Askeaton Contemporary Arts continues a growing relationship with Chicago this April, presenting a citywide series of exhibitions and public events. Bringing together artist-led activities between Ireland and the American Midwest, Askeaton Contemporary Arts acknowledge the welcome for Irish artists and curators from Chicago’s independent art spaces, upholding ambitious ingenuity and egalitarian attitude to the shaping and sharing of culture. Please join us to celebrate this initiative.
PROGRAMME LAUNCH
with Askeaton Contemporary Arts and Michele Horrigan
Ireland House, 401 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 1500
Artist talks, screenings with Michael Holly and bookstore
Tuesday 22 April 5.30–7.30pm
Registration required here
LILIANE PUTHOD
work wear blues
Curated by Michael Hill
Weatherproof, 3336 West Lawrence Avenue
Opening reception Wednesday 23 April 6–10pm
Liliane Puthod’s work wear blues sees her work in the style of an ad-hoc archaeologist. She excavates and reveal stories embedded in everyday consumables, whether found, repurposed or fabricated. Combining industrial and crafted materials with traditional techniques such as stone carving, ceramic, wax modelling, and bronze casting, Puthod, in the words of curator Michael Hill, ‘draws attention to the value of labour and commodification in post-fordist times. Her practice moves between a range of production sites and workplaces whether it is a factory plant, mechanic’s garage, boutique store, or artist’s studio.’
AMANDA RICE
From Sunlight to Extinction
Curated by Noelle Collins
4th Ward Project Space, 5338 South Kimbark Avenue
Opening reception Friday 25 April 7–8pm
Noelle Collins notes, ‘Working predominantly in film, Amanda Rice combines observational documentary techniques and staged scenarios with modes of investigative storytelling. She is particularly interested in histories related to ecological or geological subject matter that extend to the politics of land use, mineralogy and resource extraction’. At 4th Ward Project Space, Rice presents No One Can Ever Embargo the Sun (2021) and The Flesh of Language (2023). Both explore power relations framed around ancient artifacts such as sun discs and extinct Irish Elk bones, to the modern detritus of the technological age. Rice will also show a new work-in-progress exploring Knock Iveagh, a hilltop site in Northern Ireland where ancient burial grounds and green energy solutions share the same terrain.
ÁINE MAC GIOLLA BHRÍDE & DEVIN T. MAYS
Building A
Curated by Mark O’Gorman
Good Weather, 1524 South Western Ave
Opening reception Saturday 26 April 4–7pm
In Building A, curator Mark O’Gorman digresses on its creation, ‘Áine and Devin have considered the exhibition in terms of a ‘visit’ and how a visit to a place might influence the work presented there. Their visit has a specific destination – a room within Building A at the Midland Warehouses. This site has served as a physical space for both artists to respond by engaging with its architecture and materials housed within. Further material enquiries will spread through Chicago once both artists arrive in the city early April.’
Supported by Culture Ireland, Consulate General of Ireland, EXPO Chicago, Independent Curators International and The Complex, Dublin.
Image: The Irish House, Dublin