Gallery 400

07/24/2024

What have we inherited from our ancestors beyond material possessions? Tomorrow, join curator Denny Mwaura along with some exhibiting artists for our final summer program, a Curatorial Walkthrough of 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙨𝙠 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮.

We invite you to bring your inheritances, physical or otherwise, for a vibrant discussion on their meanings!

Join us tomorrow from 5–6:30 p.m. in the gallery. Visit the link for more info: https://gallery400.uic.edu/event/tmopwalkthrough/

Photo courtesy: Natasha Moustache

07/18/2024

Inheritance is commonly understood as a will, a promise of ownership that ensures the passing down and accumulation of property and capital from one generation to the next. But what do we make of inheritances for which value cannot be easily priced?

Join us next Thursday, July 25, 5–6:30 p.m. for 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙨𝙠 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮 Curatorial Walkthrough. We invite you to bring your tangible and intangible inheritances to the gallery for a stimulating dialogue on how inheritance shapes our lives and its role in defining a prosperous life.

Join curator Denny Mwaura and engage with some exhibiting artists whose works consider the legacies we choose to acquire, hold on to, or reject across culture and personal life.

Visit the link for more info! https://gallery400.uic.edu/event/tmopwalkthrough/

Photo courtesy: Ji Yang

07/12/2024

Time is running out to catch "The Mask of Prosperity," Gallery 400’s latest exhibit!

The exhibit meditates on inheritance and what we choose to accept and reject from our personal heritages and closes Aug. 3. Admission to the gallery is free and open to all.

Read more here https://today.uic.edu/gallery-400-exhibit-the-mask-of-prosperity-explores-the-deeper-meaning-of-inheritance/

07/09/2024

What have you inherited? Maybe it’s a physical object, an heirloom, like a necklace, a ring. Or maybe your inheritance is intangible—it could be a point of view, belief, or way of looking at the world. Or a trait or attribute you share with a relative. Perhaps you haven’t thought about what inheritance means to you.

For this Curatorial Walkthrough lead by curator Denny Mwaura, we invite you to bring these inheritances, physical or not, for a vibrant discussion on their meanings. We will be joined by some of the exhibiting artists whose works consider the legacies we might acquire, hold on to, or choose to reject across cultural and personal life.

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙨𝙠 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮 Curatorial Walkthrough will take place on Thursday, July 25 from 5–6:30 p.m.

Visit the link for more info! https://gallery400.uic.edu/event/tmopwalkthrough/

07/01/2024

Join us on Zoom tomorrow from 12-1:30 p.m. CT for 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙨𝙠 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮 Artist Roundtable! Moderated by Denny Mwaura, exhibiting artists S*an D. Henry-Smith, Katherine Simóne Reynolds, and Gabrielle Octavia Rucker will discuss ideas circulating in their works included in our exhibition.

Visit the link to register! https://gallery400.uic.edu/event/tmoproundtable/

Photo courtesy: The Mask of Prosperity installation view of S*an D. Henry-Smith works, 2024. Courtesy Natasha Moustache.

06/27/2024

In our current exhibition 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙨𝙠 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮, the featured artists present a spectrum of reflections interrogating how legacies linked to language, property, social movement, and moral principles play a role in the possibility of a prosperous life. These scenes, born from the artists’ keen observation of their kinship structures, political environments, and private lives, are rendered into a mirror in which we can recognize inheritance's meaning and value in our own lives.

Join us on Zoom next Tuesday, July 2 at 12 p.m. for 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙨𝙠 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮 Artist Roundtable to discuss the work of exhibiting artists S*an D. Henry-Smith, Katherine Simóne Reynolds, and Gabrielle Octavia Rucker as they discuss themes of wandering, wealth, loss and displacement in their work.

Visit the link to register! https://gallery400.uic.edu/event/tmoproundtable/

Photo courtesy: Ji Yang

Moderated by Denny Mwaura, join exhibiting artists S*an D. Henry-Smith, Katherine Simóne Reynolds, and Gabrielle Octavia Rucker to discuss ideas circulating in their works included in our exhibition, The Mask of Prosperity.

06/25/2024

Join us on Tuesday, July 2 at 12-1:30 p.m. CT and exhibiting artists S*an D. Henry-Smith, Katherine Simóne Reynolds, and Gabrielle Octavia Rucker as they discuss their work in 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙨𝙠 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮 Roundtable!

