Jason Middlebrook’s longstanding interest in the decaying landscape was all about "sustainability" before the word became part of our everyday vernacular. His paintings, drawings, sculptures and installations address the concept of living with less and literally build upon this strategy to convey that one can also be "alive with less." Re-imagining discarded materials like cardboard and plastic bottles into provocative installations, Middlebrook essentially creates something from nothing. In his site-specific installation LESS, Middlebrook uses trashed and abandoned wood materials scavenged from the streets, alleys, and basements of Chicago to create a jumbled starburst of reclaimed wood in the gallery. ...
Work by Karl Haendel & Walead Beshty, Sheree Hovsepian and Barbara Kasten.
The Dog and the Wolf is Letinsky’s newest series of photographs. The title is from Aesop’s Fable of the same name, but also refers to the French phrase L'heure entre chien et loup – the time between dog and wolf is seen when dusk becomes night. This is a mysterious time when day and night exist together, when a dog is no longer a dog but not fully a wolf. Exploring this concept, Letinsky is now photographing in twilight as opposed to the morning light that permeated her earlier work. The subject matter of her recent still life photographs ...
Sign of the Times is a group exhibition exploring the current global economic crisis. This show was initially inspired by Carrie Schneider's most recent photos Recession and Miss America. Acting once again as her own subject, Schneider set out to explore elements of physical comedy and its greater psychological repercussions. But as an American working in a foreign land (Helsinki), during a global meltdown, not-to-mention being bombarded with headlines about Miss California Carrie Prejean, Schneider could not help feeling personally responsible and embraced the topical nature of work. Taking this cue, Sign of Times hopes to convey the multiplicity ...
In our Likeness: Portraits of Illumination is the 3rd solo show by Robert Davis and Michael Langlois at moniquemeloche and is running concurrently with their solo show Into The Void: The Ballad of The Martyr as Told by Ingres at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago as part of the UBS 12x12: New Artists, New Work series. Davis (American, b. 1970) and Langlois (American, b. 1974) have been working collaboratively since meeting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1997. The artists have exhibited internationally with solo exhibitions in Los Angeles, Berlin, Naples Italy and most ...