Vito Acconci and Stephen Shore, both artists featured in the MoCP collection, joined five other male artists in modeling for the recent J. Crew catalogue. (Fingers crossed that J. Crew will do a follow up with female artists for the spring catalogue.) Via brief interviews with the artists, J. Crew reveals some of their creative inspirations and discusses their personal styles.
In response to the relationship between art and fashion, Shore says that ??both share the common creative structure of all expressive endeavors: some people move the discipline forward incrementally; a few change the basic terms of the discipline and establish a new paradigm.? And Acconci shares the one article of clothing he couldn??t live without: shoes.
Read the interviews and see the artists?? studios.
Find Acconci and Shore works in the MoCP collection.
Jay Wolke. Yellow Kayak, 1981. MoCP collection. (mentioned in the podcast!)
Collection artist Jay Wolke is the featured guest on the latest Bad at Sports podcast. Introduced on the show as a ??great stalwart Chicagoan documentary photographer,? Wolke discusses his years studying in Chicago, his process, his relationship with the photographic medium, and details of his project Along the Divide: Photographs of the Dan Ryan Expressway (select images now on view at David Weinberg Gallery).
Wolke describes his relationship with photography as a ??means for [him] to record what [he] felt were performative constructions in the real world,? that he would have been incapable of creating otherwise. His ideas of performance resonate in the advice he constantly gives to other photographers, and to which he prescribes himself ?? ??Shoot verbs, not nouns.?
Jay Wolke. View fr. Canal Port Exit, 1982. MoCP Collection.
The discussion of the Dan Ryan project reveals Wolke??s misgivings about resurrecting the project (for the publication of the book and the Weinberg show) after more than two decades and his challenges in capturing certain images ?? including hanging off the roof of a friend??s VW beetle and riding along in emergency vehicles. Below are a few images from the MoCP collection in which Wolke has represented the urban ecosystems surrounding the expressway.
Jay Wolke. Distressed Motorist/Tire, 1984, printed 2005. MoCP collection.
Olivo Barbieri, Shanghai, 2001 from NSFE series, Courtesy of Howard Stein Joy of Giving Something and Yancey Richardson Gallery
Our upcoming exhibition Reversed Images, part of Columbia College Chicago's campus-wide Focus: China programming, is featured in TimeOut's Fall Arts Preview. Mark your calendars: the show opens September 23 with a reception and a lecture by artist Olivo Barbieri.
If you have seen Curtis Mann??s photographs, you know how interesting and unique the images appear through his process of varnishing, bleaching, and hand drawing or painting. This video, created by Alan Del Rio Ortiz, documents Mann in his studio as he shares insights into his work and process. He discusses digital and journalistic photography and his own photographic niche, which combines elements of and seems to raise questions related to both. Mann??s distinct activation of space in his photographs begs an investigation into this creative process and his treatment of images.
See the work of Mann, John Opera and Stacia Yeapanis for yourself in the current exhibition MP3: Volume II, through September 13. Admission and inspiration are free!
Above: Mann captivates the MoCP audience at the exhibition??s opening artist talks.
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There are only two weeks left to visit our current show MP3II, a group exhibition of work by Curtis Mann, John Opera and Stacia Yeapanis, who Artforum's Michelle Grabner notes are "remarkably divergent in their technical and conceptual stategies." Download the article (PDF, 648K)
