Schedule:
October 29, 2007 – January 11, 2008 [C]Spaces: Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College Chicago
Available after January 25, 2008
Exhibition Contents:
Bilingual Exhibition Checklist
Accompanying materials:
Wall text, labels and exhibition checklist will be provided electronically.
Space Requirements:
2,200-5,000 square feet with a minimum of two screening rooms
Publication:
A 42-page four-color exhibition catalog with a foreword by curator Tracy Marie Taylor and an essay by Michelle Grabner. Ten copies of the catalog are included in the fee. Additional copies may be ordered and printed for additional cost.
Participation fee:
$20,000 for a 12-week booking (includes artwork only). For an additional $4,000 venues may rent the viewing equipment for the electronic works in the exhibition.
Curator: Tracy Marie Taylor is an independent curator and artist. She has curated several recent exhibitions in Chicago and currently runs a gallery called The Project Room at Columbia College Chicago. Her paintings, videos and multimedia installations have been exhibited nationally; recent venues include the Bridge Art Fair, Gosia Koscielak Gallery, LA Center for Digital Art, Fraction Workspace, Art Chicago and the Contemporary Arts Workshop. Taylor has taught painting and new media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Columbia College Chicago since 2001. Contact: Neysa Page-Lieberman, Director of [C]Spaces npage-lieberman@colum.edu (312) 344-7696
Organized by [C]Spaces: Glass Curtain Gallery of Columbia College Chicago
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Press:
"Bilingual: Art at the Intersection of Painting and Video," at the Columbia College Glass Curtain Gallery, is a show of work by 22 artists that is memorable less for particular pieces than an aggregate that explores a moment in contemporary art no other local exhibition has treated in depth.
The show includes paintings and videos, drawings and films. But rather than oppose them, breaking them into categories of "old" and "new," the exhibition indicates how the one has grown out of the other, achieving a mode of storytelling that often has been extended and heightened by having more or less traditional handwork spun out over time.
Then the exhibition also shows how this development is a two-way street, by presenting examples of contemporary paintings that have been influenced, either structurally or imagistically, by film. So, broadly speaking, here are paintings that have come to life, in addition to films that have been stilled, and the two together make for an exhibition at once engaging and challenging.
- Alan Artner, Chicago Tribune
(December 2007)
The melancholic sounds emanating from a corner of the Glass
Curtain Gallery are from the soundtrack to Felix in Exile, a
nine-minute animated video by South African artist William Kentridge.
It anchors “Bilingual, Art at the Intersection of Painting and Video,” a
group show curated by Tracy Marie Taylor, who teaches at Columbia
College. Taylor, a painter and video artist, writes in the slim show
catalog that the work here “explores the changing role of painting in
today’s media-suffused culture.”...Perhaps “Bilingual” signals a new turn for Columbia College, which of late has allowed artist-curators with big ideas to take over its galleries.
- Ruth Lopez, Time Out Chicago
(November 2007)
Bilingual focuses on artwork at the intersection of painting and drawing, film and video, encompassing both conceptual and process-driven approaches. The artists in this exhibition are acting as visual linguists or interpreters, breaking down one language and reconstructing it in another, holding the sense of the structure together with an understanding of both.
- Bad at Sports, Episode 113
(October 2007) |
Bilingual