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Zhou B Art Center
1029 W. 35th St.
Chicago, IL 60609
Ph. 773-523-0200
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Save the date for an exciting Third Friday featuring a line-up of international exhibitions coming from Italy, Mexico and China as well as exhibitions by local Chicago artists.
June 21, 2013 from 7-10 pm.
IBCA13. International Biennial of Contemporary Art ItaliaArte
Spirit Space Gallery (First floor)
The Museo Internazionale Italia Arte based in Turin, Italy in collaboration with the Zhou B Art Center presents an international exhibition curated by Guido Folco. The exhibition which comes directly from Italy features works by international artists including Grazia Allera Barbi, Berkana, Silvia Canton, Enrico Magnani, Riccardo Melotti, Barbara Pecorari, Gianna Zanfredi, Adriana Isabel Acquisto, Elena Alietti, Giuliana Azzario, Liliana Barberis, Raffaele Barbuto, Maddalena Boero, Gabriella Bracco, NatHalie Braun Barends, Renata Buttafava, Isabel Carafi, Marco Castronuovo, Brigitta Rossetti, Chango Jos� Leal, Gabriella de Filippis, Enza De Paolis, Antonella Dibello, Lucia Filippi, Mario Formica, Anna Galanga, Akim Graff, Elzbieta Krasinska, Maria Ausiliatrice Laterza, Gabriele Maquignaz, Iros Marpicati, Carlo Marraffa, Fabio Carmelo D'Antoni, Mariotti, Alessandro Matta, Giovannino Montanari, Roberta Moresco, Manuella Muerner Marioni, Maby Navone, Benedetto Norcia, Ala Panfiliuk, Aline Sanches Pereira, Marina Profumo, Paolo Ramondini, Pietro Rossi, Luisa Tonelli, Jucci Ugolotti, Flavia Vallarin, and Rita Vitalon.
Baja Products - Art Exchange
33 Contemporary Gallery (First floor)
33 Contemporary Gallery and the Institute of Culture in Baja California present the works of Mexican artists Marco Miranda, Alejandra Phelts, Gabriel Adame, and Alvaro Blancarte. These contemporary artists working primarily in painting medium live and work in Mexico's Baja California state where they are part of a larger community of artists who have flourished to other parts of Mexico and abroad. This exhibition is part of an ongoing art exchange program between 33 Contemporary Gallery in Chicago and the Institute of Culture of Baja California in Mexico.
Lower Level
Chinese artist Wu Xiao Tang presents a solo exhibition of works on paper titled Free Soul which explores her personal aesthetic of detachment and liberation from the norms of the art establishment.
Using her own hair as a vehicle of mark making, Wu Xiao Tang explains "I want to use abstraction, but not that used by Picasso and Kandinsky, who used points, lines and planes as aesthetic symbols. I want to use a new way similar to friction to abandon aesthetics. I feel that it is very tiring to do so. I believe that the value of art, if there is any, is that it can set your heart free from all the restrictions. When the masters competed with each other and tried to overcome their components, maybe they did not have real freedom and satisfaction. When your heart is attached to these ideas and desires, it would go up and down with them, and you become agitated, which is not freedom."
Second Floor
Join Growing Home's Stephanie Douglass and Urban Canopy's Alex Poltorak (guest speakers), Kate Corby and Dancers, Poems While You Wait wunderkinds (Kathleen Rooney, Eric Plattner, and Kenyatta Rogers), artistsRine Boyer, Robin Dluzen, Jenny Kendler, Heather Marie, Heelmysole Daniel, Suzette Bross, poets Lana Rakhman, Philip Jenks, Matthew Corey, and others in an exciting eco-event of storytelling, urban renewal, and investigations of self, other, animal, home, and world.
The environmental humanities have arisen in the past decade as interdisciplinary movements that examine cultural production as mediated by one's physical environment: instead of accepting our historic moment as "post-human," eco-artists and activists create a competing ethic (solidarity) to commodification. Habitus, along with eco-themed conferences, festivals, scientific research, and literature and critical theory all testify to a growing need to challenge profit-based global capitalism by the reestablishment of a model of self- and other awareness based on indigenous philosophies of interrelation between nature and culture, urban and pastoral, humans and other species and ecologies. In today's state of environmental exigency, the choice to live within the abstractions of conceptualism or the lived praxes of community and political engagement is ours.
LINEAR: Igres & Rodriguez
Fourth Floor
An two person exhibition of Sculptural Art & Photography by Chicago based artists and Zhou B Art Residents Geraldine Rodriguez and Pedro Igres.
Shadow Matrix Evolution by Dana Major
Project X Space, Fourth Floor
Dana Major in collaboration with Sergio Gomez & 33 Contemporary Gallery present:
Shadow Matrix Evolution, Summer 2013 is a continuously changing, walk-through, interactive installation of light and shadow. Artist Dana Major uses LED technology to cast an immersive, responsive shadow environment through woven metal sculptures. Shadow Matrix Evolution, Summer 2013 will show for four consecutive months, beginning May 2013.
4Art Inc Gallery
Fourth Floor
4Art Inc Gallery is one the most enduring and successful art galleries in Chicago. The Gallery has been fully owned and operated by Chicago native/artist Robin Monique Rios, a BFA graduate from the Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago, since October 2003 and has obtained a large and loyal base of artists and clientele that is dedicated to the survival and reputation of the Fine Arts scene in Chicago.
Oh Art Creative Workshop
First & Third Floors
Oh Art Foundation offers different creative workshops as community outreach in conjunction with regular 3rd Friday Exhibition and Artist Studio Openings at the Zhou B Art Center.
Workshops will vary from month to month with classes for different age groups. Please sign in before you take the workshops at the 1st floor front desk. These workshops will be free to participate in with recommended donation.
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