News & Events(Speedboat) (Dreamboat) | On view until Feb 15, 2010The Silver Room, 1442 N. Milwaukee, Chicago ILA solo exhibition of large-scale screen prints on fabric and panels. Images from installation below... photos from opening soon. 
"Usefulness" Group Show | 02.04.10Opening Reception: February 4th, 4 - 6 PM,t SAIC Sharp building, 1st floor"What makes something useful, and how are we determining that? How are we defining usefulness or uselessness? In accordance with contemporary art trends the work included in this exhibition focuses on: use, reuse, waste, recycling, service, playfulness, people’s desire for usefulness, people’s desire for purpose/specific use, re-appropriation, construction, destruction, reconstruction, and the re-definition of how something is used." 
"Paradise" Group Show | 12. 19.09Barbara and Barbara Gallery | 1021 N. Western, Chicago ILA group show featuring works on textiles, revolving around the theme of Paradise.Storefront Installation: Milwaukee Ave Arts Festival2957 N. Milwaukee, Chicago IL24 hour window installation consisting of large-scale screen prints on signs and fabric in the former Kay Shoes building at Milwaukee and Central park - a collaboration with the Milwaukee Ave Arts Festival... Be sure to take a glance as you cruise by! Will likely be up until early September."Drop In" Exhibition at Caretakers (848), San FranciscoMarch 7th 2009 | 848 Divisadero, San Francisco CA | 8 PMRecent screen prints, lithographs, drawings and installation work reflecting on the domestic housing crisis, its ecomonomic, personal, and communal resonance, and the shifting ideologies moving forward in the midst of political and economic reform. On view through May of 2009 at Caretakers, San Fracisco.2009 Southern Graphics Council Conference"Fresh Prints" at SAIC | 12 - 5 PM, Saturday March 28Fresh Prints: Wear Our Art will offer freshly printed t-shirts in DIY style at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. We want to show how accessible and exciting printing can be. Using recycled and donated relief blocks and screens Printers Like You will print on available and functional materials in a customized way. This event will point to the democratic aspects of printmaking, and provide viewers with personal demonstrations and functional souvenirs. The one-on-one nature of this project highlights the questions: How are commodities made, who makes them, and what greater purpose can commodities have? Visitors can bring their own t-shirts or totes (or pick one up from us) and then select the block, color and placement of their choice. "Response" show at SAIC | March 20 - April 4In this age of expanding globalism, Response is the School of the Art Institute of Chicago community’s answer to the issues that face us today. Whether it is a reaction to a specific topic or an ephemeral event, this response is indicative of the current trends and thoughts that tie our society together. This interconnectedness has always existed, but within our post-fact world our understanding of it has changed. Response is an exploration through print media of the histories that are built from tradition, events, and reactions. "Selective Perception" show at SAIC | March 26 - 29Selective Perception features work that exploits, attempts to discard, and tries to identify cognitive bias. In a world where information or misinformation is a mouse click away, Selective Perception showcases the effect such information has on society.Truth has been replaced by "truthiness" and we feel as artists, we’re in a position to take advantage of such a paradigm. Selective Perception showcases the peripheral and underlying ramifications of such a massive shift in cognitive response to the world. The exhibition attempts to cover the societal impact of post-fact thinking from the individual to global level. |
Benjamin Lipkin
