After an unconscionable delay, here is a link to pictures from Art, Partly 2008.
June 21st 7:30p
- it's a party
there's gonna be art
and music
and food
art lovers and ? welcome
it's art, partly
June 22nd 2:30-5p
- second-chance showing
kid-friendly
drop by for a look or a play
same place, same art
clear light of day
2008 Artists
- r.e.SEE.y.c.l.e.
Backstory
- We had a party with art. People had fun. Artists sold stuff. We did it again. More fun was had.
So round three. Three new artists and one annual favorite. People will have fun. Music will be played. Art will be shown and seen and discussed, and who knows... maybe bought.
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r.e.SEE.y.c.l.e. - Art, Partly 2008 artists
No, this isn't a meeting to discuss suburban waste reduction. This is Art, Partly 2008: four fascinating artists from Chicago's burgeoning emerging scene showing for two days in our home on Main Street in Evanston. Each of this year's artists recycle their materials and subjects, literally and figuratively, forcing us to see through the material to personal, cultural and political vistas beyond.
- Ted Boggs: recycling cultural memes to create a human-scaled art
- Robert Burnier: deconstructing vehicles of destruction to find a new order beyond the chaos they unleash
- Renee Robbins: collapsing macro and micro scales to see the individual vs the cultural
- Russ White: recontextualizing the mundane foundation of the consumer economy to reveal a textured, nuanced beauty
But that's all just a fancy way of saying: this is some really exciting, beautiful work by four smart, cool, grounded artists who deserve some of your attention.
And reprising music from last year with "Live Electronics / Electro / Americana" is Garo and a musical partner to be determined!
June 21 and 22. Art, music, food, casual conversation. Details below.
Theodore Boggs - 2008
Theodore was one of the "founding artists" of Art Partly in 2006. Since then, he has continued to explore the aesthetic possibilities of found objects, not so much recycling as re-using them: marking them indelibly (literally... usually with an indelibly marker!) with drawings which themselves reuse bits and pieces of pop culture dating back to Norse mythology.
In Ted's words:
Via orienting the self at the pivot point of a cyclical cultural system, the artist is able to activate ideas, materials, and space as sustainable resources that have the potential to propel communities towards a new art, one created at a human scale. On this level, reflection can lend itself to a respect for space and energy and establish recycling, and the reuse of cultural materials, as a viable, sustainable, creative act that harmonizes with the world and its complex cycles on a dynamic and holistic scale.
Ted's most recent work, a portable mural made up of several large ink, paint and goache works, recycles everything from Steve McQueen to instruction manuals to his own recurring forms.
And also see Ted's work from Art, Partly 2007 below.
Russ White - 2008
Russ White recycles the very platform of consumer culture--the wooden pallets that virtually every product is shipped on--into abstracted mosaics of texture and color signaling another level of meaning beyond the object's own history.
In Russ' words:
My current body of work uses weathered wood from packing pallets to create wall-mounted geometric compositions. By cutting the wood into strips and blocks, I distance the colors and textures from their original source; in effect, the wood reads not as a found object but as a found surface. My aim is to create empathetic objects, sculptures that are both confident and vulnerable.
With roots in collage and found object assemblage, I try to find the beauty in the forgotten, the everyday, and the unpleasant, that which has often been rode hard and put up wet. The primary influences on my work are Lee Bontecou, Jannis Kounellis, and Jello Biafra.
More of Russ' work can be seen on his site at www.businessjones.com.
Renee Robbins - 2008
Renee Robbins' delicate yet exuberant paintings set macroscopic and microscopic scales against each other in a way that suggests that each scale is a recycling of the others. Here's how Renee describes her approach:
My work sources structures from molecular, biological, anatomical, architectural, celestial, and cultural systems, all of which provide multiple views of a constructed self. I see landscape as a point where the terrestrial plain meets the sky and as a primal human condition which acts as a metaphor for the public and private self. The strategies of mixing, blending, and juxtaposing allow me to express complexities of personal and cultural identities.
A recent example of the work that will be shown at Art Partly in 2008:
Additional work can be seen at Renee's website: www.reneerobbins.com.
Robert Burnier - 2008
We've been following Robert Burnier at Around the Coyote for the last several years as he explores the tension between creation and destruction, order and chaos. Robert's paintings have been featured in several Chicago exhibitions and are in the corporate collection of United Airlines. Past work has counter-balanced the chaos of energy dispersal systems like lake waves and thermonuclear explosions with meticulous grids of small canvases. Recently that grid has literally leapt off the wall as Robert abstracts his subjects and imposes order in free-form compositions that change based on the perspective of the viewer.
"Recursion 7" (2008)
Oil on
three canvases
2007 Catalog: hard and soft copies!
We've created a catalog for the 2007 party. Download the PDF version. Also available are beautifully printed softcover books (30pp, 8" x 6") for $20ea. Let Cam know if you're interested (payment by paypal, shipping direct from Apple): cam.balzer@gmail.com.
