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DEPARTMENT OF PRINTMEDIASCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
MELANIE TERESA BOHRER
SHANNON CRIDER
THOMAS HUSTON
CHANGMIN LEE
FRANCES LIGHTBOUND
PETER PAUL
MICHAEL RADO
MARCUS THINH ANTHONY THIBODEAU
DEPARTMENT OF PRINTMEDIASCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
I am interested in loss, and in turn the adaptation of our bodies and minds to trauma. As a German artist,I process personal and national suffering, translating—both through visual and literary language—the collective guilt of my home country. This indebtedness has born a fascination with the human desire to commu-nicate despite linguistic, cultural, physical or other impedi-ments. The work I create, evokes the human form, explicitly referencing displacement and uncertainty of figures. Object making allows me to understand the emotional implica-tions of living between continents and customs, and my existential aspiration to comprehend and share pain.
Melanie Teresa Bohrer grew up in Munich, Germany, received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and previously her BFA in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design.
MELANIE TERESA BOHRER
Untitled (memorial) 11ft x 12ft x 5ftSublimation print on silk, cotton, birch, abaca paper, porcelain and graphite2016
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prisoners of (mourning)Felt, chiffon and thread2016
Untitled (memorial) 11ft x 12ft x 5ftSublimation print on silk, abaca paper, and porcelain2016
The television set is more than furniture. It’s a mirror casting realities that shape my experience of womanhood. My work examines television’s contemporary representa-tions of women and exposes the fallout, when images of femininity are created and defined overwhelmingly by men. When women disqualify themselves or malign each other, such actions are not created in a vacuum. Instead, they’re refractions informed by subtle, pervasive cultural depictions of women. My two-and three-dimensional works employ collage and print to define the emotional and physical space that animates women’s relationships. This investigation reclaims these refractions, repurposing a lens for telling my own story.
Shannon Crider earned her MFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2016), BFA fromOklahoma City University (2008). She’s a resident artist at Box 13 ArtSpace in Houston.
SHANNON CRIDER
TV Guides (Installation View)576 in x 18 in, dimensions variableDigitally printed sheer fabric2016
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Hugs (Left to right: Colleagues, In-Laws, Twisted Sisters, and Mother and Daughter)8 in x 8 in, eachScreen print suite, edition of 42016
TV Guides (Maquette)24 in x 2 in, dimensions Digitally printed sheer fabric2016
Standard Moving Blankets makes visible and meaningful the liminal area between spaces of making and spaces of exhibition. Through sculptural and photographic pro-cesses, I point towards the life of objects in the world and the human labor that activates these objects. Transitory sculptures are made by wrapping artworks in recycled felt moving blankets. When the artworks are exhibited, the blankets are folded and stacked nearby as material residue and sculptural potential. The use and re-use of the blankets is marked in the accumulative titles indicating the artists and artworks necessary to the creation of the work.
Thomas Huston is an interdisci-plinary conceptual artist living and working in Chicago. He received a BA in Studio Art and Art History from Oberlin College and an MFA from SAIC
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Blanket 2 [Gary LaPointe Jr., stolen black bike, stolen black bike rack, 9.30.2014-10.11.2014. W. North Ave./Claremont Ave. CHI. IL. USA, 2014, bike frame, chain, U-lock and bike rack; Elizabeth Van Loan, Untitled, 2016, water, container, pigment], Blankets 27-30 [Elizabeth Van Loan, Untitled, 2016, water, container, pigment]5 Standard Moving Blankets2016
Standard Moving Blankets with Jeremy Pellington, Good Commentary video, steel studs, wood, fabric2016
Standard Moving Blankets [with Noel Madison Fetting-Smith, Residual MatterUnderutilized Desk and Chairs from Chicago Public Schools, Utilized Emerald Ash, Cotton Rope, Concrete, Dislocated Axe Head, Embedded Stake, Mig Welding Wire, Cost: $6.2 Billion (Current Debt of Chicago Public Schools video, steel studs, wood, fabric2016
Standard Moving Blankets with Rocío Azarloza, Mlejnascement, rebar, glass, water, and light2016
The artist pursues two things through his art works.
First, he indicates people’s lives in a process of formation in relationships. Secondly, individuals represent their distinc-tive characters, and his perspective is to interpret that the diverse identities harmony as a society and sustain as a whole.
