Sullivan Galleries: 2012
Sullivan Galleries
Sullivan Galleries and Betty Rymer Gallery
33 S. State St., 7th floor
Free and open to the public Tuesday–Saturday, 11:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
(closed December 22–January 1)
Department of Exhibitions and Exhibitions Studies
Phone: 312.629.6635
Fax: 312.629.6636
exhibitions-saic@saic.edu
Faculty Projects
Sullivan Galleries
January 28–February 18
This exhibition features select projects by SAIC faculty who are returning from their sabbatical leaves. Special lectures and screenings are presented throughout the fall semester in conjunction with this exhibition.
Creative Capital
January 30, 5:00 p.m.
SAIC Ballroom, 112 S. Michigan Ave.
Artist Grants Information Session with Ruby Lerner, President and Executive Director.
In 2012 Creative Capital will be considering proposals in Emerging Fields, Literature, and Performing Arts. The onine Letter of Inquiry from opens on February 1, 2012 and closes on March 1, 2012.
Wolfgang Laib: Unlimited Ocean
Sullivan Galleries
October 22, 2011–January 28, 2012
More than 30,000 mountains of rice and pollen piles comprise Wolfgang Laib's installation for the expansive Sullivan North Gallery. Laib finds spirituality in the simplicity of these everyday, organic materials, which provide sustenance or engender life. Ritual also plays a central role in Laib's highly reductive and sensual art, as will be evident in his ten-day residency at the gallery where he will work with a team of SAIC students and alumni to create this installation. Born in Germany, Laib's work has been included in the Venice Biennale and documenta 7, Kassel, Germany, and the focus of many retrospectives including the Musée de Grenoble, France and Fondazione Merz in Turin, Italy.
The artist will discuss his practice and Unlimited Ocean on October 17 as part of the Visiting Artists Program.
Wolfgang Laib is represented in the U.S. by Sean Kelly Gallery. For more information, please visit: www.skny.com/artists/wolfgang-laib.
Art of Connection
Sullivan Galleries
December 10, 2011–February 18, 2012
This exhibition showcases artwork by graduate art therapy students and the individuals they work with at their internship sites. Artwork in the show reflects the varied settings, populations, and practices of art therapy, and represents a culmination of the Master of Arts in Art Therapy program at SAIC. Participating Art Therapy graduate students include April Abesamis, Avery Blair-Wilson, Rifi Bleichman, Amy L. Cavazos, Cassie Lynn Dobbs, Michelle Ettlinger, Katrina Funk, Joyce Garside, GraceAnn Goll, Jae Hoon Kim, Charlotte Kimlick, Terri Kuberski, Stephany Latham, Emily MacArthur, Cass Magiera, Giselle Pagani, Jeannette Perkal, Kate Pfeiffer, and Hannah Shinozaki. For more information about the program, visit www.saic.edu/arttherapy.
Text Off the Page and Video Installation
Sullivan Galleries
December 10, 2011–February 18, 2012
Video Installation: December 10–23, 2011
Reception: Friday, December 9, 4:30–7:00 p.m.
This exhibition features new works as developed through these two fall semester courses. The Department of Writing’s Text Off the Pagecourse focuses on blurring the boundaries between writing and the visual arts, media, and performance. Film, Video, New Media, and Animation’s Video Installation course examines the diverse languages of this practice through experimentation with monitors, projectors, and other media, working to address concerns of site and scale, issues of narrative, identity, reception and audience, and the relationship between private and public space. A reading event will also take place in conjunction with this exhibition on Saturday, December 10 at 7:00 p.m. in the Sullivan Galleries.
View 2010 Text Off the Page video feature.
And then a pause
Sullivan Galleries
December 10–February 18, 2012
This exhibition features new work from the Text Off the Page class including performances, installations, and language-based projects by Zia Anger, Alexis Buryk, Lesley Dixon, Rebecca Elliott, Laurel Foglia, Alex Gartelmann, Ruslana Lichtzier, Michaela Murphy, Aimee Norris, Chansavanh Phanthalangsy, Jillian Schiavi, Annan Shehadi, and Antona Stanley.
