MINUS SPACE Artist Michelle Grabner Named
Curator of 2014 Whitney Biennial
Michelle Grabner: The Inova Survey, Inova, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
Chicago-based artist, writer, teacher and curator Michelle Grabner (BFA ’84, MA ’87) presents a selection of paintings, prints, sculpture and video spanning her formidable career.
MINUS SPACE, The Suburban, Oak Park, IL
January 22 - February 26, 2012
We are delighted to announce the group exhibition MINUS SPACE at The Suburban in Oak Park, Illinois. The exhibition features artists Mark Dagley, Gabriele Evertz and Gilbert Hsiao, and is conceived around the ideas of confounding pattern, spectral color, shaped supports, and divergent painting methods.
Awkward x 2 + Neil Clements, The Suburban, Oak Park, IL
Neil Clements was born in Northern Ireland and lives and works in Glasgow. Awkward x 2 is a collaboration between two painters: Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe and Rebecca Norton.
Au Plein Air: Simon Ingram + Douglas Melini, The Suburban, Oak Park, IL
Work by Douglas Melini July 17 – August 10, 2011 Simon Ingram’s Radio Paintings “results from a sequence of material conversations of unseen and unheard information.” Ingram’s Abstract paintings are produced via a machine that scans the electromagnetic spectrum. Douglas Melini’s tightly pattern symmetrical abstractions will be juxtaposed with an audio component for his project at The Suburban. Simon Ingram is an artist and Senior Lecturer at the ELAM School of Fine Arts at the [...]
Can I Come Over to Your House: The First Ten Years of The Suburban
Click to purchase from Golden Age The Suburban, Michelle Grabner and Brad Killam’s Oak Park based art space celebrates it’s 10th anniversary with an encyclopedic compendium of it’s long history. Introductory essays by Forrest Nash and Michael Newman & design by Jason Pickleman. Artists: Kevin Appel, Vasco Araujo, David Hullfish Bailey, Mike Banicki, BANK, Stephen Berens, Cindy Bernard, Walead Beshty, Dike Blair, Gregg Bordowitz, Keil Borrman, Andrea Bowers, Yvette Brackman, Troy Brauntuch, Ralf Brög, Alex [...]
Jan van der Ploeg: BIG CALM
September 18 – October 16, 2010
MINUS SPACE is very excited to announce the solo exhibition Jan van der Ploeg: BIG CALM. This is the Amsterdam-based artist’s second exhibition with the gallery and it will feature a site-specific painting installation.
Richard Roth & Hilary Wilder, The Suburban, Chicago, IL
Michelle Grabner: Get Better Mrs. Michelle!
March 27 – May 1, 2010
MINUS SPACE is delighted to announce a new exhibition of drawings by Chicago-based artist Michelle Grabner. Grabner works primarily in painting, drawing, and printmaking, and her practice is commonly organized around straightforward mathematical systems.
Ethan Greenbaum & Katrin Siguroardottir, The Suburban, Chicago, IL
January 24 – February 24, 2010 The Suburban is pleased to present The Suburban, a solo exhibition by artist Ethan Greenbaum. Greenbaum’s work is concerned with architectural and cultural blank spots. He frequently uses ubiquitous sites like sidewalks or printer paper as his subject matter. Removing these sources from a functional context, he manipulates them to open new associative possibilities. For the exhibition, Greenbaum will be installing objects and architectural modifications that engage with the [...]
Tilman: Substance (for Julian); Carl Suddath, The Suburban, Oak Park, IL
September 20 – October 25, 2009 The exhibition project `SUBSTANCE (for Julian)`, at The Suburban, Chicago aims to inform the viewer about two issues addressed as parallel realities of perception – on one hand the notion of a profound play with the qualities of the existing space and simulteanous, the memory of fellow artist Julian Dashper who passed away about six weeks ago and who also exhibited at The Suburban in 2008. Julian Dashper’s work [...]
Concrete Now! Introducing PS, Highland Institute for Contemporary Art, Inverness-shire, United Kingdom
Installation view with works by Tilman, John Nixon & Julian Dashper (left to right) August 23 – September 27, 2009 HICA, The Highland Institute for Contemporary Art, is to host an exhibition of artists’ work from PS gallery, Amsterdam, opening on Sunday 23rd August, 2009. Concrete Now! Introducing PS will present work from artists who have exhibited with PS, including Julian Dashper, Michelle Grabner, Gerold Miller, John Nixon, Jan van der Ploeg, and Tilman. A [...]
The Great Poor Farm Experiment, The Poor Farm, Manawa, WI
Open House: August 7-9, 2009 Fall 2009 – Spring 2010 The Great Poor Farm Experiment is a series of works (performance, installation, sculpture, painting) installed and presented in and around the Poor Farm during the renovation of the main exhibition building. A three day open-house will inaugurate these projects during the weekend of August 7 – 9, 2009. Additional projects will be presented throughout 2009 and 2010. Participating Artists: David Robbins (Milwaukee) Shane Aslan Selzer [...]
VIEWLIST: There are many things in the air and all of them are for free, Conceived by Michelle Grabner
Our second VIEWLIST exhibition is conceived by Chicago-based artist Michelle Grabner.
"So I think what comes next is a web with big holes blown in it. A spiderweb in a storm. The turtles get knocked out from under it, the platform sinks through the cloud. A lot of the inherent contradictions of the web get revealed, the contradictions in the oxymorons smash into each other." -- Bruce Sterling, February 2009
Amy Granat, Drew Heitzler & Olivier Mosset, The Suburban, Chicago, IL
Walead Beshty & James Welling, The Suburban, Chicago, IL
James Welling, FH_6416, 2006 Chromogenic print, 12 x 15 inches Opened September 21, 2008
Four New Projects, The Suburban, Chicago, IL
April 27 — June 5, 2008 The Suburban presents four new projects: Lars Wolter, Dan Walsh, Andrea Zittel and The Smockshop, & The John Riepenhoff Experience presents Sarah Clendening Sculptures.