Where a knot begins and ends - Hyde Park Art Center

Where a knot begins and ends considers the ways artists engage our complicated relationship to time, history, and archives. The phrase also conveys the challenges faced by the exhibiting artists who represent the 2024 cohort of New Edition, a two-part class developed by the Art Center for artists to learn and make work in a medium that is new to their practice. The exhibition is curated by the Program Curator, Jeff Robinson.

Banner image: installation view of Where a knot begins and ends

July 13 – October 6, 2024
Kanter Family Foundation Gallery
Panel Discussion: Where a material begins and ends

September 26, 6-8pm

Exhibiting artists, Teresita Carson Valdez, Molly Roth Scranton, Malika Jackson, and Kara Cobb Johnson explore the ways that material experimentation inspires their practice across various media. The conversation will be moderated by Christine Tarkowski, Professor in the Fiber and Material Studies Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Featured Artists

Alexandra Antoine, Dawn Brennan, Teresita Carson, Kittisak (Wa) Chontong, Kara Cobb Johnson,Tanya Gill, Malika Jackson, Molly Roth Scranton, and Caitlin Ryan

About Jeff Robinson

Jeff Robinson is an artist, fabricator, and curator based in Chicago, Illinois. He holds an MFA from Illinois State University. Robinson has exhibited independently and collaboratively at numerous venues including Julius Caesar (Chicago), RomanSusan (Chicago), Ski Club (Milwaukee), University Galleries of Illinois State University (Normal), Des Lee Gallery (St. Louis), Monaco (St. Louis), and STNDRD (St. Louis). His work has been published in New American Paintings, and his practices have been featured on Daily Serving, in NewCity Magazine (Chicago), Sixty Inches from Center (Chicago), FLOORR Magazine (London) and in the Riverfront Times (St. Louis), among others. Robinson is a recipient of the Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Award in Visual-Based Arts alongside his collaborator, Allison Lacher (2020). He was a curatorial resident for HATCH Projects at Chicago Artists Coalition and has worked as artist-in-residence at Ragdale and ACRE.

Robinson currently serves as Exhibitions Preparator for the Hyde Park Art Center. Prior to his work with the art center, he served as Instructor of Art and as Director of the UIS Visual Arts Gallery at the University of Illinois Springfield (2012-2021), and as co-director (and co-founder) of DEMO Project (2013-2018).

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