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Making History: The Wooden Synagogue Replication Project, 2011
Making History: The Wooden Synagogue Replication Project, 2011 [Design Build Workshop Leader]Sanok, PolandHandshouse Studios In the summer of 2011, I traveled with several School of the Art Institute students to Poland along with other faculty and students from around Chicago to participate in Making History: the Wooden Synagogue Replication Project. During summers of 2011 and 2012,…
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The Perpetual Motion of a Still Life, 2011
The Perpetual Motion of a Still Life, 2011 Ryerson Woods Conservation Area with the Cook County Forest Preserves, Deerfield, IL “When we try to pick out anything else, we find it hitched to everything else.” John Muir Using materials drawn from the demolished gardener’s cottage located on the property of Ryerson Woods and the mutable…
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Excerpts from a Demolition (The Palace at Dawn), 2011
Excerpts from a Demolition (The Palace at Dawn), 2011Threewalls (Community Supported Art), Chicago, IL Materials: Scaled Douglas fir (stud walls) and reconstituted gypsum (sheet rock), collected from a demolition event, gypsum cement, steel nails, 22K gold leaf, and wire. This edition of 51 was created for the inaugural project called Community Supported Art (CSA), an…
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Object Recovery, 2011
Object Recovery, 2011In conjunction with the Without You I’m Nothing: InteractionsMuseum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Performances daily, 12pm-5pm from April 19 – 24 This performance-based project addresses ideas of loss, repair, or renewal through the conceptual transformation of a broken object. Working together with visitors who bring broken objects to the museum, Black and…
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If It Ain’t Broke – Katherine’s Table, 2010
If It Ain’t Broke – Katherine’s Table, 2010Igloo Gallery, Portland, OR and Tufts University Gallery, Boston, MA In May, 2010 we conducted the first round of conversations introducing the now ongoing project entitled, “If It Ain’t Broke.” This phase of the project was to consult with three owners of “broken” things. Together, with the object’s…
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Rebuilding Mayfield, 2010
Rebuilding Mayfield, 2010Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland ORGestures of Resistance Curated by Judith Leemann and Shannon Stratton The Guinness Book of World Records, lists the first whisper in the current record-holding “telephone game” as “They inherited the world and then the army came and scorched it.” The final words passed on were “Mayfield College.” In…
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The Fortuitous Sequel to Means Means Value, 2010
The Fortuitous Sequel to Means Means Value, 2010Contemporary Masters, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT This final project of Material Exchange was a contribution to the exhibition called, Contemporary Masters, an artist-made mini-golf course. Material Exchange was invited as the out of state guest as inspired by our 2007 Putt Putt exhibition at…
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King Ludd’s Midway Arcade, 2009
King Ludd’s Midway Arcade, 2009 [Curator]Experimental Station, Chicago, IL 9 artist-made, family-friendly, analog arcade and carnival games, from air-hockey to lawn bowling, pinball to video games. The Midway Plaissance in Hyde Park was the site of the World’s Fair of 1893, an international celebration of the landing of Columbus in North America 401 years prior. Chicago…
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Repair Shop, 2009
Repair Shop, 2009CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY During the second week of September, Material Exchange, InCUBATE, and Adam Bobbette traveled to Buffalo, New York to develop a project called Repair Shop. The Repair Shop is our contribution to the larger exhibition entitled, Conversation Pieces, hosted by CEPA gallery. The following images document the project from the…
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I’d Rather be Fishin’, 2009
I’d Rather be Fishin’, 2009DeVos Art Museum at Northern Michigan University and the City of Marquette, MI In conjunction with the Smart Museum’s traveling exhibition Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art, members of Material Exchange were invited to participate in a short project-based residency in Marquette, Michigan through the DeVos Art Museum at Northern Michigan…