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Perpetual Motion of a Still Life 2011

The Perpetual Motion of a Still Life

​Using materials drawn from the demolished gardener’s cottage at Ryerson Woods and the mutable image of the still life, artists Sara Black, Joseph Belknap and Sarah Belknap will generate an evolving performance installation on the Brushwood site at Ryerson Woods. This project considers the exacting and extravagant beauty of landscape and still life imagery as held in precarious juxtaposition with the fleeting, indeterminate, and  transformative deep ecology of Ryerson Woods. Artists will be working onsite September 18, September 25 and October 9.

In conjunction with the evolving installation outside artists Jeanne Dunning, Jessica Labatte, Mark Rospenda, Claire Ashley and Kristina Paabus will exhibit works of photography, drawing and painting inside Brushwood. The works in this group exhibition, as curated by Black and Belknap, further considers the historical role of still life and landscape painting as an attempt to describe truth through imagery while delicately revealing a much richer world of fragmentation, transformation and decay. Exhibition runs through October 23, 2011.

About the Artists:

Sara Black lived and worked in Chicago for almost a decade as a practicing artist and educator. She relocated to Ohio to lead the revitalization of the visual art program at the recently re-opened Antioch College. She was a founder of the artist group Material Exchange, and she has engaged in numerous collaborative projects with Chicago-based artists. Her projects use carpentry and repair as a time-based method; inherited wood as a material; and imagine building as a physical means of articulating relationships in a constant state of renegotiation.

Sarah Belknap and Joseph Belknap are Chicago-based artists and designers. Both received their MFA’s from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2010, 2009, respectively) and are the founders of their own design studio, iamhome. Their work is fueled by landscape, what they see on the news, earthquakes, technology, old westerns and action movies, art theory, their parents, animals, children’s books and each other.

Claire Ashley is from Edinburgh and works in Chicago. She received a BFA from Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, Scotland in 1993, and a MFA
in 1995 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been shown in Chicago at: Museum of Contemporary Art, Hyde Park Art
Center, Chicago Cultural Center, Spoke, among others. She also has exhibited in Hammond, IN; Santa Fe, NM; Los Angeles, CA; and Rockford, IL,
as well as a number of shows in Scotland. 

Jeanne Dunning’s work has been shown extensively throughout the United States and Europe, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C., the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Konstmuseet in Malmö, Sweden and the Berkeley Art Museum. It has been included in major group exhibitions such as the Whitney Biennial, the Sydney Biennale, and the Venice Biennale.

Jessica Labatte is an artist living and working in Chicago. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Hyde Park Art Center and Golden Gallery in Chicago, as well as Higher Pictures and Invisible Exports in New York and Poppy Sebire Gallery in London, England among others. Labatte received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2009.

Kristina Paabus was born and raised in Massachusetts. She studied Fine Arts and Religious Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Fine and Applied Arts at The Estonian Academy of Arts (EAA), and received a BFA and Art History Concentration from the Rhode Island School of Design. In 2009 she earned her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and then moved to Tallinn as a Fulbright Fellow and Visiting Artist at the EAA.

Mark Rospenda was born in 1978 in Elmhurst, Illinois. He received his BA in Art from DePaul University in 2000, and his MFA in Visual Art from the University of Chicago in 2006. His work has been exhibited at the Evanston Art Center, Hyde Park Art Center, and the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, among other locations. He currently lives and works in South Bend, Indiana, where he is Associate Curator at the South Bend Museum of Art.
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