[Nettime-bold] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Artemisia Gallery (October)

[Artemisia Gallery <artemisi@enteract.com>]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  OCTOBER EXHIBITIONS

ARTEMISIA  GALLERY
700 N. Carpenter
Chicago, Illinois  60660
ph:  312 / 226-7232  ...  fx:  312 / 226-7756

• Show Dates:  October 4th  to October 27th
• Opening Reception:  October 5th, 5-8PM
• Artist's Talk:  October 5th  -  7:30PM
• Gallery Hours:   Tuesday - Saturday, 11 am - 5 pm

SPECIAL EVENT  -  ALL GALLERIES:  October 26th, 2001 
(6 - 8 pm)
Rich Diversity  -  3 Women's Collectives
As part of the the Chicago Department of  Cultural Affairs 6th
Annual Chicago Artists' Month, Face to Face, Artemisia has teamed up with
A.R.C. Gallery and Sapphires & Crystals, for an evening of exhibition,
gallery discussions and artist's talks.  The evening begins at 6 pm
at A.R.C. Gallery and convenes next door at Artemisia Gallery.

ANNOUNCEMENT:    Opening Reception  .  .  .  ARTIST'S TALKS
Beginning at 7:30 at the opening reception, each exhibiting Artist will give a short gallery talk .
 

EXHIBITIONS:

Main Gallery:    PEG ORCUTT,  DEAD RECKONING
Artemisia Associate Member, Peg Orcutt, joins us this month in the Main Gallery with her latest body of paintings.  Dead Reckoning is a reflection on personal direction and route-finding using the 1914  Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of Britain's Sir Earnest Shackleton as one of her inspirations.  "How do we find direction in our lives, what symbolizes safety and home for any of us and is there any hope for survival when crossing open seas" are questions that Orcutt asks and addresses in these metaphoric and thought-provoking paintings.

Gallery A:   HALIDE SALAM, UNVEILING NATURE
"My paintings are moods of people, living forms, life experiences, history and feelings, and lie on the slippery edge of cultural time, sliding in and out of universal artistic traditions" says Halide Salam, professor of art at Virginia's Redford University.  She likens her working method to that of a scientist, drawing from suggestive imagery in a struggle to fuse together the materials that she uses with the forms of her thoughts.   "There is that anxiety to which
I seek harmony."

Gallery B:   CAROLYN OTTO, RECENT WORK
Carolyn Otto investigates the multiple levels of narrative and allegory, most specifically, the tension and dynamics
of relationships between people.  Otto’s curiosity, however, lies not within the precise moment, but rather the scenarios that depict an action previous to or following some banal event—the turning of a corner or rising from a chair.  Through editing and sequencing, Otto takes us to the inconsequential moments of public and private spaces where we can quietly observe the boundaries of the two breaking.
 

Gallery C:  LAURA MORIARTY, ENCAUSTIC PAINTINGS
Laura Moriarty comes to Artemisia from Kingston, New York.  With her she brings her most recent paintings inspired by solar maps, aerial photography, topographic maps, flow charts and satellite images.  Her process is labor intensive, building up layers of pigmented bee's wax, then carving and scraping in an attempt to mimic a naturally occurring landscape.  Her 21st Century view of the world "is both a personal response to the romantic gaze of traditional landscape painting and a comment on environmental apathy."
 

Gallery D:  KATHERINE DRAKE CHIAL, PHENOMENA
In her most recent works, Chicago painter, Katherine Drake Chial, continues to explore ideas of body and the sublime.  Phenomenon, or things known through the senses, is an investigation of boundaries and limitlessness; examinations into the ways we ascribe gender to these terms as well as of the varieties of pictorial space and the devices used to invoke them.  The paintings are intended to produce a physical effect and are not to be merely read as conceptual statements but rather to be spoken as reflections upon the sublime and beautiful.
 

*Gallery web site address http://www.artemisia.org
For additional information and press packets, call the gallery at (312) 226-7323