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WOMAN MADE GALLERY PRESENTS
Group and Solo Shows and Other Events May 7 - July 1, 2010
"Birds Lost from a Giant Sequoia Forest During Fifty Years" by Kerry Hirth |
Chicago, IL - April 25, 2010
Woman Made Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of the "Beyond Audubon," juried by Karen Bondarchuk, and solo exhibitions by Karen Bondarchuk and Deborah Bryan. In addition, WMG will host a poetry reading on Sunday, May 16, 2010.
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BEYOND AUDUBON
Opening Reception: Friday, May 7, 6-9 p.m.
"Black-Headed Gull" by Ivy Bigbee |
Woman Made Gallery is proud to present a group exhibition by women artists whose works applaud, challenge and transcend the bird illustrations of John James Audubon. The exhibition features everything from traditional still-life painting to a physical representation of genome data where an analysis of bird species illustrates human differences and information technology's growing role in society.
Juror Karen Bondarchuk included works by 39 artists, which will be on exhibit from May 7 through July 1, 2010.
Click Here to View the Group Exhibition Online
Exhibition Dates: May 7 - July 1, 2010
WMG Opening Reception: Friday, May 7, 6-9 p.m. |
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KAREN BONDARCHUK: CROW MAGNUS
Opening Reception: Friday, May 7, 6-9 p.m.
"Corvus Reductus" by Karen Bondarchuk |
"I have spent countless hours over the past several years driving the interstate highways in Michigan and the northeast. Without realizing I had done so, I invented a game while driving: seeing a form on the side of the road in the distance, I would try to determine whether it was a dead tire or a dead animal. I began to scavenge the sides of I-94 for any interesting detritus I could find (mainly tire scraps), and the crow eventually evolved from the material."
Karen Bondarchuk is Assistant Professor of Art at the Gwen Frostic School of Art at Western Michigan University. Her current work explores the level of artificiality that defines our relationship with the wild, and the reality that most close encounters with wildlife are by human design. Bondarchuk has exhibited and performed in the United States, Canada, Italy, and England, and her work is in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada and numerous private collections.
Exhibition Dates: May 7 - July 1, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, May 7, 6-9 p.m.
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DEBORAH BRYAN: AVICULTURE
Opening Reception: Friday, May 7, 6-9 p.m.
"Folly of the Panopticon" by Deborah Bryan | "This exhibition shows twelve of twenty-five prints from the "Bird in the House" series, that were created from the end of 1999 to the end of 2006. All are printed from a 24 inch by 18 inch copper plate and use the intaglio methods of line etch, aquatint, and occasionally, engraving.
Following the completion of a detailed full-size preliminary drawing, the imagery is transfered to a grounded copper plate and the line etch is completed. Then the full range of values from white to black is added using a rosin aquatint. In most instances, a significant amount of time is spent on what I refer to as platework, wet-sanding with oil, scraping, and burnishing. Each plate will usually go through alternating stages of etching and platework, until a proof pulled from the plate indicates that the imagery is developed to my satisfaction. At that point, the complete edition is printed on the selected paper, and the plate is then cancelled. Whatever the method of cancellation, the result is that no further images can be pulled from the plate.
Each print in the edition is printed by the artist on a Takach etching press, using oil-based Charbonnel and Daniel Smith etching inks and various heavy printmaking papers. Each print is signed and numbered."
Deborah Byran received her MFA in Printmaking at East Tennessee State University, under the direction of Ralph Slatton. She is a faculty member at Tusculum College in Greeneville, Tennessee.
Exhibition Dates: May 7 - July 1, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, May 7, 6-9 p.m.
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Please join us for a reading curated by Nina Corwin on May 16, from 2 to 4 p.m., at Woman Made Gallery. Refreshments will be served.
Readers include Kristy Bowen, Sarah Gardner, Todd Heldt, Lauren Levato, and Erika Mikkalo.
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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 Arts Work Fund for Organizational Development, a donor advised fund of the Chicago Community Trust; the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation; The Efroymson Family Fund, a CICF Fund; Nuveen Investments; 3Arts; a major anonymous donor; and the generosity of its members and contributors.
Please help to support our work to exhibit art by women and to educate the public about women's artistic contributions by giving a tax-deductible donation to Woman Made Gallery.
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Woman Made Staff
Beate C. Minkovski, Executive Director
Kristen Carter, Gallery Assistant
Emanuel Aguilar, Exhibition Preparator
Volunteer Staff
Emanuel Aguilar, Marketing Support
Mary Ann Anthony, Exhibition and Fundraising
Margaret Denny, Artisan Gallery Curator
Deb Flagel and LuEllen Joy Giera, Her Group
Mary King, Exhibtion Layout
Woman Made Board of Directors Anita Jenke, President
Mary Keefe, Treasurer
Marty Bash, Secretary
Shannon Downey, Deb Flagel, Elena Aguirre Sznajder, Cheryl Toles, Kathleen Waterloo |
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Woman Made Gallery
685 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Chicago, IL 60642
312-738-0400
Memberhip: www.womanmade.org/membership.html
Gallery Hours
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 12-7 p.m.
Saturday, Sunday 12-4 p.m. |
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