2014: Nora Schultz @ Renaissance Society

Above: Nora Schultz, left, in conversation with The Renaissance Society's Chief Curator and Executive Director, Solveig Øvstebø, right.

Nora Schultz
"parrottree--building for bigger than real"
January 12 - February 23, 2014
The Renaissance Society
5811 S. Ellis Avenue
Bergman Gallery, Cobb Hall 418
Chicago, Illinois 60637

Opening Reception: 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM, January 12, 2014.
Artist Talk: Kent Hall, Room 120, 5:00 PM , January 12, 2014.

Organized by The Renaissance Society's Chief Curator and Executive Director, Solveig Øvstebø

http://www.renaissancesociety.org/

"Assimilation to environment defines Schultz’s artworks from their genesis. The artist sources the materials she works with by scavenging around the site of exhibition. In this case, she manipulates found objects pulled from, among other places, the hardware store, the Renaissance Society basement storage, and a newspaper read during installation. She frees these "things" by disassociation, estranging them, removing them from their context so they can become: forms, colors, lines, themselves. The installation transforms these objects once again; in the gallery, her works layer themselves and each other, fully taking advantage of three dimensions, constantly redefining their parts in relation to one another. Elements stand, hang, and print on one another; each piece frames another, reweights another, depends on another. Language then intrudes: Schultz’s titling, her statements in interviews and conversations, the ephemera (posters, texts) she releases alongside the exhibition, and the words written on the things themselves, subject them to external references, altering their meaning ever further. And then, of course, there is the work’s reception throwing everything into new relief yet again. In this way, the artist suggests an art that is a predicament, a shifty, evasive, and radically unsettled state for a group of transitory objects and ideas. This work is ‘finished’ when it is shown, but only at that moment, in that place; everything will finish again and again"

Quotation above from: http://www.renaissancesociety.org/site/Exhibitions/Intro.Nora-Schultz-parrottree-building-for-bigger-than-real.643.html

Above: A detail of Nora Schultz's installation at The Renaissance Society.

Above: Nora Schultz at her artist's talk in Kent Hall, Room 120, at 5:00 PM, January 12, 2014.

Above: The opening reception for Nora Schultz at The Renaissance Society, January 12, 2014.

Above: Nora Schultz, left, in conversation with The Renaissance Society's Chief Curator and Executive Director, Solveig Øvstebø, right.

Above: An example of Nora Schultz's play with text: found object (c-clamp) in substitution.

Above: Solveig Øvstebø in Kent Hall, Room 120, at 5:00 PM, January 12, 2014, for her talk with  Nora Schultz.

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Images (1-7) January 12, 2014;
Copyright Paul E. Germanos.