Singles—Regards, Gallery, Chicago IL
“We put so much focus and pressure on exhibitions as the primary way to deal with art and support the work of artists. Clearly, exhibitions provide an important and productive outlet for artists to work toward, but they don’t define the potential output for any artist. There’s always something else, something wrong, or something unsettled; that misfit piece that can’t find its way into an exhibition. Maybe someday it will, but why wait. With Singles, we seek to provide a context within which those works can be engaged without the need to be framed within an exhibition format. This is not a group show that assembles these wanderers, but rather a series in which we give each of these works its own time and space to be dealt with. But the singles we’re talking about always have two sides, which means each artist is paired with another. These considered pairings still leave plenty of room for isolated viewings of autonomous work, while also giving us a chance to enjoy whatever friction is generated in-between. There will be five such pairings shown in 11-day intervals over the course of the series”
September 2 – 12
Judith Geichman and Matthew Metzger
September 16 – September 26
Miyoko Ito and John Pittman
September 30 – October 10
Jinn Bronwen Lee and Frank Piatek
October 14 – 24
Devin T. Mays and Catherine Sullivan
October 28 – November 7
Melina Ausikaitis and Pope.L