Terrain

Friends! Terrain needs your participation in the next installation by
JC Steinbrunner. While Madeleine Ivetta Primavera Bailey’s beautiful work is up until June 23, we will be collecting letters from you, yes, good old U.S. Postal Service mail, for J.C.’s upcoming show titled W/ dispatch. 

Receiving a handwritten letter now elicits a faint surprise and the ease with which we can fire off emails and texts or to find information without citation is convenient and efficient, but of variable quality, and perhaps too slick by half. If you remove the hand, you remove the personal stake—that reflexive, tactile authenticity of thought and responsibility conveyed by the effort of writing.

So J.C.’s project proposes you send a letter. Write a missive, a reflection, a plea or thank-you. Mail an object. Forward a family recipe. Pass down some information, tell your story. 

And then send it to: 
w/dispatch % Terrain Exhibitions/ Sabina Ott 
704 Highland Ave. 
Oak Park, IL 60304.

Whether large and yawning or closed and secretive, windows offer themselves up as architectural instruments to gaze onto a world. Capturing gesture and mark, landscape and light, “When the peaks of our sky come together…” utilizes Terrain’s street-facing windows to display dislocated and fragmented images of the sky. Through the transference of skies, the installation celebrates suggested shifts in location, space, and time. 

Madeleine Bailey is a Chicago based artist living and working in Chicago. She holds a BA from Brown University and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Locally, she has exhibited at venues such as the Chicago Cultural Center, A+D Gallery at Columbia College, Julius Caesar, ACRE, and Co-Prosperity Sphere, among others. Her work is in the collections of Brown University and the Centre International d’Art Contemporain in Pont-Aven, France. 

Bailey is currently participating in the BOLT 2012-13 Residency at the Chicago Artists Coalition, which is supported in part by a grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation. Bailey participates in BOLT with artist Helen Maurene Cooper under their collaborative name Baccara. 

Exhibition: June 2 - 23, 2013
Opening Reception: Sunday, June 2, 1-4 pm

http://madeleinebailey.com/
http://baccara-collaborative.com/

Fantastic installation- get your QR code app and download this amazing video of Terrain as seen from Google Earth. (Recommended by Jeroen- i-nigma barcode scanner). Or view it here… 

Higher Definition by Jeroen Nelemans
April 27 – May 22, 2013
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 27, 4-8pm

Jeroen Nelemans is interested in how images are constructed, specifically how the digital image changes our understanding of sight and seeing. The interstice between the physical and the virtual has created a new visual language that has infiltrated our daily lives. In Higher Definition, Nelemans features virtual iconography manifested in sculptural form. This intervention, where Google street-view icons will be recreated and affixed to rectilinear shaped Plexiglas that refers to the computer screen, points to how digital information alters our perception of actual spaces and places.

Jeroen Nelemans (1974) received a Full Merit Scholarship from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and finished his MFA in 2007. His shows include the Mission Gallery in Chicago, the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, the DelaCruz Collection Contemporary Space in Miami, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art in Greece and the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids. His works have also been screened at the Banff Center in Canada, the Werkleitz Centre for Media Art, Halle in Germany, Magmart International Video Art Festival, Napoli, the Kortfilm festival in Copenhagen and the 25th Festival Les Instant Video in France.

Edra Soto: Graft @ Terrain

Exhibition: March 24 – April 20, 2013
Opening Brunch: Sunday, March 24, 1-4pm

704 Highland Ave. Oak Park, IL

Iron screens became ubiquitous in the architecture of post-war Puerto Rico due to the security they provided and their ability to allow for cross ventilation. Spanish design elements added character. Today, theses iron fences are not only viewed as a protection device as much as a language that pertains to the island’s visual culture. Graft alludes to the aesthetic, decorative and nostalgic qualities of these iron fences by transplanting a similar fence in front of Terrain’s facade.

Edra Soto (b. Puerto Rico 1971) is a Chicago based artist. In 1995 Edra received the Alfonso Arana Fellowship to work in Paris for one year. She attended The School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she obtained her Masters of Fine Arts in 2OOO. Immediately after, she attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her work has been feature in New American Paintings and her show at Ebersmoore was selected one of the Best Solo Exhibitions of 2010 in NewCity Art of Chicago. Soto has lectured at El Museo de Puerto Rico, Harold Washington College and The Art Institute of Chicago among others.

Locally, she has exhibited at Roots and Culture, the Chicago Cultural Center, Ebersmoore, New Capital and at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago among others. Recent artist residencies include Ragdale’s newly renovated Meadow, with a grant from the 3Arts Foundation and Beta-Local in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Recent presentations include: Archival Impulse at UIC Gallery 400 and Afterimage satellite exhibitions at the Roger Brown Study Collection and at Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Arts curated by Dahlia Tulet and Thea Liberty Nichols. She is currently participating in The Center Program at the Hyde Park Art Center, with a grant from The Joyce Foundation.

Soto and her husband, Dan Sullivan, design, fabricated and currently run operations of The Franklin, an artist run space located in their home’s backyard in Chicago. This project was recently awarded with The Propeller Fund.

Exhibition: January 20 – February 17, 2013