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ADAM AND EVE
June 30 – August 1
CURATOR: Ellen Wilt
CONCEPT
In today’s polarized world, the opportunity for
individual expression has diminished. To counteract
this, we are undertaking a community project using a
familiar tale, Adam & Eve for inspiration. This
process of depicting our ideas can unite us in personal
creativity as well as to produce diversity and harmony
of ideas. The show consists of 32 panels (each panel
frames 5 en tries) and over 150 pieces made by artists
and non artists alike. The exhibit will include 10 members
of the Riverside community.Overall, every piece displayed
is a personal interpretation of the Adam and Eve story.
by Nancy Hejna
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PAINFULLY
CHIC
Saturday May 19 from
5:00 - 7:00 PM.
PAINFULLY CHIC is a group exhibition featuring the works
of Andrew Ek, Ken Klopak, Zsofia Otvos, Barbara Rains,
and Juan Tauber. Each of the artists explores beauty and
identity by examining the pressures of media, consumerism,
and celebrity on the individual.
For example, the work of Andrew Ek explores the interactions
between women and equipment in a beauty salon. The poses
and facial expressions of these women are at once ecstatic
and painful and communicate to the audience that the social
pressure to be beautiful, stylish or chic is a tortuous
game in which we all participate.
Barbara Rains' photographs and Zsofia Otvos' paintings
revolve around the ideal female figure as propagated by
the media and fashion industry. Rains' black and white
images of mannequins are violent and raw while also subtle
and elegant. Otvos, whose work was recently exhibited
in her homeland of Hungary, depicts the female figure
as a sick silhouette at rest with a particularly feminine
passivity.
Argentinian artist, Juan Tauber, questions the way in
which fashion is represented and how it plays a role in
common society. The series, entitled "Simon,"
is an assortment of large drawings on canvas. Each massive
work persuades the viewer, especially man, to take a deeper
look at body image as propagated by designers such as
Prada, Gucci, and Dolce & Gabbana.
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April
14 – May 9
The Body,
the Individual and the State
features the multimedia artwork of David Boykin, CarianaCarianne,
William Estrada, Hugo Garcia, Nicole Garneau, Sheelah
Grace Murthy, Frank D. Robinson, Visibility Counts, karen
g. williams, and Marjorie Woodruff. Each artist explores
the social, political and personal significance of the
interactions between the body, the individual, and the
state. Artists use various media including, music, sculpture
and videography to investigate the theme of the show.
The opening performance for the Body, the Individual and
the State will be held on Saturday, April 7 at 5:30PM
in the waiting room of the Riverside Train Station, 90
Bloomingbank Rd, Riverside ; a $3 donation is requested.
The opening reception will be held on Saturday, April
14 from 5-7pm, the artist talk on May 5 from 5:00-6:30PM,
both will occur in the Freeark Gallery, 32 E Quincy Riverside
, IL. Refreshments will be provided. The show runs through
May 9, 2007.
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g. williams performance |
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February
24 - March 28
Seeing Colors Hearing Sounds
The show is the first in a new annual series featuring
the work of high school students. "Seeing Colors
Hearing Sounds" focuses on the works of 25 advanced
art students from Riverside Brookfield High School.
These twenty-give youth have explored the issues more
important to them - global conflict, greed, growth and
decay, love, freedom of speech, race - through the use
use of paint, charcoal, photography and more. Join us
as we celebrate our future artists.
Also in our Riverside Town Hall Gallery we are featuring
the photographic works of local artist, Ryan Stuchly.
Stop by any time during Town Hall hours to view the
exhibition entitle Nighttime Palette. |
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January
13 - February 14
Anne Harris
Opening Reception
January 13, 6pm to 8pm
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December
1 - January 3
Annual Members
Show
Works by Riverside Arts Center Members |
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METAL
Work by Sarah Abramson, Sarah Loertscher, Megan Pahmier,
Janine Patten, Meghan Roach and Jen Thomas
Opening reception for this art event
will be held on October 21 from 6– 8:30pm.
October 21 - November 21, 2006
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Using
metal as their medium, artists Sarah Abramson, Sarah Loertscher,
Megan Pahmier, Janine Patten, Meghan Roach and Jen Thomas
speak to us by extracting moments from their personal
histories and mutating them into art. Some of these moments
are profound, visceral, ubiquitous, and others abstract,
sarcastic, and dubiously beautiful.
For example, Jen Thomas’ trailer park aquatint etchings
– based on rough-hewn sketches of old trailers fringed
with weeds and discarded tires – initially seem
to question traditional American dream of owning a home
and land, but are based on Thomas’ interactions
with her family and their way of life on her Grandmother’s
land in rural North Carolina and her desire to understand
that way of life. Like Thomas, Sarah Loertscher’s
work at first appears to comment of the militarization
of the American government, but her small sterling and
mixed media sculpture is deeply personal in that each
explores her brother’s decision to join army and
her emotions about his eventual deployment to Iraq.
Sarah Abramson, Janine Patten, Megan Roach and Meghan
Pahmier combine small elements (spoons, found pieces of
fabric, and doll hands) with diverse media (silver, copper,
dirt, wood) to create larger pieces of jewelry and sculpture
that are art once incredibly particular and invariably
general. These specific yet universal works speak both
to the nature of man while revealing highly individual
narratives of each woman.
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SOME
(sum) of the PARTS
Judith Brotman / Pat Swanson
an artists' discussion on September
21 from 6:30pm to 8pm
September 9 - October 11 |
SOME
(sum) of the PARTS, the Riverside Arts Center Freeark
Gallery’s newest exhibition, features the artwork
of Pat Swanson and Judith Brotman. For both artists,
the elements that compose the whole bear a deeper significance
than the whole itself; put simply the concept of completeness
is overrated. This idea is reflected in the women’s
work as each is fascinated with the idea of the “part”
and the inherent possibilities of incompleteness.
In SOME (sum) of the PARTS, the artists’ work
reflects this obsession. Brotman, for example, takes
whole images and deconstructs them into parts and then
uses those parts to create new works. For this exhibition,
she cropped images from a variety of sources (sex manuals,
exercise instructions, yoga books, likenesses of dancers,
and more), rearranged, and reconstructed them using
felt, distinctive stitching, found objects, and colorful
fabric. While retaining some aspects of the original
work, the final result of this assemblage is a new collection
of abstract and ambiguous tableaus.
Swanson, like Brotman, uses existing materials such
as discarded books, found metal, and washing machine
lint traps to reorganize them into works of art. For
her, the journeys each of these parts has made –
from functional to not functioning, from robust to fragile,
and from entire to partial – are enthralling.
Her montages question the harmony and incongruity of
dissimilar parts and the objects’ ability to be
transformed through use, abandonment, and reuse.
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