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Group and Invitational Shows
May 19 - June 15, 2006
Opening Reception: May 19, 2006 from 6-9pm
"Here Comes the Bride" group show with art by 59
women - "Visions of Beauty" with photography by
Judy Cooperman - "Contents Include: Glass" at the
Artisan Gallery from May 19 through June 15, 2006 at
Woman Made Gallery
The Gallery is open and free to the public on
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 12-7pm and
on Saturday and Sunday from 12-4pm.
Here Comes the Bride - Group Exhibition
"Here Comes the Bride" includes original art in all
media: painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture
and video by 59 women from the local, national and
international community whose work explores the
theme and ritual of weddings and related ceremonies.
Artists include Shelly Jyoti from India, Andrea Bird
from Canada, Alison Williams from South Africa,
artists from various US states, including 20 artists
from Illinois.
The exhibition has been curated and juried by Beate
Minkovski who is the co-founder and Executive
Director of Woman Made Gallery.
"Here Comes the Bride" opens on May 19 with an
artist reception from 6 to 9 pm at Woman Made
Gallery, 685 N. Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago's River
West neighborhood.
Exhibiting artists include Jo Anne Adams, Sarah
Beckstrom, Emily Bicht, Andrea Bird, Cathi Kern
Borushek, Bo Breda, Fran Bull, Susan Cersovsky,
Diane Chin, Jessica Cook, Patricia Cudd, Melanie Deal,
Peggy Dee, Christine DiThomas, Eileen Downes, Jane
Cress Edgar, Beatrice Fisher, Julie Foreman, Barbara
Freeman, Laura S. Friedlander, Dawn Gettler, Kathy
Halper, Constance Hanselman, Melissa Haviland,
Jennifer Hereth and Robin Power (collaboration),
Teresa Hofheimer, Christina Jorge, Shelly Jyoti, Elka
Kazmierczak, Mary King, Judi Krew, Georgia Kung,
Wendy Kveck, Eliza Lamb, Mary Longley, Cindy
Matchett, Meridith McNeal, Rachel Melis, Kristen
Merola, Carolyn Rose Milner, Doris Monti, Cella
Neapolitan, Kathleen Migliore Newton, Robbin
O'Harrow, Bonnie Peterson, Lisa A. Pounders,
Marguerite Manteau Rao, Denna des Rioux, Larissa
Rolley, Katherine Santora, Gail Marlene Schwartz,
Loren Schwerd, Carol Shikany, Elissa Steinert, Shana
Talley, Roxie Thomas, Judith Williams, Alison
Williams. In conjunction with the
exhibition Woman Made Gallery is hosting a poetry
event on Sunday, May 21 from 2-4pm
Image: 'Best Wishes and Good Luck' - clay, cloth,
found objects (metal) - 14 x 6 x 8" - by Susan
Cersovsky
Read More Here
Visions of Beauty - Solo Show by Judy Cooperman
In Judy Cooperman’s “Visions of Beauty” the
relationship between women and the contemporary
culture, with its prescriptives and necessities to
become beautiful, is viewed through striking
photographs that engage the viewer by
their immediacy and reveal the reality of the process.
Artist Judy Cooperman began this ongoing project in
2000, investigating and recording through
photographs what women do in the name of beauty.
Considering the extent to which women have gone to
follow the dictates of the “beauty culture,” ranging
from temporary and minor adjustments in appearance
to more radical and permanent changes with plastic
surgery and life threatening eating disorders, she
feels it is important to bring to light both the light
and dark sides of this fact.
Judy Cooperman's exhibition: "Visions of Beauty" will
be on display from May 19 to June 15, 2006.
Image: 'Ageless Beauty I' - photography, 16 x 20" by
Judy Cooperman
Read more here
Artisan Gallery - Contents Include: Glass
Through June 30th the Artisan Gallery is
showing "Contents Include: Glass" with artisans using
glass as the central or most significant element in a
functional or decorative work.
Featured artist is Nancy Otto who lives in San
Francisco, California. Nancy Otto has shown at WMG
previously and she was also one of the artists in
WMG's Her Mark 2006 calendar.
Glass artists include Melissa Haeffner, Chicago, IL;
Barbara Harris, Moses Lake, WA; Meg Branzetti and
Vicky Kokolski of Meko Designs, Little Neck, NY;
Donna Powers, Delta, OH; Michelle Rial, Serena, IL;
Anamaria Ungureanu, Brasov, Romania
Contents Include: Glass will be on display through
June 30, 2006
Artisan Gallery
Poetry Reading and Book Release Party
Woman Made hosts 'Marriage Bones' party, group
poetry reading in conjunction with the "Here Comes
the Bride" exhibition.
During this traditional month of marriage, Woman
Made Gallery will feature five Illinois poets for their
Here Comes the Bride group poetry reading and book-
release party*. Maureen Tolman Flannery, Allison
Joseph, Lauren Levato, Lina Vitkauskas, and
Constance Vogel will read works dealing with love,
courtship, marriage, divorce, and the rituals of
marriage.
*Levato, poetry coordinator for Woman Made Gallery,
will be celebrating the release of her first poetry
chapbook, Marriage Bones, released through Chicago
publisher Fractal Edge Press.
For more information, contact:
Lauren Levato at 773.640.4522
womanmadepoetry@hotmail.com
Gallery: 312.738.0400 or gallery@womanmade.org
About Woman Made Gallery
Woman Made Gallery is a tax-exempt, not for profit
organization founded in 1992. Its goal is to support
women in the arts by providing opportunities,
awareness, and advocacy. It specifically
accomplishes this through monthly thematic
exhibitions which raise public awareness and
recognition of women's cultural contributions.
Woman Made Gallery is supported in part by grants
from the Illinois Arts Council a state agency; a
CityArts Program II grant from the City of Chicago,
Department of Cultural Affairs; the Gaylord and
Dorothy Donnelley Foundation; the Polk Bros
Foundation; the Hugh M. Hefner Foundation and the
generosity of its members and contributors.
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Woman Made Gallery
Beate C. Minkovski
Executive Director
Phone:
312-738-0400
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