Tough Guy
Tough Guy
DATES: Aug. 13- Aug. 25, 2010
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, August 13, 2010. 6:00pm - 9:00pm
LOCATION: Sub Basement Gallery, 118 N Howard St, Baltimore, MD 21201
CONTACTS: Eli Walker, Curator (469) 774-5656
contact@eliwalker.com
www.eliwalker.com
Tough Guy combines 20 male, working artists from Baltimore, Chicago, New York and Internationally. An opening reception hosted by Sub Basement Gallery’s owner Jeffery Kent and curated by Eli Walker, will be held Friday, August 13 between 6:00 to 9:00pm.
The show includes 20 male, studio artists involved in a wide range of Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Sound, Video, Performance, Installation and Printmaking. Among the artists are: Jerome Acks, Josh Ammon, Colin Benjamin, Evan Bogess, Brendan Carroll, Sangho Choi, Matthew Fischl, Ethan Greene, Drew Griffith, Andrew Holmquist, Ben Horns, Matthew Jensen, Leo Kaplan, Jeffrey Kent, Chris LaVoie, Diego Leclery, Joshua Lefchick, Patrick Rios, Anthony Romero, Camilo Sanin and musical performance by MEAH!. Refreshments will be offered at the opening and many of the artists will be present to discuss their work.
In an effort to both perpetuate the discussion of gender roles in the arts and to disclose the artist-as-male stereotype, curator Eli Walker was asked to bring together a show that consisted entirely of male artists. Without falling for the hackneyed tropes of ironic, sensitive-male aesthetic nor the passive aggressive, faux-naiveté dude art; the work was chosen from artists’ studios made over the last year as a true representation of their practice. This approach lends itself to investigate what it means to be a male artist today. Are men levied upon their Modernist counterparts after the wake of Post-Modernism? Has the long,
evolving Feminist Movement liberated them from patriarchal form like photography did for painting? Is gender as definable as it once was now that we have a progressive understanding of sexual identity and gender association? Tough Guy proposes these questions by exhibiting a cross examination of 20 contemporary male artists and their individual interests.
The Sub Basement Gallery is a for profit exhibition space run by resident artist Jeffery Kent. Call for appointment at (410) 659-6950 or via email to jeffrey@sbstudios.com. It is located in the sub-basement of the The Atrium condominium building in Market Center, 118 N Howard St, Baltimore, MD 21201.
Middleground
Check out the review in Newcity click the link
http://art.newcity.com/2009/06
Come out and see my work along with others on June 12th, 2009.
Here is the info:
Middleground
June 12 - July 25, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday June 12, 6-10pm
Works by: Jerome Acks, Dan Gunn, Michael Hunter, and Andrea Myers
1545 W. Division 2nd floor
Chicago,IL 60642
http://art.newcity.com/2009/06
Come out and see my work along with others on June 12th, 2009.
Here is the info:
Middleground
June 12 - July 25, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday June 12, 6-10pm
Works by: Jerome Acks, Dan Gunn, Michael Hunter, and Andrea Myers
1545 W. Division 2nd floor
Chicago,IL 60642
HEAR HERE
Check out these reviews for the show.
http://art.newcity.com/2009/07
http://badatsports.com/2009/he
Kaylee Rae Wyant and Jerome Acks III
July 5-26, 2009
Opening: This Sunday, July 5, 2009 4-7PM
Hours: Every following Sunday 1-4PM
Julius Cæsar presents “Hear Here,” a selection of works by Kaylee Rae
Wyant and Jerome Acks examining the many ideals and complexities
encompassing freedom, democracy and revolution. Together they attempt
to carve out a place for something like patriotism within the doubtful
confines of contemporary art.
Julius Cæsar
3144 West Carroll Avenue, 2G
Chicago, IL, 60612
http://juliuscaesarchicago.com
http://art.newcity.com/2009/07
http://badatsports.com/2009/he
Kaylee Rae Wyant and Jerome Acks III
July 5-26, 2009
Opening: This Sunday, July 5, 2009 4-7PM
Hours: Every following Sunday 1-4PM
Julius Cæsar presents “Hear Here,” a selection of works by Kaylee Rae
Wyant and Jerome Acks examining the many ideals and complexities
encompassing freedom, democracy and revolution. Together they attempt
to carve out a place for something like patriotism within the doubtful
confines of contemporary art.
Julius Cæsar
3144 West Carroll Avenue, 2G
Chicago, IL, 60612
http://juliuscaesarchicago.com
What Was the Idea
I am in a group show at Devening Projects and Editions. Here is the info...
