Dimensional Lines: Art + Dress
Gillion Carrara: Curator
Fraser Taylor: Contributing Curator
MEDIA CONTACT: Paula Danoff, pdanoff@evanstonartcenter.org or (847) 475-5300, ext. 206
September 11 to November 6, 2011
Opening Reception and Artists Talk, Sunday September 11 from 2 to 4 p.m.
Evanston Art Center, 2603 Sheridan Road, Evanston IL 60201
Exhibiting Artists: Abigail Glaum-Lathbury, Conrad Hamather, Anke Loh, Beata Kania, Kristin Mariani, Katrin Schnabl, Kristina Sparks, and Fraser Taylor.
Additional contributions will be made by noted writers Sandra Adams, Alex Aubry, Caroline Bellios, Stuart Dybek, Margaret Hawkins, and Polly H. Ullrich, as well as set designer, Mary Griswold and lighting artist, Geoffrey Bushor.
Since its founding by civic and cultural leaders in 1929, the Evanston Art Center has served as a setting for innovative contemporary art in the Midwest. Continuing this longstanding tradition of presenting thought-provoking exhibitions, the Art Center has asked a group of Chicago-based artists and designers who are at the forefront of their disciplines to collaborate on an exhibition exploring the relationship between art and fashion.
A reflection of today’s global culture, the line between both disciplines has increasingly blurred to produce hybrid art forms that bridge the worlds of culture and commerce.
Dimensional Lines: Art + Dress will explore this cultural phenomenon in the context of Chicago’s own vibrant contemporary art and fashion scenes. Its curator, Gillion Carrara, has enlisted an international group of artists and designers, including Fraser Taylor, Conrad Hamather, Beata Kania, Abigail Glaum-Lathury, Anke Loh, Kristin Mariani, Katrin Schnabl, and Kristina Sparks. Each comes to the project with an established body of work and diverse experiences. These include producing illustrations for Andy Warhol at Interview Magazine to creating intricate embroideries in the couture ateliers of Givenchy in Paris.
This unique exhibition will offer visitors a rare opportunity to experience innovative art and design within the Center’s historic setting, a Tudor-style mansion nestled in parkland overlooking Lake Michigan. Designed by the noted Boston architect Richard Powers in 1926, it became the last mansion built in Evanston before the stock market crash of 1929.
Although the building is currently in need of repair, it presents an opportunity for both artists and designers to create installations that are a direct response to the mansion’s eroded and weathered state. The result will be an immersive environment conceived by scenic designer Mary Griswold and lighting artist Geoffery Bushor, where 21st century art and design rubs shoulders with the past.
Complimenting the work on display will be text by noted writers Alex Aubry, Margaret Hawkins, Sandra Adams, Caroline Bellios, Polly Ullrich, and distinguished poet Stuart Dybek.
In keeping with the Evanston Art Center’s tradition of community outreach, there will be a series of exhibit-related workshops and lectures exploring the links between the worlds of art and fashion.
We recognize Chalk Boutique of Evanston for their generous support of this exhibition.
