2008
Language Art
February 10 – April 27, 2008, The Cleve E. Carney Gallery & Gallery 2
The exhibition will feature new work made in collaboration between teaching artist Suzanne Sebold-Suso, preschool students, and their parents in the Art Center’s Discover Art class focusing on the words “peace”, “love” and “understanding”.
Chuck Walker: Through A Glass Darkly
February 3 – April 6, 2008, Gallery 1
A survey exhibition of work by Chicago artist Chuck Walker that investigate race, sexuality and relationships in a provocative and celebrated style. Curated by Margaret Hawkins.
Drive By
January 25 – April 20, 2008, The Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery, 3 -10 pm daily
Seven collaborative video works by artists in the MFA program at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s School of Art and Design.
Soft Life
January 20 - March 30, 2008, Gallery 4
Work by Aviva Alter, Danny Mansmith, Miller & Shellabarger, and Rebecca Ringquist.
2007
Double Walkers: Transfigurations Thru Fashion
December 7 - 16, 2007
A Fashion, Performance, and Art Exhibition presented by the Fall 2007 students of Defining 20th + 21st Century Dress from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Kariann Fuqua: On Unstable Ground
November 18 - February 9, 2008, Gallery 5
Emerging artist Kariann Fuqua presents 14 new acid-hued paintings of Chicago’s energetic and gritty cityscape.
STANDARD(S)
November 15 - 29, 2nd floor studio space
Eleven works produced by current DePaul visual arts education students taught by Jim Duignan. The group unites with explorations of pedagogy, communications, aesthetics, and activism in Chicago.
Alice Shaddle: Fragments in a Fractured Space
November 4, 2007 - February 3, 2008, The Cleve Carney Gallery
Recent collage work by Alice Shaddle focuses on the processes of destruction and fissure, exploring tragedy and chaos.
Consuming War
November 4 - Janury 20, 2008, Gallery 1
Curated by Barbara Koenen, the exhibition presents new artworks that explore the various ways war has been consumed - as a commercial product, as an obsession, or literally digested - by the American public over the past 10 years.
Impossible Violence: A History of Selves
October 27 - January 6, 2008, Gallery 4
An exhibition exploring our exposure to violence and our complicity in it, our vulnerability to loss, both great and small, both personal and global, and the challenge of mourning that follows.
Just Good Art 2007
October 8 -20, 2007, Gallery 1
Over 100 artists participate every year in this unpredictable and fun benefit auction / exhibition. Proceeds go towards the Art Center’s exhibition and education programs.
Figure, Form and Observation
September 23 - November 17, 2007, Gallery 2 & 3
A showcase of the paintings, drawings and sculpture from the Art Center’s students working with the figure in the form of gesture, portrait and observation.
Sandra Binion: Seasons
September 2 — November 2, 2007, The Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery
Sandra Binion presents a five-channel video for the façade that slowly sifts through altered seasonal landscapes incorporating sound artist Lou Mallozzi’s dissembled reworking of Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” as played by cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm.
Plate Convergence
September 2 – November 11, Gallery 5
The exhibition features a new project by Theaster Gates that aims to situate the complexity of the material - clay - into the larger context of contemporary art practice by emphasizing the relationships that develop as a result of the use of the material, not the material itself.
Another Story
August 12 – October 7, Gallery 4
Curated by Pat Swanson, this exhibition examines the range of conceptual, abstract, and figurative approaches that artists use when the book or its surrogate at the heart of their investigations.
Pedagogical Factory: Exploring Strategies for an Educated City
July 22 - September 23, 2007 Gallery 1
The Stockyard Institute, led by Jim Duignan, will use the gallery as an incubator for ideas for artist and teens to work collaboratively and make socially progressive projects. Gallery 1
Constellation: A Faculty Show
July 15 - September 16, 2007, The Cleve E. Carney Gallery & Gallery 3
A selection of work from artists on the Art Center’s faculty curated by Michelle Beckett, Studio Manager at the Art Center.
Impart Process
June 17 - August 26, 2007, Gallery 5
Curated by Philip Nadasdy, this exhibition will feature work by Art Center students. Rather than focusing solely on finished pieces, Impart Process exhibits Art Center students’ creative process during a regular 10-week session.
Interiority
June 10 - July 29, 2007, Gallery 4
A group exhibition curated by Stuart Keeler and organized by the Contemporary Arts Council.
