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Some Kind of Duty features all new handmade weavings by
Chicago-based artist Karolina Gnatowski, known as kg. In monumental
and small-scale tapestries, kg, anAmerican artist who was born in
Poland incorporates references ranging from Polish immigration,
badminton, Jim Morrison, and feminist fiber artists to addiction,
mourning, and their pet. The artist's keen attention to the details
of life's coincidences and moments of intersection finds a fitting
form in their reverence for the history of tapestry weaving, and
the evidence of everyday life incorporated into the artist's work
makes their weavings an offering to those both living and dead.
This catalog accompanies an exhibition at the DePaul Art Museum,
and it features full-color plates of the works on view, an
interview between the artist and DPAM Director and Chief Curator
Julie Rodrigues Widholm, an essay by K. L. H. Wells, assistant
professor in the Department of Art History at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and poems written by the artist to accompany
each work.
This exhibition catalog, Julia Fish: bound by spectrum, presents a
fully-illustrated survey of the last decade of Fish's paintings and
works on paper. It offers new scholarship around Fish's ongoing
project that brings together the disciplines of painting, drawing,
and architecture. For three decades, Fish has used her house and
its vernacular architecture--a Chicago storefront workspace
designed by Theodore Steuben in 1922--as the basis for a system of
mapping color, form, and light in paintings and works on paper.
Working from close observation, she renders architectural details
at actual size and creates a dialog between objective information
and subjective response. These works are informed by effects of
light in space, time of day, the seasons, cardinal direction, and
the artist's own physical vantage point. Accompanying the images of
Fish's works are essays by Julie Rodrigues Widholm, Kate Nesin, and
Colm T ib n, images and text by architect Dan Wheeler, and a
selection of the artist's studio notations.
A mountain of chairs piled between buildings. Shoes sewn behind
animal membranes into a wall. A massive crack running through the
floor of Tate Modern. Powerful works like these by sculptor Doris
Salcedo evoke the significance of bearing witness and processes of
collective healing. Salcedo, who lives and works in Bogota, roots
her art in Colombia's social and political landscape - including
its long history of civil wars - with an elegance and poetic
sensibility that balances the gravitas of her subjects. Her work is
undergirded by intense fieldwork, including interviews with people
who have suffered loss and endured trauma from political violence.
In recent years, Salcedo has become increasingly interested in the
universality of these experiences and expanded her research to
Turkey, Italy, Great Britain, and the United States. Published to
accompany Salcedo's first retrospective exhibition and the American
debut of her major work Plegaria muda, Doris Salcedo is the most
comprehensive survey of her sculptures and installations to date.
In addition to featuring new contributions by respected scholars
and curators, the book includes over one hundred color
illustrations highlighting many pieces from Salcedo's
twenty-five-year career. Offering fresh perspectives on a vital
body of work, Doris Salcedo is a testament to the power of one of
today's most important international artists.
Academic libraries and museums foster many outstanding
collaborations supporting teaching, learning, and research within
their respective institutions. These collaborations, like other
progressive activities, require significant invisible labor,
caretaking, and resources that have not always been documented.
 Cultural Heritage and the Campus Community collects
examples of successful academic library-museum collaborations and
serves as critical knowledge for the cultural heritage sector.
Authors from libraries and museums across the United States
demonstrate how to develop and execute partnerships and bring forth
new dimensions of transdisciplinary objects-based pedagogy,
research, and learning centered on inclusive educational practices.
Chapters explore visual thinking strategies and the Framework for
Information Literacy in Higher Education in the undergraduate
classroom; restoring Indigenous heritage through tribal
partnerships; using object-based teaching to motivate student
research; and much more. Â The collaborative approaches
highlighted here demonstrate the power of possibility when two
collections-centric entities unite to enrich our collective
understanding of materiality, instructional approaches, and the
importance of provenance. Cultural Heritage and the Campus
Community also illustrates why interrogating past practices and
value assignments within academic library and museum collections is
essential to advancing culturally relevant approaches to knowledge
sharing in physical and digital spaces.
Mexico City has emerged as a thriving center of contemporary art.
Escultura Social features recent work by a group of artists whose
influence has already extended far beyond Mexico and focuses on how
they have contributed to an international dialogue through their
use of nontraditional materials, new media, and critical
perspectives.This book takes Joseph Beuys's idea of "social
sculpture," or escultura social, as a multivalent reference point
for understanding how these socially engaged works draw connections
between people and nature and promote a demystified and democratic
concept of art-making. Featuring the work of twenty artists, this
bilingual volume includes several artists' writings by pioneers of
artist-run exhibition spaces: Stefan Bruggemann, Abraham
Cruzvillegas, Yoshua Okon, and Pedro Reyes. Critical essays on the
contemporary Mexican scene and relevance of Beuys's ideas are
accompanied by illustrated texts on each artist in this unique and
important book.Bilingual (English/Spanish) Published in association
with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Exhibition Schedule:
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (June 23 - September 2, 2007)
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham (January 15 - May
31, 2009)
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