The New Gotham Ballroom: One night only! June 8th
Join us for our annual spring gala, The New Gotham Ballroom, a pop-up 1930s era night-club at the Stan Mansion with dinner by Chef Jared Wentworth and Longman & Eagle. Tickets on sale now!
Programs: Past Exhibitions
Alan and Michael Fleming
March 9-April 21, 2012
Opening Reception: March 9, 6-9PM
Artist Talk: April 21, 2 PM
Laura Mackin: 120 Years
January 13-February 25, 2012
Opening Reception: January 13, 2012, 6-9 PM
Artist talk: Thursday, February 9th, 7pm
Laura Mackin is a kind of amateur archivist. Not unlike the countless Tumblr managers of the world, she collects countless and readily available mundane imagery that populates our visual world, reorganizing and cataloging it for re-contextualized consideration; but unlike those countless Tumblr managers (or at least most of them), Mackin invests deeply in the authors of the original imagery. Previously, Mackin has mined ebay seller’s photos, collecting images by single sellers (the Davis mirrors) or a category of sales (wedding dresses), drawing from a select group of their output to shape a kind of oblique portraiture of an individual or a poetic typology.
Zachary Cahill
ZACHARY CAHILL
USSA 2012: The Orphanage Project
September 9-October 15th, 2011
Opening reception: Friday, September 9th, 6-9pm
Artist talk: Thursday, October 6th, 7pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-5pm
Voices from the Center
October 28 - December 10, 2011
Opening Reception: October 28. 2011, 6-9 PM
A multiform project and group exhibition, produced Janeil Engelstad
Artists include Janeil Engelstad, Grafixpol, Oto Hudec, Magda Stanová, Miklós Surányi, Matej Vakula, and Tehnica Schweiz.
in conjunction:
UNFREE FREEDOM: An Exploration of Identity in Central Europe, Curated by Janeil Engelstad
OCTOBER 28 – DECEMBER 10, 2011
OPENING RECEPTION SATURDAY OCTOBER 29, 3-5 PM
at the Center for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College
1104 S Wabash, 2nd Fl, Chicago
Revolution, Transformation and Identity: Central European Artists Reflect upon Post-Communist Art, Urbanism and Culture, Panel discussion with Oto Hudec, Magda Stanová, Miklós Surányi, Matej Vakula, and Jan Worpus, moderated by Janeil Engelstad
Sunday October 30, 3 PM
Graham Foundation, Madlener House
4 West Burton Place, Chicago, Illinois 60610
Free, RSVP here
Either/Or/Both: July 1-30th, 2011
Either/Or/Both
Artists: Samantha Bittman, Stephanie Brooks, Casey Droege, Michael Milano, Hans Peter Sundquist
Curator: Shannon R. Stratton
Either/Or/Both explores the poetics of relationships and correspondence through painting, drawing and text based work that troubles the boundaries between the intuitive and the systematic by making do within a set of givens and the possibilities in them.
Betsy Odom: Registry (main space) and Montgomery Perry Smith: Milking (project room)
May 6th - June 18th, 2011
threewallsSALON: Curating the Turn
In this SALON session, we ask: what are some boundaries-pushing, interdisciplinary curatorial models that fully embrace all the potential inherent in that role? How has the “educational turn” changed the stakes for independent and institutional curators? How are curators (aspiring or established) responding to, profiting from, or perhaps even ignoring, the academicization of their practice? And what are some thoughtful ways in which curatorial practice is responding to different institutional models, as well as reaching beyond the arts institution, to address activism and politics?
Kelly Kaczynski: The Stagehand's Unseen (main space) and Kirsten Leenaars: The Impossible Voyage (Larry and Jacob Kart) (project room)
September 10 - October 23, 2010
Claire Pentecost: Victoryland ... you, I shall answer your letter
April 23 - May 22, 2010
threewallsSALON: Art in the Age of Infinite Reproducibility
Thanks to the internet, Photoshop, and new software and codes, source material is virtually infinite, infinitely reproducible, infinitely transformable, and remembered forever, with the potential to be archived and documented in the virtual realm for eternity. What are the implications of this newly expanded sense of temporality and lack of materiality (in many cases) for art makers who experiment with these mediums, and for their viewers and critics? How do artists work through, or with, notions of labor and laziness that are part and parcel of the phenomenon of the internet? How has the internet has affected curatorial practice? Guest Respondents: Jon Cates, Eric Fleischauer, Mark Hereld, Friedhard Kiekeben, Dan Quiles and Daniel Sauter explore these questions and more.
