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Spirit Spirits
Circle Contemporary- West Town
September 27, 2024 - November 10, 2024
Renata Berdes – Zolt Brown-Dunn – Casey Chrzan – Guy Conners – Emily Daisy Schultz – Sam Filicky – Ted Hamel – Ted Gram-Boarini – Stefan Harhaj – Nikki Heusman – Katrina Jackson – Lia Kohl – David Krueger with Ben Marcus – Lawrence M. – Susan Pasowicz – Maria Vanik
******Guest curated by Eli Greene and Devin T. Mays.
OPENING RECEPTION:
September 27th, 5-8pm
Eli Greene (b. New York, NY) is a Chicago and Houston based multimedia artist. Her works are often filtered through photography, saturated with the medium and everything it sticks to — history, memory and loss. Through image, object, and performance, Greene’s practice traces the act of one thing becoming another. Her recent work has been exhibited and performed at the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago, Maximillian William, London, The Smart Museum of Art, Gallery 400, The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts and Regards, Chicago.
Devin T. Mays (b. Detroit, MI) works with sculpture, installation, performance, and pictures to locate the seen, unseen and understood. His literal use of the temperamental and temporary is an attempt to work with the materiality of everything and nothingness. The materials being used in his practice do not always present themselves as anything more than what they appear to be. There is not always a physical transformation at the hands of his facilitation. He often refers to his interdisciplinary practice as a practice-in-practice, a place for things to become Things. He has exhibited and performed at Martin Janda, Vienna; The Renaissance Society, Chicago; Neubauer Collegium, Chicago; gta exhibitions, Zürich; Sweetwater, Berlin; F, Houston; SculptureCenter, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago among others.
CXW and West Town Art Walk open hours:
Friday, October 4, 5-8pm
Saturday, October 5, 1pm-4pm
*******Performance by Zolt Brown-Dunn, Misa Sourour, Rachel Christine Schmidt, Lee Johnson, and Max Li as part of Spirit Spirits starting at 1pm.
October 10th, 8:15 pm.
Performance by Lia Kohl
October 10th, Lottery by Emily Daisy Schulz will open and run through November 11th.
Lottery is a free sweepstakes for $500 open to anyone who comes to the Arts of Life between 10/10/24 and 11/10/24 and views the exhibition. Participants may only enter once. This is an honor system. To enter please write your first and last name, your phone number, and your email address on one of the index cards provided. On 11/10/24 Arts of Life will select at random the winner of this sweepstakes during the exhibition’s closing events. Emily will send the one lucky participant their $500 directly. To whomever may win – perhaps you use this money to produce an artwork of your own. Perhaps you will use this money to support an Arts of Life artist by purchasing some of their artwork. Perhaps it will go toward your rent. It will be your decision! No questions asked. Best of luck, and please enjoy the exhibition.
— Emily Daisy Schultz
Arts of Life studio location is wheelchair accessible and offers gender-neutral restrooms, one of which is wheelchair accessible. Please refrain from wearing scented products to this event. Please send requests for Sign-Language Interpreters, real-time captioners, or other accommodations to Circle Contemporary ([email protected] / 312-829-2787) at your earliest convenience.
