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disconsolate, melancholy, or despondant - the Midwestern winter is at an end! It's all clear blue skies and turqoise lakes from here on out, and team BEN RUSSELL is going to show you the way. In the name of art, we've got inverted flames (FANDELL), flickering fish (HOLTHUIS), heavenly bodies (ACKS), sculptural transcendence (SHACKLEFORD), and total mystery (BAKER) - more critical BLUENESS than IKB could shake a painted naked lady at, to be sure!
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
JEROME ACKS lives and works in Chicago. In Baltimore, at a young age, he would take his toys apart and try to put them back together, always leaving leftover bits in the process. Today he does the same, engaged in a practice that addresses the re-organization of conventions specific to painting; conventions that lay the groundwork for a reinterpretation or representation of concepts (such as France, Dragons and Worm Holes) whose subjectivity and objectivity are consistently ambiguous. He graduated with an MFA in 2008 from SAIC, received the 2008 Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship, and has exhibited work at Julius Caesar Gallery (Chicago, IL), Hallway Bathroom Gallery (San Francisco, CA), and Devening Projects + Editions (Chicago, IL).
KIMBERLY BAKER is a Chicago-based artist and a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago . Her multi-media practice includes poetry, painting, kitten whispering, and spiritual post-expressionist psychic ability, the latter of which draws from the influences of J.D. Salinger, John Cassavetes, and Georgia O'Keefe. Among other venues, she has exhibited her work at DeadTech and The Butchershop, and organized the intimate Chicago art space Cinderelli, where she showed the work of dozens of artists and musicians.
KEN FANDELL's (American, b. 1971) work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art; Bellevue Art Museum and 126 Gallery, Gallway, Ireland. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Brooklyn Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago. He is the recipient both Artadia and The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Awards. Fandell is Associate Professor of Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and he is currently presenting work in a solo exhibition entitled SQUARES AND CIRCLES AND SEX AND STARDUST at the Donald Young Gallery (Chicago).
GERARD HOLTHUIS is a Dutch filmmaker who started out as sculptor and switched to moving image and sound at the Free Academy in The Hague. During the eighties he worked as an editor, cameraman and production manager and was co-founder of the Filmstad Foundation, a workshop for experimental filmmakers. in 1995 he founded Filmstad Producties, a vehicle for producing independent films. His work has screened at countless international venues and has won awards from prestigious festivals in Tampere, Ann Arbor, Hamburg and twice at Media City.
KENDRICK "RUSTY" SHACKLEFORD was born in Montgomery, Alabama in 1978. He attended the
Atlanta College of Art and received a BFA in 2002 from Reinhardt College in Georgia and an MFA
from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2004. Shackleford's work in collage,
sculpture and drawing is an intuitive interpretation of cultural imagery through color and form.
Shackleford is a fellow of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and a two time resident of the
Vermont Studio Center. Shackleford has exhibited at Gallery 100 of the Woodruff Art Center in
Atlanta, Georgia, Rosenberg Gallery at Goucher College and Gallery Four in Baltimore, Maryland
and most recently at Old Gold in Chicago, IL. He currently resides and works in Chicago, IL. |
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