threewallsSALON: Curating the Page
There appears to be a growing return to the book amongst younger artists, writers and thinkers. This move towards the material and physical may be in reaction to the vastness and immateriality of forms of cultural production in the Second Life era. This discussion centers around definitions of the publication as art object, as curated exhibition, as micro-archive, as well as phenomenological aspects of the publication—its tactility, personable and intimate dimensions, and the unique one-to-one relationship between reader/viewer and object. Bookmakers, editors, curators and scholars have been invited to this discussion to share their experiences as we ponder the significance of recent evolutions in the book as object, curatorial challenges the artist book provokes, and the future of the medium. Guest Respondents: Brandon Alvendia, Simon Anderson, Doro Boehme, Michael Golec, and Paige Johnston
threewallsSALON: Cartography 2.0
The ancient art of cartography has mysterious and storied resonances of ignorance, journeys and discovery; idealized and paradisiacal utopias; Cartesian desires for quantifiable knowledge; and colonial powers and empires. Today, contemporary artists across the globe employ mapping and diagramming in their creative practice to incredibly diverse ends. Bourriaud locates this practice as characteristic of a new era in art in his curatorial essay on the “altermordern”; for the curator, it reflects our age of invisible but enforced borders; multiple passports; global culture and nomadism. Beyond the obvious socio-political qualities in the art of making a map, however, there is also the fundamental act itself of making connections, of stringing ideas together visually and spatially. Guest respondents: Bret Bloom, Scott Carter, Adelheid Mers, Deb Sokolow and Sara Schnadt explore the political, social, personal and ontological dimensions of the map.
threewallsSALON: The Doctoral Artist: Research & Practice
Art projects begin to feel like dissertations; loaded with multivalent cultural, political, and historical references, this type of practice often doesn’t result in a traditional art object, but instead exists in performance, in conversations, in recreations of office spaces or archives within a gallery. Contemporary strains of this type of practice have had high visibility in Chicago recently, with exhibitions by Liam Gillick and Jeremy Diller at the MCA in the fall, and the knowledge-questioning investigation by Aspen Mays about to open at the Hyde Park Art Center; these examples will be touchstones for the conversation. Guest respondents: Frances Whitehead, Patrick Bobilin, Allison Peters & Aspen Mays
2010 SALON series
The Work of Gambling Historians: Oblique Glances at the Present
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Image: Eric Fleischauer, Assigned + Recommended Reading, 2007. Image courtesy of the artist.
2010 Schedule:
The Doctoral Artist: Research and Art Practice
Tuesday, January 26, 7:00 p.m.
Cartography 2.0
Tuesday, February 23, 7:00 p.m.
Tuesday, March 23, 7:00 p.m.
Tuesday, April 20, 7:00 p.m.
Join threewalls this winter for the 2010 SALONS series, The Work of Gambling Historians: Oblique Glances at the Present, a special series curated by Ania Szremski. Held on Tuesday evenings at 7:00 pm, SALONS feature guest respondents in round table discussion with the public about currents the contemporary visual arts.
threewallsSALONS are an ongoing project that invites creative producers and thinkers into the gallery for an open-forum discussion about currents in contemporary visual art and culture. SALONS pose a discussion topic, gather a few key contributors and then open up the floor for discussion between those actively engaged in the 'question' and anyone and everyone who would like to come and be apart of the conversation. This year’s series was curated by Ania Szremski, a dual MA candidate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Art History, Theory and Criticism and Arts Administration and Policy. This project was funded in part by The Presidential Urban Engagement Grant distributed by SAIC.
Discussions are gently moderated to keep the discussion flowing.
Check the calendar for more details.
Philip von Zweck: The Fortieth Anniversary of the First Anniversary of May ’68 (in September)
September 11 - October 10, 2009
Christy Matson & Jon Brumit: ATTENTION Star People * Light Workers * Indigo, Crystal & Rainbow Children *
NEXT Fair: April 30 - May 4, 2009
threewallsSALON: Hive Brain, contemporary collaboratives and their open source future
Join threewalls Thursday, February 5th at 7 pm for Hive Brain (contemporary collaboratives and their open source future), a SALON featuring: Death by Design, Temporary Services, Material Exchange and more. Moderated by Elizabeth Chodos of threewalls.
