2009-2010 Calendar
August 9 – September 15, 2012
And Then She's Like/ And He Goes
Curated by Chris Campe
September 6th, 5-8 pm, Closing Reception and ColumbiaCrawl, a campus-wide evening of visual and performing arts.
6 pm: Gallery talk with the artists followed by a performance of The Wilhelm Scream by Jeff Kolar.
Someone is telling us that she said something and he answered—what we don’t know. What we do know: there are at least three people involved here: she, he, and the person telling us about their conversation. And actually, we are involved, too. It is up to us, the audience, to speculate what she said and he replied, or what she inquired and how he responded, or what she threw at him and what he retorted. Even though the content of the dialog is left out its colloquial language evokes distinct voices in our head and entices us to imagine what is going on.
The exhibition And Then She’s Like, And He Goes combines text-based visual art with language-based sound art to highlight the works’ multi-sensory appeal as a mode of storytelling. Seeing and reading text in an artwork involves hearing, even if only inside the viewers head, and listening to spoken words and sound involuntarily brings images to the mind‘s eye, even when the language is not straightforwardly descriptive. The artists examine these audible qualities of image-text and the visual potential of language and sound. Intertwining documentation and fabulation they give us audio/visual bits and pieces and use non-linear narrative to draw us into their stories. Rather than over the course of the traditional beginning, middle, and end the narrative comes alive in the overlap between word, image and sound. Although there is no way of knowing for sure what she said and he replied, the works in the show invite us to be involved in the story.
Participating artists include: Deb Sokolow, Mark Addison Smith, Tony Lewis, Anne Vagt, Mark Booth, Chris Campe, Jana Sotzko and Elen Flügge, and Jeff Kolar.
September 27 – November 3, 2012
Solidarity: A Memory of Art and Social Change
Curated by Jimena Acosta
Opening Reception:
September 27, 5-8 pm
Solidarity examines images in contemporary and historical art and design that are instrumental in communicating a common desire for social change and aid in creating political cohesion. Images that stem from the student revolt in Mexico in 1968, from the Black Panther’s Party and by the recent Occupy Movements (in the United States and the United Kingdom) are included and create a dialogue in this exhibition. Solidarity engages symbols and iconongraphy of political movements, revolution, and radicalism present in society since the 1960’s such as: more power to the common citizen, access to free education, healthcare reform, the fair distribution of wealth in society, and anti-war demonstrations, just to name a few.
The exhibition depicts how
young artists and designers appropriate details from historical images, which
have been common ground to historical revolt memoirs, and incorporate them into
new graphics, newspapers, and the moving image to meet the new needs of a new
movement forming a bridge between past images and the present.
Showing a range of media from photography,
stencil, poster art, newspapers and video, artists and designers include
R.Black, Emory Douglas, Shepard Fairey, Coco Fusco, Forkscrew Graphics, Tzortzis Rallis and Lazarous Kakoulidis, Edgar Orlaineta, Andrea Salvino, Mark
Tribe, Jeff Widener, and a selection of the Mexican Student Movement's graphic work in 1968. These works combine to raise questions of the role
of the arts in recent political discussions, as well as questions on how images
and icons change in response to present history.
November 15 – December 15, 2012
The 91st Art Directors Club Annual Awards Exhibition
Opening Reception:
November 15, 5-8 pm
A traveling exhibition from the Art Directors Club in New York, and a yearly exhibition at A+D Gallery, the ADC Annual Awards competition identifies and honors the best professional work of the year in print and broadcast advertising, interactive media, graphic design, publication design, packaging, photography and illustration.
For a complete list of winners visit the Art Directors Club.
January 10 – February 16, 2013
The Almost Metal Collective
Curated by David Jones
Public Reception: January 31, 5-8 pm
The Almost Metal Collective is: Krista Hoefle, Jason Lahr, Sheilah Wilson, Rudy Shepherd, and local shops of the ILSSA (Impractical Labor in Service of the Speculative Arts). This exhibition is an opportunity to take a visual excursion into the opinions and ideas of this loose-knit group. These artists attempt, in their various ways, to make sense of personal identity as impacted by cultural and social influences. Like so many, the artists represented in this exhibition have developed a hyper awareness of information available as open-source ephemera and have chosen to manipulate that material into personal statements about their world view.
