30/30, One Strange Bird, Chicago IL
30 Women Make 30 Paintings In 30 Days For $30
Friday, May 4th 2012
6:00 - 9:00 pm

Artists:
Amanda Baker, Clare Britt, Allie Corwin, Jessie Cerutti , Ali Doerscher, Jess Egan, Pamela Fraser, Cameron Harvey, Stacie Johnson, Anna Kunz, Lara Mann, Aliza Morell, Danielle Morse, Alexandra Noe, Barb Northway, Madeline Northway, Nicole Northway, Ashlee Nowak, Sabina Ott, Nicolette Ross, Olivia Schreiner, Sadie Samuels, Raychael Stine, Marie Sommers, Edra Soto, Basia Toczydlowska , Anna Todaro, Michelle Wasson, Allison Yasukawa, Amy Zaveletta

Sales benefit the artists, the One Strange Bird gallery program, and Connection for Abused Women and their Children in Humboldt Park.

June 2012
Blaque Lyte, ADA Gallery, Richmond VA
Curated by Chris Kerr and Paul Nudd
An exhibition that explores the visual properties and strange effects of the black light by presenting artwork specifically intended to be seen under ultra violet rays.

The term "black light" makes no sense; like all pure abstractions, it escapes possibilty. It's a beautiful term, though - contradictory and wonderfully descriptive. A black light's desired result is the creation of an altered perceptual environment. The recreational effects of black light are well known: makeshift dorm room trip incubators, Jimi Hendrix and Iron Maiden posters, stoner wallpaper, goopy body-paint gyration parties, raves, Jr. High dances, Halloween, etc. Other uses are also weird and gushy. In forensics, they are used to scour a dubious location for semen, blood and other murderous delights. In backyards, they are instrumental in zapping bugs. Sometimes, just looking at someone's teeth and eyes are enough to become a believer!

It would be nice to revive this seemingly dead and trivial medium. The possibilities seem interesting. What happens when you optically alter an environment and fill it with art work that attempts to do the same thing? In Blaque Lyte, we are recontextualizing various forms of contemporary visual art in an attempt to transcend the mere novelty and self-indulgent nature of traditional black light props. From top to bottom, our goal is to create an overwhelming and visually jarring environment, one that is essential in offering the viewer an exclusive experience, namely a weird and hyper-sensitized orgy of inversely illuminated odd-ball artworks . We are not attempting to recreate a haunted house through a fog of juvenile nostalgia. We feel we can offer a doubly altered series of optical rifts. All the work in Blaque Lyte will be specifically made to be seen under these unconventional and experimental conditions.

Frequently the Woods are Pink
Catalog printed on the occasion of the two person exhibition with Sabina Ott at What It Is.
Essays by Dana Degiulio and Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
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March-April 2012
Is it What?, Hinge Gallery, Chicago, IL
An exhibition curated by What it is.

What It Is, is a project space and gallery based in Chicago, IL founded by artists Tom Burtonwood and Holly Holmes at their residence in Oak Park, IL. For two and a half years artists were invited to interact with their domestic space and encouraged to literally play with the fabric of the house. Resulting projects over this period of time include site-specific installations in the kitchen, bedrooms, living room, bathroom and backyard. “Is It What?” is a group exhibition featuring sixteen artists who have worked with What It Is over this period of time.


Beautiful/Decay Book 6: Future Perfect, 2011
Beautiful/Decay

New American Paintings, Midwestern Edition, 2011
Juror: Julie Rodrigues Widholm, Pamela Alper Associate Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
New American Paintings

September 2011
The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts' 13th Annual Exhibition and Auction
Omaha, NE

October/November 2011
Then Again, Maybe Not
Exhibition with Nina Rizzo and Richard Kooyman
Kendall College of Art and Design
Grand Rapids, MI
Kendall College of Art and Design

April 2011
MDW Fair with What it is
the Geolofts
3636 S Iron Street
http://mdwfair.org/

May 2011
Next, The Invitational Fair of Emerging Art
with What it is
222 Merchandise Mart, Chicago
http://www.nextartfair.com/

January 2011
Invisible, curated by Karen Brown
NIU Art Museum
DeKalb, IL