Organized by Theaster Gates
August 22 – October 4, 2014
Opening reception: Friday, August 22, 2014,
5-7pm
875 North
Michigan Avenue, 38th Floor
Chicago,
IL
From press
release:
Valerie
Carberry Gallery and Richard Gray Gallery in collaboration with Black Artists Retreat, are pleased to announce RETREAT,
an exhibition conceived and organized by Theaster Gates.
Artists
were invited by Gates to consider how the concept of retreat, either in theory
or practice, contributes to a position of strength and perspective in themaking
of visual art. Works selected for exhibition communicate both active
interpretations of retreat characterized by pressure or force and pssive
expressions of retreat that invoke contemplation or meditation. Participating
artists – Derrick Adams, Erika Allen, Elizabeth Axtman, Bethany Collins, Tony Lewis , Kelly Lloyd, Valerie Piraino, Mitchell Squire, Wilmer Wilson IV and
Nate Young – represent the full range of contemporary art practice in all
media, including painting, drawing, photography, installation, body art and
video.
A fully
illustrated publication with essay contributions by Hamza Walker (Associate
Curator and Director of Education at the Renaissance Society at the University
of Chicago) and Romi Crawford (Associate Professor at the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago) will debut at EXPO Chicago, being held September 18 -21, 2014.
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