Art with a Hive Brain is a conversation with local visual arts collaboratives about practicing as a group, team or partnership, the relinquishment of singular authorship, the idea of open-source creativity and recent popularity of collaborative practices in contemporary art. Members of Chicago’s art community are invited to collectively examine and confer about these topics and more over drinks and snacks in this, the third of threewalls 2008/09 salons.
threewallsSALONS are an ongoing project that invites creative producers and thinkers into the gallery for an open-forum discussion about currents in contemporary visual art and culture. SALONS pose a discussion topic, gather a few key contributors and then open up the floor for discussion between those actively engaged in the ‘question’ and anyone and everyone who would like to come and be apart of the conversation. Discussions are gently moderated to keep the ideas flowing.
threewallsSALON: the artist in the field
Join threewalls Thursday, December 4th at 7:00 PM for The Artist in the Field (The rise of the residency and the return to nature), a SALON featuring Sarah Workneh of Ox-Bow; Abby Satinsky of InCUBATE andHarold Arts; Joe Jeffers, Emily Green and Nicholas Wiley of Harold Arts, for a discussion about the artist residency. Moderated by Elizabeth Chodos of threewalls.
Turned Intos: Scott August, Bracken H'anuse Corlett, and Sarah Fuller
Curated by Alternator Gallery; an exchange show with Alternator Gallery
Bookstore design by John Preus
For the 2008/09 season ThreeWalls is introducing a new resource center and bookstore at their Headquarters.
Material Exchange: The way things drag their futures around
June 27 - August 2, 2008
Merge or Fade: Andrew Suggs, Anna Neighbor,Corey Antis, Gabriel Boyce, James Johnson, Linda Yun, Leah Ballis and Matthew Suib
May 16 - June 14, 2008
Bellwether: Josh Mannis, Jenny Walters, Joseph Kohnke, Bill O'Brien, Lisa Boumstein-Smalley, Chelsea Tonelli Knight, Duncan McKenzie, Daniel Anhorn, David Coyle, Ann Toebbe, Caleb Jones Lyons and Heather Mekkelson
Curated by Shannon Stratton, an exchange show with Vox Populi and Alternator Gallery, on view in Philadelphia (July 08) and Kelowna, BC (Fall 08).
Caleb Jones Lyons: Slow Dance: backinblackisblackisblackisblackinback
February 22 - March 29, 2008
Changing Cities: Hartmut Austen, Jef Bourgeau, Mary Fortuna, Cyrus Karimipour and Alison Wong
Curated by DetroitMONA, exchange show with DetroitMONA February 22-March 22, 2008
At Dusk: Chelsea Tonelli Knight, Elise Rasmussen and Carrie Schneider
December 1 - 29, 2007
Making Peace: Mel Davis, Juan Garcia, Diana Guerrero-Maci�, Emily Jacir, Jesikah Ruehle, Mika Rottenberg, Christine Tarkowski and James Westwater
October 19 - November 17, 2007
Day Jobs: Tim Best, Kyle Brumfield and Japeth Mennes
Curated by Kristin Freeman, artist's files exhibition
ThreeWalls Presents: ARTS ADMINISTRATION SYMPOSIUM
ARTS ADMINISTRATION SYMPOSIUM
placing (moving explorations in search of bearings.): art world etiquette, place in a flat world, LiveBox: Inter-Place and pop moves
art world etiquette: Alex Bag, Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkacova, Jakup Ferri, Nancy Holt & Robert Smithson, Kalup Linzy; place in a flat world: Sonja Hinrichsen, Rachelle Viader Knowles, Philipp Geist, Brooke White, Jiang Zhi, LiveBox: Inter-Place; pop moves: Tony Cokes, Sadie Benning, Slater Bradley, Siebren Versteeg. A video show in three parts organized by threewalls and curated by Ruba Katrib, Catherine Forster of LiveBox and Kat Parker and Katie Rashid of Duchess.
The Happiness I Seek: Andrea Cohen, Loul Samater, Ryan Swanson, Mike Andrews and Clinton King
Curated by Jeff M. Ward and Shannon Stratton; work on display in five spaces: Andrea Cohen (at ThreeWalls), Loul Samater (at Fraction Workspace), Ryan Swanson (at The Chicago Cultural Center), Mike Andrews (at 40000) and Clinton King (at The Suburban)
Without Which Nothing: William Gerhard, David Banga, Linda Molenaar
Curated by Shannon Stratton and Jeff M. Ward
Take My Hand: Siobhan Byrns, William John O'Brien, Larissa Fassler, Kathleen Kranack, Tricia Moreau Sweeney and Jessica Doyle
Curated by Ruba Katrib, a ThreeWalls artist files exhibition