Artwork by Margaret Bobo-Dancy

  

Curated by Robin Hustle, "Slippery Slope" features work that recognizes and adopts pornographic aesthetics and conceptual modes. Works in the exhibition borrow from the ephemera of pornography, make use of its modes of production: collaboration, artist as director, artist as sexual actor; share its vision: sexual arousal, utopian exploration, and establish a relationship between the artist and the voyeur.

 

Included are painting, drawing, print, sculpture, mixed media, and video works by Virginia Aberle, Margaret Bobo-Dancy, Clothhilde, Megan Diddie, Mikey Estes, Darcy Fangi, Sarah Faux, Ektor Maria Garcia, Vanessa Harris, Alyssa Herlocher, Young Joon Kwak, Daniel Luedtke, Noelle Mason, Ulrike Müller, Betsy Odom, Caroline Picard, Ruby Thorkelson, Xara Thustra, Lainey Waugh, Shoshanna Weinberger, and Dustin Yager.

 

The exhibition, "Slippery Slope" is wheelchair accessible. 

Brenna Conley-Fonda with her work

  

"These drawings made of hair are derived from photographs taken by soldiers working at Abu Ghraib prison. This is a project that I have been working on since 2005. My understanding of these pictures has ranged from deeply personal to highly political."

 

Brenna Conley-Fonda is a Chicago-based multimedia artist working primarily in installation and photography. She is a graduate of School of the Art Institute and has shown work at Threat Level, Roxaboxen, Sullivan Galleries with Chicago Torture Justice Memorial Project, St. Louis Women's Caucus for the Arts, and Schwarzer Kanal in Berlin. Her work has also been featured in an essay by Mary Patten entitled What is to be (UN)done: Notes on Teaching Art and Terrorism.

   

 

Video by Robin Hustle: "How it Feels to Force-Feed"

"My latest work is permeated by bodies and spaces that may seem in contradiction with one another, some incarcerated and stripped of consent while others move freely through each other and their environments. In bringing these pieces together, my intention is to locate the connections between these bodies, their shared desires, their physiological and emotional needs, shortening the distances between them while acknowledging and accommodating their separateness. Food and sex, mobility and structural integrity, consumption and decay are rearranged into patterns built on principles and on pleasures."

 

Robin Hustle is an artist and writer from Chicago. Her visual art addresses sex, labor, language, and health, and has been exhibited in group shows at Gallery 400, Roots and Culture, Roxaboxen, and Woman Made. She has self-published the zines Mirror Tricks, Curdled Milk, and Leftovers Again? and co-edited two free journals, The Land Line and The Skeleton News; she currently writes a regular column on sex work for Jezebel.com.  

   

 

Artwork by Betsy Odom

  

Artists' Talk

Saturday, July 13, 2013 / 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. / Free 

Artists Caroline Picard, Dustin Yager, and Shoshanna Weinberger discuss their work in the Slippery Slope group exhibition. 

 

Reading & Film Screening

Thursday, August 8, 2013 / 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. / Free

 

Closing Reception

Thursday, August 22, 2013 / 6-9 p.m. / Free   

Please join us for a Closing Reception for "Slippery Slope" and group shows by Brenna Conley-Fonda and Robin Hustle. Talks and performances by Brenna Conley-Fonda and Daniel Luedtke.