Included in the exhibition is Rudy Sheperd, who builds Black Rock Energy Absorbers, which accompany his paintings of mass murders, politicians, terrorists, victimizers and victims as a way to remove the negative energy from people and their environment, allowing them to respond to life in a positive way. Krista Hoefle has created fictional characters who explore cyborg identity. She uses electronic objects, prints, video, and large humanoid figures fashioned out of large screen-prints on paper, as well as Poser based digital (3D) “zombie-pose” figures, which are digitally unfolded using Pepakura, and rebuilt in the gallery space. Sheilah Wilson uses photography, video and text as a performative and documentary tool in her attempts to pick through the seams of narrative and image. Jason Lahr plucks and pulls from the traditions of narrative painting but propels it into a world built from generation X symbols with pop references, and as Jason says, he works like a vulture picking through a mountain of cultural detritus.
February 28 – April 20, 2013
Market Value: Examining Wealth and Worth
Curated by Steve Juras
Opening
Reception:
February 28, 5-8 pm
Market Value: Examining Wealth and Worth is a multi-faceted investigation of economic, commercial and aesthetic value. Featuring artists from across the country working in a variety of media, this formal and conceptual cross section unpacks the tenuous relationship between value, wealth, and worth in contemporary culture.
Participating artists include Alice Bradshaw, Kate Bingaman-Burt, Angela Finney-Hoffman, Kyle Fletcher, Jason Frohlichstein, Mark Merrit, Mitch Hollingsworth, William Napperson, Steve Moore, Ches Perry, Chad Person, Jason Polan, and William Powhida.
May 2 – May 9, 2013
Pougialis Fine Art Exhibition
Excavating Stories: Nina Lawrin and Pilar Amado Garcia
With curatorial assistance by Amy Zahi
Opening Reception May 2, 5-8 pm
The Pougialis Fine Art award is a yearly competition that offers promising Fine Art students at Columbia College Chicago an opportunity to study as an apprentice with a senior artist of national and international standing for one semester, a cash award, and an exhibition in the A+D Gallery. For more information about the award visit the Art + Design Department's info page.
May 17- June 15, 2013
BFA Fine Art Exhibition 2013
Organized by Justin Witte
Reception and college-wide Art Walk: May 17, 5-7 pm
Gallery hours: 11-8pm
Columbia College Chicago’s BFA Fine Art Exhibition has been a tradition since 2001, and represents Fine Art students’ completion of the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree as well as the culmination of their hard work within the Art + Design Department’s BFA program. Featuring 28 artists working in a variety of media, this exhibition is a part of Manifest 2013 and is C33 Gallery, 33 E Congress Parkway.
Participating Artists: Hanna Anderton, Brianna Baurichter, Corinna Cowles, Sara Dauer, Daniella Doll, Jessica Egan, Paul Gair, Kyle Genander, Caroline Gohlke, Wesley Groves, Allyson Hock, Brittany Johnson, Nina Lawrin, Madeleine Lowery, Kristina Magda, Leota Mead, John Moreno, Alexandra Noe, Nicki Penz, Melissa Patino, Jessica Quintero, Monique Roquet, Leila Ryndak, Erin Schiller, K Shelton, Rachel West, Annie Wozniak and Amy Zahi
Image:Nicki Penz, Wednesday Morning, 2012, Oil paint and sawdust on canvas, 48” x 60”
June 27 - July 27, 2013
SEX. MONEY. RACE. GENDER.: The Ladydrawers (of Chicago, Ill.)
Organized by Anne Elizabeth Moore
3rd Annual Summer Residency
Opening Reception: June 27th, 5-8 pm
Ladydrawers is a collective of women, men, transgender, and non-binary gender folk who research, perform, and publish comics and texts about how economics, race, sexuality, and gender impact the comics industry and our culture at large. Their content comes from original research conducted in the public realm by students, interns, volunteers, and supporters around the globe. Their work has appeared in Tin House, Annalemma, Bitch, and appears monthly on Truthout.
