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Collection Highlights - New Acquisitions

Michael Parker, Buildings at Night Elmhurst Art Museum is proud to present this group show exhibiting a wide variety of works by 14 artists whose work has been acquisitioned within 2011.

Elmhurst Art Museum is a collecting institution that seeks to present and acquire works by a diverse community of artists that expresses the vitality and scope of the current cultural and artistic climate.

This show will feature photography, works on paper, painting, sculpture, and installation works that reflects the Museum’s comprehensive interest in all forms of creative expression. Artists with work to be exhibited include Jerry Cargill, Helen Maurene Cooper, Mark DeBernardi, John Dempsey, Jordan Eagles, Judith Geichman, Beverly Kedzior, Daniel Kim, Jennifer Scott McLaughlin, Michael Parker, Alexis Rose, Michael Ryan, Eric Stephenson, and Billy Tokyo.

Firat Erdim: The Arbor

09.16.11 - 12.30.11 Firat Erdim, Post Series

Firat Erdim's work engages a practice in sculpture as well as architecture that explores the transformation of objects and places between states of nature, raw material, construction, and ruin. In his most recent series, Erdim systematically takes apart standard 4x4 and 6x6 wood posts through cutting and splitting to re-build them as sedimentary constructions that act as a commentary on states of arrangement and deterioration. The rawness of his wood material serves as a method of retaining the memory of their original state, development, and metamorphosis. Erdim's objects are fragments suspended between different phases of existence, the past, addressing how they began conceptually, and the future, where the objects anticipate and participate in their own construction.

Glenn Wexler: Stillness in Motion

09.16.11 - 12.30.11 Glenn Wexler, Installation

The focus of Glenn Wexler's work is the urban setting and many components that form it. Wexler's works explore his interest in the existence and placement of nature within the close proximity of architecture and the co-existence of the traditional and the contemporary. Featuring images of architectural structures, signs, lighting, people, plant-life, etc., Wexler's photographic source material is shot while in transit, traveling through cities mainly in Asia. Utilizing methods of printing his photography including traditional methods, screen-printing, vinyl application and large format inkjet Wexler presents a portion of his ideas as installations. Always conscious of the unique setting in which each installation appears, his work is never the same, creating individual and unconventional site-specific works that attempt to share his personal journeys with viewers.

Matt Woodward: The Tremendous Alone

09.16.11 - 12.30.11
Matt Woodward, Installation View

Matt Woodward's massive graphite works on paper are infused with a personal history that is mysteriously and hauntingly executed through an intense reductive representation of architectural details. Building a visual record of physical activity upon the surface of his wildly handled and purposely abused expanses of paper, Woodward works a graphite field to cloak the fierceness of his treatment and then slowly and delicately erases out decorative architectural elements. The resulting pieces are as much "objects" as they are paper representations of any one thing. The process reveals the quiet scream of an artist dynamically challenging historical concepts about illustrative representation and results with the assertive and deeply complex voice of an artist speaking through his work about theory that is even bigger than his creations.

Michael Rea: Soirée (July 8 - September 4, 2011)

Michael Rea creates objects that are incongruous with what they intend to represent. Using unfinished wood to create objects as varying as instruments (guitars, drum kits, etc.), fallen space ships, jet skis, and arrays of weaponry, Rea's work takes on hallucinogenic qualities. Fabricating objects in such a delusional manner infuses his work with an undeniable sense of humor and wonder as Rea comments on the temporal nature of pop culture. Finding beauty in fantasy and failure, his sculptures revel in fictitious interpretation and mirage reality.

Please join us for the Curator Walk and Talk on Friday, July 15, 2011 at 6:30 pm.

Denise Burge: Original Dirt (May 14 - September 4, 2011)

Cincinnati based artist Denise Burge, approaching quilting from a painting background, views the creation of her work as its subject as well as its medium. Using the storytelling tradition learned in her community while growing up in the foothills of the Smokey Mountains, Burge uses her works as a commentary on everything from her family to the natural environment.

The Unsentimental Journey of Seymour Rosofsky (May 13 - September 4, 2011)

Seymour Rosofsky, Street Scene, 1980 The Unsentimental Journey of Seymour Rosofsky focuses on the artist’s works on canvas with pieces ranging from very early in the artists career all the way to the year prior to the artist's passing.

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