Exhibition Archives

Current Exhibit

Materiality

3/2/2010 to 3/27/2010

ARC is proud to be hosting "Materiality," a group exhibition juried by Jeanne N. Long, Independent Curator and Associate Director of Special Exhibitions at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The exhibition explores the place of material in contemporary art practice, encouraging innovative approaches to working with material-including but not limited to traditional domestic crafts, fibers, building materials, found objects, trash, etc. Immateriality is defined as having no consequence, and history often grouped craft, low-art, and the feminine as such. As the do it yourself aesthetic hits mainstream and the processes of the feminine domestic are re-invented into social activism, bricoleurs (matter makers) are at the forefront. So what is materiality in the 21st century? Artists will examine not only the value of material and its uses, but the meaning within formal, social, political, or ecological contexts.

Photos of the exhibition

List of Exhibitors:

Caroline Anderson                 Emily Eakes                    Kelly McCafferty             Anne Spence   
Kristina Bell DiTullo                Liz Ensz                         Darcy Meeker                 Susan Springer Anderson
Christian Benefiel                  Firat Erdim                     Jason Meyer                    Olivia Valentine
Elisa Berry                            Kristina Estell                 Claire Micklin                   Georgina Valverde
Carrie Betlyn-Eder                 Carrie Fucile                   Sarah Nishiura                 Niles Wallace
Peter Bullock                         Faith Hagenhofer            Ken O'Toole                      Cheryl Wassenaar
Michael Cain                          Hyeon Jung Kim             Marcy Pope                      Nicki Werner
Susan Case                            Julia Kemerer                Renee Prisble Una             Jeff and Sabrina Williams
Cassie Christenson-Edwards     Kristi Kohut                  Kerianne Quick                  Fo Wilson
Candace Downing                    Julie Kornblum             Cheri Reif Naselli                Brian Yates
                                              Carrie Larson               Linda Robinson Gordon
                                              Elizabeth Leal               Naomi Schliesman