August 11- September 17, 2011
Work With Me: 5th Annual Faculty Exhibition
Organized by Jennifer Murray
Public Reception:
September 8th, 5-8 pm
Collaboration is a process where two or more people or groups work together to realize a shared goal. More than the intersection of ideas, true collaboration is a deep, collective investigation of a common endeavor. Work With Me highlights the collaborative process through a representation of strategies, methodologies or discursive practices. Participating artists include Laura Davis and Paul Hopkin; Compassionate Action Enterprises; Whitney Huber and Delmore Lazar; Industry of the Ordinary; Sabina Ott and Alison Rhoades; Petra Probstner, Miklos Simon, and Gyorgy Orban; Evan Ward, Glenn Wexler, and Mary Martin; Jim Zimpel; and essayist Ames Hawkins.
Image courtesy of Industry of the Ordinary.
September 29- November 5, 2011
Color: Fully Engaged
Curated by Jamilee Polson Lacy
Opening Reception:
September 29th, 5-8 pm
Color makes a comeback every day. We open our eyes, we turn on the
light, we see, we remember color. Color: Fully Engaged is a
multi-faceted exploration of the meaning and interpretation of color.
Via artworks created as part of fine arts, design and architecture
disciplines, this exhibition follows modern and contemporary
trajectories of color as both singular idea and associative methodology.
Investigating color symbolism and hierarchies within historical,
cultural and theoretical contexts, each selection ponders what may or
may not be universal about color. Contributing artists include Academy
Records, Jeanne Dunning, Susan Giles, Dan Gunn, Adriane Herman, Anna
Kunz, Jessica Labatte, Matthew Metzger, Liz Nielsen and Nathaniel
Robinson.
Image courtesy of Susan Giles
November 17- December 17, 2011
The 90th Art Directors Club Annual Awards Exhibition
Opening Reception:
November 17th, 5-8 pm
A yearly exhibition at A+D Gallery, the ADC Annual Awards competitions identifies and honors the best work of the year in print and broadcast advertising, interactive media, graphic design, publication design, packaging, photography and illustration.
Image courtesy of the Art Directors Club
January 5- February 11, 2012
Turnin' the Tip: Simp Heisters, Flukum, & the Put'n'Take
Cannonball Press curated by Anchor Graphics
Public Reception:
January 19th 5-8 pm
Since 1999, Brooklyn based artists Martin Mazorra and Mike Houston have been producing high quality, affordable letterpress, relief and screen prints under the moniker Cannonball Press. More recently they have expanded their repertoire to include large scale, collaborative, print infested sculptures and installations using bold graphics formed from minute detail. Such work has taken them around the world and back again while adding a new chapter to the rich history of printmaking, namely the scruffy, musky, pirated hillbilly chapter. Along with making their own prints Cannonball Press has editioned work by over 50 artists.
February 16 - February 23, 2012
Disclosure: Grace O'Brien and Katrina Petrauskas
Opening Reception:
February 16th, 5-8 pm
The Pougialis Fine Art award is a yearly competition that offers promising Fine Art students at Columbia College Chicago an opportunity to study as an apprentice with a senior artist of national and international standing for one semester, a cash award, and an exhibition in the A+D Gallery. For more information about the award visit the Art + Design Department's info page.
March 1 - April 21, 2012
Not Ready to Make Nice: Guerrilla Girls, in the Artworld and Beyond
Curated by Neysa Page-Lieberman
Opening Reception:
March 1st, 5-8 pm
This exhibition of Guerilla Girls, a major presentation of the collective, illuminates and contextualizes the important past and ongoing work of these highly original, provocative and influential artists who champion feminism and social change. A selection of the group’s most iconic campaigns and actions from the 80’s and 90’s foregrounds their most daring and rarely seen international projects, which trace the Guerrilla Girls' artistic and activist influence around the globe. The exhibition’s installations are punctuated by documentary material including ephemera from famous actions, behind-the-scenes photos and secret anecdotes that reveal the Guerrilla Girls’ process and the events that drive their incisive institutional interventions. Visitors can peruse the artists’ favorite “love letters and hate mail,” drawn from almost three decades of humorous, heart-warming and shocking communications, and are invited to contribute their own views to an interactive wall installation. This multimedia, expansive exhibition illustrates that the work of the anonymous, feminist-activist Guerrilla Girls is as vital and revolutionary as ever.
