Current CSA Program

threewalls is pleased to announce the next round of our popular Community Supported Art program, Spring 2012 edition, featuring editioned artwork by Elijah Burgher, Derek Chan, Dan Devening, Carson Fisk-Vittori, Dianna Frid, Kelly Kaczynski, Betsy Odom, and Bernard Williams.

To buy your CSA, please visit here to purchase. Our edition sizes are now smaller, and they sell-out fast!

How it works: The program offers a reasonably priced way to support Chicago artists and receive limited edition contemporary artist projects in return. This season, the edition size is more limited: 30 pieces only. Shares cost $400 for a single share of 4 artworks and $850 for a family-size share of 8 artworks, including 2 tickets to threewalls spring gala (value $200.00). Subscribers receive signed and numbered artworks at two release events in late May and late June. Shares are a curated mix of mediums, disciplines and conceptual projects, each one will be unique.

Community-Supported Art Chicago is a twice-yearly art subscription service of locally produced art. Borrowing the model of Community-Supported Agriculture, where consumers invest in a local farm and get a monthly payout of fruits and vegetables, threewalls asks shareholders to invest directly in the arts community with that same mentality. CSA Chicago makes the process of collecting contemporary art affordable and accessible.

Much like previous editions, the Spring 2012 edition artists have extensive exhibition history that is local, national and international. They have been included in the exhibitions at the Chicago Cultural Center, Terra Museum of American Art, the DeCordova Museum, Museum Kurhaus in Kleve, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and the Whitney Museum of Art, amongst many other places. We're very excited to extend this special opportunity to own these prestigious artists' works.

Community Supported Art Chicago is partially funded by 3Arts and Other People's Pixels.

View the CSA works here:

 

threewalls will be co-hosting our Spring 2012 release event with Nite Market, Chicago's first market for unlicensed artisan food vendors. The event will be at Rebuilding Exchange on May 26, 6-9 PM located at 2160 N. Ashland Avenue. An individual CSA work from each artist will be framed and available via silent auction that night, shareholders can come pick up their work, and the general public is welcome to attend, check out the work, and peruse the delicious vendors of the Nite Market community.

Entering the Nite Market costs $2 and the Community Supported Art silent auction and pick-up zone is free. Shareholders who cannot attend the event are welcome to pick up their work at threewalls anytime after May 26 during open hours, Tuesday-Saturday 11-5 pm.
 

Participating Artists:

Elijah Burgher is an artist and writer based in Chicago, IL. He has most recently exhibited in a solo show at Shane Campbell Gallery in Oak Park, IL, a two-person exhibition at Peregrine Program in Chicago, IL, and group shows at Anna Kustera Gallery and Envoy Enterprises in New York, NOMA Gallery in San Francisco, Western Exhibitions in Chicago, and the NY Art Book Fair. He maintains a hybrid studio wall/magick diary blog at http://ghostvomit.blogspot.com/. He received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2004, and a BA from Sarah Lawrence college in 2000, where he split his credits amongst Literature, Visual Art, and Cultural Anthropology.

Derek Chan received his MFA from the University of Illinois Chicago in 2007. Past solo exhibitions include All Our Relations, Carrie Secrist, Chicago, A Way of Life, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and Thirty and Eight, Golden Age, Chicago. Recent collaborations include Cosmic Workshop, part of The Happiness Project, Chicago and Counting Time (with Theaster Gates) at the 2010 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Dan Devening is an artist, educator and curator living in Chicago. He is currently Adjunct Professor in the Department of Painting and Drawing at SAIC and recently completed a 15 year position as Senior Lecturer in the Department of Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University. In the US his work has been featured at the Roy Boyd Gallery, the Chicago Cultural Center, Terra Museum of American Art, ebersmoore gallery, and Julius Caesar in Chicago; Kinkead Contemporary in LA and Printed Matter, Inc. and Apex Art in NY. Other recent projects include exhibitions in Germany at the Kunsterverein Recklinghausen, Museum Kurhaus in Kleve, galerie oqbo in Berlin and Renate Schroeder Gallery in Cologne. Other international group exhibitions include shows at Art Metropole in Toronto; De Appel in Amsterdam; Secession in Vienna and Galerie des Multiples in Paris. Some of his curatorial projects include Where There Is, recent drawings from Chicago at galerie oqbo in Berlin; Seems at the Block Museum at Northwestern University; The Nature of Disturbance at rowlandcontemporary in Chicago; Infra-Thin at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellen, Illinois; and Paper Products at the Evanston Art Center. In 2007 he inaugurated and currently directs devening projects + editions, a gallery project featuring exhibitions and site-specific installations by emerging and established international artists.

