Group and Invitational Shows
January 19 - February 22, 2007
Chicago, Illinois
Woman Made Gallery opens its 2007 exhibition
schedule with a timely and thought-provoking
show, "From Sham to Shame: A Woman's Perspective
on War and Politics", with artwork by curators Marcia
Grubb and Ann Berg and juried works by 35 women.
In addition Woman Made's Artisan Gallery begins the
new season with ‘All Manner of Mosaics,’ an exhibition
that continues the exploration of the materials and
techniques being used by women artisans.
Please join us at the artist reception on January 19,
2007, 6-9pm at 685 N. Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago.
Regular Gallery hours are Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday from 12 to 7pm and on Saturday and Sunday
from 12 to 4pm.
Sham to Shame - Group Exhibition
During the first week of 2007, the death toll of U.S.
soldiers reached beyond 3,000. The United States
has been engaged in the Iraq War longer than its
involvement in World War II. As we start a new year
and reflect on these facts, we highlight a diverse
group of women's responses to the conflict in Iraq
and war in general.
Group show artists include: Amy Babinec, Phylane
Norman Becker, Claire Beckett, Barbara Bruneau-
Cleaver, Ginger Burrell, Mo Cahill, Christina Canzoneri,
Donna Catanzaro and Gail Smuda, Esther Charbit,
Mary Christopher, Mary Ellen Croteau, Melanie Deal,
Nancy Delman, Nitasha Deogun, Robyn Desposito,
Jenn DeWald, Elizabeth Ensz, Andrea Ginsburg, Karen
Hanmer, Carrie Hoelzer, Bet Ison, Sari Kadison-
Shapiro, Jennifer Kahns, Laurel Lueders, Anne Potter,
Karen Rechtschaffen, Lisa Rockford, Carol Ross, Rita
Salluzzi, Robin Starbuck, Jere Van Syoc, Michele
Thrane, Elise Venia and Alison Williams.
Image: 'Private Megan Cassidy' by Claire Beckett
c-print photography - 40 x 30 inches
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Sham to Shame Invitational ...
Installation by Ann Berg and Marcia Grubb
The exhibition was curated by Marcia Grubb and Ann
Berg, whose mixed media installation will be shown
simultaneously at WMG’s lower level space. Their
works include the recreation of an Abu Ghraib prison
cell and 8 foot long panels of x-rayed trucks and
human bodies that were produced by national
security companies.
Ann Berg is a capital and commodities market
consultant and a freelance writer on economic and
political issues. She currently works for the United
Nations Food and Agricultural Organization in Rome
and is a frequent contributor to www.antiwar.com.
Her artwork reflects how the state’s trillion dollar
apparatus has created a perception shift in our daily
lives following September 11th. Her current body of
work explores U.S. national security policy through
mixed media collage and lithographs with Xerox
transfers.
Marcia Grubb, BFA, University of Wisconsin, MFA, The
Art Institute of Chicago, taught art for many years at
colleges in Chicago and exhibited around the world,
with works in many museums and private collections.
Her artistic focus addresses highly charged political
issues that often spark controversy.
To me, "Political Art" is important in society and I
have always felt that I was a political artist and had
something to say through my art about political
issues. Sometimes the work is so "in your face"
that it is not pretty, soothing, or suitable for hanging
above the living room couch. Political Art is often
temporary, seen as a poster on a construction site
wall, on a placard at a march or rally, on a subway
wall or on the street. It is meant to provoke the
viewer to think about an issue differently than viewed
in the newspaper or seen on the nightly news. It is
meant to show feelings, emotions, and even solicit
dialogue, solutions, and possibly stir the viewer to
take action.
Image: 'The Flag After 9/11,' mixed media, 48 x 72 by
Marcia Grubb
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From Sham to Shame: Poets Respond to War & Injustice
A reading of poetry that explores the feelings and
reactions of those disillusioned by the agendas of
government, particularly after 9/11. The reading will
be held in an artist’s recreation of an Abu Ghraib
prison cell at Woman Made Gallery in conjunction with
the exhibitions titled 'From Sham to Shame.'
Readers include Francisco Aragón, Brenda Cardenas,
Maureen Tolman Flannery, Francesco Levato, Lauren
Levato, Toni Asante Lightfoot, Mars, Paul Martinez
Pompa, and Michael Warr.
Sunday, February 11, 2007 from 2 to 4pm. The
event is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact:
Lauren Levato at
womanmadepoetry@hotmail.com
Gallery: 312.738.0400 or gallery@womanmade.org
Artisan Gallery - All Manner of Mosaics
Besides the content driven themes in the current
group and invitational exhibitions, the Artisan Gallery
at Woman Made begins the new season with ‘All
Manner of Mosaics,’ an exhibition that continues the
exploration of the materials and techniques being
used by women artisans. The artists’ responses
include jewelry, quilting, sculpture, and functional
objects.
We welcome Chicagoan Karen Ami as our featured
mosaic artist. Karen is the founder and Executive
Director of The Chicago Mosaic School. She says of
her art: “I create mosaics to satisfy my urge to make
things whole. I use sculpture and mosaic to
communicate through texture and color. There is a
beauty in the fragments of colored glass, in the
sensuality and smoothness of clay, and in the
contrast of light and texture. I believe a sense of
humor enhances the colorful, amusing, and strange
struggles that make us human.”
Karen Ami is joined in the exhibition by mosaic artists
Valerie Alduen, Chicago; Sherry Dorst, Napa, CA; Julie
Burkhart Haid, Hudson, WI; Vanessa Wright Hollifield,
Winston Salem, NC; Gisele Perreault, Chicago, IL;
Gwyn Kaitis Roland, Joliet, IL; Staci Sterenberg,
Chicago, IL; Beth Ann St. George, Tempe, AZ; Leann
Wooten, Chicago, IL.
Other exhibiting Artisan Gallery artists include: Angela
Askin, Beth Bartley, Molly Bitters, Jill Buckingham,
Sarah Chapman, Lori C. Coan, Linda Deardorff, Judy
B. Freeman, Sandra Golbert, Judy Gray, Caroline
Haurie, Laura C. Hewitt, Dorothy Hughes, Ala Jaron,
Stephanie Marder, Natalie Prevost- Mero, Emily
McCormick, Emily Murphy, Kimberly Nikolaev, Elizabeth
Parrock, Carmen M. Perez, Elizabeth Rhoads Read,
Karen Roberts, Liz Vercruysse, Emily Watson and Lisa
Williams.
The exhibition opens with an artist reception on
Friday, January 19 from 6 to 9pm and works will be on
display through March 29, 2007.
Image: 'Butterface' by Karen Ami; glass, smalti,
ceramic, vitreous tile on cement, 30 x 15 x 5˝ inches
Artisan Gallery
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 Chicago
Community Foundation, the Gaylord and Dorothy
Donnelley Foundation; the Polk Bros. Foundation; the
Hugh M. Hefner Foundation; the Efroymson Fund, a
CICF Fund; 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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