April-May
2:38 pm on March 10th, 2010
DEPTH OF FIELD
MARCH 19 - MAY 3, 2010
SubCity Projects is pleased to present a collaborative project by Chicago-based artists Paola Cabal, Michael Genge, Christopher Grieshaber, and Amanda Tworek who comprise the utility Projects Collaborative (ƒ)utility Projects Collaborative. This is their formal debut as a collective.
In Depth of Field, (ƒ)utility Projects creates the illusion of an actual window that extends beyond the wall of the project space and into the internal corridor of the Fine Arts Building. (ƒ)utility Projects seeks to generate a perspectival illusion that invites viewers to momentarily sustain their gaze and suspend their belief by optically stretching the volume of the space.
(ƒ)utility projects: Begun in summer 2009 as an offshoot of Drawing Studio:Articulating Space, (ƒ)utility consists of Paola Cabal, SAIC painting and drawing faculty, Michael Genge, SAIC architecture student, Christopher Grieshaber, SAIC designed objects student, and Amanda Tworek, SAIC sculpture student. The group forged its working paradigm over the course of two major installations in the pedway open studio, a Department of Cultural Affairs Public Art Program space below the Chicago Cultural Center, and has been invited to discuss their integration of electronic visualization and digital production methods at this year’s “Version” festival. Upcoming projects include new work for Version fest and a solo exhibition at “2nd Floor Gallery Space”, an alternative space on the second floor at 903 W 19th in Chicago.
