Amber Ginsburg
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The Alexandria Community Art Library, 2014
The Alexandria Community Art Library, 2014Torpedo Factory – Target GalleryAlexandria, Virginia The Alexandria Community Art Library was created by Roman Petruniak. In celebration of the Torpedo Factory Art Center’s 40th Anniversary, Chicago-based artist Sara Black and the art duo Hideous Beast transformed the Target Gallery into a temporary community library. Constructed from locally sourced building…
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Reconstructing the Fold, 2013-14
Reconstructing the Fold, 2013-14Herndon Gallery, Yellow Springs, OH “Build a wall and live in it” – Gordon Matta Clark. In Reconstructing the Fold, Black follows a form of making where the intangible and the handcrafted merge. In an arch of assembly, disassembly and reconstruction, Black began by gathering boards into the form of a small,…
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Imperfect Symmetry, 2013
Imperfect Symmetry, 2013 [Curator]Columbia College A + D Gallery, Chicago, IL Curated by Sara Black and Karsten LundOctober 3-November 7, 2013Opening Reception: October 3, 2013, 5-8 PM with performance by Escape Group For this experimental group exhibition, thirteen artists or collaborators explored manifestations of ‘imperfect symmetry’—a phenomenon emerging at the hazy border of two more familiar…
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Three Times Around the Long Way, 2013
Three Times Around the Long Way, 2013The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN Three Times Around the Long Way begins to listen to and view the human voice as auxiliary to physical presence. People move from no voice, to song, to disembodied singing. A cycle is initiated: past, present, future-past. Over the course of the show we…
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Antioch College Tea Pavilion, 2012-14
Antioch College Tea Pavilion, 2012-14 [Design Build Workshop Leader]Antioch College Organic Farm, Yellow Springs, OH On April 14th and 15th, a small collaborative group of professional artists/architects/designers/builders including Rod Northcutt, Charlie Vinz, Jillian Soto and Sara Black led the first part of a design build project with Antioch College students and community members at the…
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Making History: The Wooden Synagogue Replication Project, 2012
Making History: The Wooden Synagogue Replication Project, 2012 [Workshop Leader]Sejny, PolandHandshouse Studios In the summer of 2012, I traveled with several Antioch College students to Poland along with other faculty and students to participate in Making History: the Wooden Synagogue Replication Project. During summers of 2011 and 2012, Handshouse Studio and the Association of the Jewish…
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Two Histories of the World, 2011-12
Two Histories of the World, Part 1, 2011William H. Cooper Mfg. Warehouse, West Humboldt Park, Chicago, IL Two Histories of the World, Part 2, 2012Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL Opening on September 23rd, 2012 at the Hyde Park Art Center is the second part of a two-part experimental exhibition entitled Two Histories of the World curated…
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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…