Two exhibitions
dal 19/6/2010 al 2/10/2010
Segnalato da
19/6/2010
Two exhibitions
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Josue Pellot presents ''Pellot Gonzalez Rios'', a new series of sculptures and paintings. His artworks incorporate family souvenirs, items from his hometown of Aguadilla, a model of his great-aunt's home, and a series of toy-sized portrait figurines portraying four generations of the Pellot family. ''Roger Brown: Calif U.S.A.'' is the first-ever exhibition of Brown's three-dimensional Virtual Still Life paintings shown with the extraordinary collections they evolved from.
Roger Brown : Calif U.S.A.
June 20 - October 3, 2010, Gallery 4
Curated by Nicholas Lowe with assistance from the staff of the Roger Brown Study Collection showcases the rare artwork and collections of the famed Chicago Imagist Roger Brown. The exhibition explores Brown’s process of collecting and arranging hundreds of domestic objects in his La Conchita, California home and studio. Experience the first-ever exhibition of Brown’s three-dimensional Virtual Still Life paintings shown with the extraordinary collections they evolved from.
Roger Brown was a collector as much as he was an artist. The SAIC alumnus and Hyde Park Art Center exhibited artist filled his home and studio in La Conchita, California with hundreds of domestic objects—vernacular ceramics, southwestern knickknacks, and pop culture ephemera—all meticulously arranged and occasionally incorporated into his artwork. Calif. U.S.A. explores Brown’s process of collecting and arranging, which was distilled into his Virtual Still Life series—paintings turned three-dimensional with ceramics on shelves in the foreground. Exhibited together for the first time, these extraordinary paintings and arrangements (or tableaux) of objects reference and echo each other, as combined reflections on landscape, heritage, religion, history, life, and death.
The curator of the exhibition, Nicholas Lowe, is an interdisciplinary artist and currently holds tenure as Chair and Associate Professor in the department of Arts, Administration and Policy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Born in Alabama, Roger Brown (1941-1997) moved to Chicago in 1962 where he attended the School of the Art Institute and earned a BFA (1968) and a MFA (1970). Works by Brown and fellow students were recognized by (then) Executive Director of the HPAC, Don Baum, who organized spirited “Chicago School” exhibitions from 1966 to 1971. Brown’s work was included in several exhibitions at HPAC, including False Image (1968). From these early HPAC exhibits, a loosely associated group of artists became known as Chicago Imagists, a term coined by art critic Franz Schulz (1972). The artists associated did not adopt the name, or have a shared ideology, but they worked independently of New York contemporary art trends and incorporated imagery from popular culture into their works, although less cerebrally than New York Pop artists. Brown’s first solo exhibit at Phyllis Kind Gallery (Chicago, 1971) began his 26 year representation at PKG in Chicago, and later, New York. He had numerous solo and group exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad. Traveling retrospectives of his paintings and sculptures have been organized by the Montgomery Museum (1980) and the Hirshhorn (1987). Museum representation includes the Art Institute of Chicago, Metropolitan Museum, Whitney Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Contemporary Art/ Chicago, National Museum of American Art, Scottish National Gallery, Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, and many others.
Exhibition Reception
Sunday, August 29, 2010, 3-5 pm
Guided tour
Sunday, June 20, 2010
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Josue Pellot presents - Pellot Gonzalez Rios
Until August 22, 2010, Cleve Carney Gallery
The solo exhibition Pellot Gonzalez Rios presents new sculptures and paintings by Josue Pellot. The title of the exhibition distinguishes the domestic tone of the works included by focusing on the artist’s formal family name. Recollections of family members and common household mementos of Puerto Rican popular culture have inspired the emergent Chicago-based artist to create this body of work addressing the hybridization of cultural identity in new migrant generations of Puerto Ricans.
A conceptual artist who engages social critique, politics and humor, Josue Pellot explores his personal memories in Pellot Gonzalez Rios. His artworks incorporate family souvenirs, items from his hometown of Aguadilla, a model of his great-aunt’s home, and a series of toy-sized portrait figurines portraying four generations of the Pellot family. These discrete items combine to form a nostalgic and gently humorous meditation on the meaning of family roots and national identity in a globalized world.
Josue Pellot was born in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, and resides in Chicago. He received a BFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a MA from Northwestern University. Pellot works in various mediums such as painting, video, and sculpture. His work has been shown locally and abroad, including at the Galleria Tinta Roja, the Chicago Cultural Center, the Contemporary Art Society (London, UK), and the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caguas, Puerto Rico.
Image: Josue Pellot, Tia Lelin, 2009, c-print
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Exhibition Reception Sunday, June 20, 3 - 5 pm
Hyde Park Art Center
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