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WOMAN MADE GALLERY
PRESENTS
Group and Solo Shows and
Other Events
September 10 - October 28, 2010
Artwork by
Jenny Priego
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Chicago, IL - August 30,
2010 Woman Made Gallery is proud to present After
Adelita: Myths, Heroes, and Revolutionaries, curated by Amy
Galpin. The exhibition and accompanying catalog is funded by 3Arts,
an organization supporting Chicago artists, and it includes work by
Carla Avila, Adriana Baltazar, Esperanza Gama, Maria Gaspar,
Judithe Hern�ndez, Patricia Pe�a, Jenny Priego, and Diana Sol�s.
Other exhibitions on display include Seeing in a New Way,
sculptures by Constance DeMuth Berg, and Sugar, paintings
by Laura Kina. Other events include a poetry reading on Sunday,
October 3, and a Wine Tasting Party on Friday, October 22, 2010.
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After
Adelita
Myths,
Heroes, and
Revolutionaries
Opening Reception: Friday, September 10,
6-9 p.m.
Artwork by Maria Gaspar
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2010 marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Mexican
Revolution. The Revolution resulted in the loss of more than one
million lives and brought destruction to communities across Mexico.
Popular ballads tell the story of Adelita as a young woman who
fought during the Mexican Revolution. While some believe that she
is an actual historical figure, others see her as a composite of
the many women who joined in battle during the Revolution.
After Adelita examines how a century later, artists in
Chicago create work that can relate both closely and loosely to the
most iconic female figure to emerge from this turbulent time in
Mexican history.
After Adelita includes works that express
ideas about myths, heroes, and revolutionaries by women artists who
work in diverse media, such as video, painting, photography, and
printmaking. The eight artists in the exhibition-Carla Avila,
Adriana Baltazar, Esperanza Gama, Maria Gaspar, Judithe Hern�ndez,
Patricia Pe�a, Jenny Priego, and Diana Sol�s-each bring a layer of
complexity to the show by offering a mix of powerful, personal,
defiant, intimate, and lyrical portrayals of femininity. Some works
relate specifically to the Mexican Revolution, while others evoke a
broader, more abstract relationship to the idea of Adelita, an icon
who inspires myriad meanings.
September 10 - October 28,
2010
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Seeing in a New
Way
Sculptures by Constance DeMuth Berg
Opening Reception: Friday, September 10,
6-9 p.m
Artwork by Constance DeMuth Berg
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Woman Made Gallery is proud to present "Seeing in
a New Way," a solo exhibition with sculptural works by Illinois
artist Constance Demuth Berg.
Assembling discarded parts of antique furniture,
old tools, wooden molds, and other found objects, DeMuth Berg
skillfully assembles her sculptures into harmonious organizations
of forms, inviting the viewer to partner in the experience of
seeing something familiar in a new way.
DeMuth Berg has received her education at various
distinguished institutions, including the International Beaux Arts
School in Provence, France, Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield
Hills, Michigan, and MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Illinois.
She has taught at Northern University of Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa,
at the University of Florida in Gainesville, and at Penn State
University, Pennsylvania. DeMuth Berg is the 2007 Distinguished
Alumni Award Recipient at MacMurray College.
DeMuth Berg's sculptures are in private and
public collections, including at the Western Illinois University
Library where viewers can see her memorial, Children of
Shoa. The work expresses haunting memories of Prague and the
Jewish ghettos especially Terezin, the site of the largest mass
extermination of Czech citizens in World War II.
In her artist statement DeMuth Berg states, "As opposed to the
ordinary, practical past use of the wood or metal, I see the forms
in a new way. I take them as I find them, and am challenged and
disciplined to work within the limitations of their design to
assemble a sculpture in which each shape seems to belong to another
by coming together into a final harmonious composition. I believe
that it is necessary for both the artist and the viewer to become
partners in the enriching experience of 'seeing' in a new
way."
Exhibition Dates: September 10 -
October 28, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, September
10, 6-9 p.m.
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Sugar
New Paintings by Laura
Kina
Opening Reception:
Friday, September 10, 6-9 p.m.
