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Current exhibition - 1/20 – 2/24 Closing reception Friday, February 17th 6-9

Beginning Below Ground | Jeremy Lundquist and Regan Golden 1/20 – 2/24

For the artists’ project statement and image list, click here.

Drawn Lots was founded in Milwaukee in 2006 by Jeremy Lundquist, Regan Golden, Juan Juarez (Syracuse, NY), and Michael Julian (Milwaukee, WI) with a mission: “to draw repeatedly, to draw by chance, to draw a small area of land.”  They continue to collaborate on projects and exchange ideas about their work.  Jeremy and Regan met at Grinnell College in 1995, married in 2002, and started formally collaborating in 2009 on the exhibition We’ve been to this site, at the Fischer Museum at the Harvard Forest of Harvard University.  Their most recent collaboration addressing the events at the Haymarket in Chicago on May 4, 1886 was inspired by the recession and protests on Wall Street.

Regan Golden is an artist and critic in Chicago, IL.  Recent exhibitions include This is Paul Halupka at Columbia College, Pushing Paper at Dominican University and Vertical Currency at The Rochester Art Center.  Golden has received fellowships from The Core Residency Program at The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, The Joan Mitchell Foundation, and The Stone Summer Theory Institute at The Art Institute of Chicago, along with Artist Residencies at The Harvard Forest, Harold Arts and Ox-Bow.  Golden earned her M.F.A from the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee and a B.A. from Grinnell College. She teaches in Contemporary Practices at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and at the Associated Colleges of the Midwest.

Jeremy Lundquist was born in California and currently lives and works in Chicago.His prints, drawings, photographs, and collages examine and organize decay.  The resulting works question contemporary notions of progress and cleanliness by presenting images of loss and disillusion / dissolution. He has exhibited his work throughout the Midwest, as well as nationally and internationally. He has been an artist-in-residence at The Roger Brown House, Ox-Bow School of Art, Harold Arts, Spudnik Press, Kala Art Institute and the Vermont Studio Center. Jeremy teaches in Printmedia at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He received his B.A. in Studio Art from Grinnell College and his M.F.A. in Printmaking from Ohio University.

The Tricksters | Danielle Spradley 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spradley works from observation and experience – as an inhabitant of Midwestern cities, specifically, Saint Louis. In her works on paper, finely rendered images of the homeless are woven into piles of trash, as if to elevate these remnants of our modern way of life through painstaking attention to detail. Danielle appropriates Native American folklore and symbolism to further highlight the drastic changes that characterize rifts in our relationship to the environment and each other. A common symbol in her work is the white buffalo, from a classic Native American story. This symbol speaks of the strength of women, and, is a sign of hope for future generations. Danielle uses the buffalo speak about loss in today’s society. Relief printing, carved with hand tools, and labor-intensive painting is proof that the devil is in the details, and evidence that every object matters. Danielle’s work gives pause – to think about the neglected spaces in our cities, while experiencing a hybridized folklore that casts a critical eye on our present state of affairs.

Images/Text Courtesy Bruno David Gallery

past exhibitions -

Michael Worful

Sal Randolph

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hello China | Michael Worful

Michael Worful is a St. Louis-based artist. In 2006 he was fortunate enough to travel to China where he took photos documenting the people and places around him. He has shown work nationally and  internationally, including New York, Kansas City, and Thailand.

My Favorite Words | Sal Randolph

Sal Randolph lives in New York and makes art involving gift economies, social interactions, public spaces and publishing, including Opsound, (an site for the exchange of copyleft music) the Free Biennial and Free Manifesta (a pair of open “biennials”), Free Words (a book infiltrated into bookstores and libraries), and Money Actions (an ongoing series of interventions in which she has given away several thousand dollars to members of the public). She is currently investigating games, recipes, algorithms, codes, and texts, and is writing about about experience and participation in art.

Randolph’s work has been presented in the public environments of New York, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and other cities, as well as in gallery and museum exhibitions including Manifesta 4, and Don’t Miss in Frankfurt am Main, BüroFriedrich Gallery and the Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK) in Berlin, the Palais de Tokyo and Bétonsalon in Paris, La Box in Bourges, Röda Sten in Göteborg, Live Biennale/Western Front in Vancouver, Art Interactive and Oni Gallery in Boston, as well as Art in Odd Places, Cinders Gallery, the Conflux Festival, Glowlab/Christina Ray Gallery, Pace Digital Gallery, and Salvation Gallery in New York.

How the West Was Won | Tate Foley AUGUST 2011

Everything Must Go | Anna Paszkiewicz, Rici Wittkugel, Anya Liao, Katie Olson AUGUST 2011

Deceased was the Widow of Henry Mosby | Travis Russel, Elysia Mann, and Steven Brien MARCH 2011

A collaborative project taking the form of a life-size diorama exploring the truths and myths of everyday life in the parishes surrounding New Orleans, La.

Uncover | Angela Malchionno and Jenny Murphy MARCH 2011

Artist Angela Malchionno and Perennial founder Jenny Murphy collaborated to create an installation that showcased the amazing upholstery work from the participants in Perennial’s workshops alongside Angela’s prints and sculpture. Perennial, a social enterprise, empowers people to transform themselves and their communities by providing a place to discover ways to transform discarded goods into objects of worth. Reuse, transform, restore, reengage.