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Training Grounds
Pablo Picasso once said, “It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.” The real challenge for an artist, he seemed to say, is not necessarily painting like a master, but finding a truly expressive and honest style in one’s medium. Picasso ended up finding... »
Core Values
The text on a sign posted outside of the Hyde Park Art Center was the only advertisement for the exhibit “Signs and wonders shall appear” by New Zealand artist Maddie Leach. The work consisted of several milk crates full of apples sitting on a dock at Jackson Harbor, almost two miles away from... »
Mobile Cities
Alone on the second floor of the Hyde Park Art Center, I push aside thin felt curtains to enter a gallery featuring “The City,” the first of four video installation programs in “Spatial City: An Architecture of Idealism.” There are two pieces in this exhibition, Sarah Morris’s “Midtown” and Bertrand Lamarche’s “Autobrouillard.” The second... »
Post-Its and Puppets: Hyde Park Art Center’s “Notes to Nonself” exhibit culminates in a multimedia show
As denizens of the neighborhood nurse their thirsty vehicles at the BP station on East Hyde Park Boulevard, just east of the Metra tracks, they can already hear it. Perhaps they are distracted by the hiss of the frothing pump or are inside buying a bag of Flaming Hot Cheetos; but if you pause... »
Where art meets life
Lines are being blurred in the Chicago art scene. As demonstrated by last Saturday’s Artist Run Spaces Tour, organized by the Hyde Park Art Center, the divisions between artist and curator, studio and gallery, office and home really aren’t so defined after all. The Artist Run Spaces Tour represents HPAC’s contribution to the year-long... »
In Memoriam: Hyde Park Art Center faculty look inward and backward
Featuring a selection of work by its artist faculty, the Hyde Park Art Center’s (HPAC) new exhibition explores the “repetitive, compulsive and often deceptive nature of retrospection.” Titled “(Re)Collect,” it’s curated by interim Exhibitions Manager Francesca Wilmott. HPAC provides adult, pre-school and youth classes to the general community and across all skill levels; small... »
Best of the South Side 2009: Hyde Park and Kenwood
Hyde Park can sometimes seem like its own little world. In fact, it hosted one near the beginning of its existence: The World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, which attracted over 20 million people in six months, was held on the Midway Plaisance and in Jackson Park. Meanwhile, at the western end of the Midway,... »
Broken China: Matthew Harris pieces together the old and the new at HPAC
The uneasy imagery of sliced-open skulls in Matthew Harris’s “Beyond China” is a reflection of the tensions the artist observed between traditional and Western-influenced culture on a research trip to China. Harris, a ceramicist by training, presents smooth-surfaced terracotta busts of bodhisattvas and Buddhist priests in classical Chinese idiom, their heads cleanly split between... »
