Artemisia Gallery on Wed, 12 Dec 2001 01:31:01 +0100 (CET)


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[Nettime-bold] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January Exhibitions


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  JANUARY 2002 EXHIBITIONS
 

ARTEMISIA  GALLERY
700 N. Carpenter
Chicago, Illinois  60660
ph:  312 / 226-7323  ...  fx:  312 / 226-7756
 


EXHIBITIONS:

Main GalleryCAROL PADBERG, WORKS ON PAPER
Inspired by language and how it is formed and developed from infancy, Minnesota artist and Artemisia Associate Member, Carol Padberg, creates work that addresses the spoken and written word.  From the sounds of an infant’s first utterance to a toddler’s crude alphabet made from drinking straws, Padberg’s interest lies in the opacity and transparency of language, wanting to “evoke the strange way that words disappear and yield to meaning as we are reading—how words that are illegible to us appear more physical and concrete.”  Choosing to work by hand on paper, Padberg draws the audience to a place where they can contemplate language and representation—the play and work inherent in the written word.

Galleries A, B & C:   STEPHEN MUELLER, ROGER F. BLAKLEY, CECILIA ALLEN
(painting, prints,  and sculpture)
Chicago based painter, Stephen Mueller and sculptors Roger F. Blakley and Cecilia Allen, join Artemisia Gallery in this group proposed exhibition.  Mueller’s paintings and etchings, spanning the time period of 1993 to 2001, are eloquent conversations between the hand of man and its relationship to and through a political/social construct.  Bosnia, the CIA, the beginnings of time and simple mark making are the driving forces in this work that inevitably return to ideas of cyclical identity.   Blakley considers himself an “emotive formalist” whose large scale, abstract, cast bronze sculptures find ground in a figural message that repeatedly ends in questions.  Relying on his reflections of the past to take him to the present realization of his work, Blakley moves through sculptural decisions that are visceral in nature but come equipped with the “halation of experience.”  Cecilia Allen is “drawn to sculpture because it requires my whole being in its pursuit.”  Her cast bronze reliefs resonate with gesture and textural surface, “ruled exclusively by neither passion nor reason; it is not intellectually contrived or emotionally effusive.”  Her relationship with texture is derived from the worn ground planes of workspace.  For her, that texture is the reflection “of the constant and changing struggle to learn, grow and create.”

Gallery DERIKA R. NELSON
                 SELECTIONS FROM THE INSTALLATION, DOMESTICATED, IN HONOR OF PORK
In her installation, Domesticated, Kansas artist, Erika Nelson examines the American Dream and its intersection with her now current Erikan Dream.  Her assembled vignettes are comments about the stuff that we live with—the reference to suburbia and white trash culture that draws from a Dadaist love of found objects.  Through her explorations, Nelson reflects on ideas of personal identification from the influences of a greater whole.  The environments she creates transform her questions into statements that the viewer can use as an aid in understanding one’s place within the confines of an American culture.