University of Illinois at Chicago - School of Art + Design

Graduate students in the Art Programs in the UIC School of Art and Design invite you to an Open Studio event for the Fall 2009 semester. UIC Art MFA students will present works within their personal studios as well as screen video, film and media based work. Artists will be on hand to speak with visitors.

This is a rare... opportunity for the public to engage with UIC Art MFA students in their studios and to view work from some of Chicago’s most exciting emerging artists.

The UIC MFA Open Studios event is free and open to the public.

Thursday, November 19, 2009
7:00–9:30pm
UIC School of Art and Design
Art and Design Hall
400 South Peoria Street

Participating UIC Art MFA students:

Claire Arctander
Melina Ausikaitis
Daniel Baird
Rebecca Beachy
Olivia Ciummo
Michael Gibisser
Rebecca Grady
Nick Harvey
Maria Jonsson
Raquel Ladensack
Erin Leland
Mike Morris
Paul Nelson
Tim Nickodemus
Orson Panetti
Erik Peterson
Christopher Meerdo
Aay Preston-Myint
Michael Radziewicz
Michael Sirianni
Min Song
Raychael Stine
Stephanie Tisza
Kristen VanDeventer
Nicholas Wylie
Allison Yasukawa
Latham Zearfoss
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At 20,000 leagues below the sea everyone can hear you scream – that’s the nature of sound and water after all, and (maybe) that’s why we call all those vibrations dazzling our skulls by the oceanic descriptor WAVEFORMS. Just ask Alex Halstead – she was born into water, under water, knows wet and sound better than all o...f us combined. For the last month in Gallery 400 she’s been humoring our earth-ears with her rhythmic pulses, and now it’s time to return the favor. And so, submitted for her approval: an aqua-opera in 8 stanzas, a capital-SEA-composition in as many verses. From that silent surface (Hutton) to the scratch and curl of the fevered deep (Gatten); betwixt a siren-spongebob-song (Best) and a flicker score for the Red Sea (Holthuis); with whale chorus (Clark), octo-electronica (Painleve), and gurgling pop tune (Rist) – this is a kino-song* for the best Nigerian Elephant-nosed Fish we’ll ever know. Here’s To You, Alex.

FEATURING: Study of A River by Peter Hutton (16:00, 16mm, 1996-97), What the Water Said Nos 4-7 by David Gatten (17:00, 16mm, 2007), Crank Dat Soulja Boy Spongebob by Masta Best (3:46, video, 2007), Amours de la pieuvre (Love Life of the Octopus) by Jean Painleve (14:00, 16mm on video, 1965), I'm a Victim of This Song by Pipilotti Rist (5:06, video, 1995), Marsa Abu Galawa by Gerard Holthuis (15:00, 35mm on video, 2004), Sound Over Water by Mary Helena Clark (6:00, 16mm, 2009)Read More