3Arts Artist Award
We are very excited to have the support of the local art's funding organization 3Arts that will generously support Material Exchange and the ongoing discrete collaboration by John Preus and Sara Black. Please visit the 3Arts website to see short video interviews with all of the awardees for 2009, and for information on this amazing program. 2009 3Arts Artist Award
Our other project!
Please visit blackpreus.org to see project documentation and information about a second collaborative project including members of Material Exchange, John Preus and Sara Black.
Repair Shop
During the second week of September, Material Exchange, InCUBATE, and Adam Bobbette traveled to Buffalo, New York to develop a project called Repair Shop. The Repair Shop is our contribution to the larger exhibition entitled, Conversation Pieces, hosted by CEPA gallery.
September 11th - December 19th, 2009
September 11th - December 19th, 2009
King Ludd's Midway Arcade-Version Fest 09
Experimental Station
6100 south Blackstone Avenue
Chicago Il 60637
April 24th to May 2nd
An exhibition of and opportunity to play home-made analog games inspired by video and carnival games.
6100 south Blackstone Avenue
Chicago Il 60637
April 24th to May 2nd
An exhibition of and opportunity to play home-made analog games inspired by video and carnival games.
Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art
Sara Black and John Preus will be in residency for five days at Northern Michigan University, hosted by the DeVos Art Museum, to create a piece in conjunction with the final stop of the Beyond Green exhibition which has been traveling since 2005. It is a bookend for our history as a group since Beyond Green was the first exhibit we participated in as Material Exchange.
Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art
Curated by Stephanie Smith, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago
January 19 - March 30, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 6-8pm
Beyond Green Exhibition Opening
Featuring live music by The Chanteymen
Listen to live music on recyled hybrid instruments and see the result of the People Powered recycling paint project; take home a free quart of community colored paint!
Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art
Curated by Stephanie Smith, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago
January 19 - March 30, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 6-8pm
Beyond Green Exhibition Opening
Featuring live music by The Chanteymen
Listen to live music on recyled hybrid instruments and see the result of the People Powered recycling paint project; take home a free quart of community colored paint!
Convergence Cafe
Democracy in America
Curated by Nato Thompson for Creative Time
At the historic Park Avenue Armory
September 21st -September 28th
987 Park Place
New York, NY
InCUBATE invited Material Exchange to design and build a temporary cafe to facilitate their Sunday Soup Granting Program. We had access to some materials from the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts and Materials for the Arts and collected the rest from the streets of Manhattan and Brooklyn. The project was executed (from material acquisition to fabrication) in the space of three days.
Designing in this manner became like painting with found colors. The colors themselves retain some aspect of their previous identity, unified by the function of the created form. Each table was made from an existing table that either no longer could physically serve as a table, or declined in its owners esteem to the degree that it became garbage. Each surface is composed of the detritus of local daily life, upon which unrelated activities occurred. One investment drifts into another. One value is eclipsed by another. The same surface is valued and defaced by multiple applications.
When the exhibit concludes, some of the tables may reappear on the curb due to the impracticality of their forms, perceived in terms of their spacial and material dimensions returned to the brown soup that is the common remainder of general waste.
Curated by Nato Thompson for Creative Time
At the historic Park Avenue Armory
September 21st -September 28th
987 Park Place
New York, NY
InCUBATE invited Material Exchange to design and build a temporary cafe to facilitate their Sunday Soup Granting Program. We had access to some materials from the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts and Materials for the Arts and collected the rest from the streets of Manhattan and Brooklyn. The project was executed (from material acquisition to fabrication) in the space of three days.
Designing in this manner became like painting with found colors. The colors themselves retain some aspect of their previous identity, unified by the function of the created form. Each table was made from an existing table that either no longer could physically serve as a table, or declined in its owners esteem to the degree that it became garbage. Each surface is composed of the detritus of local daily life, upon which unrelated activities occurred. One investment drifts into another. One value is eclipsed by another. The same surface is valued and defaced by multiple applications.
When the exhibit concludes, some of the tables may reappear on the curb due to the impracticality of their forms, perceived in terms of their spacial and material dimensions returned to the brown soup that is the common remainder of general waste.
The Way Things Drag Their Futures Around @ ThreeWallsSOLO 2A
Opening Reception:
Friday, June 27, 2008, 6:00 - 9:00 PM
On View:
June 27 - August 2, 2008
Gallery 2A
Known for their practice of material reuse and re-design, Material Exchange has developed a practice recognized for its innovation and mentorship. For ThreeWallsSOLO the collaborative explores, deliberate and inadvertent purpose, hybridity, sympathetic and adversarial adaptations, and the way in which identity points both into the past and the future. Creating within the gallery a fallen tree/tree-house that will operate as both shelter within a shelter and the source of new growth, The Ways Things Drag Their Futures Around is both uncanny and hopeful, and suggests the countless ways a thing can mature, whether repurposed, augmented or lending itself to expansion.
For this project, Material Exchange is working under the collaborative input of artists: Sara Black, Alta Buden, John Preus, and David Wolf. The projects of Material Exchange have been exhibited at the Smart Museum of Art, The Experimental Station, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, The Betty Rymer Gallery, Gallery 400, and The Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, as well as in Grand Rapid, Michigan; Syracuse, New York; New York City, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Other projects include collaborative workshops or courses with art and design students at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Harrington College of Design, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Street Level Youth Media, and Braddock Active Arts in Pittsburgh. Their work has been covered by The Chicago Tribune, WTTW's Chicago Tonight, TimeOut Chicago and AREA and will be included in the forthcoming Democracy in America from MIT Press.
More at www.material-exchange.org.
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