Selected Shots
May 20 - June 24, Gallery 2
A Kenwood Academy high school student show of outstanding photography
Stacza Lipinski: Hang Up
May 20 – September 16, 2007
Chicago based emerging artist, Stacza Lipinski will make a new installation that activates the two-story glass stairwell using cut vellum paper, acrylic paint and filament wire.
Bionic Threads
May 20 – June 24, Cleve E. Carney Gallery (Gallery 3)
Both Christy Matson and Sabrina Gschwandter create works that enhance textiles with electronics and vice versa.
Speaker Project
April 28 — July 8, 2007, Gallery 1
Juan Angel Chavez will create a multi-directional, multi-layer sound experience by building a large-scale speaker out of found material.
THERE: University of Chicago MFA Thesis Exhibition
Opening Reception: April 28, 6-8pm, HPAC Artist Studios
There features work by the University of Chicago’s Department of Visual Arts MFA students.
Rise & Set
April 15 – November 2, 2007, North Staircase and Foyer
The entrance to the Art Center transforms into a narrative adaptation of a sunrise and sunset with a two-story installation by Ken Fandell and Diana Guerrero-Maciá.
For Public Consumption
April 11 — May 27, 2007, The Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery, on view daily from 2 pm until 10 pm
The Art Center collaborates with Links Hall (Chicago) to present a group exhibition of digital projection works.
*This exhibition has been shortened due to projector difficulties. A closing screening will be scheduled in July 2007
The Embedded Body
April 8 - May 27, 2007, Gallery 4
NOTICE: The Embedded Body has been canceled due to technical difficulties.
Exquisite Rivers: Artworks by Canter Middle School students
April 1 – June 3, 2007, Gallery 5
Led by Art Center teaching artist Mary Tepper, over 50 students from Canter Middle School developed this series of small drawings and paintings responding to nature over the 2006-7 school year.
The Adventurous Type
March 18 - May 13, Gallery 2 & The Cleve E. Carney Gallery
Art works that play with the psychology of adventure while questioning the reality of personal discovery.
A+ Videos
February 4 - April 15, 2nd floor studio screening room
The Chicago Art Department presents a selection of work from their star pupils.
God's Punk
February 4 — April 8, 2007
The Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery & Gallery 1
A new media opera by Max King Cap that questions the conditions of our shared humanity and the limits of compassion.
Luscious: Paintings by Darrell Roberts
January 21 — March 25, 2007, Gallery 4
A new selection of abstract vibrant cityscapes by faculty member Darrell Roberts documents the constant rebuilding of the city as documented by the artist over the past three years.
Lorraine Peltz: Cosmic Hostess
January 14 - March 25, 2007, Gallery 5
As a Cosmic Hostess, Lorraine Peltz serves us up with paintings that journey out into the cosmos, through deep and sometimes troubled waters, and into orange daydreams.
Angela Lee: Marking the Body
January 7 - March 11, 2007, Gallery 3
New works in sculpture, drawing and painting by Angela Lee explore how the body has been marked in various cultures and societies, both past and present.
Dale Washington: Sunrise
January 7 - March 11, 2007, Gallery 2
A selection of works from Dale Washington, a Hyde Park Art Center teaching artist, that turn the sunrise over South Shore into a seductively sensual experience. Washington is a returning faculty member and has been exhibiting throughout the Midwest for over 15 years.
2006
Converging Patterns
December 8-17, 2006, 2nd floor studio
Converging Patterns inspects the global climate change due to human activity. The objective of the exhibition is to illustrate how the unusual weather will affect the way we dress.
Fraser Taylor: Reverse Transcriptase
November 13 - February 13, 2006, In the Loop Gallery
at In The Loop Gallery, a satellite exhibition space for the Art Center located at 69 W. Washington Blvd. in downtown Chicago.
Le Conqueroo: Part 3. Defeat! Thus the Magpie, Rider of Leviathan, Herald of Saturn - the 9 choirs
October 15 — December 17, 2006, Gallery 2 & 3
Academy Records will produce a unique metaphysical installation incorporating film, mixed media, and live and recorded drums exploring the effects of rhythm and its relation to the physical space.
Interstellar Low Ways
October 15 — January 14, 2007, Gallery 1 & 3
An exhibition in conjunction with the Sun Ra art, music and ephemera exhibition at Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago in October 2006.
