Ray Yoshida
dal 11/11/2010 al 11/2/2011
Segnalato da
11/11/2010
Ray Yoshida
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) - Sullivan Galleries, Chicago
Touch and Go. A retrospective of Yoshida's art featuring many works from the artist's estate and seldom-seen pieces culled from a range of private and institutional collections. This exhibition also brings to light both Yoshida's early comic collages of the late 1960s, his beloved abstractions of the 1970s, selections from his "bathrobe" period, as well as his figurative works from the 1980s-including Touch and Go, which lends its name.
Over the course of a half-century Ray Yoshida (1930-2009) was one of the most vital American artistic figures to emerge from the Midwest. His singular importance is due both to his art and his position as an educator and colleague at SAIC. Curated by John Corbett and Jim Dempsey, this exhibition will be the first to examine Yoshida's work and its relation to his life in this educational institution, while placing it historically at the crucial juncture of mid-century Chicago-a time of transition from an expressionist orientation to a pop idiom.
The core of this exhibition is a retrospective of Yoshida's art featuring many works from the artist's estate and seldom-seen pieces culled from a range of private and institutional collections. This exhibition also brings to light both Yoshida's early comic collages of the late 1960s, his beloved abstractions of the 1970s, selections from Yoshida's "bathrobe" period, as well as his figurative works from the 1980s-including Touch and Go, which lends its name. While the show comprises a chronological survey of Yoshida's art, it departs from convention, as Yoshida did in life, by including works which highlight several major spheres of influence: his teachers at SAIC Kathleen Blackshear and Paul Wieghardt; his SAIC colleagues Ted Halkin, Whitney Halstead, Miyoko Ito, Thomas Kapsalis and Evelyn Statsinger; his contemporaries William Copley, Öyvind Fahlström, Peter Saul, and Karl Wirsum; self-taught artists Martin Ramirez and Joseph Yoakum; and his SAIC students Mark Booth, Roger Brown, Brian Calvin, Sarah Canright, Jordan Davies, Ed Flood, Art Green, Philip Hanson, Richard Hull, Jim Nutt, Christina Ramberg, Suellen Rocca, Barbara Rossi, William Schwedler, Rebecca Shore, Chris Ware, and Mary Lou Zelazny, among others.
In addition, the first collaboration between the SAIC's Department of Exhibitions and Exhibition Studies and the Art Institute of Chicago's Department of Contemporary Art, will result in a concurrent presentation of Yoshida's work will be on view in the Modern Wing from November 12, 2010-May 8, 2011.
This exhibition is supported in part by the Estate of Ray Yoshida, Ruth Horwich, Cleve Carney, and the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.
Reception: Friday, November 12, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Sullivan Galleries, 33 South State Street 7th floor
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Joseph Cruz: If one looks down at the earth from the moon...
LG Space
November 18-December 15
Reception: Thursday, November 18, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
If one looks down at the earth from the moon, there is no virtual distance between the Louvre and the Zoo is an investigation of the cultural/natural(ized) artifact and the form of the exposition. Joseph Cruz uses the myths surrounding the history and philosophy of science and pop culture to explore taxonomic rigidity and the production and reception of information. The effect of abjection points to a subjective role in creating a fantasy of objectivity in Nature.
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NEW BLOOD Festival of Student Performance
Saturday, November 20 and Sunday, November 21 at 7:00 p.m. both nights
Performance Space, 280 South Columbus Drive, room 012 (lower level)
Please join us for this fourth annual festival of student performance. Featuring 20 artists in solo and collaborative projects, this two-night event takes over the SAIC Columbus Drive building with site-specific actions, interactive encounters, video, and live performance. Not to be missed! Free and open to the public.
Image: Ray Yoshida, Untitled, c. 1970, Oil on canvas, 46" x 40", Courtesy of the Estate of Ray Yoshida.
Press - media contacts:
Ann Wiens
312.629.6135 (office) 312.560.9780 (cell) awiens@saic.edu
John Eding 312.259.2968 (office) jeding@saic.edu
Opening reception: November 12, 6:00–8:00 p.m.
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)
37 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, 60603
Gallery hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 11:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Free admission