Also on view at Columbia College Chicago’s Glass Curtain Gallery. A fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition. Guerrilla Girls are Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media 2011-2012 Fellows.
May 4 - June 2, 2012
Subimago: BFA Fine Art Exhibition 2012
Organized by Joan Giroux
Opening Reception, Art Walk, and Sale:
May 4th, 4-7 pm
Columbia College Chicago’s BFA Fine Art Exhibition has been a tradition since 2001, and represents Fine Art students’ completion of the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree as well as the culmination of their hard work within the Art + Design Department’s BFA program. Featuring 26 artists working in a variety of media, this exhibition is a part of Manifest 2012 and is concurrently running at C33 Gallery, 33 E Congress Parkway.
June 14 - July 21, 2012
Bad at Sports
We Are Talking Here: An ongoing reterritorialization and desituation of bodily and existential contexts as applied through networked agencies towards praxis and the trope of a taxonomical lexicon. Redux.
Closing Reception and Record Release Party:
July 19th, 5-8 pm
Bad at Sports is a Chicago-based artist collective that began as a solution to the problem of dwindling local arts coverage. The results so far have been a weekly podcast/freely accessible audio archive of 340+ hours of artists and "art worlders" talking about their "art" and their "world," and a blog that in 2000+ articles has not only shed light on the regional art context, but offers an international reach and engagement. The project reflects the logic and generosity of the internet in that it seeks to engage, invite and openly participate in the discussions that shape our culture.
The 2012 summer residency at A+D Gallery offers a rare opportunity for Bad at Sports to extend the nature and content of their practice and production. Using discourse-based discussions to create physical experiences, “sound art objects," and to test installation strategies that are as much about how one experiences verbal content in a gallery, as they are about the conversational discourse being produced in and around art. BAS will create a segmented gallery space similar to the contexts that create their cultural production: an exhibition space, a work space, and a play space. These spaces will be open to the public and the members of BAS, BAS friends, BAS collaborators, and members of the general public, will participate together in what is somewhat like a clubhouse, a work shop, a display space, and a secret lair.
August 12 – September 18, 2010
Imagine Everywhere 4th Annual Faculty Exhibition
Organized by Jennifer Murray
Closing reception
September 9th, 5-8 pm
Imagine Everywhere is about the strategies, visions and horizons that artists offer in response to the forces of globalization. The term is used in various ways: it may mean free market policies or the Internet revolution, the dominance of western ways of living or a global integration of lifestyles. The artworks in Imagine Everywhere work in various ways to champion, contest, interrogate, or reverse the trends marked by Globalization. What they have in common is a commitment to new, artistic and imaginative forms of envisioning global community. Exhibiting artists include Whitney Huber and David Follmer, Louise LeBourgeois, Marlene Lipinski, Marilyn Propp, Arti Sandhu, and Miklos Simon.
September 30 – November 6, 2010
Data Mining: Artists' Constructs
Curated by Bill Linehan and Terence Hannum
Opening reception
September 30th, 5-8 pm
Data Mining provides a small, sample window into a newly emerging and rapidly evolving process of data mining, the process of extracting hidden patterns from data. The way, shape, and manner in which artists and designers our appropriating this process creates radically new forms that communicate across disciplinary, social and cultural boundaries. The artists’ visualization/ realization can be any form from 2-D to 3D to aural and/or time based media constructs. Participating artists include Stephen Cartwright, Sean Dack, R. Luke DuBois, Lynn Hershman, Andreas Kratky and Juri Hwang, Golan Levin, Lev Manovich, Mark Napier, and Paul Slocum.