John Himmelfarb: Inland Romance: Gary, Indiana
September 30 – December 17, Gallery 5
65-foot long painting created onsite at the Savannah Art Gallery on the Indiana University Northwest Campus in Gary.
Pathways to Unknown Worlds: Sun Ra, El Saturn & Chicago's Afro-Futurist Underground, 1954-68
October 1 — January 14, 2007, Gallery 4
The exhibition will showcase a diverse, provocative and by-and-large never seen range of materials related to composer, mystic, philosopher and Afro-Futurist, Sun Ra during his years in Chicago.
Just Good Art
September 18 - 30, 2006, Gallery 1
Over 100 artists will participate in this unpredictable and fun benefit auction / exhibition. Proceeds go towards the Art Center’s exhibition and education programs. We just can’t get rid of this one - its too good.
Doppelgänger
September 12 — October 12, 2006, The Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery
An interactive installation by Luftwerk (Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero) using sound, video and motion sensors to literally illuminate the other in order to consider the individuals we choose or refuse to acknowledge in relation to ourselves in everyday life.
Wanna be part of the human race
September 3 — October 8, 2006, Gallery 3
Artist, Shane Huffman will revisit his ideas in sculptural form that explore the concept of time as an impartial force impacting natural objects and beings.
Vera Scekic: Bilateral Symmetry
August 14 — November 4, 2006, In The Loop Gallery
at In The Loop Gallery, a satellite exhibition space for the Art Center located at 69 W. Washington Blvd. in downtown Chicago and in the foyer of the Art Center’s 5020 S. Cornell building.
Mel Watkin: Reclamation
July 30 — August 27, 2006, Gallery 2 & 3
For the Art Center, Mel Watkin will exhibit a selection of her International map drawings in addition to a new wall drawing.
Ruby Satellite
July 16 — September 17, 2006, Gallery 4
The art works in this exhibition curated by Ciara Ennis, explore the diverse forms and complex drives of authority, with particular emphasis on obsessive and often perverse forms of behavior linked to such power structures and belief systems.
Scott Wolniak: Drawing With Outer Space
July 15 – September 4, 2006, Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery
A large-scale paper installation in the Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery.
Jennifer Greenburg: Recalling Americana
July 2 — September 10, 2006, Gallery 5
Chicago photographer Jennifer Greenburg presents her most recent series of contemporary portraits.
Home of the Free
June 25 — September 3, 2006, Gallery 1
Independent curator and Director of the ICA, London, Jens Hoffmann, will organize an exhibition of American artists that investigates whether there is such a thing as a definitive form of freedom.
Material Science
June 18 — July 23, 2006, Gallery 2 & 3
Over 35 practicing artists instruct hands-on studio programs at the Art Center and partner sites.
Mary Tepper: Citycape
May 15 — August 5, 2006
at In The Loop Gallery, a satellite exhibition space for the Art Center located at 69 W. Washington Blvd. in downtown Chicago.
Random Sky
April 24 — July 9, 2006, The Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery
Inigo Manglano-Ovalle with Mark Hereld and Rick Gribenas created this large-scale digital projection for the catwalk gallery that can be viewed from the inside and outside of the building.
Takeover
April 24 — June 11, 2006
Thirty-nine Chicago-rooted artists will create new artworks that incorporate the unique features of the Art Center as a resource for making art and inspiring ideas.
For Real
March 15 — April 28, 2006
The artists interrogate the relation between the prosaic and poetic, use value and aesthetic value, clock time and natural time, the specific and the universal, epistemological limits and the longing to transcend them.
2005
INterACTION
April 24 - June 11, 2005, Ruth Horwich Gallery
Featuring work by Granite Amit, Melinda Fries, Patrick Killoran, Ginger Krebs and Ben Stone Curated by Judy Kim and Allison Peters INterACTION, a playful and unscripted exhibition, encouraged viewers to touch the artwork that was on view at the Hyde…
Robert Amft: Paintings for Particular People
March 6 to April 16, 2005, Ruth Horwich Gallery
The selected paintings highlighted the outlandishly prolific and pop-inspired talent of the Chicago native Robert Amft. Born in 1916, Amft graduated from the School of the Art Institute in 1938 and exhibited extensively through the next fifty years. He is still painting today. The Art Center presented the first comprehensive retrospective of Amft’s oeuvre in Chicago. This exhibition gave overdue exposure to an under-recognized local modernist.