In the exhibition, Henry-Smith’s photographs document their residence between New York, London, and Amsterdam over a six-year period, historicizing their travels within a more extensive Afro-diasporic heritage. Reynold’s works meditate on familial loss, marriage, and wealth accumulation through inheritance. Rucker’s poem 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙞𝙩 (𝙃𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚) reflects on what she has lost both physically and ritualistically through the theft, murder, and displacement of her ancestors.

Register for the event via link in bio! https://gallery400.uic.edu/event/tmoproundtable/

06/20/2024

How do we understand inheritance in the context of a social movement? And what do we inherit as the descendents of a social movement? Carmen Winant explores the visual politics of feminism through her series Clinic Pictures. Winant collected and collaged archival images of clinic workers, physicians and women's rights activists in the Midwest to highlight the care and lateral forms of kinships occurring in these spaces.

This evening at 5 p.m. in the Gallery 400 Lecture Room, join Winant and UIC Women’s Leadership and Resource Center Director Natalie Bennett for a conversation on Winant’s practice.

https://gallery400.uic.edu/event/carmenandnatalie/

06/18/2024

The gallery will be closed tomorrow for Juneteenth and will reopen Thursday, June 20, at 10 a.m.

Please join us Thursday at 5 p.m. in the Gallery 400 Lecture Room for a conversation between Carmen Winant and the Director of UIC's Women's Research Leadership and Resource Center , Natalie Bennett as they discuss the historical context and current landscape of women’s reproductive justice.

Visit the link for more information! https://gallery400.uic.edu/event/carmenandnatalie/

06/14/2024

Carmen Winant is an artist and writer who collects archival images of women giving birth, working, and simply existing to create collages exploring the inherent politics of femininity. Her most recent project, 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙇𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙎𝙖𝙛𝙚 𝘼𝙗𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣, uses images from across the Midwest to explore the labor within women's health clinics and abortion providers.

Winanat states, "It was increasingly important to have contemporary photographs to indicate that this history leads right up to our present moment and, of course, our futures. And that this work and struggle is not ossified but very much alive and ongoing.”

On Thursday, June 20, 5 p.m. in the Gallery 400 Lecture Room Winant in conversation with the Director of UIC's Women's Research Leadership and Resource Center , Natalie Bennett as they discuss the historical context and current landscape of women’s reproductive justice.

Visit the link for more information! https://gallery400.uic.edu/event/carmenandnatalie/

Photo Courtesy: Carmen Winant, Clinic Pictures, 2023. Courtesy the artist and Patron Gallery. Photo by Natasha Moustache.

06/12/2024

In 𝘾𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙘 𝙋𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙨, exhibiting artist Carmen Winant gathers archival photographs of the everyday work done by health clinics and abortion providers across the Midwest to make visible quotidian acts of care, which include women answering the phone, leading workshops and protests, and physicians caring for patients.

On Thursday, June 20, 5–6:30 p.m. in the Gallery 400 Lecture Room, join Winant and UIC Women’s Leadership and Resource Center Director Natalie Bennett for a conversation about Winant’s work within the larger historical context of reproductive justice activism in the United States.

Visit the link for more information!

In Clinic Pictures, exhibiting artist Carmen Winant gathers archival photographs of the everyday work done by health clinics and abortion providers across the Midwest to make visible quotidian acts of care, including women answering the phone, leading workshops and protests, and physicians caring fo...

06/07/2024

If you haven't had a chance to see our summer exhibition, join the 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙨𝙠 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮 Virtual Tour, today from 3–4 p.m. CT! This tour will be led by curator Denny Mwaura and Director Margaret Fink of the UIC Disability Cultural Center.
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Ivanka, our Programs & Engagement Graduate Assistant, reflects on her favorite piece from the exhibition with her staff pick:

The sparkle of the privacy glass on Kathrine Simone Reynold's Garter Belt immediately caught my attention. As part of her series reflecting on the loss of her father, the image shows him removing her mother's garter belt on their wedding night. His head takes up the bottom corner of the image, along with the glass obstructing the view of the scene as well. The viewer is blocked from fully accessing a private moment, but to me, looking at the piece felt like trying to look through a watery blur of tears. I keep blinking thinking the tears will fall and my vision will be clear once again, yet the image remains the same. Not only are we visually blocked from accessing this moment, like Reynolds, we might never fully understand the emotional complexities behind it. The longing to fully understand another person is a distant aspiration, a privilege often realized only in the aftermath of loss. We mourn over someone through memories that oftentimes are not ours. The inclusion of the privacy glass on top of the image perfectly captures this emotional limbo of loss.

