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Opening at Comfort Station

GRAFT: A collaborative project and exhibition featuring new work by Noelle Allen

Exhibition Dates: Nov. 8 to Nov. 30, 2014
Reception: Nov. 8th from 4-8pm

Comfort Station is proud to announce the latest exhibition of Noelle Allen's work for GRAFT, this November. Conceived as a group show within a solo show, Graft is a curatorial experiment that will also feature work from contributing artists that are influential to, or inspired by, Allen’s artistic practice.

For GRAFT, artist Noelle Allen, together with Chicago curator MK Meador, will explore the concept of grafting and how it relates to a multifaceted art contemporary practice. As a horticultural process, grafting involves taking a sample from one plant to fuse and propagate another. For GRAFT, Allen has assembled and reconceptualized older drawings and photograms that date from earlier in her artistic career before having children and a fulltime teaching commitment. Viewing these moments as pivotal turning points in her practice, Allen’s newly realized drawings are, in one sense, grafts from her own work. By fusing old work with new, Allen is physically and conceptually bridging two very different time periods. With imagery and ideas in her work making reference to flowers, root structures, rhizomes, and other organic materials grafting is a concept that warranted further exploration...

Looking at Allen’s work as artist, educator, mentor and mother, Meador and Allen conceived of a show as a curatorial experiment that would invite artists to participate and further explore the notion of grafting. These selected artists will respond to her most recent drawings by contributing a piece of their own for the exhibit at Comfort Station. By grafting the work from these notable Chicago artists, the exhibition will challenge the dichotomy of solo show versus group show models. The GRAFT project will include and document multiple stages of the collaboration between the artists, eventually resulting in a catalogue with interviews, images, and text. The list of confirmed artists include luminaries in the Chicago arts scene including: Claire Ashley, Karen Azarnia, Aimee Beaubien, Erin Minckley Chlagmo, Anne Harris, Allison Reimus, Melody Saraniti, Tess Farris and also features work from Allen’s mother, Californiabased
artist Christine Remy.


The exhibition is curated by MK Meador for Comfort Station. 

paperfile pop up | Aimée Beaubien 11. Oktober 2014 — 15. November 2014

Galerie oqbo

paperfile pop up | Aimée Beaubien
11. Oktober 2014 — 15. November 2014

Mit paperfile pop up startet oqbo ein neues Ausstellungsformat. Begleitend zu jeder Ausstellung wird eine Künstlerin oder ein Künstler mit ausgewählten Arbeiten aus dem paperfile Archiv vorgestellt.
Den Anfang macht die in Chicago lebende Künstlerin Aimée Beaubien.

paperfile pop up is our new exhibition format at oqbo! You can see one of our paperfile artists in every upcoming show!


Aimée Beaubien from Chicago will start in the exhibition of Frank Eltner!

STELLA: The Nature of a Collective

STELLA: The Nature of a Collective Opening reception: Friday, October 3, 2014 (6-9pm) October 3, 2014 - November 30, 2014 Ukrainian Museum of Modern Art 2320 W Chicago Ave Chicago, IL 60622 “Stella: The Nature of a Collective” features work by 12 artists in a diversity of media originating in photography. Presented by the Stella Photography Collective in cooperation with the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, the exhibition is organized around issues of the collective and the natural world. The exhibit includes photography, video, installation, collage, large draped photographic screens and 3-D imagery. For the individual artists of the Stella Photography Collective this exhibition is an opportunity to explore new ways to present work in collaboration, deepening their practice. Thematically, the work is concerned with nature and the natural world, as well as the nature of human experience: growth, decay, camouflage, geography, security and sensuality. Stella Photography Collective formed in 2008 as a monthly critique group and has a rich history of mutual support and creative challenge. The collective includes 13 women, 2 of whom work as a collaborative team. Members are based in Chicago and surrounding communities, including Milwaukee. They are: Aimée Beaubien, Suzette Bross, Patty Carroll, Liz Chilsen, Ciurej & Lochman (Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman), Christine DiThomas, Mary Farmilant, Alice Hargrave, Kate Joyce, Mayumi Lake, Jean Sousa, Peggy Wright In conjunction with the exhibition, the collective plans two lively events inviting visitors to enjoy refreshments – some of which respond to ideas in the work – while participating in creative activities based on selected exhibition themes. A Sunday “Lunch-in” on October 12th from 1:00 – 3:00 PM, and a workshop “The Nature of Nature: An Afternoon Repast of Botany and Memory” on November 2nd from 2:00 – 4:00 PM

STELLA: The Nature of a Collective

Opening reception: Friday, October 3, 2014 (6-9pm)
October 3, 2014 - November 30, 2014

Ukrainian Museum of Modern Art
2320 W Chicago Ave
Chicago, IL 60622

“Stella: The Nature of a Collective” features work by 12 artists in a diversity of media originating in photography. Presented by the Stella Photography Collective in cooperation with the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, the exhibition is organized around issues of the collective and the natural world. The exhibit includes photography, video, installation, collage, large draped photographic screens and 3-D imagery.

For the individual artists of the Stella Photography Collective this exhibition is an opportunity to explore new ways to present work in collaboration, deepening their practice. Thematically, the work is concerned with nature and the natural world, as well as the nature of human experience: growth, decay, camouflage, geography, security and sensuality.

Stella Photography Collective formed in 2008 as a monthly critique group and has a rich history of mutual support and creative challenge. The collective includes 13 women, 2 of whom work as a collaborative team. Members are based in Chicago and surrounding communities, including Milwaukee. They are: Aimée Beaubien, Suzette Bross, Patty Carroll, Liz Chilsen, Ciurej & Lochman (Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman), Christine DiThomas, Mary Farmilant, Alice Hargrave, Kate Joyce, Mayumi Lake, Jean Sousa, Peggy Wright

In conjunction with the exhibition, the collective plans two lively events inviting visitors to enjoy refreshments – some of which respond to ideas in the work – while participating in creative activities based on selected exhibition themes. A Sunday “Lunch-in” on October 12th from 1:00 – 3:00 PM, and a workshop “The Nature of Nature: An Afternoon Repast of Botany and Memory” on November 2nd from 2:00 – 4:00 PM