• Shannon Finley, courtesy of Jessica Silverman Gallery

APPROPINQUATION

September 12—October 31, 2015


Carrie Secrist Gallery is pleased to announce the group exhibition:

APPROPINQUATION
September 12 – October 31, 2015.
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 12, 5 – 8 PM

Artists included in APPROPINQUATION are Leslie Baum, Shannon Finley, Jamisen Ogg, Min Song and Dannielle Tegeder.

For as long as there has been iconography or idols, monuments to ideas, time, and space have been placed in areas of engagement. With sculpture, the floor is burdened with supporting these objects – creating zones of inferred meaning within the viewer’s personal space. Simultaneously, the wall offers a ready template for parallel experiences: tempting, embracing and occasionally expelling. Sometimes this can be subtle, verging on the subliminal, and other times sensational – implying forces that resonate in one’s core.

For the artists in APPROPINQUATION (n. A drawing nigh; approach / the act of coming into near relation or proximity / The act of bringing remote things near), participation is implied and relationships are encouraged within the act of seeing. From the austere to the sybaritic, the way we move around, up to and beside works of art can be a tangential experience. The viewer is invited to consider their personal space as it relates to each object. Approaching this art is encouraged from every angle.

Leslie Baum’s (Chicago) “rabbit holes”, along with her standing paintings, creates an enlarged dioramic experience that both collapses and expands space with the aid of art historical references. Taken in concert with each other, each element of these works create a readymade dialogue as the viewer may see these as symbols or harbingers of what is to come, or what was already there.

Shannon Finley’s (Berlin) work straddles mark making by hand with digital processes to create strangely familiar, yet abstract, visions. The sculptures presented here are a new mode of creating that alludes to maquettes for monuments; built or un-built, that resonates with the context of his hometown of Berlin.

Jamisen Ogg (New York) presents a site-specific oversized mobile constructed from two architectural trusses. Strong yet delicate, this sculpture invites an approach that is cautionary and demarcates, formally and informally, a charged area within the context of the gallery space.

Min Song (Chicago) creates works that traverse multiple mediums from photography to sculpture. Using accessible materials – from found and personal photography to basic building materials – these works create scenarios that utilize mnemonic devices to trigger something that verges on sentimentality, but not quite.

Dannielle Tegeder (New York) With an overt inquisitiveness, Tegeder presents a wall-based installation that incorporates a variety of media (house paint, vellum, wood, frames) into one plane while expanding the meaning of what a composition can be within a specific space. Responding directly to the architecture of the gallery, the networks and systems alluded to are complicated, while meant to encourage contemplation.

APPROPINQUATION is organized by Carrie Secrist and Britton Bertran.

Please contact Britton Bertran for further information at 312.491.0917 or britton@secristgallery.com

Images

  • APPROPINQUATION
    Installation view, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago
    September 12 – October 31, 2015
    Photo: Clare Britt

  • APPROPINQUATION
    Installation view, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago
    September 12 – October 31, 2015
    Photo: Clare Britt

  • APPROPINQUATION
    Installation view, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago
    September 12 – October 31, 2015
    Photo: Clare Britt

  • APPROPINQUATION
    Installation view, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago
    September 12 – October 31, 2015
    Photo: Clare Britt

  • Leslie Baum
    mementos and Rabbit Holes
    Installation view
    Photo: Clare Britt

  • Leslie Baum blue moon/rabbit hole, 2015 Acrylic on canvas 83 x 97.5 inches Photo: Clare Britt

  • Leslie Baum
    mementos and Rabbit Holes, (detail)
    Installation view
    Photo: Clare Britt

  • Leslie Baum
    mementos and Rabbit Holes, (detail)
    Installation view
    Photo: Clare Britt

  • Min Song
    sculptural disciplines, from walking to set design, 2015
    Museum board, illustration board, corrugated plastic, glass, foam, foam board, PVC, glue and paint.
    40 x 60 x 20 inches
    Photo: Clare Britt

     

  • Min Song
    sculptural disciplines, from walking to set design (detail), 2015
    Museum board, illustration board, corrugated plastic, glass, foam, foam board, PVC, glue and paint.
    40 x 60 x 20 inches
    Photo: Clare Britt

  • Min Song
    sculptural disciplines, from walking to set design (detail), 2015
    Museum board, illustration board, corrugated plastic, glass, foam, foam board, PVC, glue and paint.
    40 x 60 x 20 inches
    Photo: Clare Britt