Visit the link to register! https://gallery400.uic.edu/event/tmopvirtualtour/

Photo courtesy: The Mask of Prosperity installation view. Photo by Ji Yang.

06/04/2024

🔥CALLING ALL UIC UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS🔥
 
We have three internships open for the fall semester! Our internship program provides hands-on opportunities to learn directly from the Gallery’s staff, arts professionals and to connect with professionals in various Chicago cultural institutions.

These internships are only eligible for current UIC undergraduate students.

🗃️Archives Internship🗃️

As the archives intern, you will work to recover, organize, and make public the documentation lost in the 2017 crash of Gallery 400’s old website. In this role, you will gain experience in archival organization, documentation, operational practices, and web content management. You will also oversee a plan to make it publicly accessible with assistance from the Richard J. Daley Library. 

📩 Communications Design Internship 📩

As the Communications Design Intern, you will assist in creating visibility for Gallery 400’s exhibitions and programs and attracting new audiences through print and digital platforms. Together with the Communications Graduate Staffer, you will strategically produce marketing and promotional materials for exhibitions.

🎤 Public Programs & Learning Engagement Internship 🎤

As the Public Programs and Learning Engagement Intern, you will support the Gallery in producing public programs and events related to exhibitions and conduct tours. Working closely with the Public Programs and Learning Engagement Graduate Staffer, you will develop relevant programming and invite potential and current partners to collaborate with the Gallery.

Deadline: Saturday, July 27, 2023, 11:59pm C.T. Click the link in our bio to apply!

05/31/2024

Haven't had a chance to view our current exhibition 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙨𝙠 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮? Join us and the Disability Cultural Center for a virtual tour of it with curator Denny Mwaura and DCC Director Margaret Fink.

Led by curator Denny Mwaura and DCC Director Margaret Fink, this virtual tour delves into varied creative interpretations and representations of inheritance. Mwaura will discuss the making of the exhibition and expand on ways the featured artists grapple with familial and cultural legacies linked to language, property, and social movements.

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙨𝙠 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙑𝙞𝙧𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙡 𝙏𝙤𝙪𝙧 occurs on Friday, June 7, 3-4 p.m. CT. Visit the link to register!

https://gallery400.uic.edu/event/tmopvirtualtour/

Photo courtesy: Ji Yang

05/28/2024

On Friday, June 7, 3-4 p.m. CT, join us and the UIC Disability Cultural Center (.dcc) for a virtual tour of 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙨𝙠 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮.

Led by curator Denny Mwaura and DCC Director Margaret Fink, the tour explores the role inheritance has across multiple dimensions of our lives. The exhibition expands on the common understanding of inheritance, a will that ensures the passing down of property and capital from one generation to the next, to consider how we come into possession of material and intangible things.

Visit the link in bio to register!

05/24/2024

Here at Gallery 400 we're reflecting on 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙨𝙠 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮 and the works that stand out to us.

Benson, our Curatorial Intern, reflects on their favorite piece from the exhibition with their staff pick:⁠

As I enter 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙨𝙠 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮, I am immediately confronted by the towering soft sculpture by cameron clayborn, homegrown #5. This striking and prominent figure is like a monument in the exhibition space, and aside from being magnetized to its hypnotic blue fibers, I’m pulled in a similar way to its origins and conception. clayborn uses architectural materials like denim insulation, wire and ceiling paint to erect homegrown #5, as it is a sculpture emotionally tied to their childhood experiences in their late grandmother's house in Malvern, Arkansas. The walls, ceilings, floors and architecture which once held hollow/hallowed space for clayborn and their family disfigure and contort into a freestanding, alien-like golem. Walking around the gallery, its presence is persistent and almost haunting. In looking at it, I see a witness to countless personal memories and stories woven together, and in return I feel it witnessing me.

