his lecture on “The Reality of the Unseen”, “our impulsive belief is here always what sets up the original body of truth, and our articulately verbalized philosophy is but its showy translation into formulas. The unreasoned and immediate assurance is the deep thing in us; the reasoned argument is but a surface exhibition. Instinct leads, intelligence does but follow.”
Though the three artists in Faith Made begin from a place of personal narrative, the resulting work is evidence of a variety of different approaches that attend to notions of family, faith, sentimentality, and the esoteric. The works presented here originate from a place of hope as much as from one of cynicism.
Adam Farcus’ Penny Hex creates a spiritual seal on viewers which grants them the luck of hundreds of lucky pennies, while Entry challenges the mystical power that we give to such objects and rituals. It’s Just Meant To Be, a film installation by Michael Morris, presents an incantatory collection of platitudes that fail to provide solace at the loss of a loved one. In other works such as Blue Movie and Wheel and Axle Machine, Morris addresses the technologies that preserve some part of a person: their body, their voice, or their gaze. Allison Trumbo’s video installation, which includes both Visualization Exercises That Work Like Magic and Creating Abundance in 10 Minutes Flat, parallel personal and media induced visions of romance and spirituality with the crudeness of superficiality perpetuated by pop culture.
ALLISON TRUMBO is a violin teacher and co-director of a music school on the north side of Chicago. Her work is often prompted by her experience as a nurturing motivator accompanied by the childlike fantasies that are often required to inspire her classes.
ADAM FARCUS is a Chicago (soon to be Baltimore) based artist, writer, and teacher. Through subjects such as death, joy, poetry, identity, and belief, his work elevates the banal to unexpected heights while simultaneously placing the magical in an accessible, even common, realm.
MICHAEL A. MORRIS is an artist and educator based in Dallas, Texas. His works in film, video, installation, and performance draw on personal narratives and experience to explore the implications of recording technologies for belief, interpretation, and perception.
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.
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.
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
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.
More information about Olivia Valentine can be found at www.oliviavalentine.net
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
new works by ANGELA JERARDI + SAMANTHA REHARK
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.
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
