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Meeting Places
A group photography show, the “Space of the Encounter” examines everyday human interactions, the spaces in which they occur, and the relationship between each space and its inhabitants. »
Reading Rainbows
Nicole Mauser’s luminous colors are the first thing to strike you—ambitious and assertive, her bright palette is a perky antidote for the dark and dreary first days of spring. »
Threadbare jeans
At DOVA Temporary, a University of Chicago art gallery, thirteen individuals sat around a pedestal, each one’s head bent down, their fingers picking steadily at denim. »
Close Encounters
“MERCY IS THE DOMAIN OF THE RICH,” travis cried, his booming voice traversing the four walls of the modest gallery space at DOVA. travis (always lowercase), an artist and member of the band ONO says his artistic mission “springs from a performative approach to race, gendered space, and colonial objectification.” »
Ten For Ten
Inconspicuously sandwiched between a nail salon and a dry cleaning plant, DOVA Temporary is a long, lean, spare space with nothing but a reception desk, white walls, and currently, a selection of ten years worth of work by University of Chicago MFA alumni. 2010: A Selection from a Decade of Painting at the Department... »
The Graduates
All-white walls enclose an unidentifiable treadmill-like device, the whoop, whoop, whoop-ing of its enormous belts sounding throughout the room. This gallery-within-a-gallery at the University of Chicago’s DOVA Temporary exhibition space in Harper Court was created by graduating Master of Fine Arts candidate David Cordero. The artist began thinking about his thesis project, “Grind,” using... »
Immersive Viewing: Michelle Menzies’s “Liquid and Mobile States” sucks you in
Sitting against the east and west walls of DOVA Temporary, the single-room exhibition space of the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago, three video projectors send images onto three rectangular, acrylic sculptures arranged in zig-zag fashion through the center of the space. The show is titled “Liquid and Mobile States” and... »
Archive Jive: Artists and aficionados bring jazz back to Hyde Park
While delving into the University of Chicago Special Collections, where innumerable stacks of dilapidated sheet music lines the shelves and jazz records whose jackets have faded with time remain nearly untouched, Theaster Gates and Dara Epison came across a 1920s manuscript that caught their eyes. The work, by sociology Ph.D. student Paul Cressay, explored... »
