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Visiting Lecturers: Scott Wolniak

swolniak@uchicago.edu
www.scottwolniak.net

2006

It is my goal to create work that functions on multiple levels. This is partly a means for communicating as broadly as possible, but also the result of conflicting interests and highly varied influence. Working in video, drawing, sculpture and installation, my projects involve a mix of humor, the unheroic, the phenomenal and the contemplative. Investigating visual systems and patterns in our everyday environment, subject matter in my work comes from reflections on daily life in relation to current events, art history, nature, psychological and spiritual states and the physical world.

An interdisciplinary practice has grown out of continuous experimentation and a desire to combine conceptual embodiment with visceral experience. Form and content are of equal importance and I attempt to bring them together in ways that illuminate or create logical tension. My work is overtly formal, utilizing optics, compositional space and presence, but with metaphor, absurdity and political and cultural critique at its core.

b. 1971
MFA: University of Illinois at Chicago (2002)
BFA: School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1995)

Teaching

  • Dept. of Film, Video, and New Media, SAIC (2002 - present)
  • Dept. of Visual Arts, University of Chicago (2006 - 2007)
  • Works in Video, Sculpture and Drawing
  • Has had solo and two-person shows at: Tony Wight/ Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery (Chicago), Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago), Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), Western Exhibitions (Chicago), Gahlberg Gallery (Glen Ellyn IL)
  • Scott has been in group exhibitions at: Pierogi (Brooklyn), Spencer Brownstown Gallery (New York), White Columns (New York), Peres Projects (Los Angeles), Art 2102 (Los Angeles), Evanston Art Center (Evanston IL), Magnus Muller (Berlin), Locust Projects (Miami), General Store (Milwaukee), Van Harrison Gallery (Chicago/ New York), Champion Fine Art (Brooklyn/ Los Angeles) and Lump Gallery (Raleigh NC). Founded and directed Suitable Gallery (Chicago), 1999 - 2005