Alice Shaddle: Fuller Circles
Alice Shaddle: Fuller Circles installation view, Photo: Tom Van Eynde, courtesy of Hyde Park Art Center.
Please join the Historic Preservation department on Saturday, April 6 at 1:00 p.m. at Hyde Park Art Center as we launch the exhibition Alice Shaddle: Fuller Circles.
The exhibition represents the initial culmination of almost four years of research and preparation to bring the work of Alice Shaddle back into public view. As co curator with Lisa Stone, working closely with Dana Boutin, Shaddle’s son Charles Baum, and grandson Cain Baum, the exhibition introduces Shaddle’s ingenious, original manipulations of paper in various forms.
Alice Shaddle: Fuller Circles installation view: Grandmothers and Granddaughters (in vitrine), Photo: Tom Van Eynde, courtesy of Hyde Park Art Center.
Alice is known in some respects for the significant role she played as a founder member in 1973 of the groundbreaking women's collective gallery Artemisia. She is also known by the many generations who took art classes at Hyde Park Art Center as a brilliant, passionate and inspiring teacher, but much less is known about the artwork she made, much of which has never been presented publicly.
The exhibition research, development and production has received significant support from the Terra Foundation For American Art, featured as one of the 2024 Art Design Chicago Projects. The research and exhibition has drawn upon the expertise and skills of an extended team of people–not least including one of our own MArc's Jeffrey Ose Ohuaregbe, who assisted us with exhibition design visualizations and modeling.