November 18, 2024 – February 8, 2025
- Reception: Thursday, November 21, 5:30–7:30 pm.
- Artist Lecture:
- Michael Mapes: Monday, November 25 at 1 pm in the William Staerkel Planetarium
- Constance Scopelitis: TBA in 2025
- Helen Sear: TBA in 2025
Peg Shaw curates this fascinating exhibition, including six contemporary lens-based works by artists who use innovative approaches and materials to address issues beyond representation. The artists in this exhibition embrace conceptual and process-oriented artwork that expands and redefines photographic media. In an environment of new technologies seemingly creating perfect realities, the artists in the exhibition include work that involves unique techniques, mixed media, and direct touch - taking risks and trusting flaws, employing new approaches to express ideas and engage the viewer.
Shaw is a professor of photography/video at Parkland College. Shaw is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist incorporating video, sound, photography, and mixed media, often using layered site-specific installations. She received an MFA in Photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA in Painting from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her work has been shown nationally, including solo Chicago and New York exhibitions. She has won numerous awards in photography and video, most recently the Illinois Arts Council Agency 2021 Artist Fellowship Award in Media and the 40 North Champaign Arts Council 2018 Artist Ace Award.
Revealing her inspiration for curating the exhibition and the title she explains, “‘Invented’ processes, experimental practice, and innovative concepts lead to the unexpected, the unpredictable, uncontrolled, glitches, remixes, and even flaws. A big mistake or a small hiccup, these can be unwelcome obstacles or embraced opportunities to face a challenge, rethink, or let go of an idea - or best of all, stick with it and discover what it can teach."
Image: Helen Sear, Becoming Forest 10, giclée print, 51 x 51 cms, 2020
Questions?
Contact Giertz Gallery at Parkland College Office by email at giertzgallery@parkland.edu or call 217/351-2485. Contact 40 North: Champaign County Arts Council by email at kwhite@40north.org or call 217/351-9841.
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Giertz Gallery acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council Agency and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. All events in the accessible gallery are free and open to the public. Parkland College is a Section 504/ADA-compliant institution. For accommodation, call 217/353-2338 or email accessibilityservices@parkland.edu.