  • Min Song
    sculptural disciplines, from walking to set design (detail), 2015
    Museum board, illustration board, corrugated plastic, glass, foam, foam board, PVC, glue and paint.
    40 x 60 x 20 inches
    Photo: Clare Britt

  • Min Song
    Suburban Proposition     (top), 2015
    7 x 9 inches
    Inkjet print and wood
    Unique objects, edition 1 of 5

    Min Song
    Art and Objects (bottom), 2015
    Inkjet print and wood
    20 x 28 inches
    Unique objects, edition 1 of 5
    Photos: Clare Britt

  • Jamisen Ogg Rigid Infinity, 2015 Veneer core, MDF, chain, metal brace 12 x 12 x 10.8 feet Photo: Clare Britt

  • Jamisen Ogg
    Rigid Infinity, 2015
    Veneer core, MDF, chain, metal brace
    12 x 12 x 10.8 feet
    Photo: Clare Britt

  • Jamisen Ogg
    Rigid Infinity, 2015
    Veneer core, MDF, chain, metal brace
    12 x 12 x 10.8 feet
    Photo: Clare Britt

  • Shannon Finley
    Mutation 1, 2015
    Laser sintered PA nylon
    6 x 6 x 12 inches
    Edition of 3
    Photo: Clare Britt

  • Shannon Finley
    Mutation 3, 2015
    Laser sintered PA nylon
    6 x 6 x 11 inches
    Edition of 3
    Photo: Clare Britt

  • Shannon Finley
    Mutation 3 and 1, 2015
    Installation view
    Photo: Clare Britt

  • Danielle Tegeder
    Artificial Life Modern System with Invisble Diagrams on Shelving, Canvas Crash, Glass Schema Map, Mahogany Break Down, and Patterns of Collision. 2015
    Glass, stained glass, mahogany, repurposed wood, balsa wood, house paint, graphite, ink, mirror, shelving, metal, paper and frames.
    12 x 30 feet
    Photo: Clare Britt

  • Danielle Tegeder
    Artificial Life Modern System with Invisble Diagrams on Shelving, Canvas Crash, Glass Schema Map, Mahogany Break Down, and Patterns of Collision. 2015
    Glass, stained glass, mahogany, repurposed wood, balsa wood, house paint, graphite, ink, mirror, shelving, metal, paper and frames.
    12 x 30 feet
    Photo: Clare Britt

  • Danielle Tegeder
    Artificial Life Modern System with Invisble Diagrams on Shelving, Canvas Crash, Glass Schema Map, Mahogany Break Down, and Patterns of Collision (detail). 2015
    Glass, stained glass, mahogany, repurposed wood, balsa wood, house paint, graphite, ink, mirror, shelving, metal, paper and frames.
    12 x 30 feet
    Photo: Clare Britt

  • Danielle Tegeder
    Artificial Life Modern System with Invisble Diagrams on Shelving, Canvas Crash, Glass Schema Map, Mahogany Break Down, and Patterns of Collision (detail). 2015
    Glass, stained glass, mahogany, repurposed wood, balsa wood, house paint, graphite, ink, mirror, shelving, metal, paper and frames.
    12 x 30 feet
    Photo: Clare Britt

  • Danielle Tegeder
    Artificial Life Modern System with Invisble Diagrams on Shelving, Canvas Crash, Glass Schema Map, Mahogany Break Down, and Patterns of Collision (detail). 2015
    Glass, stained glass, mahogany, repurposed wood, balsa wood, house paint, graphite, ink, mirror, shelving, metal, paper and frames.
    12 x 30 feet
    Photo: Clare Britt

  • Danielle Tegeder
    Artificial Life Modern System with Invisble Diagrams on Shelving, Canvas Crash, Glass Schema Map, Mahogany Break Down, and Patterns of Collision (detail). 2015
    Glass, stained glass, mahogany, repurposed wood, balsa wood, house paint, graphite, ink, mirror, shelving, metal, paper and frames.
    12 x 30 feet
    Photo: Clare Britt

  • Danielle Tegeder
    Artificial Life Modern System with Invisble Diagrams on Shelving, Canvas Crash, Glass Schema Map, Mahogany Break Down, and Patterns of Collision (detail). 2015
    Glass, stained glass, mahogany, repurposed wood, balsa wood, house paint, graphite, ink, mirror, shelving, metal, paper and frames.
    12 x 30 feet
    Photo: Clare Britt