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WOMAN MADE GALLERY PRESENTS
July 11 - August 21, 2014
Opening Reception: Friday, July 11, 6-9 p.m.
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Chicago, IL - July 1, 2014
Woman Made Gallery (WMG) is proud to present two group exhibitions, "Contained," a group exhibition with works by 24 artists, and "texttexttext" with works by 26 artists. A reading, curated by Nina Corwin takes place on Sunday, August 3rd.
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Opening Reception: Friday, July 11, 6-9 p.m.
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Juried by Carolina Caycedo, "Contained" invited artists to interpret the idea of containment in its literal, physical, and transient forms, exploring the organic and man-made limits, borders, and boundaries of place, space, and time.
Included are photography, mixed media, painting, printmaking, video, and installation works by Hiba Ali, Monica Balc, Kevin Bell, Colby Beutel, Cassidy Bingham, Melanie Deal, Felicia Diaz, Kyra Garrigue, Martha Hopkins, Nicole Lane, Catalina Barroso Luque, Marina Miliou-Theocharaki, Tracy Ostmann, Mary Phelan, Mabi Ponce de León, Gina Robbins, Julia Samuels, Shelley Stevens, Nalani Stolz, Denise Treizman, Arlene Tribbia, Dot Vile, Dana West, and Ashleigh Wink.
The juror, Carolina Caycedo is a Los Angeles-based artist, of Colombian and British background. She engages with issues and contexts that affect a broad public on an everyday level. In her work, art functions as a pretext for offering up utopian models to inhabit a world in which individuals and communities are increasingly subject to commodification, exploitation, and discrimination. She has developed publicly engaged projects in Bogotá, Madrid, San Juan, New York, San Francisco, and London amongst other places.
The group show "Contained" is wheelchair accessible.
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Opening Reception: Friday, July 11, 6-9 p.m.
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Juried by Monika Szewczyk, "texttexttext" explores text-based work in all media, from art reduced to nothing but text, to art depicting obscured or unseen text.
Included are photography, mixed media, painting, drawing, printmaking, and installation works by Briar Craig, Maggie Crowley, Stephanie Cunningham, Sandra Doore, Eleanor Elkin, Marcy B. Freedman, Kathryn Gauthier, Karen Gutfreund, Meg Guttman, Kate Hampel, Alessandra Hickman, Judy Hiramoto, Judith Hladik-Voss, Mary Hogan, Cathy Joritz, Naomi Kasumi, Elizabeth Kauffman, Jennifer Kim, Marta Lee, Elysia Mann, Kameelah Rasheed, Danielle Rosen, Kathryn Shinko, Robin Snyder, István Szegedi, and Rhonda Wheatley.
The juror, Monika Szewczyk divides her time between writing, editing, curating and teaching. She has contributed essays to numerous catalogues as well as journals such as Afterall, A Prior, C Magazine, Camera Austria, Canadian Art, F.R. David, Mousse, and e-flux journal. From 2008 to 2012, she was head of publications at the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, where she also taught in the Fine Arts Masters Course at the Piet Zwart Institute.
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Please join us for a reading of poems on the theme of "Boxes" on Sunday, August 3rd from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Boxes can be filled with any number of things. Likewise, the poets for this reading approach the theme from as many angles as one could imagine: boxed in, outside the box, container and contained, categories as boxes, the black box, Cornell boxes, gifts and deliveries boxes, inclusion and exclusion. Poets will come from in and out of the box marked Chicago.
All poetry events are organized and hosted by noted writers and poets who are members of Woman Made Gallery. The current poetry series is curated by Nina Corwin and documented by Kurt Heintz. Poetry events are free and open to the public with light refreshments served. For questions please contact WMG at gallery@womanmade.org.
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Woman Made Gallery (WMG) is a tax-exempt, not-for-profit organization founded in 1992. Its goal is to support, cultivate, and promote the diverse contributions of women in the arts through exhibitions and other programs that serve, educate, and enrich our community.
A small staff, interns and volunteers, and a dedicated group of board members and advisers are the heart and soul of the Gallery. WMG relies on membership contributions and individual donations to create the programs that support its mission.
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; a major anonymous donor; and the generosity of its members and contributors.
WE CANNOT DO OUR IMPORTANT WORK WITHOUT YOUR HELP!
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Beate C. Minkovski, Executive Director
Ruby Thorkelson, Gallery Coordinator
Sydney Stoudmire, Gallery Assistant
Emanuel Aguilar, Exhibition Preparator
Volunteer Staff
Emanuel Aguilar, Marketing Support
Mary Ann Anthony, Exhibition + Fundraising
Deb Flagel, Her Group
Mary King, Exhibition Layout
Marty Bash & Melanie Deal, Editing Support
Tammi Franke, President
Andrea Leets, Treasurer
Erin Waser, Secretary
Marcia Grubb
Candice Hickman
Linda Hillman
Gail Holmberg
Mary Keefe
Janet Snow-Godfrey
Monica Staco
Ginny Sykes
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Woman Made Gallery
685 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Chicago, IL 60642
Membership: www.womanmade.org/membership.html
Call for Art: www.womanmade.org/entryform.html
Gallery Hours
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday noon-7 p.m.
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