Michelle is a nurse who lives with her partner and dog in Logan Square. She really over-thought this bio.
Website:
www.flickr.com/photos/captainbirthday/sets/
Hello internet! My name is Kevin White. I do a bunch of stuff – stand up comedy, graphic design, acting, screen printing and writing.
Website:
kevinwhiteisnotfunny.com/
Daniel was born in Baltimore, Maryland and comes from a line of artists. At first resistant to art making, in high school Greenberg invested in a Nikon D70 to take pictures for his myspace page. As a gay male, freshly out of the closet, the Internet offered an opportunity to test his identity through a virtual environment by posting self-portraits and making connections previously unimagined. Greenberg will begin a fine art graduate studies program at Cranbrook in the Fall of 2012.
Website:
cargocollective.com/danielgreenberg/About
Residency Period:
Jun 2012–Aug 2012
Project Statement:
Walking is the best way for me to think. Walking in nature allows for a temporary repositioning from our daily lives. But I more often find myself walking on a city street, or meditating while surfing the internet. For me, both the internet and nature operate as an escape from reality.” says Daniel. Working in the form of block prints, drawings and monoprints, and using imagery found online, Daniel depicts the detail and expansiveness of green forests on or with materials made from wood. He hopes viewers can get lost in the details of the natural world, and at times, utilizes technology as a means to this end.
In the past months I have archived photographs of men in nature from the internet. The men are mostly alone; mostly men I see as beautiful. Certainly, a homosexual gaze enters this work. But by erasing and abstracting the figures I hope the viewer can, for a moment, occupy their bodies, gestures, and perhaps even thoughts. Sometimes I go a step further, extenuating varieties of ugliness in the figures, or at times the impressions of figures left behind in nature. Footprints in snow or mud represent a mark of a person left behind, and a desire to see him. Together, these works investigate not just the the homosexual gaze, but the human desire to see ourselves in others.
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Jessica Taylor Caponigro received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and before that she attended Bryn Mawr College where she earned her BA in the History of Art. Jessica runs a small handmade bag and accessory company, Fiori Falsi, where she prints the majority of the fabric. She has taught Printmaking classes at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Art Appreciation classes at Olive Harvey College. She currently teaches Printmaking for Educators, a non toxic class, at Harold Washington College. Jessica has been an instructor at Spudnik Press since 2011.
Website:
www.jessicacaponigro.com/
Residency Period:
Jun 2010–Aug 2010
Project Statement:
Taylor Caponigro examines the psychological affects of seemingly faux luxury materials and artificial domestic items. she is interested in the dichotomy of synthetic materials and their ability to maintain beauty while inherently retaining a sense of their own failure. Taylor brings into focus the indistinct space between the intention of ideals represented by authentic goods and the misguided interpretation of their synthetic counterparts. Taylor finds printmaking’s inherent ability to create multiples, makes prints very accessible and directly relates to the affordable faux goods.
During Taylor’s residency at Spudnik she explored issues surrounding pattern, repetition, and reproduction. Taylor printed a subtly complex edition of etchings; wallpaper patterns inspired by class differences in George Eliot’s Middlemarch (1874).
Press/Reviews:
MDW Fair Fall Showcase , October, 2011
Classes by this Artist:
Screenprinting on Fabric
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Falco received his MFA in Printmaking from Northern Illinois University in 2006, and has since been teaching art at the Illinois Institute of Art in Schaumburg. He has most recently had solo shows at Art and Design Gallery, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Lee E Dulgar Gallery in South Holland, Illinois, and Morton College, Cicero.
Residency Period:
Sep 2009–Nov 2009
Project Statement:
Dan Falco is interested in physical and psychological changes that occur in humans and animals and questions whether these changes are natural or unnatural. Through his work, Falco records his observations of everyday life and attempt to comprehend how we may be affected by the choices we make. Falco addresses issues of hybridization, mutation, and modification, popular culture.
While at Spudnik, Falco created a suite of intaglio prints that posed senarios for what is natural and what is not, as a result of genetic manipulation, advancement of science and technology and the modification of our environment.
Paul Nudd was born in Harpenden, England in 1976. He graduated in 2001 with an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Recent exhibitions include: Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, Western Exhibitions, Chicago and the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago.
Website:
westernexhibitions.com/artist/paul-nudd/
Residency Period:
Mar 2009–May 2009
Project Statement:
Paul Nudd and Onsmith are a collaborative printing team. Nudd and Onsmith each have developed individual styles of illustration that are engaging in their own right. When the two join forces, a dialog is created between the opposing styles and imagery, and the art takes a turn towards the witty, surprising, and refreshing. It is clear that the two artists are being pushed an pulled in ways that can only strengthen their own artistic abilities.
During their residency, three separate suites of prints melded these two artists’ signature styles into a cartoonish netherworld of darkly comic doom. These prints resulted in mushy quadruple-stacked heads that form menacing totem poles.
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Stan Shellabarger’s performance and book work addresses issues relating to the body. He often takes mundane, everyday activities like breathing, walking and writing to extreme measures in endurance-based performance work: walking from sunrise to sunset on solstices and equinoxes, counting every breath he takes in an 8 hour time span, filling notebook after notebook with his signature.
Shellabarger’s work amplifies the traces humans leave on the earth, as in his walking performances, or on objects, as in his Lightswitch and Mousepad books. The repetitive nature and long durations of Shellabarger’s performances lead to massive accumulations of marks and residues that record discrete units of time and space, elegant testimonies to the ephemeral and transient nature of life. The repetition of activity is necessary so that the extremely subtle marks left by these activities emerge as clearly visible artistic interventions. Despite their laborious process of transcription, the marks left by his performances are, like the body itself, ephemeral and transient in nature.
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Website:
westernexhibitions.com/artist/stan-shellabarger/
Residency Period:
Sep 2008–Nov 2008
Project Statement:
Dutes Miller and Stan Shellabarger’s first collaborative show occurred at Western Exhibitions in the Spring of 2007 and was reviewed in TimeOut Chicago and the Chicago Sun-Times. The Chicago-based couple has been creating collaborative works since they starting dating years ago, this work creates a distinct body of work separate from their individual studio practices.
Miller’s personal work is often paintings or collages with themes of hardcore gay, hyper masculine, body-centric images, rather than focusing on partnerships and domestic.
In his solo career, Shellabarger is best known for his performance work, which reflects on the universal actions of man, such as breathing and movement repeated to test the limits of his endurance.
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Aaron Smith graduated from The School of the Art Institute in May 2011 with a BFA. Printmaking and photography are his main areas of focus. Obsessive layering and the commonality between opposites are re-occurring themes of his offset prints.
Classes by this Artist:
Subsidized Offset Apprenticeship
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David works all the time and is never home—
much to the dismay of his family members.
While on the road, he serves as principal of another studio, an agency where branding & strategy is the name of the game. When he does inevitably cross the threshold, the air fills with laughter, talk of old-school modernist designers, and tales of the days when he tanned on the lawn of a certain East Coast art school.
Website:
www.davidsieren.com/
Classes by this Artist:
Design as Process; Design as Craft
Type Design 101 with David Sieren
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