2014: Meg Duguid @ Terrain Exhibitions

Above: Jeffrey Grauel, left; Meg Duguid, right; at Terrain Exhibitions, 704 Highland Avenue, Oak Park, IL, on June 1, 2014.

Meg Duguid and Tom Denlinger
June 1 - 29, 2014
Terrain Exhibitions
704 Highland Avenue
Oak Park, IL

http://www.megduguid.com

http://www.tomdenlinger.com

http://terrainexhibitions.tumblr.com

"Meg Duguid has spent the last year adapting James Agee’s 1947 script, 'The Tramp’s New World,' originally written for Charlie Chaplin’s 'Tramp' character, into a complex interdisciplinary project that will produce both performance and film. The shooting of her film becomes a performance for a live audience, in turn the resulting film is shown to a new audience and that event is again incorporated into the film and so on. Dugiud has produced part of her set for Terrain’s front yard: 'The Tramp' character's house. The sculpture looks like a two dimensional drawing that has been made into a sculpture, melding an artwork and it’s documentation into a single object."

Quotation above from: http://www.thevisualist.org/2014/06/meg-duguid-tom-denlinger/

"Joining the thriving group of artist-run exhibition spaces, Terrain was started by artist Sabina Ott and writer John Paulett in 2011. Terrain is dedicated to featuring interventions into the conventional landscape of a front yard by emerging as well as established artists who have been invited to create a site-specific work. Artists create installations that challenge the space between public and private, decoration and function, figure and ground."

Quotation above from: http://terrainexhibitions.tumblr.com/post/86092762731/meg-duguid-terrain-and-tom-denlinger-terrain

Above: Terrain Exhibitions' informational text made publicly available at 704 Highland Avenue, Oak Park, IL, on June 1, 2014.

Above: Jim Duignan, left, outside Terrain Exhibitions, 704 Highland Avenue, Oak Park, IL, on June 1, 2014.

Above: Meg Duguid's "The Production of the Tramp’s Community (a prototype)" at Terrain Exhibitions on June 1, 2014.

Above: Thomas Denlinger with "When Worlds Collide" at Terrain Exhibitions on June 1, 2014.

Above: Sabina Ott, Terrain Exhibitions' proprietor, descends the stairs at 704 Highland Avenue, Oak Park, IL.

Above:
Images (1-6) June 1, 2014;
Copyright Paul E. Germanos.

2013: Dana DeGiulio @ The Suburban

Above: Dana DeGiulio exits the Buick LeSabre sedan which she drove, backwards, into Michelle Grabner's gallery: The Suburban.

Dana DeGiulio
New work: "Untitled," with book release.
November 17, 2013
The Suburban
125 N. Harvey Avenue
Oak Park, IL

http://danadegiulio.com/

http://www.thesuburban.org/

1996 Buick LeSabre: 3.8 L V6-cylinder, 205 hp @ 5200 rpm, 17/27 mpg, front wheel drive, 4-speed automatic transmission, sedan, white in color.

The Suburban (gallery 1): 8 feet wide, 8 feet deep, ~9 feet high, concrete block walls, concrete floor, one steel door and one window; operated by Michelle Grabner and Brad Killam.

Dana DeGiulio: b. 1978, Chicago Heights, IL; BFA, 2001 and MFA, 2007, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Instructor of Painting and Drawing at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2008).

Above: Dana DeGiulio exits her Buick LeSabre sedan, closing her opening reception on Sunday, November 17, 2013.

Above: The white, 1996, Buick LeSabre sedan which Dana DeGiulio crushed against The Suburban gallery.

Above: Evidence of the damage done, by Dana DeGiulio and her Buick, to the concrete block walls of The Suburban.

Above: Dana DeGiulio, right, with her Buick LeSabre sedan, after her opening reception on Sunday, November 17, 2013.

Above: Dana DeGiulio, right, with Buick, indicating the scale of The Suburban, gallery 1; note gallery 2, in background.

Read more:

Nick Bastis, Chicago Artist Writers, December 11, 2013:
http://chicagoartistwriters.blogspot.com/2013/12/dana-degiulio-at-suburban.html

Lise Haller Baggesen, Bad at Sports, December 20, 2013:
http://badatsports.com/2013/year-of-the-scavenger/

Matt Morris, Artforum, January 3, 2014:
http://artforum.com/archive/id=44566 (must register to view Artforum archive on-line)

Matt Morris:
http://mattmorriswerks.tumblr.com/post/67473012664/dana-degiulio-untitled-2013-suburban-oak-park

Above:
Images (1-6) November 17, 2013;
Copyright Paul E. Germanos.