University of Notre Dame Assistant Professor of Painting Jason Lahr’s work is included in the group exhibition The Almost Metal Collective in the A + D Gallery at Columbia College, Chicago, IL.
The exhibition contains three of Lahr’s recent paintings including Artifact Transmission--a 60” x 135” painting completed in early 2013. The work is accompanied by an animated GIF that documents the creation of Artifact Transmission over the course of approximately four weeks.
The show is currently open to the public through February 16, with a reception on Thursday January 31, 5-8pm. A full color catalog/brochure is available.
EXHIBITION: THE ALMOST METAL COLLECTIVE
Columbia College Chicago’s A+D Gallery Hosts Mixed Media Show includingVideo Installations, Paintings, Prints and Performance Art
WHAT: The Almost Metal Collective exhibition takes a visual excursion into the opinions and ideas of this group, which uses technology to create things out of the “castoffs of contemporary culture.” The collective includes artists Krista Hoefle, Jason Lahr, Sheilah Wilson, Rudy Shepherd and works from Bridget Elmer and Emily Larned of the ILSSA (Impractical Labor in Service of the Speculative Arts).
The work in the exhibition will include oil paintings, work on handmade paper using old entertainment systems, a 3-channel, 3-monitor video piece, a multi-media sculpture of amethyst, extruding foam, expanding foam, and paper, prints and digital video pieces (in the gallery and strategically placed across the Columbia College campus).
Elmer and Larned will be at the public reception to engage the audience with questions from their State of the ILSSA Union survey. Hoefle will also be present for the Jan. 31 public reception, performing her piece “Farming,” which is part sculpture and part performance.
WHEN: Jan. 10 – Feb. 16, 2013, Public reception: Jan. 31, 5-8 p.m.
WHERE: Columbia College Chicago A+D Gallery, 619 S. Wabash Ave.
INFO: (312) 369-8668 or jcuevas@colum.edu
COST: Free and open to the public
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