November 11 – December 11, 2010
89th Art Directors Club Annual Awards Exhibition
Opening reception
November 11th, 5-8 pm
A traveling exhibition from The New York Art Directors’ Club and a yearly exhibition at A+D Gallery, the ADC Annual Awards competition identifies and honors the best work of the year in print and broadcast advertising, interactive media, graphic design, publication design, packaging, photography and illustration.
January 13 – February 12, 2011
When After Comes Before: Phillip Chen and Tomas Vu
Curated by Anchor Graphics
Opening reception
January 27th, 5-8 pm
Phillip Chen and Tomas Vu Lecture: 6:30 pm, 623 S. Wabash, Room 109
Drawing from personal experiences, memories and written history, Phillip Chen's and Tomas Vu's work incorporates both long departed and surviving traditions, beliefs, objects and landscapes, positioning all firmly with in a contemporary context. The push and pull of yesterday and today is encompassed in the very materiality of the work, constructed using computer-controlled technologies such as laser cutters combined with old-school hand printmaking. Their work is at once a documentation and a schematic diagram of the present as seen through the past and the past as seen through the present.
March 3 – April 16, 2011
ZERØ Waste: Fashion Re-Patterned
Curated by Arti Sandhu
Opening reception and gallery talk with the curator March 3rd, 5-8 pm
The essence of fashion is change – making it directly opposed to the principles of sustainability and sustainable design processes. This reliance on constant change, in tandem with its never-ending search for seasonal novelty, means that besides being an immensely dynamic cultural phenomenon, fashion is also extremely wasteful. 0 Waste attempts to find solutions for dealing with fashion’s waste, as well as challenge fashion systems through their conceptual framework. In doing so, the exhibition examines the intimate connection between fashion and waste and highlights sustainable design practices and fashion products that consider the use and reduction or elimination of waste (pre- and post-consumer) as part of the design process and production of garments.
April 28 - May 4, 2011
2011 Pougialis Fine Art Award Exhibition: Davida Newman and Josh Minkus
Opening Reception: April 28th, 5-8 pm
The Pougialis Fine Art award is a yearly competition that offers promising Fine Art students an opportunity to study as an apprentice with a senior artist of national and international standing for one semester, a cash award, and an exhibition in the A+D Gallery.
May 13 - June 11th, 2011
BFA Fine Art Thesis Exhibition 2011
Opening Reception and college-wide Art Walk: May 13th, 4 - 8 pm
Columbia College Chicago’s BFA Fine Art Exhibition has been a tradition since 2001, and represents Fine Art students’ completion of the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree as well as the culmination of their hard work within the Art + Design Department’s BFA program. Featuring 30 artists working in a variety of media, this exhibition is a part of Manifest 2011 and is concurrently running at C33 Gallery, 33 E Congress Parkway.
June 23 – July 20, 2011
Running Room
Curated by ACRE
Opening Reception: June 23rd, 5-8 pm
Based on Karl Kraus’s
notion of allowing an idea, place, material, object enough wiggle room to
change--encouraging an active détournement--
we allow others to experience the detourned phenomenon in a new way. If allowed running room, a sculpture can become
a prop for performance, a film can be transformed by its very viewing, an
artwork can become its audience and vice versa. Running
Room at A+D Gallery will be a physical space for social interaction and a
conceptual space for redefining the purpose of the “exhibition.” Through Running
Room, by way of four curated events and the construction of a large (and
changeable) amphitheater, the exhibition space will be turned into an
arena. Documentation of these events
will then be brought back to the gallery, through photographs, video, and
ephemera, physically activating the arena.
Contributing artists include Adam Farcus, Alexander Stewart, Erik Peterson, and Madeleine Bailey.
