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Still Life with Arm
Oil on linen 60" x 50"
Gallery 2
"MYTH AND METAPHOR" Paintings by Arthur Lerner
"Hanged figures or figures in states of decay or mummification
may suggest torment or victimization and consequently may
evoke powerful emotions within us.
We create myths and religious systems as a way of dealing
not only with the cruelties of life but also with the inevitability
of death. Mummies and mythical figures in my work are not
intended to represent specific political or historical events
in any way, but rather to act as symbols or metaphors for
the terror, the anguish, the tragic, the comic - even the
absurdity and the beauty of life as we experience it."
~ Arthur Lerner
Entrance Lobby
200 FACES - Paintings by Nancy Plotkin
SYMBOL ONE - Photographs by Miza H. Moreau
LETTER TO MY FRIENDS - Works on Paper by Dusan Kirbisi
Glass Atrium
LIGHT INSTALLATION by Mark Genrich
VIDEO INSTALLATION by Vesna Grbovic
"ON DEATH & GARDENING" by Donna Blue
Lachman
A one woman play at the Art Center in Highland Park, one evening
only
The critically acclaimed one-woman play "On Death and
Gardening" is written and performed by Emmy award-winning
actress Donna Blue Lachman. Part hilarious comedy, part meditation,
Lachman binds up memories of
people and plants, creating a spiritual travelogue that takes
us all over the world and back to her garden where the great
question of life and death becomes,
"Are We Annuals or Perennials?"
"Lachman is an ingenious writer and performer" (Chicago
Sun-Times).
Tickets $15, available at the Art Center by calling 847-432-1888
(tickets will be held at the door)
For the past twenty years, Donna Blue Lachman
has been writing and performing her one woman plays on Chicago
stages as well as in theaters around the country and around
the world. The play is part comedy, part meditation; it explores
the transient nature of the world we live (and die) in. Asking
what things we nurture and what things we kill or try to exile
in order to create a garden we feel fits our definition of
what should be, Lachman finds the incongruities in our management
of both garden and life.
She binds up memories of people and plants, living and dead
in a story of intricate, difficult and comedic proportions,
creating a spiritual travelogue that takes us from her childhood
in Skokie, Illinois, to a hysterical account of a month-long
meditation retreat in California, to a Chicago theater where
she died 296 times on stage, to trekking the Himalayas and
through insomniac nights back to the garden.
In her garden is hidden the great questions of life and death:
are we "annuals or perennials?" There she also deals
with these deep matters "like a tit-mouse hopping on
the back of a rhinoceros"
BEST BEFORE/EXPERIENCE
OF THE WASTED
Friday,
1st of December 6:00-9:00pm
Elena Fajt
Memento, 2006
Glass and human hair
Two artists from Slovenia, Zora Stancic
(printmaker) and Elena Fajt (mixed media),
work with already used and/or wasted motives, materials, and
contents to give them new meanings. Through their installaions,
prints and objects visitors will face and question their own
values, norms and prejudices. The title of the show is actually
a metaphor of contemporary society and its "best before"
date concept. In this way, contemporary art also has more
and more of its own "best before" date. What happens
when it expires? Then, how can the wasted be experienced?
Int Vabilo
Zora Stancic, is a visual artist
whose medium is print and printmaking in which she combines
her intimate stories and comments on contemporary life and
art. Her works are among the permanent collections in the
Albertina, Vienna, the Fond National D’Art Contemporain
in Paris, the Gallery of Modern Art in Ljubljana and the JaneVoorhees
Zimmerli Art Museum in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. She
has published two books of her works: Album (1995) and Review
(2000).
Int Vabilo
Human hair
Elena Fajt, visual artist,
works on the Hairsense project in which she explores human
hair in artistic, symbolic, and cultural sense. Her works
have been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Slovenia,
Italy, France, Denmark, Germany and USA. She had a residency
at Rosemont College in Philadelphia in 2004-2005 and at The
Galleries at Moore in Philadelphia in summer 2005, which was
concluded with solo show.
Thanks to: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia,
Department of Culture at City of Ljubljana, Consulate General
of Slovenia, L.I.P.A., Pristop
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