i. institutional support and commitment to continuous improvement
i. institutional support and commitment to continuous improvement
i. institutional support and commitment to continuous improvement
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I. Institutional Support <strong>and</strong> Commitment <strong>to</strong> Continuous Improvement<br />
The Joke is Irresistible challenges various tropes of masculinity <strong>and</strong> the gendered gaze.<br />
Some featured artists parody stereotypes of masculinity while others literalize them. All are<br />
serious considerations of what it means <strong>to</strong> engender masculinity in a way that broadens<br />
how we underst<strong>and</strong> gendered associations in the world around us.<br />
o A Fickle Existence—August 28–Oc<strong>to</strong>ber 16, 2010<br />
Sullivan Galleries<br />
This exhibition engages the dicho<strong>to</strong>my of the natural <strong>and</strong> the artificial—where the two<br />
diverge, where they overlap, <strong>and</strong> how one is manifest in the other. Through a diverse <strong>and</strong><br />
ambitious approach <strong>to</strong> material <strong>and</strong> installation, the exhibition brings <strong>to</strong>gether current<br />
SAIC students <strong>and</strong> recent alumni <strong>to</strong> explore the artificially natural, the naturally artificial,<br />
<strong>and</strong> everything in-between.<br />
o Process in Product: Work from Summer Studio<br />
—August 28–Oc<strong>to</strong>ber 2, 2010<br />
Sullivan Galleries<br />
This exhibition features new work created by artists in Summer Studio—a residency pro-<br />
gram that turned the Sullivan Galleries in<strong>to</strong> a site of making, <strong>and</strong> brought <strong>to</strong>gether artists<br />
from Chicago <strong>and</strong> beyond in<strong>to</strong> a temporary creative community.<br />
o Summer Studio—July 12 - August 22, 2010<br />
Sullivan Galleries<br />
Transforming the gallery in<strong>to</strong> artists’ working space, a place of public presentation in<strong>to</strong><br />
one of process, Summer Studio was a rare chance for artists <strong>to</strong> share in the company-<strong>and</strong><br />
energy-of others, while sharing the resources of this institution . Artists-in-residence come<br />
from Chicago <strong>and</strong> beyond <strong>to</strong> use the galleries <strong>to</strong> explore diverse <strong>and</strong> ambitious projects<br />
that engage discussions <strong>and</strong> practices that are particular <strong>to</strong> the studio.<br />
o Breathing is Free: New Work by Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba<br />
—January 30-March 26, 2010<br />
Betty Rymer Gallery<br />
The work for this show is part of his ongoing project Breathing is Free, for which the<br />
artist is running the distance equivalent <strong>to</strong> the diameter of the earth (12,756.3 km) as a<br />
memorial <strong>to</strong> refugees who travel the world seeking a new home. With this run, Chicago<br />
becomes the first U.S. city among global locations in this contemporary s<strong>to</strong>ry of cultural<br />
displacement.<br />
o Picturing the Studio—December 12-February 13, 2010<br />
Sullivan Galleries<br />
This exhibition explored the richly complex politically- <strong>and</strong> psychologicaly-charged no-<br />
tion of the artist’s studio <strong>to</strong>day. With works by over 30 artists spanning the past two<br />
decades, this exhibition also included several specially designed installations undertaken<br />
by artists on site.<br />
o Hypothetical Plants—Oc<strong>to</strong>ber 13-November 20, 2009<br />
Betty Rymer Gallery<br />
Current students in performance <strong>and</strong> fiber <strong>and</strong> material studies transformed the gallery<br />
75 | Spring 2011<br />
SECTION I Institutional Support <strong>and</strong> Commitment <strong>to</strong> Continuous Improvement
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