Media Contact: Elizabeth Burke-Dain 312.369.8695
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 8, 2008
Images are available.
CRITERIA
Can We Always Be Moving Upwards?
Criteria is an art and design exhibition about sustainability, but it is not about green design, ecology or environmentalism. Mexican curators and designers, Emiliano Godoy and Jimena Acosta, have set out to create an exhibition that aims to construct an argument on the need to transform current production and consumption patterns into a viable cycle of creating well-being. Our preconceived notions of progress and wealth could be described as the illusion of constant growth, or the wishful thought that progress is always moving upwards.
The design and art gathered in Criteria critically approach our current crisis through a number of themes and a variety of media that range from drawing, photographs, video and products. While some of them use a documental strategy others use daily life objects as their reference.
Participating Artists: Siri Brekke, Edward Burtynsky, Dante Busquets, goldiechiari, Máximo González, Aylin Kayser and Cristian Metzner, Jason Middlebrook, MINE, Paolo Pennuti, Diego Pérez, Richochet Studio, Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray, Ariel Rojo, Vitamin, Uli Westphal and Craig Zucker.
WHEN: January 15 – February 28, 2009
Opening reception: Thursday, January 29, 5-8pm
ArtTalks Lecture: Emilio Godoy (co-curator),
6:30 – 7:30, 623 S. Wabash, Room 203
WHERE: Averill & Bernard Leviton A+D Gallery 619 S. Wabash
Gallery hours: Tues – Sat, 11 am – 5pm, Thurs, 11 am – 8 pm
MORE INFO: 312 369 8687 or www.colum.edu/adgallery