Iain Baxter& / Ron Terada
dal 4/11/2011 al 14/1/2012
Segnalato da
4/11/2011
Iain Baxter& / Ron Terada
Museum of Contemporary Art MCA, Chicago
Works 1958-2011 / Being There. Terada is a Vancouver-based artist who has built a fascinating body of work that includes paintings, photographs, video, sound, books, and graphic design. Baxter legally changed his name to Iain Baxter& in 2005. He appended an ampersand to his name to underscore that art is about connectivity, contingency, and collaboration with a viewer.
Iain Baxter&
Works 1958-2011
Iain Baxter legally changed his name to Iain Baxter& in 2005. He appended an ampersand to his name to underscore that art is about connectivity, contingency, and collaboration with a viewer. In 1965 he formed a collaborative art-making entity titled IT Works which subsequently evolved into N. E. Thing Company, a corporate-styled entity whose co-presidents were Baxter& and his then-wife, Ingrid. Producing a diverse array of projects that encompassed conceptually based photography, pioneering works of appropriation art, and gallery transforming installations, the N. E. Thing Company offered a new model of art making, allowing the artists to remain anonymous and masquerade in the guise of business people. Collapsing the boundaries between art, commerce, and everyday life, Baxter&’s protean and peripatetic work that has unfolded over five decades has proved difficult to locate within conventional critical or art historical narratives. A relentless emphasis on reaching out to the viewer, a core concern with ecology and the environment, and a belief that art must assume plural means and media, inform Baxter&’s early credo: understanding that “art is all over.” This exhibition seeks to appraise the remarkable achievement of this artist, and to position his contribution in relation to mainstream histories of conceptual art, photography, and installation art.
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Ron Terada
Being There
Ron Terada (b. 1969) is a Vancouver-based artist who has exhibited extensively in Canada and Europe over the past fifteen years but has had relatively little exposure in the United States. Working in the high tech and multicultural British Columbian city, where influences back and forth across the Pacific Rim are numerous and complex, as well as exploring his own Japanese-Canadian identity, Terada has built a fascinating body of work that includes paintings, photographs, video, sound, books, and graphic design. Often using his own position within the artworld of Vancouver as the starting point for measuring his own self-worth, self-esteem, and self-identification, he has used signage, advertising, and Hollywood films in unusual and inventive ways. This is his first solo exhibition in the United States.
Media Relations
Erin Baldwin 312.397.3828 | ebaldwin@mcachicago.org
Karla Loring 312.397.3834 | kloring@mcachicago.org
Image: © Ron Terada
See Other Side of Sign, 2006
Courtesy of Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
Opening November 5th, 2011
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