In a blending of exhibitions and education, 4833 serves as a gathering place, resource archive, and program space at the new Hyde Park Art Center. This 1,600 square foot resource center embodies the Hyde Park Art Center’s vision for itself as a place that not only exhibits and teaches art, but stimulates creativity at all levels. 4833 builds on our history of collaborations with cultural institutions to facilitate creative interactions between students, artists, educators, and people from across the city.
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Well right now, as of yesterday I’ve actually begun to attach it to the space. So I’ve just been out cutting the foam and pretty much setting up the scenery that the characters will hang out in. And this is the part where I tend to take longer than I need to, but luckily I’ve got really simple plans for this. But I just really enjoy cutting foam. So I’ve been spending all this time just sculpting everything out. But I don’t have too many complex plans for how the foam going to stack on top of each other or wrap around things. It’s pretty straight forward since it’s all in a straight line. But I am bringing in a few new things where like the high ones kinda float off the ground; everything doesn’t have to touch the bottom. Putting in shelving. It’s sort of expanding what the foam is, sort of what the landscape can be. Rather than just being all hills I’ve got sculpture mixed in. Different built man-made structures. I guess I’m replacing technical complexity with variety of what the setting could be.
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Can we get an update on the piece and where you’re at?
I spent the last week tracing everything out, doing a bunch of painting, drawing, coming up with different characters, working on ideas that I wanted to fit into the show. And the projecting them onto the wall, blowing them up, and tracing them all with pencil, or tracing them with pencil onto the paper. And now as of today I’ve started doing some of the outline work. And I think I’ve decided that pretty much it’s going to be all outline work. I think there may be a few spots where I’ll bring in paint, watercolor, but it should pretty much be all line work. And different types of paper. I’ve got construction paper, I’ve got cardboard, I’ve got these brutal foam boards that I’m going through right now. And then some yarn, and then foam.
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Artist Stan Chisholm gives us insight into the story behind the mascots appearing in ThingsThatNeverReallyHappened . In this second edition we meet “Cape”
While the good of the world is turned on it back and all hope is lost, from the clouds falls a gleeful caped figure oblivious of the duties around him. With his limbs loose, eyes shut and smirk locked in, no woe or foe stands a chance.
Call it giving up, retiring, showing off, testing his new gear, being a sucker, a fallen hero, branching out and discovering new abilities, being humble, stepping down to join the civilians, rebellion, manic-depression, having a good time, or simply loosing a battle to gravity; If he hasn’t heard it he has assumed it’s been said. Plus, never in history has a cause been faithful to only one effect so he’s collecting extra credit on his way down.
Here at the Hyde Park Art Center, we decided to get to know each other a little better by asking 5 questions. Our first interview was with an Istria Cafe Barista.
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Artist Stan Chisholm gives us insight into the story behind the mascots appearing in ThingsThatNeverReallyHappened
ChokingOnTheMagicWord
Witnessing potential sparks endearment. Anticipating that potential manifest or fail sparks a flurry of emotions. When you see someone on the brink and in mid performance it is likely that they can’t see you, for they are alone with the matter at hand. It’s entertaining…harsh, inspiring, comedic, disappointing, fetishized, relieving, sad… …and entertaining.
When you can feel your potential everything regarding it is optional. To keep what you have is not selfish but riveting,and perhaps perplexing. A certain loss of innocence takes place when you share your “magic.” It’s almost worth it to fake it and keep up the show, right?
For more information on Stan Chisholm visit his web page at www.18andcounting.com
We sit down with artist Stan Chisholm as he prepares his newest exhibition ThingsThatNeverReallyHappened, which opens at the Hyde Park Art Center on January 31 in Gallery 5.
What is the thought behind the exhibition? What does it entail? What can people expect to see?
One of the biggest things with this show that’s pretty well known in my work I don’t think is well known as far as my exhibitions go is sticking to strict line work. I’ll do relief sculptures or murals, but they usually start off as graphic line drawings. But this one I want to be strictly that. I want this show to be just a really solid step by step read, because it’s in a hallway and you expect it to be in a certain order, and you expect to be in a cold, almost comic strip (way). You expect to read it as that. I mean it’s not going to be one solid story, so a non-linear narrative, but it’s just on a linear format.
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