Jan 23, 2012
This week: Philip von Zweck sits down to talk with artist and educator Kelly Kaczynski.
GO CHECK OUT HER SHOW AT THE COLLEGE OF DUPAGE-GAHLBERG GALLERY! I heart the Gahlberg Gallery.
Kelly Kaczynski: Study for Convergence Performance (ice)
Jan.19 to Feb. 25, 2012
Study for Convergence Performance (ice) is the second work in a
series that seeks to conflate the artist's studio as a performative
site of production, the space of display as the reception of image,
and landscape as site for epic but apathetic metaphor. It uses the
devices of the theatrical stage and the green screen; both of which
operate as a "non-space" that allows the conflation of multiple
contexts or sites. She uses imagery from landscapes that shift in
time, such as bodies of water including glacier fields. The title
of the piece refers to Robert Smithson's idea of "the range of
convergence between site and non-site" whereas the land from the
originating site is placed in the container of the non-site. In
Study for Convergence Performance, the site of origin and the sign
of site converge as they transpose in a collapse of time.
Kelly Kaczynski is an assistant professor and assistant chair in
the Department of Art Theory & Practice at the Weinberg College of
Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University. Kelly is a
sculptor and installation artist. Her work, while existing in a
temporal-spatial platform, is deeply materials based. She received
an MFA from Bard College in 2003 and a BA from The Evergreen State
College in 1995. She has exhibited with threewalls, Chicago; Hyde
Park Art Center, Chicago; University of Buffalo Art Gallery, NY;
Rowland Contemporary, Chicago; Triple Candie, NY; the Islip Art
Museum, NY; Cristinerose/Josee Bienvenu Gallery, NY; DeCordova
Museum, MA; 123 Watts Gallery, NY; and the Boston Center for the
Arts, MA. Kaczynski's work was included in the Boston Drawing
Project at Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston. Public installations
include projects with the Main Line Art Center, Haverford,
Pennsylvania; the Interfaith Center of New York; the Institute for
Contemporary Art, Boston and the Boston National Historic Parks;
and the Boston Public Library. Kaczynski has taught at the School
of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the University of Pennsylvania,
the University of Illinois at Chicago, and University of
Chicago.