2014: Miss Kilman and She Were Terrible Together @ The Hills Esthetic Center

Above: Curator Matt Morris makes eye contact at The Hills Esthetic Center, 128 N. Campbell Avenue, Chicago, IL, May 10, 2014.

Shinsuke Aso, Luis Miguel Bendaña, Poy Born, Alex da Corte, Dana DeGiulio, Hunter Foster, Jesse Harrod, Richard Hawkins, Matthew Landry, Tony Luensman, Miller/Shellabarger, Ulrike Müller, William J. O’Brien, BD Pack, Daisy Palma, Eric Ruschman, Ryan Shubert, Amy Sillman, and Joan Snyder
"Miss Kilman and She Were Terrible Together"
Curated by Matt Morris
May 10 – June 6, 2014
The Hills Esthetic Center
128 N. Campbell Avenue
Chicago, IL

http://thehillsestheticcenter.com/

"The Hills Esthetic Center is both a conventional and organic exhibition space located within a complex of artist’s studios and audio recording facilities on Chicago’s west side. Focusing on emerging artists and local arts initiatives, the space aims to promote a breadth of cultural production and invention in the service of independent artistic expression. We value a relaxed artist-controlled environment with the potential for the interaction of critical and social dialogues. The Hills is directed by Ron Ewert, Michael Kloss, and Leo Kaplan."

Quotation above from: http://thehillsestheticcenter.com/info.html

Claims:

1. The epistemologies typically attributed to an analysis of the material conditions of an
artwork’s production are almost always available through a phenomenological encounter
with the art object itself.

2. Black is back.

3. There is a space beyond explicit depictions of same-sex coital encounters where
eroticism and desire take other forms. Overturn anything and you’re bound to find sex.

4. For a period of time in the late 1950s, Agnes Martin and Ellsworth Kelly’s studios
adjoined one another, and on most mornings they breakfasted together. This matters.

5. Coalitions across lines of difference are preferable to the eradication of nuanced
subject positions.

6. Codes, closets, and separatism continue to be useful both as historical points of
reference, but also as formal moves of constraint to play against the limits of painting.

This exhibition marks the completion of the first iteration of ‘Painting Queer,’ an
undergraduate multi-level studio course Matt Morris taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

A small publication will be released in conjunction with the exhibition featuring
contributions by David Getsy, Richard Hawkins, Matt Morris, Ulrike Müller, Lisi Raskin,
and others.

Statement above from: http://thehillsestheticcenter.com/show/?id=53

Above: The Hills' "relaxed, artist-controlled environment" facilitating "social dialogue" via dice games at its tiki bar.

Above: An overview of "Miss Kilman and She Were Terrible Together," at The Hills Esthetic Center, on May 10, 2014.

Above: Jason Lazarus, right, facing camera, speaks with Leo Kaplan, left, at The Hills Esthetic Center, on May 10, 2014.

Above: Curator Matt Morris, left, at the opening of "Miss Kilman and She Were Terrible Together," on May 10, 2014.

Above: The Hills Esthetic Center, 128 N. Campbell Avenue, Chicago, IL, main gallery on May 10, 2014.

Above: The tiki bar at The Hills Esthetic Center, 128 N. Campbell Avenue, Chicago, IL, on May 10, 2014.

Above: The Hills' "relaxed, artist-controlled environment" facilitating "social dialogue" via dice games at its tiki bar.

Above: Malibu, served with Hamm's beer, at The Hills Esthetic Center, on May 10, 2014.

Above: The Hills' Ron Ewert, right, leads a community discussion at The Hills Esthetic Center, on May 10, 2014.

Above: A guest at the opening of "Miss Kilman and She Were Terrible Together," at The Hills Esthetic Center, on May 10, 2014.

Above:
Images (1-11) May 10, 2014;
Copyright Paul E. Germanos.