Carson Fisk-Vittori lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. Her recent exhibitions include a solo show at Important Projects, Oakland, group and collaborative exhibitions at The Future Gallery, Berlin, The ICA Philadelphia, Roots & Culture, Chicago, and Humble Arts, New York. She is currently exploring the idea of anthropocene, a new term denoting the current geological era characterized by the significant effect of humanity on the earths ecosystems. Through photography, installation, and collaborative practices she explores the many devices we use to view nature, and our attempts to replicate the natural world. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2009.

Raised in Mexico City and Vancouver, Dianna Frid currently lives in Chicago where she is an artist and Assistant Professor in Studio Arts in the College of Architecture and the Arts at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her work builds on a longstanding concern with architecture and with re-imagining literary and scientific representations of natural phenomena. For several years she has been making and exhibiting books, objects, and installations that join mixed media, sculpture, and works on paper. Her work has been shown in galleries in the USA and abroad and at numerous public venues including PS1-MOMA (NY), The Drawing Center (NY), The Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago) and the Neues Kunstforum (Cologne). She has received grants from The Canada Council for the Arts and a Chicago Artadia Award. Recently she was a resident at The Wall House 2 Foundation in Groningen, where she will be creating a site-specific project for 2013.

Kelly Kaczynski is an artist residing in Chicago. She has exhibited with Gahlberg Gallery, IL; Threewalls Gallery, IL; Hyde Park Art Center, IL; Rowland Contemporary, IL; University at Buffalo Art Gallery, NY; Triple Candie, NY; Islip Art Museum, NY; Josee Bienvenu Gallery, NY; DeCordova Museum, MA; Boston Center for the Arts, MA. Public installations include projects with the Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA; the Interfaith Center, NY; Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston and the Boston National Historic Parks, MA; Boston Public Library, MA. Curatorial projects include the exhibition titled ‘Mouthing (a sentient limb)’ at the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, and an ongoing project-based entity titled Unnamed Future Space. Kaczynski is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art Theory & Practice at Northwestern University, IL.

Betsy Odom was born in 1980 in Amory, Mississippi (pop. 6000). She left Amory to study first at the United World College in Montezuma, New Mexico, then at the San Francisco Art Institute where she earned her BFA in 2002. Odom completed her MFA in sculpture from Yale University in 2007. Her work has been exhibited across the US since 2001, and has been the subject of solo exhibitions at venues such as Rudolph Projects and Lawndale Art Center in Houston (TX), and Barry Whistler Gallery in Dallas (TX) and threewalls in May 2011. Betsy currently lives and works in Chicago, Illinois.

Bernard Williams is a native of Chicago, Illinois. He holds a BFA Degree from the University of Ill. at Champaign-Urbana, and a Master of Fine Arts Degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. He has attended residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and Kohler Art Center. Williams taught art at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1991-2003. Williams has been commissioned to create numerous outdoor murals around Chicago and abroad, sponsored by a range of organizations and corporations including AT&T, GATX Corp., Kraft Foods, the Snite Museum of Art at the Univ. of Notre Dame, Indiana, Chicago Dept. of Cultural Affairs, as well as the Jackson Public School District, Jackson, MS, and a permanent sculpture for the Chicago Transit Authority. Williams has been awarded grants from the Illinois Arts Council Grant and the Artadia Foundation. Selected exhibitions include the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, MS, and the African-American Museum in Dallas, TX, the Hyde Park Art Center, the Illinois State Museum and group exhibitions at the Chicago Cultural Center, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, Dowd Fine Arts Gallery, Cortland, NY 2002, and The Eiteljorg Museum of Native American and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN. In 2011 a large collection(150 pieces) of wood cut-out symbols, titled Buffalo Chart, was acquired by the Mott-Walsh collection Flint, MI. The artist has paintings in permanent collections at the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis and the Snite Museum on the campus of the University of Notre Dame.