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Christy Matson’s “Paragon” in “Material Meaning”

Volume Gallery — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 16:04:59 +0000

Christy Matson’s weaving, Paragon (2017), is part of “Material Meaning: A Living Legacy of Anni Albers” which honors the late textile artist and printmaker. The exhibition is now open through September 21st at the Craft in America Center in Los Angeles. Read the LA Times review of the exhibition here.

Anders Ruhwald preserves Detroit building in new site-specific intallation

Volume Gallery — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 21:40:15 +0000

Anders Herwald Ruhwald immersive, site-specific installation Unit 1: 3583 Dubois inside an apartment on Detroit’s east side is now open. 3583 Dubois Street in Detroit, Michigan, no longer exists. While the once dilapidated 7,000 square-foot brick apartment building at this location still stands, the city has reassigned its address as 2170 Mack Avenue. In his installation, Unit 1: 3583 Dubois, Anders Ruhwald repositions the building’s identity, intertwining its past, present, and future. Unit 1: 3583 Dubois, will be open yearly from April to October by appointment only. Tours can be booked on unit1.org for Thursdays, between 7-9 pm and Saturdays, between 12-4pm starting on June 22, 2019. See photos and read more about Unit 1 here and here.

Brendan Fernandes collaborates with Norman Kelley on installation at the Whitney Biennial

Volume Gallery — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 22:12:49 +0000

Brendan Fernandes exhibition, The Master and Form, at the Whitney Biennial was designed in collaboration with the architecture firm Norman Kelley. Five structures including a “minimal arrangement of scaffolding” is always on view and used by dancers through durational performances. Read more about The Master and Form here.

Take a look inside Luftwerk’s installation in Mies van der Rohe’s McCormick House

Volume Gallery — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 20:24:44 +0000

Luftwerk’s site-specific installation, Parallel Perspectives, inside Mies van der Rohe’s McCormick House located in the Elmhurst Art Museum, is now open to the public until August 25th, 2019. The immersive exhibition uses light and color to highlight and transform the historic structure. See photos of Parallel Perspective here and here.

Tanya Aguiñiga, Norman Kelley, Krueck + Sexton, Jonathan Muecke, and OOIEE at KMAC Museum

Volume Gallery — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 22:45:36 +0000

Works by Tanya Aguiñiga, Norman Kelley, Krueck + Sexton, Jonathan Muecke, and OOIEE are included in In the Hot Seat, an exhibition curated by Joey Yates and on view at the KMAC Museum from April 26 to August 11, 2019. “In The Hot Seat offers insight into how the chair is being continually reimagined in contemporary artistic practice. The exhibition combines artist-made chairs with sculptures, installations, paintings, and mixed media works.” Read more here.

Christy Matson in MATERIAL MEANING: A LIVING LEGACY OF ANNI ALBERS

Volume Gallery — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 17:04:56 +0000

Christy Matson’s work will be part of Material Meaning: A Living Legacy of Anni Albers, opening on July 13th at the Craft in America Center in Los Angeles. “Material Meaning will feature work by ten contemporary American artists and designers working with textiles who are strongly influenced by Anni Albers – paired with their statements that make that influence explicit, personal and varied.” Read more about the exhibition here.

Christy Matson and Luftwerk at Elmhurst Art Museum

Volume Gallery — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 15:41:24 +0000

Two new exhibitions opening on May 11th at Elmhurst Art Museum will include the work of Christy Matson and Luftwerk. Matson’s work will be shown along other 45 artists in With a Capital P: Selections by Six Painters, curated by six prominent local painters, Leslie Baum, Magalie Guérin, José Lerma, Nancy Mladenoff, Suellen Rocca, and Kay Rosen. The other exhibition, Luftwerk: Parallel Perspectives, will present a color and light intervention by the Chicago-based artistic collaborative in the museum’s recently restored Mies van der Rohe McCormick House. Read more about it here.

Tanya Aguiñiga included in new exhibition at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions

Volume Gallery — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 20:51:29 +0000

Tanya Aguiñiga’s work will be on view in Unravelling Collective Forms at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, a group show that brings together artworks that propose forms of collective resistance to oppressive hegemonies. The exhibition opens on Wednesday, April 3 at LACE. Here is more information. Image: Arshia Fatima Haq (photo by Amina Cruz, veil by Hushidar Mortezaie.)

Norman Kelley preserves “layered history” inside revamped Notre store in Chicago

Volume Gallery — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 18:35:37 +0000

Norman Kelley reconfigures and revamps Notre store in West Loop, Chicago. Their design marries the space’s warehouse-gallery history with the spatial vision for the store. Find images and the story here.

Stanley Tigerman talks preservation and the future of architecture

Volume Gallery — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 19:21:23 +0000

Chicago architect Stanley Tigerman spoke with the Chicago Reader about the preservation of historic buildings, the future of architecture, and his architectural and artistic legacy. Read the article here.