Curator

Vanessa Smith

Contributing Artists

Stephen Winters, Chelsea Culp, Karolina Gnatowski, David Todd Trost, Rachael Armstead, Ellen Heck, Alejandra Abad, Julianne Ahn, Yun Jeong Bae, Mark Benson, Dara Brady, Thorne Brandt, Drury Brennan, Jacob Chalkley, Anya Davidson, Elliot Eggler, Megan Euker, Rebecca Gilbert, Geoffrey Hamerlinck, Young Sun Han, Ezara Hoffman, Nick Jones, Jenny Kendler, Masaco Kuroda, Diego Leclery, David Leggett, Tom Long, Caleb Lyons, Carl J. Matherne, Doug Mayfield, Heather Murphy, Rachel Niffenegger, Becky Pflueger, Daniel Pineda, Jyotika Purwar, Molly Schafer, Ruijun Shen, Colleen Singer, Samantha Slade, Jessica Tam, Sebastian Vallejo Rivera, Jose Velazeo, Alex Vlasov, Alisha Wessler, Stephanie Atwood, Chia Lin Hsu, Donna Hurt, Yoonsoo Kim, Alex Lee, Chris Miller, Jennifer Moody, Esteban Schimpf, David Schmelzer, Eric Warner

Exhibition Statement as Preserved in the SUGS/SITE Archives:

The following images document and introduce, respectively, the exhibitions of work from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago at the Lollapalooza music festival and at the Adams and Wabash CTA station. The Lollapalooza exhibition took place on the festival grounds from August 3-5, 2007, and included sculpture and images printed on banners from SAIC students and alumni. The images represented in the CTA exhibition category have yet to be curated for the space and final piece count–these images represent the range of images available for the CTA exhibition.

 

 The CTA station at Adams and Wabash is a public site full of diverse visual encounters unique to Chicago’s distinctly urban scene. This context provides a vibrating arena for recent images made by students and alumni from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The banners that will be on display are derived from multi-disciplinary course work incuding painting, drawing, performance, photography, fiber and material studies, video and printmaking. Along with other works, these banners were featured as part of a special presentation of art from the SAIC community during Chicago’s 2007 Lollapalooza music festival in Grant Park. As guest curator, I seek to choose images that demonstrate the diversity of talent from the School and showcase the range of approaches artists take in their contemporary practice. The resulting presentation will activate the Adams and Wabash station as outdoor gallery, a visual hub that connects SAIC’s urban campus to the larger city of Chicago.