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Garden City Beautiful from Ben Balcom on Vimeo.
News From Nowhere from Ben Balcom on Vimeo.
Eric Fleischauer is a Chicago-based artist whose projects engage the histories of media culture to examine technology’s nuanced influences and forgotten genealogies. Working across various mediums, fleischauer utilizes conceptually-driven production strategies to make work that can be read as an aestheticized form of media theory and criticism.
His work has been exhibited at the MCA Chicago, Interstate Projects (NYC), Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Kunstmuseum Bonn, and discussed in Artforum, The Washington Post, Afterimage Journal, and rhizome.org.
Currently he is an Associate Professor, Adjunct at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Ian Weaver is an Artist and Professor at Saint Mary’s College, South Bend, IN. His M.F.A. is from Washington University in St Louis (2008).
He has exhibited at the South Bend Museum of Art; The Chicago Cultural Center; the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art; and Saint Louis Art Museum.
His residencies include Bemis Center for the Contemporary Arts; Ox-Bow; the ISCP Residency, New York; and Yaddo and the Millay Colony, both in upstate NY. Awards include the Stone and DeGuire Contemporary Art Award; Artadia and the Joan Mitchell Foundation, both based in NY; and the Illinois Arts Council.
George Rodriguez addresses sensitive sociopolitical issues through his highly ornamented figurative ceramic sculptures. There is a tongue-in cheek-ease that is evident in the sense of warmth his works convey. Themes of culture and identity recur throughout his sculpture, celebrating the unique attributes of diverse cultures as well as the similarities that unite us all.
Rodriguez’s ceramic sculptures eloquently communicate the emotions they embody, through figures spanning a wide range of forms and personalities. Aspects of certain forms echo elements of African, Italian, and South American ceramic traditions, yet the resulting pieces are dynamically modern.
George received a BFA in ceramics from the University of Texas El Paso then went on to receive an MFA from the University of Washington. His world curiosity grew as a recipient of a Bonderman Travel Fellowship where he traveled the world through most of 2010. His work can be found in the permanent collection of the National Mexican Museum of Art in Chicago, Hallie Ford Museum in Salem, Oregon and the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery amongst others. George is represented by Foster/White Gallery in Seattle, WA and is the Artist in Residence at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture in Philadelphia.
The book he was reading that was mentioned in the interview was Natalie Diaz Book of Poems.