The Wonderful (Lost) Achievements
January 16 - February 20, 2005, Ruth Horwich Gallery
For this exhibit, Alatalo drew from the history of the area as the site of the 1893 Columbian Exposition to present a mixed media installation of fictional lost exhibits.
2004
Adminstrative Bunker + Rook
January 11- February 21 2004
A site-specific installation for the architecturally elaborate former home of the Art Center at the Del Prado Hotel at 5307 South Hyde Park Blvd.
2003
Not Just Another Pretty Face
November 9- December 13, 2003
A benefit and the culmination of a year-long initiative matching artists with patrons.
Comix Chicago
August 24- October 4, 2003
A group exhibition that examined the early stages of production, revealing thought, process, and the urban landscape as integral aspects of the artwork of comic book artists. Curated by Britton Bertran.
Operation: Human Intelligence
May 4- June 14, 2003
An exhibition of works that presented traditional themes about the intelligence community as meaningful, public, cultural objects. Arranged by the Contemporary Arts Council in collaboration with the Curatorial Intelligence Agency.
Zounds
March 9 - April 19, 2003
A group exhibition that examined the fascination and devotion of the wound in contemporary art and society.
Patrick McGee: U7
January 12 - February 28, 2003, Ruth Horwich Gallery
A site specific installation that used geometric structures inspired by R. Buckminster Fuller.
2002
Cut, Pulled, Colored & Burnt
August 25-October 5, 2002, Ruth Horwich Gallery
Work featured examined issues of representation, cultural identity, and assertion through photography, painting, drawing, sculpture and assemblage. Curated by Michael Rooks.
The Human Presence
May 5- June 15, 2002 Ruth Horwich Gallery and the Student/Faculty Gallery
A group exhibition of six photographers who investigated the human presence through different methods of photography. Curated by Dawoud Bey.
Prestar=Borrow + Lend
March 10-April 20 2002 Ruth Horwich Gallery
Juan Angel Chavez, Dianna Frid, Diana Guerrero-Macia, and Marcos Raya used borrowed pictures, words and forms from history, literature and popular culture to lend a new meaning to reconfigured materials. Curated by Cynthia Weiss and Annie Morse.
Rupturing Beauty
January 13 - Febuary 23, 2002, Ruth Horwich Gallery
A group exhibition that addressed, questioned, and critiqued the influence of Bataille’s text Formless through an assemblage of media. Curated by Chuck Thurow and Pat Swanson.
2001
Wedding Video: Projection
December 2-December 19, 2001, Ruth Horwich Gallery
The video installation that exaimned acts of love and ritual in the context of the American Family.
Doug Ischar and Achim Wollscheid in conjunction with the Experimental Sound Studio's Outer Ear Festival
November 1 - 20, 2001 Ruth Horwich Gallery
An exhibition of sound work by Doug Ischar and a performance by Achim Wollscheid in conjunction with the Experimental Sound Studio’s Outer Ear Festival.
The Autonomous Territories of Chicago
October 14, 2001 Ruth Horwich Gallery
The Autonomous Terrirtories of Chicago brought together a variety of political and artisitic radicals to incite discussion for the purpose of producing socially conscious works, and the networking of activists.
Cold Comfort
August 25 - October 6, 2001 Ruth Horwich Gallery
Artists Karen Reimer and Constance Bacon offered a three-fold examination of the conflicted nature of identity through the transformation of the Ruth Horwich gallery.
HOMEGROWN KIDS
June, 10 - July, 28 2001, Ruth Horwich Gallery and Faculty Gallery
Featured work by young adults from the south and west sides of Chicago involved with the Art Center’s youth programs.
Compound Fracture
March 25 - May 19, 2001 Ruth Horwich Gallery
Work featured in this group exhibition examined the theme of “guts” in terms of human tissues, organs and organic matter.
2000
Simparch: Free Basin
May 7 - June 24, 2000: Ruth Horwich Gallery
This exhibition presented an architectural/sculptural project using skateboarding forms by the collaborative group SIMPARCH.
1997
ILLUMINATING: Light as Context
November 23-December 17,1997 Ruth Horwich Gallery
Curator Esther Saks brought together eight artists who transcend material reality by harnessing light as a medium of revelation, illusion, penetration and spirituality.