Michelle Grabner
dal 21/1/2011 al 25/2/2011
Segnalato da
21/1/2011
Michelle Grabner
Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago
Like a Rare Morel. The exhibition marks Grabner's return to domesticated geometric pattern. Gingham, a plain-woven fabric where the warp and weft are aligned to form a simple perpendicular crossing pattern is the basis of Grabner's recent metalpoint panel works. Gold, silver, copper, and graphite are employed to imitate the basic grid structure generated by gingham weave.
Shane Campbell Gallery is pleased to announce Like a Rare Morel, an exhibition of graphite and metalpoint works on birch panel by Michelle Grabner.
This exhibition marks Grabner's return to domesticated geometric pattern. Gingham, a plain-woven fabric where the warp and weft are aligned to form a simple perpendicular crossing pattern is the basis of Grabner's recent metalpoint panel works. Gold, silver, copper, and graphite are employed to imitate the basic grid structure generated by gingham weave.
The small scale of these works, their minimal gestures, and their ever-changing metal patina up-stage their common reference soliciting theoretical notions of time and geometric abstraction. These simple works re-postulate the restlessness set forth by the long-standing theoretical debates between the polemical conditions of representation and non-representation, relative and non-relative, material and immaterial, the measurable and the immeasurable.
Michelle Grabner's work is currently on view in A Shot in the Dark at The Walker Art Center and Collaborating with Michelle Grabner isn't as fun as you think it is at Gallery 16 in San Francisco. She is a Professor and Department Chair of the Painting and Drawing at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and along with her husband Brad Killam runs the artist-run exhibition spaces: The Suburban, Oak Park, IL and The Poor Farm, Waupaca County WI. Grabner's work is included in the public collections of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; MUDAM - Musée d’Art Moderne, Luxemburg; Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
To obtain additional information please call the gallery at 312.226.2223, or email info@shanecampbellgallery.com
Opening reception, Saturday, January 22, 3-5 pm
Shane Campbell Gallery
673 North Milwaukee Avenue - Chicago USA