Aspen Mays
dal 23/1/2010 al 24/4/2010
Segnalato da
23/1/2010
Aspen Mays
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
From the Offices of Scientists
The exhibition From the Office of Scientists features a new body of work addressing the question “What does knowledge look like?” Artist Aspen Mays activates the office cubicle as a site for information production and general inquiry where “big ideas” are generated. For the first time in her career, Mays mixes photography with sculpture to construct an installation that challenges the value of photography in art while questioning the validity of the artifact.
Aspen Mays employs an array of non-traditional techniques in her work as a means of exploring cosmological questions through everyday materials. For example, she once captured fireflies inside a medium format camera and developed the film revealing a brilliant chartreuse from the chemical reaction. Often embodying the persona of an amateur scientist, Mays blends humor, popular culture and performative experimentation for the camera in attempt to locate the limits of both her own personal understanding of these fundamental questions of existence as well as the horizons of understanding within larger human endeavors.
Originally from Charleston, South Carolina, Aspen Mays now lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. She recently received an MFA in Photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA from the University of North Carolina. Her photography has been reviewed in national publications including Artforum and Art Papers and has received solo exhibitions at Golden Gallery (Chicago) and Still Lights Gallery (San Francisco). Mays was recently awarded a Fulbright Grant to travel to Santiago, Chile and work with international teams of astronomers who study Chile’s northern deserts in 2010. More information on the artist is available at www.aspenmays.com.
Until April 8, 2010
The Way Things Are
A temporal, site-specific installation by Bob Peters and David Schutter.
Until April 18, 2010, Gallery 2
Andreas Fischer: Ghost Town
Ghost Town features a series of recent oil paintings by Andreas Fischer held in conjunction with a related show at the Gahlberg Gallery/McAninch Arts Center at the College of DuPage.
Image: Aspen Mays, Planet Boxes, 2009, Cardboard boxes.
Event:
Exhibition Reception
Sunday, February 14, 3-5 p.m.
Conversation with the Artist
Sunday, January 31, 2-4 pm.
Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S. Cornell Avenue Chicago, IL 60615
Mon-Thurs: 9am-8pm
Fri-Sat: 9am-5pm
Sun: 12pm-5pm