July - August 2010
This July and August threewalls will again host their summer residency, this year in conjunction with The Studio Chicago programming. Summer residents Cauleen Smith and Adia Millett will be residents of threewalls at The Summer Studio, an exhibition and dynamic studio, curated by Michelle Grabner and Mary Jane Jacob at the Sullivan Galleries at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Cauleen Smith will continue work on trilogy of films/videos that examine the application of music as transformative technology withan an urban matrix. The first of these works, The Fullness of Time, was shot in New Orleans. In Chicago, Smith will work on Eclipse, a narrative, ficto-documentary about the Afro-futurist identity that Sun-Ra developed in Chicago in the mid-1950s. With plans to form the rogue marching band, Celestial Arkestral Marching Band, Smith will create musical interventions Chicago's neighborhoods that pay homage to Sun Ra's development in and lasting influence on the city.
Cauleen Smith currently resides in San Diego, California. Her work has been exhibited at a variety of venues including: "The Fullness of Time" at The New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival and The Kichen in 2008; "Drylongso" at Urbanworld Film Festival, Los Angeles Pan-African Film Festival and Philadelphia Film Festival in 2000; Sundance Film Festival, 1999 and Hamptons Film Festival, 2008. She has been included in group shows at The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans; Mass Art, Boston; The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, Studio Museum Harlem, and The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. She was the recipient of a Creative Capital Film/Video Grant in 2008 and a resident at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2007. Her work has been covered by The New Yorker, The New York Times, Artlies and The Independant Film and Video Monthly, to name a few.
Cauleen Smith: Family Photo, still image captured with hasselblad pan-x from The Green Dress, 2005
Adia Millett will work on a series of free-standing, "story-specific" installations at threewalls. The initial installation will be a space where viewers sit and share stories shaped by the space itself. These stories are video recorded, and based on these stories, Millett will reinterpret her own installation. Throughout the project, the space will be continually remodeled as new visitors narrate tales based on the installation they inhabit until Millett has remade the site at least 4 times based on the narratives of 20 stories. This extremely process-oriented project points to the creative connections between people via the unconcious collaboration amongst a number of story-tellers and the artist.
Adia Millett has exhibited at Mixed Greens, New York; The Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans; The John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI; David Krut Projects, New York; Saatchi & Saatchi, New York; Studio Museum In Harlem, New York and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, among others. Her work has been covered by The Village Voice, Art News, NY Arts, Art and America and The New York Times. She currently resides in San Marino, California.
Adia Millet: Change #6 (installation interior), paint, wood, plastic, etc., 2008