Artist Talk
Departemnt of Visual Arts
2023
Contango Journal
Issue #3: Crime
Designed and Printed in Chicago, IL
Available at The Graham Foundation + The New Museum
Screening of Canine Unit 341
4.19.2017
Harvard Film Archive
24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Curated by Kiyoto Koseki
The Emperor Is Naked
Curated by Iben Bach Elmstrøm
Showing works by Annesofie Sandal (Copenhagen, DK), Spencer Elias and Lucas Briffa (Chicago, IL), artists duo Hesselholdt and Mejlvang (Copenhagen, DK), Ana Hansa-Ogren (Milwaukee, WI) and Tia-Simone Gardner (Minneapolis, MN).
WorkRoom
2205 California ST NE #605
Minneapolis
Mar 3rd - Mar 25th, 2017
The Emperor Has No Clothes
Annesofie Sandal, Ana Hansa-Ogren, Hesselholdt & Mejlvang, Spencer Elias and Lucas Briffa
Curated by Iben Bach Elmstrøm
Ski Club Milwaukee
3172 North Bremen Street
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53212
The project is supported by The Danish Arts Foundation
Acts 12: 6-9
Lucas Briffa, Spencer Elias
Laura (Chicago)
1535 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
It Was a Low-lying Foglike Floating
Curated by Ian Breidenbach
TSA - Philadelphia
319A North 11th St #2H
June 5 - June 28
Opening Reception: Friday, June 5, 2015, 6-10 pm
WUT MAG
interview
Paul Makris
Chicago Artists Coalition - Bolt Residency Exhibition Space
217 N Carpenter St., Chicago, IL 60607
Friday, May 1 to Thursday, May 21
Opening Reception: Friday, May 1, 6-9 PM
FRONTROOM
Opening Reception: Sunday, May 3, 6-9 PM
1839 W Thomas St.
Apt. 3
Chicago, IL
60622
by appointment
Transforming Accessory
Benjamin Barretto, Clare Grill, and Spencer Elias
LVL3 Gallery
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Prismatic Nature
Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
- 2017 | 00:21:40 | Sweden | English | Stereo | 16:9
- Generously made possible by the Edes Foundation and
- "[...] the inner expression that we receive from present-day
- reality, that we want to perform. And that is the purpose of
- present-day dance, as an expression of our times."
- -Birgit Åkesson
- “If the approach was to be through movement, there were
- two contenders. One type of movement stemmed from a
- deliberate investigation of the capabilities of the joints and
- spine. These boiled down to bend, straighten, and rotate,
- between them[...]working in unaccented slow motion,
- observing the possibilities of my body, while passing
- through arm, leg, and torso alignments that were either
- parallel or perpendicular to the floor.”
- -Trisha Brown
- "Elements in postmodern architecture are often explicitly
- conceived by their creators as semiological sign systems,
- and as historical allusions, emblematic references to
- specific periods of architectural history. Indeed, what the
- postmodern architects object to most strenuously in the
- "International Style" is its arrogant disregard for history, its
- attempt to break decisively with the indigenous past by
- relying on formal geometry to create a look of
- "timelessness" and "universality." Postmodernism
- proceeds on the assumption that the historical slate can
- never be wiped clean, that ab- solute "originality" is a late
- romantic myth. As Venturi puts it in Complexity and
- Contradiction in Architecture, 'Architects today are too
- educated to be either primitive or totally spontaneous, and
- architecture is too complex to be approached with
- carefully maintained ignorance.'"
- -Roger Copelan