From Theaster Gates’ video document of a three hundred-voice ensemble that invokes early Black America to Alison Rhoades’ site-specific performance that invites 20 local artists to visually interpret the same excerpt from Virginia Wolff’s To The Lighthouse, X-treme Studio is a multimedia art exhibition that presents artwork and documentation of art projects created in intense and alternative situations. X-treme Studio asks the viewer to rethink conventional ideas about artmaking by highlighting visual practices in and out of studios and gallery spaces.
Participating artists include: D. Denenge Akpem, E.J. Hill and Tannar Veatch, Julie Lequin, Shaun Leonardo, Alison Rhoades, and Russell Watson. Alternative artist run platforms include: Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago, IL; Industry of the Ordinary, Chicago, IL; Live/work (Michael Zheng), San Francisco, CA; New Urban Arts, Providence, RI; Theaster Gates / The Dorchester Project, Chicago, IL; The Poor Farm, Manawa, WI; The Velaslavasay Panorama, Los Angeles, CA; and The Work Office, Brooklyn, NY.
This exhibition is sponsored by the Art + Design Department at Columbia College Chicago and is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, and by the Efroymson Family Fund. X-Treme Studio is also one of the many programs included in Studio Chicago*.
WHEN:
June 24–July 21
Opening reception and live performances: June 24, 5–8 p.m.
WHERE:
Columbia College’s Leviton A+D Gallery, 619 S. Wabash Ave
Gallery hours: Tues. – Sat., 11 a.m. – 5 p.m., Thurs., 11 a.m. – 8 p.m.
INFO:
312.369.8687 or www.colum.edu/adgallery
Columbia College Chicago is an urban institution that offers innovative degree programs in the visual, performing, media and communication arts to more than 12,000 students in over 120 undergraduate and graduate programs. An arts and media college committed to a rigorous liberal arts curriculum, Columbia is dedicated to opportunity and excellence in higher education. For further information, visit www.colum.edu.
*Studio Chicago is a yearlong collaborative project that focuses on the artist’s studio. Through exhibitions, talks, publications, tours, and research, participating organizations celebrate the working artist and reveal their sites of creative production from historical and contemporary perspectives.
For more information, visit www.studiochicago.org
Core Studio Chicago partners include: Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Columbia College Chicago, DePaul University Art Museum, Gallery 400, Hyde Park Art Center, Museum of Contemporary Art, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and threewalls.
MEDIA CONTACT:
Elizabeth Burke-Dain, 312.369.8695, eburkedain@colum.edu
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