Jesse McLean

I’ll be showing Marching Ants, Magic Wand and Clone as part of the group show Ground Floor at the Hyde Park Art Center. See below for more details!

Ground Floor - August 29-October 31, 2010

Exhibition Opening - Sunday, August 29 3-5pm

Chicago, IL (August 2010) Ground Floor, on view from August 29 until October 3, 2010 at the Hyde Park Art Center,is a survey exhibition of multi-media work by 20 promising artists who recently emerged from Chicago’s top level MFA programs. Filling the three galleries that make up the entire ground floor of the Art Center, the artwork included illustrate the exciting state of these artist’s career ready to take off. This biannual show of new art and artists brings together under one roof the stylistic trends and innovative talent of the moment produced throughout the city.

With a history of shows like Hairy Who?, a definitive exhibition featuring the Chicago Imagists movement of the late 60s, Hyde Park Art Center has been at the forefront of encouraging Chicago-based artistic practice. In keeping with the mission to ‘stimulate and sustain visual arts in the city of Chicago’, this exhibition questions if there is a decisive Chicago style happening in art being produced right now.

The 2010 exhibition features new and never before exhibited work by the following artists: Daniel Bruttig, Katy Collier, Chris Cuellar, Bonnie Fortune, Maria Gaspar, Joe Grimm, Adam Grossi, Emily Hermant, Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford, Samantha Jaffe, Daniel Lavitt, Lisa Lindvay, Brian Matthew, Jesse McLean, Matthew Metzger, Jessie Mott, Eliza Myrie, Jennifer Ray, Mia Rollow, Michael Sirianni, and Olivia Valentine. The artists hail from a broad range of schools that offer graduate level fine art degrees, including University of Chicago, University of Illinois  (Chicago and Springfield), Northwestern University, Columbia College and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

The Exhibitions Committee is led by the Chair Dawoud Bey, and includes Huey Copeland, Matthew Girson, Kelly Kaczynski, Sze Lin Pang and Art Center Staff Allison Peters Quinn, Chris Hammes, and Kate Lorenz. The committee received over 100 recommendations from faculty in the local art schools. After conducting slide reviews then studio visits, the committee rigorously narrowed down the candidates to a final shortlist of artists.

Ground Floor will be on view from August 29 to October 31, 2010 at the Hyde Park Art Center, 5020 South Cornell Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60615; 773.324.5520 and www.hydeparkart.org. Exhibitions are always free and open to the public.

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I’ll be showing Clone as part of a screening this Friday happening at Nightingale. The screening is part of a weekend-long series of events called Expressive Media Express, organized by jonCates, Nicholas O’Brien and Christy LeMaster. More information can be found here.

Screen.Grab2 | CHIcast ::
PART I – ONSCREEN

The Nightingale
1084 N Milwaukee
October 23, 2009 8PM
$5 suggested donation

Organized by Nicholas O’Brien (PART I) and jonCates (PART II)

Screen.Grab2 presents a sampling of Video and New Media work using the visual vocabulary of network and digital culture. From glitch to screen savers to realtime audio-video noise to experimental dance pop movies, CHIcast converses with the multi-vocal presence of screen based art located within Chicago. Screen.Grab2 is part of a weekend long slate of programs (including two free New Media art making workshops) called Expressive Media Express as part of Chicago Artists Month.

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May 15th – June 19th 2009, 6-9pm
Artist Talk: May 28th, 2009, 6pm

In Invisible Tracks McLean sources recent Internet images of Iraq for a series of videos where the image is pulled apart, erased, delineated and reassembled in an effort to negotiate the convoluted relationship of spectatorship to empathy. Typically hidden from view, procedural tools used for retouching and manipulating photographs become incorporated into the images, a reminder that the image is capable of being altered and changed continuously and without trace.

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