Media Contact: Elizabeth Burke-Dain 312.369.8695
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 4, 2009
Images are available.
INTERNALLY DISPLACED
THE FINE ART PRINT WORKS OF
ENRIQUE CHAGOYA AND JANE HAMMOND
image: Postcard, Jane Hammond
The artists Jane Hammond and Enrique Chagoya will present their fine art print works in the exhibition Internally Displaced at Columbia College’s Leviton A+D Gallery as part of the Southern Graphics Council Conference* (SGC). The title of this year’s SGC Conference is Global Implications. Hammond’s and Chagoya’s work addresses contemporary and global issues of social and cultural displacement.
Enrique Chagoya’s artwork is a conceptual fusion of opposite cultural realities that he has experienced in his lifetime. Chagoya integrates diverse elements from pre-Columbian mythology, western religious iconography and American popular culture.
Jane Hammond describes her work as “a fiction woven of facts.” For over a decade, Hammond worked from a fixed vocabulary of found images that she translated into a numbered group of over 200 reference drawings. Her images are “freighted with the feeling of the culture they come from.”
Both artist’s work is in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art, The Los Angeles Country Museum and The New York Public Library as well as other institutions around the world.
WHEN: March 12 – April 18, 2009
Opening Reception: March 12, 5-8pm
Southern Graphics Council Reception: March 27, 5-8pm
WHERE: Columbia College’s Leviton A+D Gallery
618 S. Wabash Avenue
Gallery Hours: Tues – Sat. 11-5, Thursday 11-8
COST: Free and Open to the Public.
CONTACT: Juliana Cuevas, 312.369.8668, website: www.colum.edu/sgc
*ABOUT SOUTHERN GRAPHICS COUNCIL CONFERENCE
Founded in 1973, The Southern Graphics Council is a nonprofit membership organization that advances the professional standing of artists who make original prints, drawings, books, and hand-made paper. The Council strives to increase public appreciation of these arts through an annual conference that draws participants from across the nation and increasingly on an international level. This conference promotes and encourages significant dialogue and exchange of technical and critical information in the fine printmaking community. Awards, publications and exhibitions sponsored by the Council promote greater understanding, scholarship and enjoyment of these art forms. Anchor Graphics at Columbia College Chicago is proud to be the host of this year’s conference. This year’s conference will take place from March 25 – 29, 2009. Website: www.colum.edu/sgc.