Visit the link for more information on the exhibition and to learn more about upcoming programs!
https://gallery400.uic.edu/exhibition/themaskofprosperity/

Photo courtesy: Ji Yang

05/17/2024

We are deeply grateful to everyone who attended the opening reception of 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙨𝙠 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮! If you missed the opening, the exhibition is on view through August 3 and is accompanied by a suite of exciting programs!

Visit the link in our bio for upcoming events and more info on the exhibition: https://gallery400.uic.edu/exhibition/themaskofprosperity/

Photo courtesy: Ji Yang

05/09/2024

Join us tomorrow from 5-7 p.m. for the opening reception of 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙨𝙠 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮!

This exhibition probes the tensions between which legacies we choose to acquire, hold on to, or reject across culture and personal life.

It features new commissions by Caroline Kent and Nate Young, Eli Greene, Katherine Simóne Reynolds, and Gabrielle Octavia Rucker, and S*an D. Henry-Smith. Other artists included are Sonya Clark, cameron clayborn, Bouchra Khalili, and Carmen Winant.

Meet some of the artists and enjoy light refreshments!

Visit the link for more information: https://gallery400.uic.edu/exhibition/themaskofprosperity/

05/07/2024

Join us this Friday from 5–7 p.m. for the opening of 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙨𝙠 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮!

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙨𝙠 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮 is a group exhibition that takes shape around the role inheritance has across multiple dimensions of our lives.

Inheritance is commonly understood as a will, a promise of ownership that ensures the passing down and accumulation of property and capital from one generation to the next.

A central concern in the exhibition is, how do we come into possession of material and intangible things and what are their lasting impressions on determining our sense of self?

Visit the link to learn more about the exhibition: https://gallery400.uic.edu/exhibition/themaskofprosperity/

Photo courtesy: Bouchra Khalili, The Speeches Series—Chapter 2: Word on the Streets, 2013. Courtesy the artist and mor charpentier

05/02/2024

Join us Friday, May 10 5-7 p.m. for the opening reception of 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙨𝙠 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮, a group exhibition that takes shape around the role of inheritance across multiple dimensions of our lives. The exhibition probes the tensions between which legacies we choose to acquire, hold on to, or reject across culture and personal life.

It features new commissions by Caroline Kent and Nate Young, Eli Greene, Katherine Simóne Reynolds, and Gabrielle Octavia Rucker, and S*an D. Henry-Smith. Other artists included are Sonya Clark, cameron clayborn, Bouchra Khalili, and Carmen Winant.

Meet some of the artists and enjoy light refreshments!

https://gallery400.uic.edu/event/tmopreception/

Photo: cameron clayborn, Homegrown #5, 2022. Courtesy the artist and Simone Subal Gallery, New York. Photo by Olympia Shannon.

04/17/2024

Opening May 10, 6-8 p.m. is 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙨𝙠 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮, a group exhibition that takes shape around the role inheritance has across multiple dimensions of our lives. Inheritance is commonly understood as a will, a promise of ownership that ensures the passing down and accumulation of property and capital from one generation to the next. For many, this topic strikes a personal chord, demanding reflection on one’s relationships with ancestors and what we would like to endow our descendants with. Expanding on this strand of thinking, 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙨𝙠 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮 is posed as an inquiry that probes the tensions between which legacies we choose to acquire, hold on to, or reject across culture and personal life.⁠

A central concern in the exhibition is, how do we come into possession of material and intangible things and what are their lasting impressions on determining our sense of self? The featured artists present richly varied reflections interrogating how legacies linked to language, property, social movement, and moral principles intensify to possibly build a prosperous life. The exhibition contains newly commissioned contributions by Caroline Kent and Nate Young, Eli Greene, Katherine Simóne Reynolds, Gabrielle Octavia Rucker, and S*an D. Henry-Smith.

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙨𝙠 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮 is curated by Denny Mwaura, UIC Gallery 400 Assistant Director. ⁠
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Artists: Sonya Clark, cameron clayborn, Eli Greene, S*an D. Henry-Smith, Caroline Kent and Nate Young, Bouchra Khalili, Katherine Simóne Reynolds, Gabrielle Octavia Rucker, Carmen Winant.⁠

Visit the link in bio to learn more.

