Three solo shows
dal 3/11/2011 al 6/1/2012
Segnalato da
3/11/2011
Three solo shows
Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago
In his "Paper Back" Brian Dettmer explores the possibilities of the book's form and content. Chris Bathgate has assembled an elaborate machine shop along with a multitude of equipment and inventions, and Kathy Halper's "Friend Me" is a series of embroidered drawings explore teenagers in their private world.
Hello... Some quick notes about our show starting Friday, November 4th at 5 PM. This Brian Dettmer show is only two weeks
long. We then take his work to Miami for the Pulse Artfair. This is a full show and Brian will be debuting 3 new major horizon-
tals, from 6 to 8 ft wide on the wall, along with other pedestal and single book works. Brian's arc continues to amaze me. His
thought process and execution is not finite. Don't miss this event. Chris Bathgate and Kathy Halper open the same night and
their shows run into January. I love this grouping. Paper, metal, and fiber all under the same roof.
3 solo shows: Brian Dettmer, Chris Bathgate, and Kathy Halper
Brian Dettmer
Paper Back .Altered Books
November 4-20
Closing Reception: Sunday, November 20, 2 to 5 PM
At 3 PM Coppice (Noé Cuéllar & Joseph Kramer) will perform.
In his new series, Paper Back, Brian Dettmer continues to question the past, present and future of the book by exploring and
expanding the possibilities of the book’s form and content. After a book or series of books is sealed into a solid form, he cuts
into the surface, reading with his knife one page or layer at a time. Fragmented images, words and ideas emerge to expose and
create new relationships within the book's internal elements. In recent work, Dettmer has shifted the focus to text and
transcribed the visual poetry that emerges from the sculptures onto the printed page, highlighting a new light on the chance text
while illustrating the clouds of ideas within a piece. For his Paper Back series, horizontal rows of multiple paperback books in
specific genres are compressed and sanded into solid linear forms. The investigation into language, its possibilities and limita-
tions continue as suggestive clichés are carved into the surface of the fictitious narratives. Hundreds of words and phrases are
excavated within each letter, creating links and clusters of ideas. Words are torn from their original
meaning and float to latch onto new possibilities.
Chris Bathgate
Aesthetic Engineering, metal sculpture
Chris Bathgate is a self-taught machinist sculptor who was born in 1980 in Baltimore, Maryland. He still currently works and
resides in Baltimore and has spent the last decade learning how to build and use a variety of metal working tools and machinery.
He has assembled an elaborate machine shop of repurposed and home made machine tools, along with a multitude of other
equipment and inventions in the basement studio of his Baltimore home. His body of work is a collection of intricately machined
metal sculptures that represent the combination of his unique metalworking style with a traditional approach to sculpture.
Kathy Halper
Friend Me. Facebook Embroideries
Halper’s series of embroidered drawings explore teenagers in their private world. The world now available to all online. The
images in this series began as Facebook photos of teens engaged in typical yet sometimes disturbing explorations of sex,
alcohol, drugs and celebration. She then randomly paired them with comments found on various networking sites. It is this
duality of the past and present, innocence and loss of innocence, privacy and the demise of privacy that fascinates and drives
Halper to continue exploring this subject.
Chris Bathgate and Kathy Halper continue through Jan 7th, 2012
Opening Friday, November 4
Packer Schopf Gallery
942 W. Lake St Chicago
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11:00am to 5:30pm
Admission free