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August 13 - September 19, 2009
___place Third Annual Faculty Exhibition
___place is about times and spaces of revolution, and their effect on visual images. We use convention and tradition to recognize images, pictures and works of art, and because art images interpret our world, they impact how we understand changes in the experience of place, space and time. We only understand visual things in contexts that are historical, geographic and cultural. Artists respond to those factors, and ___place is an experimental exhibition of such responses. The exhibition uses a notion of revolution to emphasize how changes in what, when, and where we see not only changes the character of visual images, but also tells us something about the tools we use to see the world. Exhibiting artists include Steven Carrelli, Anna Kunz, Betsy Odom, and Michael K. Paxton.
October 1 - November 7, 2009
Found: Contemporary China Design
Curated by Tao Huang & Kevin Henry
Though the Western consumer products market is saturated by “Made in China” products, the design professions in China remain a mystery. Found: Contemporary China Design intends to showcase the exciting developments in design, particularly in product design, in the past three decades in China, to improve the understanding of the impact of globalization on local culture, and to provide a forum to discuss collaborations of American and Chinese design societies.
November 12 - December 12, 2009
88th Art Directors Club Annual Awards Exhibition
A yearly exhibition at A+D Gallery, the ADC Annual Awards competition identifies and honors the best work of the year in print and broadcast advertising, interactive media, graphic design, publication design, packaging, photography and illustration.
January 14 - February 20 , 2010
The Object of Nostalgia
Curated by Lance Winn and René Marquez
Could it be that the Avant Garde, still the dominant discussion in new art, and the self-anointed “breaker” of cultural aesthetic rules, has been the creator of a great number of tacit laws that govern the landscape of contemporary art? What is worthy to speak about when one is making “important” art? The Object of Nostalgia contemplates the nature of “sentimentality” and its conflicted relation to contemporary art. Each of the artists represented copes with nostalgia and the condition of longing in a unique and personal way, eschewing both the cold, universalist demands of Modernism and the distanced superficiality employed by Postmodern practices in favor of personal investigation, private narratives, and the full breadth of creative tools and language available to the artist. This exhibition is in conjunction with CAA 2010 and a related panel discussion.
March 4 - April 24, 2010
Let There Be Geo
Curated by Elizabeth Burke-Dain
Let there be Geo takes a contemporary look at visual artists who use geometric form in their work. While geometric form is not a new phenomenon, geo forms are appearing in some of the most aesthetically progressive work being made today. The largest advocators of the use of geometric shapes began with Futurism and Cubism moving through the Op Art of the 60s and Neo-Geometric Conceptualism of the 80s. Predominantly cool and impersonal in approach, though often active with content, contemporary 21st century responses to geometric form employ a variety of styles and media from painting to video to photography and sculpture. The works in Let there be Geo explore today’s incarnation of geometric form. Exhibiting artists include Maya Hayuk, Cody Hudson (image credit), Barbara Kasten, Sam Prekop, Geoffrey Todd Smith, and Steven Husby among others.
May 3–7, 2010
The End of One is Just the Beginning of Another: 2010 Pougialis Fine Art Award Exhibition
EJ Hill and Jessica Hoekstra
Pougialis Fine Art award is a yearly competition that offers promising Fine Art students an opportunity to study as an apprentice with a senior artist of national and international standing for one semester, a cash award, and an exhibition in the A+D Gallery.
May 14–June 12, 2010
BFA Fine Art Exhibition 2010
Curated by Friedhard Kiekeben and Sabina Ott
Columbia College Chicago’s BFA Fine Art Exhibition has been a tradition since 2001, and represents Fine Art students’ completion of the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree as well as the culmination of their hard work within the Art + Design Department’s BFA program. Featuring 40 artists working in a variety of media, this exhibition is a part of Manifest 2010 and is concurrently running at C33 Gallery, 33 E Congress Parkway.
