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Three new exhibitions open at I space, U. of I.'s Chicago art gallery
Melissa Mitchell, U. of I. News Bureau arts writer
217-333-5491
Mary Antonakos, I space coordinator
312-587-9976
11/8/06
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill.
— Three new exhibitions will be on view Nov. 17 through Dec.
23 at I space, the Chicago
gallery of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:
• “Hideous Beast: Mini Movie
Fest” will feature
continuous screenings of one-minute movies from around the world,
made using digital still cameras, videophones and PDAs. The I space
screening is part of a multiple-venue mini-movie festival taking
place simultaneously throughout Chicago. The festival is organized
by Hideous Beast, a two-person collaborative advocating participatory
art – U. of I. School
of Art and Design alumni Josh Ippel and Charles Roderick.
I space will feature archival movies from past festivals, along with
photographic documentation of each event; a “user guide”
for the Mini Movie Fest, which includes instructions for creating
a “mini cine”; a device for displaying movies on a laptop
computer or television; and a station where visitors may submit movies
to any of the Chicago events. A workshop, free and open to the public,
will be held on from noon-2 p.m. on Dec. 23. It will be followed,
from 3-5 p.m., by a screening of movies submitted at I space during
the festival.
For more information, or to submit a movie to the festival, visit www.hideousbeast.com.
• "Molly Briggs: Fabula” showcases
eight paintings adjoined to form a single, 30-foot panoramic work
representing an artificial, yet documentary, urban landscape. Working
in flashe, acrylic and tempera paints applied to paper vellum laid
over linen, the Chicago-based artist and U. of I. art and design alumna
constructed her own condensed interpretation of the city’s
North Avenue, from Harlem to the lakefront.
The artist’s process involved selecting and photographing one
tree, tree-like shrub or stand of trees from each block, then using
the projected transparencies to paint the source images.
•“David Svensson: LightSpace” is a site-specific
installation by the Swedish artist, known for his sculptural work
using light and color. At I space, Svensson is installing colored
films on the gallery’s conference-room windows. The application
of the films subtly alters and reshapes the character of the space
by modulating the light that enters it.
An opening reception is scheduled to take place from 5-8 p.m. on Nov.
17 at the gallery, 230 W. Superior St., Chicago.
I space gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
