Textuality includes text-based work in a variety of media. By questioning the limits of authorship, this exhibition examines the use of the written and spoken word in relation to contemporary practices of art making.
Admission is free.
This exhibition features works in installation, photography, painting, ceramic sculpture, fiber, and mixed media by current and recent graduate and undergraduate students from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Brian Doyle disrupts the seemingly secure environment of the home by dislocating familiar domestic objects such as the television, the kitchen stove, and the living room couch. Their recontextualization reveals and amplifies a hidden reality at once humorous and foreboding, asking whether we are in control of our possesions or are they somehow controlling us. Jeanne Hoel, a graduate student in the fiber arts program, will present new sculptural works. Regardless of the style, Max Lesser s paintings always contain an underlying sense of detached irony mixed with genuine sincerity.