July 2022
Welcome to the July Newsletter
You will find:
Sculpture Invasion / CSI Biennial
International Sculpture Center
Education Outreach Update
By Degrees Student Exhibit
Member News and Ongoing Exhibitions
CSI Biennial
Sculpture Invasion 2022
CSI Biennial
at Koehnline Museum of Art
It will be CSI’s fourth time sharing our members' work at the Koehnline Museum of Art at Oakton Community College, and it will serve as a CSI Biennial exhibition.
Sculptures and scale models will be on display in the Koehnline Art Museum, and an impressive group of outdoor sculptures will “invade” the Des Plaines campus. CSI seeks to expand public understanding and appreciation of Chicago sculpture, engage artists and art professionals in a dialogue to advance the art form.
Participating artists: Ange Altenhofen, Nikki Renee Anderson, Janet Austin, Nicole Beck, Sharon Bladholm, Joseph A. Burlini, Mia Capodilupo, Gwen Yen Chiu, Michele Corazzo, Daryls Ewoldt, Christine Forni, Steve Gaeth, Amanda Gentry, Shelley Gilchrist, Barbara Goldsmith, Carol Hammerman, Donna Hapac, Suzanne Horwitz, Indira Johnson, Karl Johnson, Terry Karpowicz, Keith Kaziak, Fred Klingelhofer, Laurie W. LeBreton, Boruch Lev, Margot McMahon, Bobbi Meier, Brian E. Monaghan, Scott Mossman, Katherine Nemanich, Christopher Newman, David Noguchi, Christine Perri, Jan Petry, Jean Jacques Porret, Gina Lee Robbins, Nancy Lu Rosenheim, Dominic Sansone, Samuel Schwindt, Yvette Kaiser Smith, Eric Steele, George Everet Thompson, Michele Thrane, John Upchurch, Patrick D. Wilson, Chris Wubbena, Shencheng Xu, Plamen Yordanov
Opening Reception: July 14, 2022, 5 to 8pm
Koehnline Museum of Art
Oakton Community College
1600 Golf Rd, Des Plaines, IL 60016
(847) 635-1600
Click here for map.
Please share your exhibition experience with us! If you get to take some pictures from your visit, please share the images with us to be archived via email at yoonshinpark@chicagosculpture.org
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CSI Education Outreach Update
Miniature Parks Art Class
with Lathrop Homes Boys and Girls Club and CSI Artist Anthony Heinz May
Summertime is a time of year typically reserved to celebrate nature, the outdoors and our parks, especially in Chicago. Chicago has more parks per capita than any other city in the United States. Using found natural materials alongside a few other additions of artistic media, this workshop will encourage participants to create models of their own parks. Twigs, construction paper-cut leaves, water-based clay, and a secret recipe of ingredients will be used to create miniature park replicas to celebrate importance of our natural worlds.
We look to implement more classes for Fall. Send your ideas to anthonyheinzmay@chicagosculpture.org
3D4D Gallery
By Degrees
Opening Reception:
July 15th 5-8PM
The 3D4D Gallery will be hosting its next exhibition in honor of Ron Gard, former CSI Board Member and mentor to many sculptors as they moved from art degree programs into the world as working artists. As you may know, Ron Gard, Ltd. was a set building shop hired by many of Chicago’s top film and advertising agencies. Ron’s widow, Ivy Gard has graciously donated their Bucktown storefront space to CSI as our gallery for many months now and the Gallery has transitioned as an open opportunity to all CSI members.
By Degrees is an exhibit of sculpture, installation, and electronic media work by 13 artists who are enrolled, or recently (2021 or later) graduated from a degree-seeking program.
The show “By Degrees” was curated by the Gallery’s volunteer committee and jury. CSI will be granting these exhibitors honorary one year memberships into our organization to grow our youthful outreach. Please come to YOUR gallery’s exhibition opening on July 15th, honoring Ron and welcome these young sculptors.
Often an artist’s most groundbreaking work comes from being immersed in a culture of study and intellectual pursuit. Chicago, home to some of the most globally revered academic arts institutions, could be considered a sort of proving ground for tomorrow’s most promising contemporary emerging artists.
3D4D Gallery
1912 N. Damen Ave.
Chicago, IL
(At the corner of Cortland and Damen in the Bucktown neighborhood)
Hours: Wed through Sun, 1 to 6pm
Member News and Ongoing Exhibitions
Yvette Kaiser-Smith, Phantom Distinction 10, 2021 Matte black acrylic sheet, 4.7mm dark grey acrylic felt, 3mm off-white polyester felt, sashiko thread, 8/4 cotton carpet warp yarn, upholstery thread, Nu pastel, graphite, grommets, 24 x 28.5 x 0.5 in.
