Sculpture Dialogues: Sibylle Friche and Aron Gent

"DOCUMENT"
Wednesday, September 25, 4:15 p.m.
280 S Columbus Dr. Room 127
United States

Sibylle Friche is Director at DOCUMENT, a commercial gallery located in Chicago that specializes in contemporary photography, film and media based art. She received B.A.s in French and Latin American Studies from the University de Lorraine in Nancy, France in 2004 and an M.A. in Arts Administration from Université Charles de Gaulle in Lille, France in 2007. She subsequently worked in a variety of international institutions, including the French Embassy in Buenos Aires, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Le Plateau in Paris, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Prior to DOCUMENT, she worked as Director at Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago and Galerie Laurent Godin in Paris.

Aron Gent is an artist, gallerist and professional print maker residing in Chicago, IL. He received a degree from Columbia College Chicago and has been a lecturer and educator at the Art Institute of Chicago, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, the Hyde Park Art Center and Columbia College Chicago. Gent is a co-founder of MDW Fair, Director/Founder of the printing/exhibition space DOCUMENT and a board member for the ACRE Residency. Gent’s work is in the collection of the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago and has been exhibited at the Hyde Park Art Center, Addison Gallery of American Art, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Chicago Cultural Center, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore and the Kohler Arts Center.

DOCUMENT is a commercial gallery located in Chicago that specializes in contemporary photography, film and media based art. The gallery has organized more than 40 solo exhibitions since its opening in 2011 and actively promotes the work of emerging national and international artists. Operating conjointly as a professional printmaking studio, DOCUMENT facilitates the production of works by artists from Chicago and the US.