2020 Gala

DANIELLE ANDRESS: “HEAVY ROTATION”, EXISTENTIAL AEROBICS QUOTIDIAN DE LA MÈRE (MOTHER’S DAILY LIFE)

Get ready to move your body in simple fluid aerobic moves with Danielle as you explore existential concepts that encourages deep thinking while engaging in upbeat movement. Feel free to get creative and use canned food or even pumpkins as dumbbells as the music washes over you.

JASON DUNDA: INTERACTIVE COLORING SESSION

Download and print one of Jason Dunda’s portraits for an  interactive coloring session! (Portraits are also included in your  gala-in-a-box for sponsors!) Portraits include one of Dunda’s  distant relatives in traditional Ukrainian dress, Chicago gallerist  Paul Hopkin, and a blank silhouette of a head surrounded by  intricate decoration. A fourth print features eyes, mouths, ears,  and noses participants can cut and paste onto their work.  

AMAY KATARIA AND PHILIP MULLIKEN: BOIDS OF PARADISE

We have been at a loss of crowds due to the pandemic.  Physical isolation prevails and our entire social exchange has  been mediated through a two-dimensional window. Experience  new ways of looking at the world with Amay and Philip’s  Augumented Reality experience!  

Boids of Paradise is an augmented encounter mediated by  Instagram that modifies one’s space with a swarm of digital  creatures. This crowd of creatures augments the participant’s  digital environment and interacts with them by carrying out  coordinated behaviors. In the moment of interaction, they  become the participant’s companion as well as independent  digital creatures that operate at the intersection of space, time,  and state. 

THOMAS KONG 

Thomas Kong featured in the Artist Run Chicago Exhibition  at Hyde Park Art Center representing 062 Gallery, is an artist  working in collage and assemblage, using advertising, packaging  and other surplus material from his convenience store, Kim’s  Corner Food, located in the Rogers Park neighborhood of  Chicago. Gala sponsors will receive an original work of art by Thomas  Kong as a gala takeaway! 

062 was established in 2017.  

Named after local zip code in Gwangju, South Korea, 062 is  a gallery housed within the Zhou B Art Center in Bridgeport  and is committed to the promotion of global art discourse. 062  is an open platform for artists and cultural organizations. 062  supports the work of emerging and established artists through the dissemination of ideas, actions and conversations, and experimental exhibition formats. 062 was founded and directed  S.Y. Lim along with Matt Austin, Jennifer Keats and Matt Siber. For more information visit www. 062official.com. 

STEPHANIE LUPU & MARY TEPPER 

Join Stephanie and Mary for the Kids Gala at 3PM to create  your very own puppet! This collaborative experience of creating  together as the artists guide you through each step will be all  the more rewarding as we end the afternoon with a PUPPET  DANCE PARTY! 

JULIANN WANG ‘INVISIBLE BOUNDARIES: HEALING THE  INTERNAL LANDSCAPE’  

Music has long been regarded for the power to heal and to this  aim let the improvised compositions transport you through  interpretive sound art chant, and spoken word experience.  Through this exploration you will come into closer connection  with sonic landscapes both real and imagined, that are more  relevant now than ever as we grapple with the experience of  social distancing and isolation.

ADELHEID MERS: THE BRAID ‘METAMODELING ADVENTURE’

Are you ready to set out on a ‘Metamodeling Adventure’ with  the visual artist Adelheid Mers? A metamodeling adventure  is a conversation about an instance of the many ways of  doing, being, and knowing that coexist. The artist studies and  visualizes arts practices, processes and cultural ecologies, often  in participatory settings making today no different! The Braid is  a diagrammatic instrument. Let’s make some music! 

KRISTIN NASON: STUDIO TOUR & SCREENPRINTING DEMO:  ISLAND FARM PRESS 

Have you ever thought of what it means to be a squishy being in a  world with hard edges? Today Kristin Nason an interdisciplinary  artist exploring the oscillate between ‘gravity and grace’ shares  her process of creation with you. 

Join us on a tour of Island Farm Press, a screenprinting studio  based in San Diego, CA. 

Founded in 2019 by Kristin Nason (MFA SAIC 2011 / HPAC Center Program Alum 2012) and John P. Murphy (PhD Art  History, Northwestern University, 2018), this small press focuses  on fine art print services for artists. This tour will begin with a  walkthrough of the printshop, followed by an overview of the  printing process including transferring artwork onto screens,  registration and print technique.

TURTEL ONLI: STUDIO VISIT 

Turtel Onli‘s practice embraces creativity, culture, and commerce.  Onli founded B.A.G. the Black Arts Guild to facilitate the transition  from youthful talented art students into emerging professionals  and life-long visual artists. B.A.G. was also a think-tank where  the idea of “Rhythmism” as a future-primitif approach to the  visual arts germinated and multidisciplinary cross-applications  of artistic techniques were shared. During his residency at the  Art Center, Onli plans to focus on using airbrushing techniques  to expand on his Rhythmistic Quilts, a collection of textile-wall  hangings that are a re-contextualization of traditional icons  associated with a wide range of world-cultures. 

Join Turtel’s virtual open studio from the Art Center to see and  learn more about this body of work!