Past CSA Programs

WINTER EDITION 2011
SOLD OUT

The Root Cellar Edition was a special holiday multiple featuring text-based artwork Brandon Alvendia, David Leggett, Carol Jackson, and Stephanie Brooks, packaged in a giant vegetable tote, perfect for the farmer's market or for working in your own garden. Building on the success of our spring CSA subscription program, this special holiday multiple makes a perfect gift for old and new collectors alike - keep the edition together as a grouping of 4, or divide it amongst your art, multiple or text loving friends.

A smaller edition than our spring CSAs, the Root Cellar Edition is limited to 31 and sells for $310.00. In addition, shareholders were also invited to an exclusive dinner by artist and chef Eric May at Roots & Culture on December 10th. Dinner was $50.00 per person and includes a limited edition artwork by May. Dinner tickets were available for non-CSA shareholders at $50 per person, which did not include the limited edition artwork by May. Patrons joined us to celebrate the holidays and the release of the Community Supported Art's Root Cellar Edition with shareholders and friends. At dinner we're excited to offer another window into contemporary artists' practice, by highlighting an artist that also creates artful culinary experiences alongside his studio practice. May designed a special locally-sourced meal where shareholders will also have the opportunity to connect with other CSA artists.
 
Logo and packaging designed by Chad Kouri of The Post Family. Artwork came packaged in an extra large tote.

Participating Artists:

Brandon Alvendia is an artist and founder of variety of experimental curatorial initiatives. He is the director of The Storefront neighborhood cultural center, the Silver Galleon Press independent publishing project and was co-director of alternative art spaces artLedge (2004-2007) and BEN RUSSELL (2009-2011). His work supports the efforts of local and internationally based artists and producers by creating platforms for experimentation, discussion and collaboration. A graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA '03) and University of Illinois at Chicago (MFA '07). Brandon Alvendia regularly exhibits in North America, Europe and recently in Sharjah, UAE. He was also the recipient of a 2010 Propellor Fund Grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation administered by Gallery 400 and threewalls, Chicago. CSA piece: “Tout â Fait,” a hand-made trompe l’oeil artists’ book whose form is appropriated from a copy of the fi rst edition hardcover of the comprehensive biography of Marcel Duchamp, by New Yorker arts writer Calvin Tompkins.

 

Stephanie Brooks was born in 1970. She received her MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL in 1997. She is in the collections of Philip Morris, New York, the MacArthur Foundation, Chicago and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. She is represented by Rhona Hoffman Gallery. Stephanie Brooks lives and works in Chicago. Image: Minimal Poem #3 (eww and ooh), 2010, ceramic, 5"x3"x6". (CSA work not pictured)

 

 

The work of Carol Jackson (b. 1962, Los Angeles, CA) depicts our final basking in the spoils of an economy based in the doctrines of manifest destiny. Because supremacy is rapidly transforming from reality to memory, the syntax of nostalgia is heavily present. The ongoing use of leather in her work refers to the lost promise of the west. She earned her BFA in 1987 at UCLA; and moved to Chicago where she currently resides to receive her 1992 MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her numerous solo exhibitions include Changing Role Gallery in Naples Italy, Gallery 400 in Chicago, Ten in One Gallery in NY, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), and the Chicago Project Room. Her group exhibitions include the Van Abbe Museum in the Netherlands, the Smart Museum of Chicago, Hyde Park Art Center, and the Chicago Cultural Center. She has been awarded with grants from the Illinois Arts Council Grants as well as Artadia. Her work is represented in the collections of the Smart Museum of Art, Chicago; Mark and Judy Bednar; Mark and Angela Evans, and Ken Freid among others. She is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Contemporary Practices at SAIC. CSA piece: “When Flies Give Way to Gnats” is an edition of embossed leather-encased stainless steel 8 oz. fl asks. The title is a Homeric phrase borrowed from the Iliad to indicate the transition from day into dusk.

 

David Leggett was born in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1980. He received his Bachelors of Fine Arts from Savannah College of Art and Design (2003), and a Masters of Fine Arts form the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2007). He also attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2010). His work is influenced by relationships, both personal and cultural. Popular culture and imagery are often used in his work. He has shown his work throughout the United States and internationally. He received the visual artist award from 3Arts in 2009. Image: Untitled, 2011, 9"x11" 

 

 

 

 

Eric May is a Chicago-based artist, chef, and educator. His multidisciplinary range of practices, at its core, examines ecologies, not only biological, but also social, and environmental. He has been cooking for the Ox-Bow School of Art and Artist's Residency since 2000. He opened Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center in Chicago's Noble Square neighborhood in 2006 and continues to direct its program. In the spring of 2011 he launched E-Dogz Mobile Culinary Community Center, a collaborative kitchen on wheels aiming to bring mongrel cuisines to the streets of Chicago. During his downtime he loves the outdoors and especially foraging for mushrooms. Image:  Eat in the Streets, 2011 Handpainted sign.

Spring EDITION 2011
SOLD OUT

Community Supported Art Spring 2011's commissioned artists included Conrad Bakker, Sara Black, Edie Fake, Jesse Harrod, Jessica Labatte, Jason Lazarus, Laura Mackin, Eric Fleischauer, Pamela Fraser, Aay Preston-Myint, Steve Reinke, and Dan S. Wang. Each share cost $400 and subscribers receives 6 signed and numbered artworks over three months, from April to June 2011. Each artwork is a limited edition of 50 and shareholders received a selection from participating artists. Shares are a curated mix of mediums, disciplines and conceptual projects, each one will be unique. Subscriptions were limited to 100. Logo design by Angeli and Edwin Galloway. Artwork came packaged in a crate designed and built by Charles Roderick.

