Jessi T Walsh’s peep show, As Deep As She is Tall: A Peepshow in 3 Acts, is part of Constellation: A Faculty Show, at the Hyde Park Art Center until September 16, 2007. An online viewing can be seen here on YouTube.
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Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz has 106 sculptures displayed in the South Loop at the corner of Roosevelt Road and Michigan Avenue. These sculptures are among the most powerful forms of public art I have experienced in Chicago. The figurative forms are gigantic and have a mammoth feel to them. Upon walking through them, I find that they are not even full figurative forms but rather cast forms of torsos, legs, and feet. The scale is gigantic and the legs and feet seem to be out of proportion and irregular but work to create a human presence. Upon close examination of the cast brown forms, textures of burlap appear in the “skin” of the hollow forms. The experience of meandering through the sculptures is bigger than life. The composition of the figures is well planned for the site. A mass of figurative forms are together, walking about aimlessly; most are walking outwards from the group, but as you travel through the forms, every once in a while, you are confronted with a large-waisted form with a mammoth foot facing you. There is plenty of room for people to move freely among the colossal forms without feeling claustrophobic and to maintain a sense of being in a large crowd. As you get to the end of the cluster, a few of the figures are placed randomly in the garden to carry the sculptured pieces into the Chicago skyline.
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Mia Capodilupo, a Chicago based artist, creates large-scale installations with felt, fiber, yarn, and found and cast-plastic materials. Her current installation, Garden of Eden, is located in the window of Art on Armitage and can be viewed 24 hours a day through June 30th.
She first moved to Chicago to attend the University of Chicago for her undergraduate studies, relocated to Boston for a while, and then lived in San Francisco while doing her graduate studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. While she has always been interested in the use of materials and creating large-scale works, in graduate school, she focused more on concepts rather than materials and processes. In San Francisco, she was confined to a small space, where she continued to make large-scale works but out of smaller assembled pieces. Moving back to Chicago and being a Chicago-based artist has afforded her the space to make large-scale installations out of her casting and fiber materials. The work on Armitage is a fanciful world of green folly, where tiny spiked-like plants root up from the ground and a couple of large “plants” hang from the walls.
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You probably felt like you had been hit by a freight train this past weekend at Artropolis with so much art work available, but a must see is Gisela Insuaste’s Cuando Llegare at Bucket Rider Galley in the west loop. Insuaste's new work will give you a moment to rest. Make sure you spend some time with this installation.
I went to my first Artropolis yesterday and it was fascinating. There was so much art that I couldn’t take it all in.
Hiroshi Ariyama’s current series Our City, Our Neighborhood depict original point-of-view snapshots of cityscapes in screenprinted manipulations of light, color, and texture. Ariyama says, “My intent is to capture an emotional point in time within each scene that ranges from nostalgic reflection to current observation, or simply a happy glance into a moment’s fleeting possiblities.”
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