June 24–July 21
X-treme Studio
Curated by Sabina Ott and Rael Salley
X-treme Studio is an exhibition focused on the active production of visual art. It asks the viewer to reconsider conventional notions of the studio by highlighting visual practices and active spaces of production. X-treme Studiotakes place in conjunction with the year-long, city-wide Studio Chicago, a project that focuses on the artist’s studio through exhibitions, talks, publications, tours and research. Participating artists may participate live and through digital media, while active spaces will enter the gallery in digital media. Artists and projects include D. Denenge Akpem, The Dorchester Project/Theaster Gates, EJ Hill and Tannar Veatch, Hyde Park Art Center, Industry of the Ordinary, Julie Lequin, Shaun Leonardo, Live Work/Michael Zheng, New Urban Arts, The Poor Farm, The Velaslavasay Panorama, The Work Office, Alison Rhoades, and Russell Watson.
September 25 - November 8, 2008
Off the Beaten Road
Curated by Julianna Cuevas and Megan Ross
Off the Beaten Road will present a 21st century take on the innovative ways of communication and dissemination in American life put forth by the Beats and encapsulated in Jack Kerouac’s seminal novel, On the Road. Through sound, installation, performance, video and fine art, Off the Beaten Road will take the audience on a journey through stories both personal and public, mundane and sublime. Artists include Greg Stimac, Diana Guerrero-Macia, Jeff Gabel, and Dylan Strzynski (image credit), among others.
This exhibition is in conjunction with a campus-wide initiative based on the display of the original On the Road scroll.
November 13 - December 13, 2008
87th Art Directors Club AnnualAwardsExhibition
A yearly exhibition at A+D Gallery, the ADC Annual Awards competition identifies and honors the best work of the year in print and broadcast advertising, interactive media, graphic design, publication design, packaging, photography and illustration.
January 15 - February 28 , 2009
Criteria
Curated by Emiliano Godoy and Jimena Acosta
Criteria explores the ethics and politics that embody contemporary notions of sustainability. Through a variety of media that gathers artworks and unconventional design approaches, this exhibition will examine the utopia behind efforts to modify and push late capitalist consumption patterns as well as address the current contradictions between industrial and natural landscapes. Criteria will juxtapose critical and disenchanted views with poetic and symbolic discourses. Using art as a lens through which our unsustainable systems of production and consumption can be evaluated from an ethical perspective, the work in this exhibition will pierce skepticism and challenge our preconceived notions on environmental and social trends.
March 12 - April 15, 2009
Internally Displaced: Jane Hammond and Enrique Chagoya
Curated by Jennifer Yorke
This exhibition is intended to be a part of the 2009 Southern Graphics Council conference, a celebration of printmaking. While both Hammond (image credit) and Chagoya are known primarily as painters, their work in all media reflects printmakers’ predilection for appropriation, adaptation, juxtaposition, and pastiche. Both artists draw upon the modes of thinking and working inherent in printmaking as well as its history of social and political commentary.
August 7 - September 13, 2008
Human / Nature
This faculty exhibition at A+D Gallery is an opportunity for full-time faculty members in the Department of Art and Design at Columbia College Chicago to respond to the college’s campus-wide initiative, Critical Encounters. The theme for 2008-2009 is Human/Nature. This exhibition will examine the relationships and tensions between humankind and the natural world. Human/Nature will consider how factors such as the culture, wealth, geography, and history of societies have influenced humanity’s stewardship, exploitation, understanding, and artistic representations of the natural environment. Featuring Chicago-based artists working in various media in fine art and design.
April 30 - May 7, 2009
2009 Pougialis Fine Art Award Exhibition
Nicholas Steindorf and Alexandra VanLemmeren
Pougialis Fine Art award is a yearly competition that offers promising Fine Art students an opportunity to study as an apprentice with a senior artist of national and international standing for one semester, a cash award, and an exhibition in the A+D Gallery.
May 15 - June 13, 2009
Volume: BFA Fine Art Exhibition
Curated by Nicolette Caldwell, Jessica Lesley, Miles Vance, and Hadley Vogel
Columbia College Chicago’s BFA Fine Art Exhibition has been a tradition since 2001, and represents Fine Art students’ completion of the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, and the culmination of their hard work within the Art + Design Department’s BFA program. Featuring 34 artists working in a variety of media this exhibition is curated by graduating seniors in the Art History concentration.
