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OakArt 2012
April 5 – 27, 2012
Oakton’s art students exhibit their talents in painting, drawing, ceramics, digital art, and photography.
Public Reception: Thursday, April 5, 5 – 8 p.m.
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Steven Jay Urry: A Retrospective
May 10 – July 19, 2012
Steven Urry (1939-1993)
had a brilliant, all-too-brief career as an artist, constructing
abstract welded steel and aluminum sculptures of biomorphic forms. Born
in
Chicago, He lived and worked
around the country in Chicago, San Francisco, New York, Miami, and
Arizona. Urry began to attract serious attention in1966 during his
first solo show of
large-scale welded steel sculptures in Chicago. More shows followed at
Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art and in New York galleries,
but Urry
couldn’t keep up the pace: his
last important exhibition took place in 1977. Although he continued to
create art for the rest of his life, very little of it was shown.
Today,
Urry is known and respected by the older generation of artists, but his work is rarely seen - and no show of his entire career has ever been mounted. Steven Jay Urry:
A Retrospective presents his work - sculptures, drawings, paintings, and experimental pieces - in the context of his time.
Public Reception: Thursday, May 10, 5 - 8 p.m.
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Eyewitness: Works by Morris Topchevsky
August 2 – September 21, 2012
Morris
Topchevsky’s (1899-1947) works provide a personal perspective on
a complex historical period in Chicago. As a young immigrant on the
city’s Near West Side,
he became sensitized to the plight of the poor and disenfranchised.
Inspired by social reformer Jane Addams, Topchevsky served as resident
art instructor at Addams’
Hull-House settlement, and in later years at the Abraham Lincoln Center
on Chicago’s South Side. During his travels to Mexico,
Topchevsky witnessed the revolutionary
development of public art. Upon returning to Chicago, he
enthusiastically promoted radical images of life during the Great
Depression, while simultaneously portraying
Mexico’s indigenous culture and its distinctive topography. When
travel to Mexico becoming increasingly difficult in the late 1930s,
Topchevsky found similar aesthetic
inspiration in New Mexico. The last solo exhibition of his work was
held in 1948. Sixty years later, Eyewitness: Works of Morris Topchevsky
presents a diverse survey
of the artist’s work, illuminating his creative responses to
varied geographic and socio-political environments during the first
half of the 20th century.
Public Reception: Thursday, August 2, 5 - 8 p.m.
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