Artwork by Laura Kina
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Woman Made Gallery is proud to present Sugar, a solo
exhibition with new works by Chicago artist Laura Kina.
Set during the 1920's-1940's, Laura Kina's Sugar
paintings recall obake ghost stories and feature Japanese and
Okinawan picture brides turned machete carrying sugar cane
plantation field laborers on the Big Island of Hawaii. Drawing on
oral history and family photographs from Nisei (2nd generation) and
Sansei (3rd generation) from Peepekeo, Pi'ihonua, and Hakalau
plantation community members as well as historic images, Kina's
paintings take us into a beautiful yet grueling world of manual
labor, cane field fires, and flumes.
Laura Kina is an Associate Professor of Art, Media, and Design and
distinguished Vincent de Paul Professor at DePaul University. Born
in Riverside, California to an Okinawan father from Hawai'i and a
Spanish-Basque/Anglo mother, Kina was raised in a small Norwegian
town in the Pacific Northwest. Her work has been shown
internationally, most recently in New Delhi and Mumbai, India, and
is represented in Miami, Florida by Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts. Her
recent solo shows include: A Many-Splendored Thing (Gene
Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL 2010), Aloha Dreams, and
Hapa Soap Operas (Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, FL
2007 and 2003), and Loving (Grand Projects, New Haven, CT
2006).
Exhibition Dates: September 10 - October 28,
2010
Opening Reception: Friday, September 10, 6-9
p.m.
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Poetry
Reading Myths, She-roes and
Revolutionaries
Sunday, October 3, 1-3 p.m.
Curated by Nina Corwin and in partnership with
WBEZ's Chicago Amplified Series, Woman Made Gallery will host a
poetry reading on October 3 from 1 to 3 p.m. Participating readers
include Jenny Priego, Ching-In Chen, Maureen Flannery, Susan
Slaviero, and Kristine Uyeda. Free admission and refreshments will
be served.
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Wine Tasting
Party at Woman Made
Gallery
Friday, October 22, 6-8 p.m.
Join Us to Celebrate the Year of Mexico in Chicago
with Tastings of Fine Mexican Wines, Delicious Food Pairings, a
Silent Auction, and Original Art by Mexican-American Women
Artists!
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About Woman Made
Gallery
Woman
Made Gallery is a tax-exempt, not-for-profit organization founded
in 1992. Its goal is to support women in the arts by providing
opportunities, awareness, and advocacy. It specifically
accomplishes this through monthly thematic exhibitions that help
raise public awareness and recognition of women's cultural
contributions.
Woman Made Gallery is supported in part by grants from the Illinois
Arts Council, a state agency; a CityArts Program II grant from the
City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs; the Arts Work Fund
for Organizational Development, a donor-advised fund of the Chicago
Community Trust; the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation; The
Efroymson Family Fund, a CICF Fund; 3Arts; a major anonymous donor;
and the generosity of its members and contributors.
Please help
support our work to exhibit art by women and to educate the public
about women's artistic contributions by giving a tax-deductible
donation to Woman Made Gallery.
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Woman Made Staff
Beate C. Minkovski, Executive
Director
Ruby Thorkelson, Gallery Assistant
Emanuel Aguilar, Exhibition
Preparator
Volunteer
Staff
Emanuel Aguilar, Marketing
Support
Mary Ann Anthony, Exhibition and
Fundraising
Margaret Denny, Artisan Gallery
Curator
Deb Flagel and LuEllen Joy Giera, Her
Group
Mary King, Exhibtion Layout
Marty Bash and Melanie Deal,
Editing Support
Woman Made Board of Directors
Anita Jenke, President
Mary Keefe, Treasurer
Marty Bash, Secretary
Shannon Downey, Deb Flagel,
Marcia Grubb, Linda Hillman,
Elena Aguirre Sznajder, Kathleen Waterloo
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Woman Made Gallery
685 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Chicago, IL 60642
312-738-0400
Memberhip: www.womanmade.org/membership.html
Call for Art: www.womanmade.org/entryform.html
Gallery Hours
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday noon-7 p.m.
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