Following Durling’s opening, Golden will debut its new auxiliary space, also located in Chicago’s East Lakeview neighborhood, a few blocks away at 3319 N. Broadway. The auxiliary space will operate in dialogue with the programming expected of Golden, however working with an expanded range of artists and trajectories. The new space will be a more immediate and heterogeneous venue in comparison to the traditional gallery model, focusing here on continuously fresh rotations of affordable works that create their own dialog within the space. An extension of the gallery, the auxiliary space sits somewhere between “project space” “artist studio” “pop-up ...
Lloyd Durling's modestly sized drawings are made from an innumerable amount of strokes that form a field not dissimilar to thin washes of paint. Created using commonplace drawing tools, predominately felt-tip pen and graphite, the images are both animated and claustrophobic. Durling’s visual vocabulary explores the relational and negative space, which is heightened by his employment of the silhouette. The production of physical form, albeit flat, is created by filling in the space directly around the image, or working “back to front.” In both Parade and Triumph, the (positive) background, hashed out of a sea of silver graphite, creates (negative) ...
Work by Jessica Labatte.
Mike Schuh's multi-disciplinary practice consists of performing acts with and upon easily obtainable objects in order to subvert specific aspects of their given practical functions. The artist’s objective is not to inject meaning into objects and experiences, but rather to create situations that are catalysts for questioning the very impetus to make meanings of the world and the role that empirical knowledge has in our daily lives. The objects used are small and familiar, and the acts of artistic production are gestural and restrained. The result is an object that has not merely been altered by re-contextualization, but one whose ...
Over the past fifteen years Pamela Fraser has established herself as one of the States' standout abstract painters, and is known for making "seemingly casual arrangements" that are "more deliberately made than you initially think." Her past works, always presented on pristinely prepared canvases, suggested minimalism but often with humorous twists. They are testaments to the artists in-depth inquiry into design and rhythm, as well as her continual interest with the historical status of painting. In current work, the infinitely complex subject of color, especially the fallibility of color systems, has become a central investigation.
Fraser will present eight newly ...
Joseph Cassan's sculptural practice unfolds from a desire to concretize the 'ephemeral. Using commonly found hardware store materials, each sculpture is concerned with realism and iconography. A swan, seen in the round, made out of polystyrene and caulk creates the illusion of the bird and its reflection. A hovering pair of pink panties, meticulously crafted out of wire and metal mesh, curiously monumentalizes adolescent sexuality, and even further, the creation of man. Cassan's sculptural vignettes lack the context, or support structures (swan without water, underwear without body), that we are accustomed to seeing. The artistʼs omission heightens our viewing. We ...
Austin Eddy creates paintings that borrow their imagery from a myriad of sources; this most recent work employs reoccurring visual vocabulary passed down through the history of painting. The compositional tools of Matisse, Picasso, and Avery act as a jumping off point for Eddyʼs renderings of colorfully patterned, melancholic interior spaces. Modest sized canvases depict interiors furnished with tables, books, flower-filled vases, houseplants, and works of art that surround the roomsʼ ambivalent inhabitants. In the background we find windows leading us out to the great beyond, acting as a place for escape and release within the image for the ...
Ischar will exhibit a body of photographs from 1985, never before seen in its entirety, taken on the now defunct Belmont Rocks in the city of Chicago, and a new single-channel video work.