Opening: Jan 11 4pm–7pm
Young Chicago artist Zak Prekop curated these new paintings by fellow recent SAIC grads Jerome Acks and Jason Hardwig as well as Jonathan Gardner.
3039 W Carroll Ave (at N Whipple St)
West Side, Chicago
312-420-4720
Hope to see you there......
Opening: Jan 11 4pm–7pm
Young Chicago artist Zak Prekop curated these new paintings by fellow recent SAIC grads Jerome Acks and Jason Hardwig as well as Jonathan Gardner.
3039 W Carroll Ave (at N Whipple St)
West Side, Chicago
312-420-4720
Hope to see you there......
Hanging out with the Gauchos
"UPHOLDER'S metaphysics"
Working the Room
Upholder’s Metaphysics at The Gaucho Social Club
When considering the layout of an exhibition space, “furnishing” is not the verb that readily comes to mind. Other more physical words, such as mount, hang, and install, are typically used to describe that crucial process. However, that no frills attitude would have been hard to maintain while preparing Jerome Acks’s “Upholders Metaphysics” at The Gaucho Social Club, at least not with a straight face. What’s unique about this situation, and what makes the “furnishing” suggestion plausible, is precisely the room itself.
It’s nothing new of course to attend an art exhibition hosted in someone’s apartment, at least not here in Chicago. It’s a fairly common practice. However, in light of the work presented here, some attention must be paid to the significance of these four walls and their particular social value.
Firstly, and most commonly, this space may be called a living room. We’ve all had one at some point or another in an apartment or house, some common area for the general use of the household. Usually there’s furniture, like a sofa or an armchair, maybe a bookshelf or television set. Its purpose is for comfort and relaxation. Due to the absence of furniture (that you can sit on) and the not so comfy replacements, it’s probably safe to say this is not a living room. If anything it’s post living room, having left behind that initial function in exchange for art and discourse.
It’s interesting to note also that the term living room originates from an affirmation of its association with the living as opposed to the dead. Essentially it was custom not so long ago for families to use their parlors, the precursor to the modern living room, for funerary visitations. Over time the term living room, came to replace parlor as its gloomier function was mostly taken over by professional funeral parlors. Is it too much of to suggest that Acks is laying out his dead here? Probably.
Among all the various other terms that could apply, front room, sitting room, family room, drawing room, and lounge, one fitful term arouses a set of associations a little closer to the mark. That is to say… a salon. Though it does harbor an uneasy affiliation to the Salon de Paris of the nineteenth century, the word salon also beckons to an era less stifling and more alive with opinion and insight. The private salons of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries gathered together intellectuals (of both sexes) to discuss and refine ideas of taste and politics. It’s a lovely thought, if not over-flattering, to consider this rinky-dink little apartment gallery in Wicker Park among that rank.
Entertaining that notion, it’s easy to draw up correlations. This is after all, a semi-private gathering of individuals with a mind to view and discuss works of art. Missing of course is our grand Hostess, directing and stimulating the conversation, but in her place there is the work itself.
Acks’s odd and exceedingly stubborn paintings, which in three cases play at being furniture themselves, offer an awfully eccentric interpretation of what it means to show inside a home. The objects and the more traditional wall works humorously play off ideas of interior design and function. The shows title, “Upholder’s Metaphysics,” suggests just such a bizarre happening, leaving us to wonder whether these objects can transcend their modest stature.
Essay by Kaylee Rae Wyant
Solo Exhibition at Gaucho Social Club
1231 N. Greenview Ave. apt. 1R
Chicago, IL
Opening: November 1st, 2008
7pm-10pm
Working the Room
Upholder’s Metaphysics at The Gaucho Social Club
When considering the layout of an exhibition space, “furnishing” is not the verb that readily comes to mind. Other more physical words, such as mount, hang, and install, are typically used to describe that crucial process. However, that no frills attitude would have been hard to maintain while preparing Jerome Acks’s “Upholders Metaphysics” at The Gaucho Social Club, at least not with a straight face. What’s unique about this situation, and what makes the “furnishing” suggestion plausible, is precisely the room itself.
It’s nothing new of course to attend an art exhibition hosted in someone’s apartment, at least not here in Chicago. It’s a fairly common practice. However, in light of the work presented here, some attention must be paid to the significance of these four walls and their particular social value.
Firstly, and most commonly, this space may be called a living room. We’ve all had one at some point or another in an apartment or house, some common area for the general use of the household. Usually there’s furniture, like a sofa or an armchair, maybe a bookshelf or television set. Its purpose is for comfort and relaxation. Due to the absence of furniture (that you can sit on) and the not so comfy replacements, it’s probably safe to say this is not a living room. If anything it’s post living room, having left behind that initial function in exchange for art and discourse.