Lim Tzay Chuen: extended classroom
Sullivan Galleries
December 10, 2011–February 18, 2012
Works by artist Lim Tzay Chuen act as prompts and provocations in this exhibition organized by SAIC's Curatorial Models/ Experimental Contexts class, led by visiting faculty and guest curator Weng Choy Lee. Born in Singapore and residing in Beijing, Lim's work often questions institutional practices and explores gaps of perception. Lim has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, as well as the Venice, Gwangju, Singapore, and Sydney biennales. Weng Choy Lee has devoted extensive research to Lim's work; born in Malaysia and based in Singapore, he is an art critic and former artistic co-director of Singapore's The Substation arts center.
Spring Undergraduate Exhibition
Sullivan Galleries
March 17–April 4
Reception: Friday, March 16, 7:00–9:00 p.m.
More than 200 talented SAIC students completing undergraduate degrees this spring exhibit their innovative work. SAIC promotes crossing disciplines and challenging received assumptions, and the results of this approach are showcased in this exhibition.
ARTBASH 2012: Contemporary Practices Exhibition
280 S. Columbus Dr.
April 14–27
Reception: Friday, April 13, 4:30–7:00 p.m.
In this end-of-year exhibition first-year students from the Department of Contemporary Practices have the opportunity to propose and create site-specific work to be presented in and around SAIC’s Columbus building.
Graduate Exhibition
Sullivan Galleries
April 28–May 16
Reception: Friday, April 27, 8:00–10:00 p.m.
A must-see presentation of the next generation of artists and designers, this exhibition features work by more than 130 students completing their MFA degrees at SAIC. Guest curators Steven Bridges, grupa o.k. (Julian Myers and Joanna Szupinska), Tumelo Mosaka, and Pablo Helguera transform the galleries into series of visual encounters and unconventional experiences.
Visit the 2012 Graduate Exhibition Curators' Blog.
Graduate Presentations and Events
Graduate Writing Program Readings
Mondays, through April 23, 12:00 p.m.
Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection
37 S. Wabash Ave., room 508
IMPACT: Graduate Performance Festival
April 28 and 29, 7:00 p.m.
SAIC Performance Space, 280 S. Columbus Dr., room 012
Graduate students completing their degrees in Performance at SAIC present their thesis works, which cross the borders of theater, movement, and the visual arts, and collectively present a vision of the next wave of performance art.
Panel Discussion: Chicago is Having a Moment
Wednesday, May 2, 4:15–5:45 p.m.
Sullivan Galleries, 33 S. State St., 7th floor
Game Night
Saturday, May 5, 4:30–7:30 p.m.
Sullivan Galleries, 33 S. State St., 7th floor
Film, Video, New Media, Animation, and Sound Festival
May 9–11, 4:30–10:00 p.m.
Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St.
Encounter the next generation of film, video, and new media artists as SAIC students present their thesis projects in this festival of innovative live-action shorts, animation, feature-length narrative and nonfiction works, and experimental digital and audio pieces.
T-E-L-E-V-I-S-I-O-N:
AIADO and Fashion Graduate Exhibition
Sullivan Galleries
June 9–July 21
Reception: Monday, June 11, 6:00–8:00 p.m.
Showcasing design from the Departments of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects, and Fashion, this exhibition brings together thesis work by graduating students that explores recent innovations in material, technology, fashion, and form.
More information is available at saic.edu/designshow2012.
Post-Baccalaureate Studio Exhibition
Sullivan Galleries
June 9–July 21
Reception: Monday, June 11, 6:00–8:00 p.m.
Celebrating the work of more than 20 artists completing the Post-Baccalaureate Studio Certificate at SAIC, this exhibition highlights the myriad forms and experimentation of the SAIC student body.