A solo exhibit, Drifting inside Traditions by CSI member Yvette Kaiser Smith will be in the Atrium Gallery at Evanston Art Center, July 16 – August 14, 2022
Opening Reception: Sunday, July 17, 1-4pm
Evanston Art Center
1717 Central Street
Evanston, IL 60201
Gallery hours: Mon - Fri: 9am-6pm; Sa-Su: 9am-4pm
In reaction to Covid lockdowns concurrent with widening divisions within our society, she began combining acrylic sheet scraps left over from previous projects with found paper gift bags, later with industrial felts, and incorporating embroidery stitches, using a variety of yarns and threads. In combining dissimilar materials and multiple material and technique languages, this work challenges perception of differences and asks viewers to consider whether we see diversity as a hard difference that leads to the notion of otherness, or as variation within a unified group, others as part of us.
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Additionally, Kaiser Smith, along with another CSI member, Jill King will have their work included in the DuMA Craft Invitational, June 18 - October 2, 2022 at the Dubuque Museum of Art in Dubuque, Iowa.
The works in the exhibition demonstrate the transformative power of craft where disparate, ordinary materials in skilled hands go from inconsequential to useful, from unremarkable to revelatory. Visitors will find a mix of materials transformed into an array of objects—from dishware and orbs in ceramic to a cloak and bound forms in fabric.
Falb Family Gallery
Dubuque Museum of Art
701 Locust Street
Dubuque, Iowa
Museum hours: Wed – Sat, 10 am-4 pm, Sunday, 1 pm-4 pm (Closed Mon & Tues)
For more information: dbqart.org
Image: Howard Sandroff, Boundary, 2022, Welded steel shards, copper
After a 45-year career as an internationally recognized composer of chamber, orchestral, and computer-generated music, CSI member Howard Sandroff turned his gifts to sculpting in welded steel in the early 2000s. This July and August, the Village Hall Art Gallery in Northfield, Illinois is hosting an exhibit of his sculptural work from July 1st through August 31st.
Opening reception: July 1st, 5 - 7pm, Village Hall Art Gallery
Village Hall Art Gallery
361 Happ Road
Northfields, IL
Gallery hours: M-F, 8am - 4:30pm
For more information: (847) 446-9200
Image: R. Douglass Rice, Portrait of Friends in Isolation, Edward Coaxum
Congratulations to CSI Member R. Douglass Rice on being awarded Best of Show for his painting, Portrait of Friends in Isolation - Edward Coaxum (from Portraits of Friends in Isolation series and video) at Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts 111th Annual Exhibition at Lyme Academy of Fine Arts.
Click here to view more of Douglass’s sculptures, paintings, and other works.
Opening reception: Saturday, July 16th, 5 - 7pm
Exhibition dates: July 2nd to August 20th, 2022.
For more information: Lyme Academy of Fine Arts , ctacademy.cafa@outlook.com, or (860) 415 6177
The work of five CSI members (Nicole Beck, Fred Klingelhofer, Boruch Lev, Ellen Lustig, and Scott Mossman) will be part of the small sculpture group exhibit Curators Gone Rogue at Addington Gallery (704 N. Wells, Chicago). The opening reception will be July 8th and the exhibit will run through September 3rd.
(link for Addington gallery: https://danaddington.com/addingtongallery/ )
Looking for seasonal work? Nadeau’s Ice Sculptures is currently hiring seasonal drivers and ice carvers. Feel you're up to the task to carve a block? Come try it out? Pm/dm me if you or someone you know is perfect for our brand of fun. DRIVERS: Go interesting places, meet lovely people, set up "cool" items!
If interested, please contact CSI member Max Barajas at Nadeau’s Ice Sculptures at maxicedesigns@gmail.com.
While you're here...
Have any news to share? Shows, awards, residencies et al.? Send the particulars along to info@chicagosculpture.org, and we'll include them in an upcoming newsletter.
While you're at it, your profile and images on CSI’s website are important. When CSI applies for grants and upcoming shows, images are solely chosen from those you have uploaded to our website. Please take a minute to look over what you have posted and make sure you are presenting the best work. Member Shelley Gilchrist sgilchristart@gmail.com has volunteered to help you if you need it, so feel free to contact her.