A native of Seoul, South Korea, Lee earned his BFA in the Textile Design Dept. from the Kon-Kuk University in 2010. After receiving MFA in Fiber and Textile Art Dept. from the Hongik University in 2013, he received his MFA in Printmedia from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016
CHANGMIN LEE
Untitled 44 in x 52 inCotton thread, paper2016
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Untitled 44 in x 52 inCotton thread, paper2016
Untitled 44 in x 52 inCotton thread, paper2016
Taking my cues from architecture, planning and urban design, I work with sculpture, installation and printmaking in response to city space, and the movement of bod-ies through it. By abstracting, fragmenting and altering apparatuses of spatial division — from chain link fencing to wooden crowd control barriers used by the Chicago Police Department — I seek out points of friction between the embedded authority, symbol value and material presence of these objects.
Frances Lightbound was born in Sheffield, England. She received a BA (Hons) in Painting and Print-making from the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland, and an MFA from SAIC.
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Lot Lines7.8 in x 7.8 in (print size) Portfolio of 16 photopolymer prints on off-white Rives BFK2016
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Untitled (Barricade)26 in x 45 x 30.5 x 52”Poplar and latex paint2016
The Grammar of Containment40 in x 55 in x 3.5 inChain link fence and galvnized steel2016
Today, high resolution LCD screens erase pixels, resur-recting trompe l’oeil from its restraints within art history. Digital storage has evolved our instinct to archive, allowing instantaneous gathering and curation. Contemporary DIY and craft culture focuses our attachment to the “original”: the handmade, single entity, noted for its authenticity.
There is a subtle space between a thing in the world and a representation of a thing in the world. If this is a space that flattens when seen from the right angle, perhaps then, a deal has been made without our knowing. All of our things — replaced for the experience of things.
Peter Paul is a native of Pittsburgh, PA and received his BFA from Syracuse University in 2012. Peter lives and works with his wife Nina in Chicago, IL.
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Installation Shot2016
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Depth (Panel)6ft x 3ft x 1ftscreen print, wood, cardboard, and drawing on panel with stand2016
Best Friend Eric Max Rodriguez (Diptych)10 in x 8 in; 10 in x 8 inpush pin, binder clip, and drawing on panel; push pin, binder clip, and drawing on paper 2016
As a practice, I employ primarily sculpture arranged in sub-tly absurd configurations that critically celebrate the spirit of my middle-class heritage—a desire to create a space of one’s own, a reverence for utility and a taste for accessible materials. In my recent video, Transcendent Geometry, I at-tempt to generate every permutation within the children’s game Tangrams in a continuous 8-hour performance. Using these permutations as reference points, I build physical fragments of suburban domestic spaces for the series Quotation of Corners. These ambiguous and ahistorical fragments of corners allow space for projection, doubt and possibly wonder.
Michael Rado is originally from the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio. He currently lives and works in New York, NY
MICHAEL RADO
MFA Installation View, SAIC 2016 MFA, Michael Rado & Frances Lightbound Dimensions VariableMixed Media2016
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Quotation of Corner (Large Triangles; Creamsicle Orange and Sandstone Swirl Texture)25 ½ in x 19 in x 14 ¼ inLatex paint, joint compound, drywall, 2x4 pine stud2016
Installation View of Transcendent GeometryLength: 8 hoursShown on VHS w/ CRT TV/VCR combo on pedestal2016
Quotation of Corner Detail (Medium Triangle; Slapbrush Texture)25 ½ in x 15 in x 14 ½ inLatex paint, joint compound, drywall, 2x4 pine stud 2016
Quotation of Corner (Small Triangle and Square; Vernal Fog Blue and Tudor Lane Taupe)25 ½ in x 19 in x 14 ½ inLatex paint, joint compound, drywall, 2x4 pine stud 2016
Primarily using the languages of print and sculpture, my work pulls from my mixed-racial, immigrant, suburban upbringing. It centers on the complexities and tensions of being simultaneously within but also without: a perpetual fluctuation between nearness and distance.
My work recreates this experience: when masquerade is unveiled and the system ultimately fails.
Originally from Orange County, California, Marcus Thinh Antho-ny Thibodeau received a BFA in Printmaking from California State University, Long Beach in 2012 and a MFA from SAIC in 2016. He cur-rently lives and works in Chicago, IL.
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cabinet 4paint, wood veneer, pre-fab foot, plywood, wall2016
cabinet 3Reclaimed wood, wood veneers, pre-fab moulding & legs, acrylic, contact sheet2016
cabinet 1Reclaimed wood, wood veneers, pre-fab moulding & legs, acrylic, contact sheet, gold leafPhoto, performance2016
cabinet 2Reclaimed wood, wood veneers, pre-fab moulding & legs, acrylic, contact sheet, gold leafPhoto, performance2016
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