Please join Columbia College Chicago's Photography Department in celebrating the conclusion of the 2010 Summer Digital Artist Residency Program. For one night only we will be presenting work by collage artist Stephen Eichhorn created during his month long residency.
Paula McCartney’s densely wooded landscapes are enlivened, ironically, by brightly colored craft store songbirds. While the deceit is more obvious in some pictures than others, what bears noticing is how these faux fowl punctuate their environments both as formal elements carefully arranged amid the brush and branches, and as a curious construction that offers an idealized vision of nature undercut by the gentle satire of that ideal.
The MoCP is proud to present a retrospective of renowned artist John Baldessari’s prints, spanning the four decades of Baldessari’s “post-painting” period, 1970s to the present. This collection of prints is on ...
X-treme Studio is an exhibition focused on the active production of visual art. It asks the viewer to reconsider conventional notions of the studio by highlighting visual practices and active spaces of production. Participating artists may participate live and through digital media, while active spaces will enter the gallery in digital media. Artists and projects include D. Denenge Akpem, The Dorchester Project/Theaster Gates, EJ Hill and Tannar Veatch, Hyde Park Art Center, Industry of the Ordinary, Julie Lequin, Shaun Leonardo, Live Work/Michael Zheng, New Urban Arts, The Poor Farm, The Velaslavasay Panorama, The Work Office, Alison Rhoades, and Russell Watson.
Experience Manifest. Columbia College Chicago's urban arts festival celebrates the next generation of artists and creative professionals.
Manifest is an urban arts festival celebrating the work and creativity of Columbia students. Each year it attracts an audience of students, faculty, staff, parents, friends, alumni, patrons, donors, industry professionals, neighborhood residents, and the Chicago arts community. The festival is free and open to the public and features music, exhibitions, screenings, presentations, performances, and much more!
The Museum of Contemporary Photography is proud to present a monographic exhibition featuring the work of British artist Sarah Pickering. While appearing to exist between reality and illusion, Pickering’s images are actually documents of simulation. The exhibition will present a total of 36 photographs from four recent series of Pickering’s work, spanning from 2002 to the present: Explosions, Fire Scene, Incident, and Public Order.
The photographic series the real estate (2008/2009), by Chicago-based artists Beate Geissler and Oliver Sann, depicts homes in foreclosure, evoking the absence and loss of former homeowners with unembellished portraits of empty living space. Oliver Sann and Beate Geissler moved to Chicago from Germany in 2008 just as the economic downturn hit and home foreclosures became widespread across the economic spectrum. Sann and Geissler document homes in Chicago, usually after they have been vacated, in a straightforward manner, capturing both the stark emptiness and the traces of human occupation, from structural architecture to decorating choices. The homes they photograph range ...
Jan Tichy's installations address the multi-layered narratives of urban spaces and architectural contexts. Using light as his medium, his site-specific commission will animate the ground floor vestibule. His minimalist approach leaves his works open to interpretation, focusing attention on the impact of his materials to transform our experience.
Fair Use is a multimedia exhibition that looks at how the copying, sampling, and recycling of existing material is being used as a creative tool in contemporary culture. The exhibition sets out to foster discussion through the examination of work by contemporary artists and designers who develop alternatives to the way we share ideas, images and objects. Participating artists include Sze Lin Pang, Line Langballe and Christina Okai Mejborn of Totem Collective, Guy Ben-Nur, Pratchaya Phintong, Seth Price, Eric Doeringer, Bea Correa, Kay Rosen, Salter/Snowden and Siebren Versteeg. Curated by ...
Let There Be Geo is an art exhibition at Columbia College Chicago's Leviton A+D Gallery that surveys the art of contemporary artists who use geometric form in their work. While employing geometric form in art is not a new phenomenon, geo forms are appearing in some of the most aesthetically progressive work being made today. Twenty-first century responses to geometric form make use of a variety of styles and media, from painting and video to photography and sculpture. The works in Let There Be Geo examine today’s incarnation of geometric form.
"The persistence of artistic geometric forms hints at a continuum, ...
50% Grey: Contemporary Czech Photography Reconsidered brings together the work of six contemporary Czech artists (two of whom work collaboratively), all of whom reflect on the very materials of photography and find poetic resonance in a lack of obviously-poetic subject matter. As the analog technology of photography fades away, these artists subversively employ a variety of photographic materials to investigate the potential for photographic veracity, and push the idea of framing and selection to counter any perceived objectivity the medium might have.
Instead of creating brightly colored, large, splashy digital works that dominate much of contemporary photography, they make quieter works, ...
Dis/Believer gives focus to contemporary artists who engage in ideas and moments when science and religion intersect. The concept is inspired by the ever-deepening conflict surrounding the reconciliation of scientific theory and spiritual faith, due to an explosive rebirth of religious fundamentalism and rivaling exponential discoveries in science. Debates on the compatibility of the natural and supernatural are raging in many forms of media and often feature scientist versus theologian, fundamentalist against atheist, and evolutionist opposed to creationist. The resulting dialogue is illuminating, divisive and exhilarating.
Visual artists are grappling with this concern and expanding the discourse in provocative ...
Jason Lazarus’ new work The top of the tree gazed upon by Anne Frank while in hiding (Amsterdam, 2008) is part of his ongoing series of conceptual self-portraits that focus on his role as an artist experiencing the world. Recorded at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, this video is a contemporary consideration of an iconic figure in Jewish history, while also representing the artist himself.
In her diary, Anne Frank often reflects upon a chestnut tree, the top of which was her only connection to the outside world. She wrote, "….from my favorite spot on the floor I look ...
Reversed Images: Representations of Shanghai and Its Contemporary Material Culture examines the city of Shanghai and its development into one of the global economy’s most productive cities in the new millennium. Shanghai is known for its impressive population growth, the increasingly rapid rate of its cultural and environmental transformations, and the tension between Western and traditional Chinese values, lifestyle, and work habits. In addition, the city is caught between a not-so-distant communism and a late-arriving capitalism, between a world founded on its labor force and the world of new technologies. Within this environment, the role of the arts becomes ever-important ...