04/17/2024

Gallery 400 is extending the deadline for proposals for the Art and Exhibition Hall Lobby Competition! This competition is open to all current University of Illinois at Chicago Art BFA and MFA students. The winning project will have 24-hour visibility in the prominent lobby location for the Summer 2024 semester. Winners will also receive a $200 honorarium!⁠ Submit your proposal by Monday, April 22.
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We are looking for UIC students to submit work that aligns with themes explored in our upcoming exhibition upcoming exhibition, 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙨𝙠 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮, opening May 10th. This group exhibition takes shape around the role inheritance has across multiple dimensions of our lives. Posed as an inquiry that probes the tensions between which legacies we choose to acquire, the topic of inheritance demands reflection on one's relationship with ancestors and what we would like to endow our descendants with.

While we encourage students to submit work that coincides with 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙨𝙠 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮, all proposals will be accepted for consideration.

For more information and to submit a proposal, please visit the link!

https://gallery400.uic.edu/interact/lobby-competition/
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Photo courtesy: Samuel Schwindt, The Breaking Down Became a Proliferation/The Glitz and Glam Felt so Alive (Halloween 1989), 2023.

04/09/2024

Join us tomorrow, Wednesday, April 10, 5–6:30 p.m. in the Gallery 400 Lecture Room for our final Voices lecture of the semester with filmmaker S. Torriano Berry! A member of the influential Black film movement the LA Rebellion, Berry’s work spans from coming-of-age vignettes to urban horror to the first Belizean dramatic television series.

Berry will screen his 1983 MFA project “Rich” (1983), which follows a young Black man on the even of his high-school graduation, and discuss his early work made as a student at UCLA in the 80s.

04/05/2024

Beginning in the late 1960s and continuing through the 70s and 80s, a group of Black filmmakers at the University of California Los Angeles film school created a Black cinema challenging the traditions in Hollywood films. Against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War, filmmakers including Charles Burnett, Julie Dash, and Zeinabu Irene Davis contributed to what would come to be known as the LA Rebellion Film Movement.⁠
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S. Torriano Berry, our final Voices lecturer of the semester, was involved in the second wave of the movement in the 80s. Join Berry for a screening of his film “Rich” (1983), which follows a young man as he fights to pursue higher education against his mother's wishes.⁠
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Voices: S. Torriano Berry takes place on Wednesday, April 10, 5-6:30 p.m. in the Gallery 400 Lecture Room. Visit the link for more info!

https://gallery400.uic.edu/event/storrianoberry/
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Photo courtesy: S. Torriano Berry, Rich, 1982.

04/03/2024

For our third and final installment of our Spring 2024 Voices Lecture Series, we are joined by award-winning independent filmmaker S. Torriano Berry!

A part of the groundbreaking LA Rebellion, a film movement of Black filmmakers who studied at UCLA during the late 1960s through the early 1980s, Berry’s films explore everything from coming-of-age as a young Black man in the 80s to urban horror. Jacqueline Stewart, a leading scholar of the LA Rebellion, describes the movement's ambitions as: "Most accounts of this group focus on how these artists tried to develop film styles that challenged the condescending and disingenuous treatment of black people in film, not just on the screen but behind the camera As a cinematographer, Berry worked on Zeinabu irene Davis' iconic documentary, "Trumpetistically, Clora Bryant" (1989). For this lecture, Berry will screen his film Rich (1983) and discuss the conceptual underpinnings that drove his early work as a UCLA MFA student.

Voices: S. Torriano Berry will take place on Wednesday, April 10, from 5-6:30 p.m. in the Gallery 400 Lecture Room. Visit the link for more info!

Photo courtesy: S. Torriano Berry, Rich, 1982. Courtesy the UCLA Library Film & Television Archive.

https://gallery400.uic.edu/event/storrianoberry/

03/26/2024

In a Hyperallergic interview, filmmaker Laura Huertas Millán () describes how “ethnographic fiction” frames her cinematic practice:

“I have been using the term ethnographic fiction rather than ‘ethnofiction’ because it creates a light shift. It’s a way of referencing the practices combining anthropology and fiction that have existed since the very beginnings of cinema without limiting myself to [Jean] Rough’s heritage and what it represents in geopolitical terms. On the contrary, I am eager to include non-European / North American practices in my research, as well as highlight female and non-binary voices in critical dialogue with anthropology.”

Join us on Zoom this Thursday, March 28, 5–6:30 p.m. CT for our second Voices lecture with Laura Huertas Millán. Link below!

https://gallery400.uic.edu/event/laurahuertasmillan/

Photo courtesy: Laura Huertas Millán, The Labyrinth, 2018. Courtesy Laura Huertas Millán.

