Monday, November 14, 6pm
Logan Center for the Arts, Penthouse Room 901
Come join us for a special panel presentation by DoVA faculty member Scott Wolniak alongside DoVA alum Maggie Crowley, Marco G. Ferrari, Madeline Gallucci, Nicole Mauser, and Paul Gerard Somers on the topic of artist-run spaces and curation. Each participant will give a brief overview of past curatorial projects and discuss their motivations as artists to facilitate the public presentation of other artists’ work and the circumstances that have allowed them each to make such opportunities happen. A group discussion and Q&A moderated by Scott Wolniak will follow.
**Free and open to the public.
Presented by the Open Practice Committee and Logan Center Exhibitions
PARTICIPANTS:
Maggie Crowley (b. 1987, Ottawa, Illinois) received her M.F.A. from the University of Chicago in 2013, her M.A. from Eastern Illinois University in 2011 and her B.S. in Education from Illinois State University in 2009. Crowley has exhibited in numerous venues including the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, the Evanston Art Center, the Hyde Park Art Center, Area: Lugar de Proyectos in Caguas, Puerto Rico, and the Cue Foundation in New York City. Her work has been featured in the prestigious journal New American Paintings in 2017 and 2013. Since 2016, Crowley has co-directed Produce Model Gallery in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago. Crowley has an upcoming solo exhibition at Devening Projects this winter.
Marco G. Ferrari is an artist based in Chicago, Illinois and Rome, Italy. He builds films, installations, digital images and projection performances that explore our relationships with built and natural environments. Ferrari has produced and exhibited works internationally including China, India, Europe and the United States. He received his MFA from the University of Chicago in Visual Arts and his BA from DePaul University in Communication and Italian Studies. He currently balances his studio practice as an independent curator, lecturer in the department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago and in the department of Communications at John Cabot University (Rome, Italy), and as director of the Virginio & Marisa Ferrari Foundation, a nonprofit arts organization that builds cultural exchanges between Chicago and Italy.
Madeline Gallucci is an artist and organizer living in Chicago, IL. She received her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2012 and her MFA at the University of Chicago in 2020. She has exhibited her work locally in Chicago at Logan Exhibitions, Produce Model, Space and Time and LVL3; and nationally in New York, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Baltimore, Columbus, Kansas City, and elsewhere. From 2014–2018, Madeline was Co-Director of Front/Space, a storefront apartment located in Kansas City, MO repurposed for non-commercial exhibitions, readings, workshops, research and publishing projects. Her current project, RADAR, is a curatorial platform designed to support artists through emerging and collaborative initiatives, with a specific focus on projects based in the Midwest. Under RADAR, Madeline created Roommate, a temporary exhibition series featuring two artists in her two bedroom apartment in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood.
Nicole Mauser’s paintings and installations investigate tensions at play between color fields, materiality, and gestures within a language of abstraction. Mauser earned an MFA from The University of Chicago and a BFA from Ringling College of Art and Design as a double major in painting and printmaking. Artworks have been exhibited nationally and internationally at rK Gallerie Lichtenberg (Berlin, Germany), Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Brooklyn, NY), Carrie Secrist Gallery (Chicago, IL), Reynolds Gallery (Richmond, VA), Carthage College (WI), and many others. Permanent collections include the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (Overland Park, KS) and The Alexander (Indianapolis, IN). She was a co-founder of the artist-run gallery PLUG Projects and the Kansas City Plein Air Coterie (KCPAC). Mauser was a HATCH resident at the Chicago Artists Coalition and a DCASE Artist Grant recipient in 2017, 2018, and 2021. Mauser was a member of the artist-run gallery collective Tiger Strikes Asteroid from 2018-2022. Currently, she lives and works in Chicago where she is a Lecturer at The University of Chicago in the Department of Visual Art and co-organizes Space & Time gallery.
Paul Gerard Somers is an interdisciplinary artist working in fiber, sculpture, painting, drawing, and performance. Somers was born in Dayton, Ohio, and has lived in Indiana, Alaska, Massachusetts, Texas, and New York City, before settling in Chicago. He received a B.A. from Ball State University, and an MFA from The University of Chicago. Recent solo exhibitions include: “MANDATORY VALUE,” Ignition Project Space, Chicago, (2022); “NO WAKE,” Leslie Wolfe Gallery, Chicago, (2022) ; “CRACKED C -7 FOR THE WIN ,” Gospel Flat Farm Gallery, Bolinas, California, (2017)
Scott Wolniak (b. 1971) is a multidisciplinary artist, educator and occasional curator, who has been teaching in DoVA since 2007. While primarily focused on his studio and exhibitions, curation has played a casual but significant role in Wolniak’s practice over the past two decades. He ran Suitable Gallery, an influential alternative space in his Humboldt Park garage between 1999 and 2005, as well as the tangential video platform, Suitable Video, which curated screening programs and DVD editions between 2005 and 2011. He ran Screen Share gallery for student-made video and animation at the Logan Center, and recently organized Wheel of Life, an exhibition of artist-made zoetropes, at the Hyde Park Art Center. Wolniak received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1995 and MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2002.