No Chemistry

“Safety Net”

A safety net can catch a fall or jump and act as a safeguard against possible adversity. They generally provide comfort, assurance and protection, but these knitted sculptures do quite the opposite. They act as beautifully knitted missteps, mistakes or flaws created to adapt to the changes that new forms and material propose in each sculpture. Conceptually, they represent clusters of unsettling situations in both my personal and professional life where the security and strength of safety nets continue to be tested. Made of various types of yarns and found objects of similar fibrous nature, each piece is created by an experimental mix of crochet, knitting and embroidery stitches.

Tenure as Sacrificial Lamb

To contact this artist:  yonseniawhite.com

Email: artwork@yonseniawhite.com

Hope in (Haggai 2:9)

Urban Terrane

Urban Terrane 2

Urban Terrane 3

Urban Terrane

A terrane is a distinct sliver of rock that is embedded in the surrounding geological landscape. It is totally foreign, isolated, and a remnant but at the same time it completes the puzzle of strata. Borrowing from geology, I want to consider the window gallery as a terrane, something that is contained within the building: filling the window gallery space and being completely enmeshed in the streetscape at the same time.

Through physically layering the sewn paper arrangements during the installation process, the individual elements, sewn lines, loose threads, and various types of map imagery are transformed into a strata-like whole.

to contact this artist:

dreaminreverse@gmail.com

bottlecap self-portrait

close-up of nose

“CLOSE”
Inspired by the work of artist Chuck Close, this 8 foot by 7 foot self-portrait is made entirely of plastic bottle caps.  The color variations were achieved solely through nesting the caps into one another.  This piece took seven months to build and contains approximately 7,000 caps from such varied sources as beverages, cleaners and personal grooming products.

to contact this artist:

maryellencroteau.net

CLOSE in window

Sookyoung & David, installed

International exchange exhibition with Harrington Mill Studios, Nottingham, UK

David Manley - Walking the Windy City

Week 2:   April 23 through 29, 2011

Sookyoung and David both use photography as a vehicle for exploration, focusing on detailed, close-up observations to examine larger human issues.

David uses digital manipulation to re-imagine walking sticks for an imaginary journey through “The Windy City.”   “I’ve never been to Chicago, nor even the States, so have no real perceptions of it.  But through the internet, I can now walk “virtually‟ down West Armitage and peer into the windows, take a hike towards Lincoln Park, maybe walk the Lakefront Trail – and get some kind of sense of place.”

Sookyoung’s photos    are concerned with the memories, traces and encounters that currently shape her life.  Using bits of hair she collects from people,  her work raises the question ‘Is this Art?” by placing overlarge focus on the minutia of everyday life.
“My aim in the Core project is to explore the touching detail of human life, with its poignant cycle of growth, maturity and decline.  All as witnessed in a strand of hair”.

mural drawing

detail

International exchange with artists from Harrington Mill Studio,
Nottingham England

Week 1:   APRIL 15 through APRIL 22, 2011
Alison Whitmore and Jackie Berridge

Jackie and Alison will work collaboratively on a mural drawing, combining their studio practice with “live performance‟.  The starting point is the Chicago cityscape and its inhabitants. Jackie will create anthropomorphic beings which will represent a range of individuals both observed and imagined.  Alison will focus on reflecting the city, observing the world outside the window as it unfolds.

The melding of subject matter, methods and approach in large-scale on-site drawings will be simultaneously challenged and enriched by collaboration, with the process experienced by a transient audience passing by on the street.

http://jackieberridge.co.uk/

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Journey-into-Landscape/102147673175229

completed mural 4/22

http://www.harringtonmillstudios.co.uk/artists/whitmore/page.htm