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November, 16 2022
School of Art & Art History Weekly Digest
Events
**Events are U.S. Central Time unless otherwise stated**

TOMORROW
Voices: Miko Revereza


Thursday, November 17
5:00–6:30pm CT
Virtually via Zoom • Register »


Gallery 400’s final Voices Lecturer of the semester is filmmaker Miko Revereza! Join them for a screening and lecture on his trajectory as an undocumented filmmaker in the United States. Born in the Philippines, Revereza explores issues of diaspora, migration and movement, colonization, and Americanization through diary-style filmmaking. His film Distancing (2019) documents his life-changing decision to leave the United States, where he has lived as an undocumented immigrant for over 20 years, and return to the Philippines. Revereza will explore how his influences, past projects, and current projects interweave to comment on documentation of the undocumented.

THIS WEEK
For Each Other Virtual Tour


Friday, November 18
3:00–4:00pm CT
Virtual via Zoom • Register »


Join UIC Disability Cultural Center Director, Margaret Fink for a virtual tour of For Each Other, a group exhibition highlighting the ways a group of Chicago-based artists and collectives consider care in their work and in the contexts they create for their work.

Exhibiting artist Kennedy Healy considers structures of care that constantly surround her but may be invisible to others. Many of her pieces incorporate medical bills, timesheets, and medical equipment, critiquing state systems of violence which are framed as systems of care. Rather than the American ideal of independence, Kennedy imagines a world built on interdependence.

CART (live captions) and ASL will be available on Zoom. We’ll have a camera connecting the Zoom and the gallery to capture the objects and the tour. Descriptions will be integrated into the presentation. Contact gallery400engagement@gmail.com with any questions or requests.
THIS WEEK
Art History Colloquium

Alicia Caticha: The Aestheticization of Sugar in Eighteenth-Century France


Friday, November 18
4:00–6:00pm
Henry Hall 106 + Virtual via Zoom •

Please email arthistory@uic.edu for Zoom info

The Department of Art History is excited to welcome Professor Alicia Caticha as this week's Colloquium speaker! 

"By the mid-eighteenth-century, France—by way of its exploitation of colonial holdings in the Caribbean—was the largest exporter of sugar across Europe and had developed a robust refining industry in French cities such as Orléans, Nantes, La Rochelle, and Bordeaux. ... In this talk, I shall explore how the agricultural cultivation and refining process of sugar facilitated its use as a food worthy of elite editable consumption and as a sculptural material. Through the aestheticization of its whiteness, sugar—and, in particular, sugar sculpture—sheds light on the darker political and social ideologies of the Enlightenment, bearing witness to a society attempting to assert ideas of racial difference and hierarchy at a key moment of colonialist and imperialist expansion."
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Emmanuel Ortega’s exhibition Contemporary Ex-Votos reviewed in Hyperallergic, Southwest Contemporary


Contemporary Ex-Votos: Devotion Beyond Medium, a recent exhibition curated by Emmanuel Ortega, Marilynn Thoma Scholar and Assistant Professor in Art of the Spanish Americas at UIC’s Department of Art History, has been featured in several publications—including Hyperallergic and Southwest Contemporary. For the exhibition, Ortega commissioned 15 contemporary Latinx artists to respond to ex-votos from NMSU’s Mexican Retablo Collection, the largest of its kind in the US. Traditionally, ex-votos are small devotional paintings made on tin depicting miracles; however, for the exhibition, Ortega encouraged the artists to work beyond this traditional medium, and the results were a range of abstract and conceptual installations that helped bring this artform in conversation with the ideas of devotion, resilience, and un/belonging.

The exhibition is on view at the University Art Museum at New Mexico State University (Las Cruces, New Mexico) through December 22. Learn more »

Kale Doyen Announced as a LATITUDE Artist in Residence


Kale Doyen (Art History, BA '20) has been announced as a 2023 LATITUDE Artist in Residence! The LATITUDE Artist in Residence Program grants a diverse group of 8-10 artists full access to their facilities and community to develop their practice. During their one-month residency, artists are given unlimited scanning, an ink stipend, lifetime free lab access, a personal workstation, training and guidance by our staff, and an organized public event to present their new work. Congrats, Kale!

Matthew Metzger: Heirloom Announced


Associate Professor Matthew Metzger’s publication, Heirloom, has been announced! This is the first book dedicated to the artist’s paintings, which explore various kinds of abstraction and tensions related to language, color, and more. Join The Renaissance Society for the book launch Nov. 16 from 6–7:30pm at The Study at University of Chicago. Learn more »
Opportunities

Fwd: Museums Journal! the 2023 theme is [Redacted]


Fwd: Museums invites academic articles, artwork, essays, exhibition/book reviews, creative writing, interviews, poetry, love letters, and other experimental forms to analyze, critique, and make space for new thinking about museums and exhibitions.

All submissions should follow the guidelines and relate to the journal’s mission statement. Read the full Call for Submissions » Deadline: Jan. 5, 2023
Exhibitions

JUST ANNOUNCED
Laleh Motlagh (MFA '21) Solo Exhibition at Chicago Artist Coalition


Opening Reception: Friday, November 18, 5:00–8:00pm
On view: November 18–January 13, 2023

Chicago Artists Coalition
2130 W. Fulton St., Unit B
Chicago, IL 60612


Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present "Contemplation", a solo exhibition featuring current BOLT artists-in-residence: Laleh Motlagh.

In “Contemplation”, Motlagh furthers her accord with flora, which has held a steadfast presence in her life, and whose universality embodies both geographic and political isolation as well as solidarity. As with her earlier work, her engagement is spoken in the language of her partner, producing a conversation rooted in silence and intentional contemplation. A conversation for which access relies on deliberate detachment from human discourse and environments. Text by: Noah Hanna

Event is free and open to the public

CLOSING SOON
PERSPECTIVES: FIGURATION AND ABSTRACTION IN CONTEMPORARY BLACK ART

curated by MFA alum Spencer Hutchinson (MFA' 20)
October 27–November 19, 2022


ARC Gallery
1463 West Chicago Ave,
Chicago IL 60642

Learn more »

For Each Other

September 9–December 17, 2022

UIC Gallery 400
Art & Exhibition Hall
400 S. Peoria St.
Chicago, IL 60607

Learn more »

Dianna Frid: TIME IS TEXTILE

November 4, 2022–January 13, 2023

Alan Koppel Gallery
806 North Dearborn Street
Chicago, IL

Artist conversation with Dianna Frid and John Neff:
Friday, Dec 2, 6:00–8:00pm
 

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