Enjoying the stars and the meals at ACRE in Wisconsin, making material breakthroughs, and generally picking up ideas wherever I'd left them. These are experimental free-floating glitter stencils for an upcoming show in Chicago.
And a few more...
ART
KEGGER: wildly successful exhibition images
This program partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.
In residence: the Vermont Studio Center
Two weeks in a new studio
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Cold and dreary weather
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No need to go outside
This program partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.
Going west...
...super excited about my first show in LA! Momentum is being held in conjunction with the 40th anniversary of the Women's Caucus for Art, and an updated version of Self-Portrait: Lying will be there. Go visit if you can: 825 Gallery, 825 N. La Cienega Blvd. Opening reception Feb. 24, 6:00-9:00 pm. Meanwhile, I'll be at Woman Made Gallery this week installing work for Twenty in their Twenties.
Kim Jong-Il: In Memoriam, or maybe more like Lest We Forget
Kim: Lying... Is it too late or was it too soon? The Dear Leader's been in storage but would be willing to make appearances for his cortège.
Wish List
newworkshop
Summer shows
July's been really busy and I am soooo excited to be participating in two amazing shows: PLEASE TOUCH THE ARTWORK, curated brilliantly by Emma Stein and opening in Chicago on July 16th, and the 7th Annual National Self-Portrait Exhibition at Zhou B Art Center in Bridgeport, opening July 15, where I'll be showing video work.
In Stitches
My work is showing in Pilsen! Cobalt Studio is hosting In Stitches: Smile Now, Cry Later until June 4. Make an appointment and go visit! cobaltartstudio@gmail.com, 1950 W. 21st St.
Critical opinions of SAIC's MFA show
Pedro Vélez, Chicago-based artist/writer/curator, thinks I'm the craziest. I appreciate this. Check out this and his other favourites on artnet: Art School Confidential: New MFA Grads at Chicago Art Schools.
BOTH/AND, a curated group show at the SAIC MFA Thesis Show
Here's me installing at the thesis show: http://blogs.saic.edu/gradexhibition2011/2-from-the-curatorial-fellows/artist-spotlight-kate-hampel/ You can still visit the Sullivan Galleries (7th floor, 33 S. State St., Chicago) until May 20 to see the 2011 MFA Thesis Exhibition at SAIC. BOTH/AND is a group show within the exhibition organized by Kate Hampel, Gwynne Johnson, Kristin Nason, Matthew Schlagbaum, and Nancy Tien. No time to visit the gallery? You can imagine it all as you read our curatorial statement:
These artists explore the tenuous nature of our ability to lend concrete and stable meanings to people, objects, and personal identity. By revealing and expanding private moments of experience, these artists seek to make visible that which is often concealed or unseen. Questioning notions of stability, authenticity, and personal and social value, they address our own fragile attempts to carve out places for ourselves within society's limitations and boundaries.
