Exhibition Archives
Cherie Sampson
5/1/2009 to 5/23/2009
Opening reception: Friday, May 1, from 6-9 pm"River of Spirit of Life (ice piece)," video-performance/installation
The video-performance, River of Spirit of Life (ice piece) was created in the rural Missouri winter at the site of a small frozen waterfall. Alluding to an experience of becoming, the edge of attainment and passing, the figure is a metaphor for this eternal cycle in human life, nature and the cosmos. The moving image is projected onto handmade felt within a sculptural environment of small trees harvested near the woodland site of the original performance for the camera.
Cherie Sampson, still from "River of Spirit of Life (ice piece)," installation
Gilkey and Goldstein
5/1/2009 to 5/23/2009
"Construction - Meditation," plaster and rope, wall constructions
Sonja Weber Gilkey and Iris Goldstein seek to exchange and reflect on sculptural ideas through a long friendship and an understanding of the other artist's aesthetic and philosophic approach to her work. The commonality of their wall constructions in plaster and rope derives from a love for materials and a search within themselves for transformation of the commonplace into the aesthetic and spiritual.
Sonja Weber Gilkey, Rope Wall Construction
Barbara Stewart Thomas
5/1/2009 to 5/23/2009
"Still Moving," photography
Large cities offer a wide range of public transit that brings together people of diverse income, age, race, and ethnicity. Any amount of time spent in the Chicago Loop, or any other urban center, will reveal a mosaic representative of the population trying to get from one place to another. On the street and train platforms, one finds people lost in thought, listening to music, talking on their cell phones, or sometimes, even engaging in conversation with one another.
image: 126 Jackson, Chicago, 22" x 28"