It’s interesting to note also that the term living room originates from an affirmation of its association with the living as opposed to the dead. Essentially it was custom not so long ago for families to use their parlors, the precursor to the modern living room, for funerary visitations. Over time the term living room, came to replace parlor as its gloomier function was mostly taken over by professional funeral parlors. Is it too much of to suggest that Acks is laying out his dead here? Probably.
Among all the various other terms that could apply, front room, sitting room, family room, drawing room, and lounge, one fitful term arouses a set of associations a little closer to the mark. That is to say… a salon. Though it does harbor an uneasy affiliation to the Salon de Paris of the nineteenth century, the word salon also beckons to an era less stifling and more alive with opinion and insight. The private salons of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries gathered together intellectuals (of both sexes) to discuss and refine ideas of taste and politics. It’s a lovely thought, if not over-flattering, to consider this rinky-dink little apartment gallery in Wicker Park among that rank.
Entertaining that notion, it’s easy to draw up correlations. This is after all, a semi-private gathering of individuals with a mind to view and discuss works of art. Missing of course is our grand Hostess, directing and stimulating the conversation, but in her place there is the work itself.
Acks’s odd and exceedingly stubborn paintings, which in three cases play at being furniture themselves, offer an awfully eccentric interpretation of what it means to show inside a home. The objects and the more traditional wall works humorously play off ideas of interior design and function. The shows title, “Upholder’s Metaphysics,” suggests just such a bizarre happening, leaving us to wonder whether these objects can transcend their modest stature.
Essay by Kaylee Rae Wyant
Solo Exhibition at Gaucho Social Club
1231 N. Greenview Ave. apt. 1R
Chicago, IL
Opening: November 1st, 2008
7pm-10pm
Hallway Bathroom Gallery show
I am in a group show at Hallway Bathroom Gallery. Here are the other artists included in the show:
Glen Baldridge / Andreas Banderas / Thomas Bernard
Samuel Bonnet / Todd Chilton / Vanessa Dziuba / Peter Fagundo
Richard Garrison / Matthew Hilshorst / Michael Hunter / Hannes Iverson
Julien Kedryna / Patricia Kelly / Kyle Knobel / Denise Kupferschmidt
Andrea Myers / Jessica Paulson / Pica Pica / Marco Pires / Ellen Rich
Matthew Rich / Peter Shear / Geoffrey Todd Smith / Mikel A Telleria
Katie Vida / Korey Vincent / Brian Willmont
Show opening is December 13th 2008 3:00-8:00 pm
December 13th - January 24th 2009
391A South Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco California 94103
Glen Baldridge / Andreas Banderas / Thomas Bernard
Samuel Bonnet / Todd Chilton / Vanessa Dziuba / Peter Fagundo
Richard Garrison / Matthew Hilshorst / Michael Hunter / Hannes Iverson
Julien Kedryna / Patricia Kelly / Kyle Knobel / Denise Kupferschmidt
Andrea Myers / Jessica Paulson / Pica Pica / Marco Pires / Ellen Rich
Matthew Rich / Peter Shear / Geoffrey Todd Smith / Mikel A Telleria
Katie Vida / Korey Vincent / Brian Willmont
Show opening is December 13th 2008 3:00-8:00 pm
December 13th - January 24th 2009
391A South Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco California 94103
Group show in August
I will be in a group show at Contemporary Art Workshop. Here is a list of other artists in the show:
Kenneth Baij, Sang Ho Choi, Matt Davis, Leah Hessler, Lindsey Hook, David Reninger, Sarah Mae Stone, Sarah Beth Woods
August 15th - September 19th 2008
opening August 15th 5:30-9:00 pm
542 west. Grant Place
Chicago, Il 60647
The gallery is very close to where Lincoln ave. and Geneva Terrace meet. Up the the Street from Oz Park in Lincoln Park
Kenneth Baij, Sang Ho Choi, Matt Davis, Leah Hessler, Lindsey Hook, David Reninger, Sarah Mae Stone, Sarah Beth Woods
August 15th - September 19th 2008
opening August 15th 5:30-9:00 pm
542 west. Grant Place
Chicago, Il 60647
The gallery is very close to where Lincoln ave. and Geneva Terrace meet. Up the the Street from Oz Park in Lincoln Park
Moving to a new studio....
After being in the MFA show and the Milwaukee international Art Fair I had to pack up my studio and move out. But my studio has a new home and will be moving in a few weeks.
MFA Show
My work is up at the MFA Graduating Exhibition until the 16th of May 2008. The Exhibition is in the West Loop of Chicago at Gallery 2 on 847 west. Jackson Blvd.
