Noble & Superior Projects presents YOUNGER THAN JANIS, 7/9+7/10

Opening Reception with Musical Performances: Friday, July 9 (6-10pm)

Film/Video Screening + Barbecue: Saturday, July 10 (7-10pm)


Noble & Superior Projects is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition YOUNGER THAN JANIS, featuring a 2-night opening event and including work from 27 emerging and mid-career artists from around the US.

The work of all of these artists (who together cover film, sculpture, sound, food, printed matter, painting, photography and video) considers the ephemeral nature of youth and beauty. The work ranges from musings on death to pursuit of an infinite youth, covering all the fleeting affect in between.

Friday July 9th features a series of musical performances with the opening reception. The film and video screening on Saturday July 10th will include a barbecue and raw food-works by culinary artists as the 1-hour program plays on loop in our courtyard. The gallery exhibition will also be open to the public.

Showcasing the work of: Marcel Alcala, Ryan Barone, Lucas Blair, Patrick Bobilin, Connor Camburn, Kevin Clancy, Adam Cruces, Cara Anne Greene, Eliza Koch, Andre & Evan Lenox, Vanessa Macholl, Celia Marks, Ross Meckfessel, Michael Morris, Erin Nixon, Michael Radziewicz, Anna Rochinski, Steve Ruiz, Liz Rugg, Hannah Verrill, Blair Waters, Ali White, Andrew Norman Wilson, Travis Wyche

Mini Summer Vacation!!!

Summer's here and alas the gallery will be closed through June in commemoration of FUN IN THE SUN!!!

Noble & Superior Projects presents SENSE OBJECTS, 6/4

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

SENSE OBJECTS: Featuring the work of Kate O'Neill and Rebecca Kressley

June 4-July 7, 2010

Noble & Superior Projects 1418 W. Superior Chicago, IL

Opening Reception: Friday, June 4 (6-10pm)

Noble & Superior Projects is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition SENSE OBJECTS, opening Friday, June 4 featuring the work of Kate O'Neill and Rebecca Kressley.

Kate O'Neill's series of black and white photographs, Third Law, are constructed to distort the spatial orientation and perceived perspective of the image while embracing their suspended existence. Third Law is a series of constructed performances arranged for the camera, employing banal materials and delving into futile gestures, ambiguity and absurd compositions.

Kate O'Neill received her B.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005 and has exhibited extensively in Chicago.

Rebecca Kressley’s installation ON THE SOUTH LOCK OVER SHINE conjures sensuous experiences through careful arrangements of materials. The physical construction of the work alongside the sound composition, Dragging the Hound, creates an immersive encounter of mediated viewership. Kressley emphasizes the aesthetic possibilities of these carefully chosen everyday materials and as the installation subtly changes over time, the decay and collapse of the materials allow for a complex evolution of experience.

Rebecca Kressley received her M.F.A. from the Slade School of Art in 2009. Kressley was an Artist in Residence at Experimental Sound Studio in 2005 and has since exhibited and lectured internationally.

ALPHABETIZATION Opening Photos

We were Nick-Cannon-Wilin'-Out on Friday, thanks to the crowd that crowded into the crowded opening for Daniel Lavitt, Brook Jonquil, Eric Fleischauer, Scott Carter and Brandon Alvendia. Such a fun and huge opening! Huge shout-outs to our interns Hiba and Elliot!

Szremski, you crazy for this one!!

the spread!

Scott Carter "On Matter, On Memories"

Crowd around Brookhart Jonquil's "Untitled" and Eric Fleischauer's "Assigned + Recommended"

Intern Hiba outside with Brandon Alvendia's "Remainders", interacting with Daniel Lavitt's "Grapevine"

Co-Curator Ania hiding next to Snack Reporter Jeriah Hildwine

2 many DJs

Mr. Carter's project spills out into the other rooms

heard thru tha grapevine...

Noble & Superior Projects presents ALPHABETIZATION, 5/7

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ALPHABETIZATION: Featuring the work of Brandon Alvendia, Scott Carter, Eric Fleischauer, Brookhart Jonquil and Daniel Lavitt

Guest Curator: Ania Szremski

May 7-June 4, 2010

Noble & Superior Projects

1418 W. Superior Chicago IL

Opening Reception: Friday, May 7 (6-10pm)

Noble & Superior Projects is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition ALPHABETIZATION, opening Friday, May 7, featuring the work of Brandon Alvendia, Scott Carter, Eric Fleischauer, Brookhart Jonquil and Daniel Lavitt and guest curated with Ania Szremski.
These five artists explore methods of transforming language—through speech, academic texts and historical narrativevs—into experiences.

Daniel Lavitt’s GRAPEVINE is both a metaphor for informal transmission and dissemination of communication as well as a tangible interactive telecommunications network.

Brandon Alvendia’s REMAINDERS is a site of dissemination for books pulled from the public domain, printed inexpensively then bound by hand, emphasizing the contemporary condition of swift and economical propagation of information.

ON MATTER, ON MEMORIES is Scott Carter’s installation exploring the way shifting patterns of words affect memory of an event: a fan blows strips of text narrating the explosion of the Challenger spacecraft which mix with fragments of Bergson’s “Matter and Memory” and accrue indiscriminately throughout the gallery.

Brookhart Jonquil’s Untitled (Essay Without Words no. 1) creates a delicate, physical relationship with printed matter, one where the texts are reduced to identically deformed pieces of paper communicating only their fragile, carefully crafted, aesthetic existence.

Eric Fleischauer’s Assigned + Recommended is a large-scale digital animation of academic texts. Blurry, photocopied pages with underlining and marginalia are rendered even more illegible as they pulsate across the wall at a pace too swift to read, forming an overwhelming swarm of knowledge.

TWINFORMATION: opening photos!!!!

Another great turn out and another awesome spread, plus lots of people hanging out!!

Thanks to Eric and Jon for giving people something to hang around for!!!!

Noble & Superior Projects presents TWINFORMATION, 4/2

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
TWINFORMATION: Featuring the work of Eric Veit and Jon Satrom
April 2-May 4, 2010
Noble & Superior Projects
1418 W. Superior Chicago IL
Opening Reception: Friday, April 2 (6-10pm)

Noble & Superior Projects is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition TWINFORMATION, opening Friday, April 2, featuring the work of Eric Veit and Jon Satrom.

Eric Veit's installation COMMUNAL LIVING features new digital paintings, abstract sculpture and light installation combined to investigate the complexity of human relationships, specifically his interest in the "poetic beauty" of conjoined twins. Veit explores concepts outside of the restrictions of media specificity in order to create complex and wide ranging installations that transform the gallery into a sublime territory.

Eric Veit currently lives and works in Philadelphia, PA. After showing extensively in the northeast, Veit is premiering his newest body of work in Chicago. Veit received his B.A. from Hampshire College in 2008 and attended the Yale Summer School of Music and Art in 2007.

Jon Satrom's TRENDS is a collection of images generated from inquiries using the data platform Google Trends. These often humorous and seemingly innocuous queries reveal more about the environment of ubiquitous databases than one might initially infer. Satrom's work consistently illustrates the innumerable possibilities and faults of digital media, positioning both user and viewer to be enveloped by the infinite body of knowledge found in contemporary information systems.

Jon Satrom is an artist and educator based in Chicago. Satrom currently serves as faculty at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in addition to running his production studio, Studio Thread, and performing live with the media collective I <3>.