Friday May 28, 2010
OFFICE ROMANCE
----- Tickets: V.I.P.s get a special limited edition Manhattan glass by Deb Sokolow. Artworks by: Aay Preston-Myint, Alex Chitty, Amy Stibich, Andreas Fischer, Ann Chen, April Jouse, Betsy Odom, Brian McNearney, Caleb Lyons, Carmen Price, Chelsea Culp, Claire Pentecost, Clare Britt, Eric May, Fraser Taylor, Holly Cahill, Irena Knezevic, Jacob Hammes, Jamisen Ogg, Jan Tichy, Jason Lazarus, Jay Wolke, Jenny Kendler, Jessica Labatte, Jessica Taylor, Jill Frank, John Neff, Jose Lerme, Judith Brotman, Karen Reimer, Kathryn Scanlan, Kelly Kaczynski, Keith Herzik, Kirsten Stoltman, Kristin Reger, Lauren Anderson, Leah Patgorski, Mark Greenwold, Marvin Astorga, Mathew Paul Jinks, Matt Irie, Maurene Cooper, Melissa Oresky, New Catalogue, Nyame Brown, Oli Watt, Peter Hoffman, Rana Siegel, Regin Igloria, Richard Hull, Rose DiSalvo, Roxane Hopper, Sabina Ott, Sarah Wagner & Jon Brumit, Selina Trepp, Siebren Versteeg, Stacia Yeapanis, Stan Shellabarger and Dutes Miller, Stephanie Brooks, Steven Husby, Cayetano Ferrer, Thad Kellstadt, Theaster Gates, Todd Chilton, Tyson Reeder, Vincent Dermody, Young Joon Kwak, Zach Cahill and more. Office Romance has been sponsored by Bain & Co., Blackout Design, Dot Press, Lake County Press, Midwest Generation, Other People’s Pixels, Pernod and TimeOut Chicago.Memorandum:
threewalls invites you to attend Office Romance 2010 spring fundraiser and auction
Sexy secretaries, junior associates and seasoned execs rub more than shoulders in the penthouse library ofThe Corporation’s mercurial Chief Executive. With the prudish Human Resources V.P. on leave with an undisclosed nervous ailment, the opportunity presents itself for hijinks, harassment, and hot encounters with the contemporary visual arts. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime chance to schmooze your way to the top. But stay savvy! One wrong move and you could end up back in the steno pool!
When: Friday, May 28th, 2010; 7:30-8:30pm, V.I.P. hour, 8:30-midnight General Admission
Where: The Library, 190 S LaSalle Street, Chicago, IL
Attire: Decidedly not business casual.
V.I.P Admission: $100 in advance, $120 at the door.
Includes V.I.P hour entertainment, appetizers and souvenir multiple; auction and dessert and other perks throughout the evening. Entry at 7:30.
General Admission: $65 in advance, $80 at the door.
Includes auction, entertainment and dessert. Entry after 8:30.
Special General Admission Couples price:
$100 in-advance only. Entry after 8:30.
Table Sponsors:
Groups can be listed as sponsors by purchasing 10 VIP tickets at regular price: $1,000.00. Table sponsors will receive special acknowledgment. Entry at 7:30.
*Office Romance* promises to be an immersive evening where Mad Men-era hijinks ensue in Chicago’s spectacular Philip-Johnson designed penthouse club, The Library - located at 190 South LaSalle Street. This year’s benefit will feature performances by Dog & Pony Theater Co., Naked Girls Reading and Chances Dances and much much more!
Auction
Artworks by emerging and established artists will be auctioned by silent and live auction. Works will range in value from $100 to $10,000, and will be available for preview and early bidding through our website May 1.
In addition to artworks, special packages and experiences will be auctioned in both silent and live events - including private collection tours and hosted dinners.
Monday July 5, 2010
2010 Summer Residents
This July and August threewalls will again host their summer residency, this year in conjunction with The Studio Chicago programming. Summer residents Cauleen Smith and Adia Millett will be residents of threewalls at The Summer Studio, an exhibition and dynamic studio, curated by Michelle Grabner and Mary Jane Jacob at the Sullivan Galleries at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Cauleen Smith will continue work on trilogy of films/videos that examine the application of music as transformative technology withan an urban matrix. The first of these works, The Fullness of Time, was shot in New Orleans. In Chicago, Smith will work on Eclipse, a narrative, ficto-documentary about the Afro-futurist identity that Sun-Ra developed in Chicago in the mid-1950s. With plans to form the rogue marching band, Celestial Arkestral Marching Band, Smith will create musical interventions Chicago's neighborhoods that pay homage to Sun Ra's development in and lasting influence on the city.
Cauleen Smith currently resides in San Diego, California. Her work has been exhibited at a variety of venues including: "The Fullness of Time" at The New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival and The Kichen in 2008; "Drylongso" at Urbanworld Film Festival, Los Angeles Pan-African Film Festival and Philadelphia Film Festival in 2000; Sundance Film Festival, 1999 and Hamptons Film Festival, 2008. She has been included in group shows at The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans; Mass Art, Boston; The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, Studio Museum Harlem, and The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. She was the recipient of a Creative Capital Film/Video Grant in 2008 and a resident at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2007. Her work has been covered by The New Yorker, The New York Times, Artlies and The Independant Film and Video Monthly, to name a few.
Cauleen Smith: Family Photo, still image captured with hasselblad pan-x from The Green Dress, 2005
Adia Millett will work on a series of free-standing, "story-specific" installations at threewalls. The initial installation will be a space where viewers sit and share stories shaped by the space itself. These stories are video recorded, and based on these stories, Millett will reinterpret her own installation. Throughout the project, the space will be continually remodeled as new visitors narrate tales based on the installation they inhabit until Millett has remade the site at least 4 times based on the narratives of 20 stories. This extremely process-oriented project points to the creative connections between people via the unconcious collaboration amongst a number of story-tellers and the artist.
Adia Millett has exhibited at Mixed Greens, New York; The Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans; The John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI; David Krut Projects, New York; Saatchi & Saatchi, New York; Studio Museum In Harlem, New York and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, among others. Her work has been covered by The Village Voice, Art News, NY Arts, Art and America and The New York Times. She currently resides in San Marino, California.
Adia Millet: Change #6 (installation interior), paint, wood, plastic, etc., 2008