03/24/2024

Join us on opening day, Tuesday, March 26 for 𝙎𝙚𝙚 𝙎𝙖𝙬 𝙎𝙚𝙚𝙣: 2024 𝙐𝙄𝘾 𝙈𝙁𝘼 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙨 𝙎𝙝𝙤𝙬!

Cascading through layers of observation and perception, this 2024 MFA cohort reveals diverse artistic practices. The candidates probe educational theory as it applies to the art world, portraiture of the self and collective within the margins of a global society, reconnaissance in archives, the inherent qualities of materials and their relation to artistic social spheres, and communication in writing, philosophy, and visual culture. Through wide-ranging media, they assess whether the value of art is determined by the audience looking or through the artists’ independent views.

The UIC MFA Program facilitates an expansive reckoning for how creative practitioners exist at grassroots, academic, city, and global levels of the art world. It instigates introspection into how artwork functions to a broad audience, how it lives in each candidate’s niches, and how autonomous voices enhance personal relationships to art.

The closing reception for ⁠𝙎𝙚𝙚 𝙎𝙖𝙬 𝙎𝙚𝙚𝙣 will take place April 19, 5 –8 p.m. at Gallery 400. Click the link for more info and upcoming programs.

https://gallery400.uic.edu/exhibition/seesawseen/

2024 UIC MFA Thesis Show: 𝙎𝙚𝙚 𝙎𝙖𝙬 𝙎𝙚𝙚𝙣 Artists:
Sarah Aguilar, Jovita Alvares, Andi Crist, B’alam García, Queen Hibbler, Le Hien Minh, Katelyn Patton, Luke Sanders, Samuel Schwindt, Sarah Whyte

Photo courtesy: Le Hien Minh, Invisible Dragon, 2023. Courtesy the artist. Image by Laurel Hauge.

03/24/2024

Preview of “Rebelión en el Otro México: el Juicio Final” released tomorrow evening, Monday, March 25, at UIC Gallery 400 at 5:30 in an event featuring a conversation between artist Adela Goldbard and collaborators Edith Tovar, Emmanuel Ortega, Silvia Gonzalez, and Lucky Camargo. Catalogues are $30 each, check or cash only. Light food will be served. Hope to see you there!

03/21/2024

Please join us Monday, March 25 at 5:30 to celebrate the publication of Adela Goldbard’s beautiful new catalogue “Rebellion in an Other Mexico: The Last Judgment.” Adela will be in conversation with contributors to Lucky Camargo, Silvia Gonzalez, Emmanuel Ortega and Edith Tovar.

The book is a bilingual, in-depth chronicle of the Mexican artist Adea Goldbard’s multi-stage, interdisciplinary project “The Last Judgment/El Juicio Final.” The publication centers on the cross-border, community interests of residents in Chicago’s predominantly Mexican Little Village neighborhood and documents the project’s development and presentation across 2019 and 2020, including the public exhibition at UIC Gallery 400 August 27-November 23, 2019 and the culminating pyrotechnic performances filmed on October 10, 2020.

“The Last Judgment/El Juicio Final” project drew on Mexican traditions and artistry to spectacularly address and ritually purge the challenges facing La Villita. Adopting the name and structure of the first Western play performed in present-day Mexico, a play written as a religious tool of conquest, Goldbard’s “The Last Judgment/El Juicio Final” evokes the spectacular character of that theater of evangelization but contests its colonizing spirit, transforming punishment into protest through processes of collective building, reenactment, and destruction.

The celebration will include food. Catalogues will be available for purchase for $30. Check or cash only.

03/20/2024

Across director Laura Huertas Millán’s films is a sustained interest in combining anthropology and fiction to challenge the hierarchy between a filmmaker and their subjects. Grounded on a decolonial practice that centers visual anthropology, ethnography, and ecology, her films trace the continued life of colonial narratives, destabilizing them to bring about survival and resilience against regimes of power.

On Thursday, March 28, 5-6:30 p.m., join Laura Huertas Millán for a lecture exploring ethnographic fiction in filmmaking.

Visit the link to learn more!

https://gallery400.uic.edu/event/laurahuertasmillan/