November 14, 2013–January 25, 2014
Opening: November 14, 5–7pm
Glass Curtain Gallery
Columbia College Chicago
1104 S Wabash Avenue, 1st floor
Chicago, IL 60605
Hours: Monday–Friday9am–5pm,
Thursday 9am–7pm, Saturday 12–5pm
T +1 312 369 6643
Studio leftovers, junk food, craft-store oddities, urban detritus, and remnants of failed first attempts are all lowbrow materials incorporated into contemporary artworks appearing in The Tyranny of Good Taste, a group exhibition featuring 16 artists from across the nation. Producing artwork during a time of extreme economic turmoil, artists included have developed abnormally resourceful and strategically inventive means by which to produce uncommonly experimental art forms. Organized with an emphasis on the (counter-) productive time spent (or wasted) in an artist’s studio, the maximalist and anarchic artworks in this exhibition challenge established fine art hierarchies of value and status quo conventions of taste.
Artists include Brandon Anschultz, Mara Baker, Timothy Brown, Jared Clark, Julia Anne Goodman, Ben Harle, Michelle Hartney, Jack Henry, Matt Jacobs, Cara Krebs, Bobbi Meier, Garry Noland, Sabina Ott, Matthew Schlagbaum, and Dean Roper.
The Tyranny of Good Taste is curated by Danny Orendorff.
Programming
Salonathon: WASTE SOME TIME
A series of five-minute genre-defying performances curated by Jane Beachy. Free and open to the public.
November 21, 5:30–8pm
Conaway Center
1104 S. Wabash Ave (located adjacent to the Glass Curtain Gallery)
For additional information, visit the Department of Exhibitions, Performance and Student Spaces webpage: www.colum.edu/deps
Contact
Exhibition information: Mark Porter, [email protected] / T +1 312 369 6643
Press inquiries: Cara Birch, [email protected] / T +1 312 369 8695