June 18 - July 22, 2009
Midwestern BLAB
Curated by Anchor Graphics and Monte Beauchamp
Midwestern BLAB focuses on the work of 5 artists from the Midwest who have been featured in the pages of BLAB! Edited by Monte Beauchamp BLAB! is an annual anthology that collects the freshest and most unique in cutting-edge comics, illustration, and graphic design. Its contributors come together from all corners of the contemporary art world to push the boundaries of visual culture. Featuring the work of Don Colley, Tom Huck, Teresa James, CJ Pyle, and Fred Stonehouse who share more than simple geography. Their work taps into a dark narrative, that is both savage and beautiful, to present a magical vision of a gothic Midwest.
August 9 - September 15, 2007
Work in Process
This faculty exhibition at A+D Gallery is an opportunity for full-time faculty members in the Department of Art and Design at Columbia College Chicago to respond to the gallery’s process mission in an environment that fosters collaborative installation as well as traditional methods of display. The exhibition anticipates and explores the changing nature of artistic production and highlights the myriad methodologies of artists working today. Exhibiting artists include Industry of the Ordinary, Terrence Hannum (image credit), Tim Cozzens, Tom Taylor, Audrean Been and Anke Loh, Marlene Lipinski, and Max King Cap, among others.
September 27 - November 3, 2007
Girl on Guy: the object of my desire
Curated by Marci Rae McDade
Being a feminist and loving men is not a contradiction, yet many women artists today rarely express an unabashed desire for men in their work. Girl on Guy presents evidence of a passionate and sincere feminine perspective, repositioning the term “feminist” as it relates to current artistic practices. Featuring many Chicago artists, this exhibition promises to engage the national dialogue of feminism and all of its attached negative and positive stereotypes from a Midwestern point of view, while physically engaging the public in a series of related events. Artists include Cynthia Plaster Caster, Sylvia Sleigh, Melanie Schiff, Riva Lehrer, Oriana Fox, Jane Fisher (image credit), and Julia Hechtman, among others.
November 15 - December 15, 2007
Art Directors Club Annual Awards Exhibition
A yearly exhibition at A+D Gallery the ADC Annual Awards competition identifies and honors the best work of the year in print and broadcast advertising, interactive media, graphic design, publication design, packaging, photography and illustration.
January 17 - February 23, 2008
Capricious and Mercurial Systems
Curated by Joan Giroux and WhitneyHuber Lazar
This exhibition compiles works of art that reflect concepts of dynamic and open systems, while demonstrating the ability of spatial art forms to make physical such concepts. Bridging techniques and processes from multiple fields of art and design, the artwork consists of a wide variety of materials and forms, functioning as models of geometries, systems, and structures in flux and flow. Capricious and Mercurial Systems will include Isidro Blasco, Diana Cooper, Ellen Driscoll, Kenji Fujita, Julia Klein, Tom Lauerman, William Niemeier, Margie Neuhaus and Scott Wolniak.
March 6 - April 19, 2008
MultiXply
Curated by Friedhard Kiekeben
MultiXply investigates the production of multiplicity-based forms. Examining multiplicity as the all-pervading phenomenon that it has now become, it brings together an exciting mix of presentations with regard to multiplicity in art, design, architecture, science, and theory. Through this coming together of complementing and diverging parts the exhibition aims to convey a unified assembly of facets that is more than just the sum of its parts. Featuring the work of Robert Krawczyk, Jesse Seay (image credit), and Alyson Shotz.2008 Pougialis Fine Art Award Exhibition
Pougialis Fine Art award is a yearly competition that offers promising Fine Art students an opportunity to study as an apprentice with a senior artist of national and international standing for one semester, a cash award, and an exhibition in the A+D Gallery.
May 16 – June 14, 2008
Open Wide: BFA Fine Art Exhibition
Columbia College Chicago’s BFA Fine Art Exhibition has been a tradition since 2001, and represents fine art students’ completion of the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, and the culmination of their hard work within the Art + Design Department’s BFA program. Featuring 18 artists working in a variety of media this exhibition is curated by graduating seniors in the Art History concentration.
June 26 - July 23, 2008