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Participating Artists:

Conrad Bakker lives and works out of Urbana, Illinois. His work engages a variety of social, institutional, and consumer contexts, utilizing humor, contextual awareness, formal play, interventionist strategies, and imperfect carving and painting techniques. He has exhibited his work nationally and internationally at Tate Modern (London) Galerie Analix Forever (Geneva), the New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York), the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (Chicago), and the Fargfabriken Center for Contemporary Art and Architecture (Stockholm). His work can be found at http://www.untitledprojects.com.

Sara Black is a Chicago-based artist who has lived and worked in the city since 2006. Her projects use carpentry, wood-working, and repair as a time-based method, inherited wood or other retired objects as a material, and imagine building as a physical means of articulating lived relationships in a constant state of renegotiation. Her work has been exhibited nationally in a variety of spaces including the Museum of Contemporary Craft Portland, The Smart Museum of Art, The Experimental Station, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Documentation of her work and writing can be found at blackpreus.org and material-exchange.org.

Edie Fake was born in Chicagoland in 1980 and has lived and exhibited all over the place. His visual art work, dealing heavily with the confluence of love and fury in queer utopian visions, has been shown at LACE in Los Angeles, Dumbo Arts Center in Brooklyn, and Gallery 400 at UIC Chicago. He was one of the first recipients of Printed Matter's Awards for Artists and his first book, Gaylord Phoenix, was released this past December by Secret Acres. His work can be found at http://ediefake.com/.

Eric Fleischauer is a Chicago-based artist, curator, and educator. Utilizing various strategies such as repurposing discarded VHS tapes as sculptural material, making imperfect drawings of computer generated CAPTCHA’s, or curating videos from YouTube and presenting them in the cinema, his work examines the ramifications of technology’s expansive influence on both the inpidual and the cultural sphere. His work has been exhibited at threewalls, Hyde Park Art Center, Interstate Projects in New York CIty,, and Videonale 12 at the Kunstmuseum Bonn. More information is at http://ericfleischauer.com/.

Pamela Fraser is a Chicago-based artist that makes abstract paintings that connect interests seemingly at odds with one another: painting as public address and as subjective experience; and painting as historical dialogue and as active language. Her work is represented by the Casey Kaplan Gallery in New York, and Galerie Schmidt Maczollek in Cologne, Germany. More of her work can be found at www.pamelafraserstudio.com and www.caseykaplangallery.com.

Jesse Harrod has been writing and making work that employs traditional and contemporary craft and sculptural practices with a focus on craft as “other” and how this pertains to queer theory as well as second and third wave feminism. Jesse is interested in working with the layers that exist within the history of cloth and fabric. She received her MFA from the department of Material Studies from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 2010. Her work can be found at http://jesseharrod.com/.

Jessica Labatte is a Chicago based artist. Her recent solo exhibitions include Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago 100th UBS 12 x 12 New Artists/New Work,NADA Art Fair, Miami Beach, with Golden Gallery, Solo Show: Jessica Labatte, Humble Arts Foundation, New York, NY, and Lazy Shadows at Golden Gallery, Chicago, IL. She received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2009. More information is at http://www.jessicalabatte.com/.

Since receiving his MFA in Photography, Jason Lazarus has actively exhibited around the country and abroad including group exhibitions at the Renaissance Society in Chicago, PPOW Gallery in NYC, the Art Institute of Chicago, and solo exhibitions at Andrew Rafacz Gallery in Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Kaune, Sudendorf in Cologne, Germany, and D3 Projects in Los Angeles. Jason's work can be found in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Milwaukee Museum of Art, and the Bank of America LaSalle Photography collection among many others. More information is at http://www.jasonlazarus.com/.

Laura Mackin has exhibited her work nationally, including solo shows in Nashville, TN; and Portland, OR; and Chicago. Curatorial projects include directing Giftshop Project Space in Chicago and co-directing the H. Lewis Gallery in Baltimore, MD. Mackin received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. More on her work at http://lauramackin.com/.

Aay Preston-Myint is an artist, printmaker, and educator who does collaborative programming with No Coast, Mess Hall, ACRE, and Chances Dances, and edits an online journal called Monsters and Dust. He has exhibited nationally in San Francisco, Minneapolis, New York, and has contributed original writing as well as had multiple reviews of work in the Chicago Reader, New City, Proximity, and AREA. He is currently an MFA candidate in Studio Arts at the University of Illinois at Chicago. More information is at http://www.dirtrainbow.net/.

Steve Reinke is an artist and writer best known for his videos. His work is screened widely and is in several collections, including the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Pompidou (Paris), and the National Gallery (Ottawa). His tapes typically have diaristic or collage formats, and his autobiographical voice-overs share his desires and pop culture appraisals with endearing wit. Born in a village in northern Ontario, he is currently associate professor of Art Theory & Practice at Northwestern University. More information is at http://www.myrectumisnotagrave.com/.

Dan S. Wang is a writer and printer who was born in the American Midwest in 1968 to immigrant parents. His texts have been published internationally in magazines, exhibition catalogues, and embedded in larger projects. His drawings, prints, sculptures, and other projects have been exhibited in two solo exhibtions and more than twenty-five group exhibitions. He has lectured in many places, including at The Contemporary Museum (Baltimore), Kansas City Art Institute, Salzburger Kunstverein (Salzburg, Austria), Art Institute of Chicago, Depot for Kunst and Diskussion (Vienna), Documenta 12 (Kassel, Germany), and the Central Academy of Fine Arts (Beijing). Along with seven others he co-founded Mess Hall, an experimental cultural space in Chicago. More information is at http://prop-press.typepad.com/.

This project is generously supported by 3Arts, Other People's Pixels, and Armand Lee & Company.