SHAPESHIFTERS: The Accumulation
DfbrL8r
1136 N MILWAUKEE AVE, Chicago, IL 60642
Saturday, December 17, 2011 7-9pm
Work by Troy Briggs, Hope Esser, Jane Jerardi, Jeremiah Jones, Sarah Jones, Nick Parparian, Joel Parsons, Daviel Shy, and Corkey Sinks
SHAPESHIFTERS: The Musical
DfbrL8r
1136 N MILWAUKEE AVE, Chicago, IL 60642
Saturday, December 10, 2011 8:30-11pm
Please join us for a night of audiovisual performance and installation at Defibrillator in Chicago. The gallery will become an arena for siren songs, grotesque drama, noise, and projection. Artists include Troy Briggs, Caitlin Baucom, Lindsay Denniberg, Erica Gressman, Mikey McParlane, Hillary Schofield, and Corkey Sinks.
*Doors open at 8:30- performances promptly start at 9!
and then a pause
Opening Reception: Friday, December 9th from 4:30PM-7PM
Sullivan Galleries - SAIC
This exhibition features new performances, installations, and language-based projects by Zia Anger, Alexis Buryk, Lesley Dixon, Rebecca Elliott, Laurel Forest Foglia, Alex Gartelmann, Jane Jerardi, Ruslana Lichtzier, Michaela Murphy, Aimee Norris, Chansavanh Phanthalangsy, Jillian Schiavi, Annan Shehadi, and Antona Stanley.
On Saturday, December 10th, from 6PM-8PM there will be an evening of Reading/Responses, held in the Sullivan Galleries, featuring new work by Reut Avisar, Victoria Bradford, Hope Esser, Aundrea Frahm, Autumn Hays, Kitty Huffman, Daniel Ivec, Sarah Meyer, Cory O'Brien, Joel Parsons, Joshua Rios, Marla Sanvick, Daviel Shy, Corkey Sinks, Elena Sofia Tejada-Herrera, and Amber Yared.
Back2Back2Back: Remix + Multiple
Alex Valentine
Nick Briz
Corkey Sinks
Caleb Sheridan
Daniel Luedtke
Matthew Cummings
The remix and the multiple have become an interdisciplinary language. The hybrid process of combining fragments in a non-linear re-interpretation has found an essential voice in today's visual practice. The remix allows for a major conceptual leap in making art on a meta-structural level. Artists draw together and make sense of a much larger body of information by threading a continuous narrative through it. The machine has allowed us the ability to re-conceptualize our relation to knowledge and to organize it, rather than merely accumulate information.
BYOB (After party @ Rodan!)
Carousel Space Project
1310 N. Hoyne Ave.
Chicago, IL 60622
Sincerely,
Curated by Joel Parsons
The 31st Century Museum at the Sullivan Galleries
Opening Reception: Friday, November 4 · 4:30pm - 6:30pm
Featuring the work of Douglas Degges, Alex Gartelmann, Corkey Sinks, and Allison Wade.
Once Familiar
Fiber and Material Studies MFA Candidate Noon Hour Lecture Series
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Sharp Building - Room 903
SHAPESHIFTERS
October 28, 2011
6pm-9pm
MacLean Building, SAIC
On October 28, 2011, artists will transform the corridors, classrooms, elevators, and stairwells of the MacLean Building into active exhibition sites. Participating artists include Caitlin Baucom, Troy Briggs, Lindsay Denniberg, Hope Esser, Erica Gressman, Jane Jerardi, Jeremiah Jones, Sarah Jones, Mikey McParlane, Nick Parparian, Joel Parsons, Hillary Schofield, Daviel Shy, and Corkey Sinks.
PHILADELPHIA: Please come out on Friday, October 21st for the opening of Inspiration Information, and exhibition co-curated by Sam Belkowitz and Alex Gartelmann. The show features work by Isaac Lin, Jason Musson, Sam Belkowitz, Matt Pruden, Kim Walker, Jonas Sebura, Corkey Sinks, Jesse Butcher, David Harper, Barbara Jenkins, Joel Parsons, Jamie Diamond, Lee Arnold, and Alex Gartelmann.
Inspiration Information is at The Maas Building at 1325 Randolph Street, Philadelphia from 6-10 PM
Additionally a screening of HOMELAND curated by Jesse Pires featuring short films from James MacSwain, Peter Bundy & Bryan Elsom, Sobhi al-Zobaidi, Maria Dumlao, and Shona Illingworth will be on Saturday, October 29th at 8pm.
Corkey Sinks: On Hiding and Being Hidden
Fiber and Material Studies MFA Candidate Noon Hour Lecture Series
March 17, 2011
Sharp Building - Room 903
WE WERE WARNED. WE ARE DOOMED.
All the best,
New work by Shanita Bigelow, Troy Briggs, Annette Elliot, Sarah Jones , Nazafarin Lotfi, Joaquin Lowe, Joel Parsons, David Sheier, Corkey Sinks, Jillian Soto, Hurmat Ulain, and Colin Winnette
Sullivan Gallery
33 S. State Street, 7th Floor
Chicago, IL
December 10, 2010 - January 21, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday, December 10, 4:30 p.m.
Night of Readings & Performance: Saturday, December 11, 6:00 p.m.
(Barbara Jenkins will be responding to my piece!)
GROUP SHOW
Temporary Services, Okay Mountain, Carnal Torpor, and The League of Imaginary Scientists
Heuser Art Gallery
Bradley University
Peoria, IL
October 21st - November 28th, 2010
GROUP SHOW is an exhibition about groups, specifically artist collectives. Four collectives have been invited to display the work they do as a team, which includes everything from producing a book, to creating models of entropy, to video installation. The groups included are: Temporary Services (Chicago, IL); Okay Mountain (Austin, TX); Carnal Torpor (Kansas City, MO); and The League of Imaginary Scientists (Los Angeles, CA).
I N D U L G E N C E S
Jesse Butcher, Jill Frank, Jaime Lynn Henderson, Tibi Tibi Neuspiel, Corkey Sinks, Casey Jex Smith
Goffo at NEXT Invitational Exhibition of Emerging Art
The Merchandise Mart, 7th Floor, Booth 9052
April 30 – May 3, 2010
Opening Preview: Thursday, April 29
Fair Hours: 11am – 7pm Friday, Saturday; 11am – 6pm Sunday; 11am – 4pm Monday
CHICAGO: Concertina Gallery is thrilled to participate in Goffo at NEXT Invitational Exhibition of Emerging Art. In Concertina’s curated booth, Indulgences, the historical forces of the art market are revealed through an original patron of the arts in the Western world—the Christian Church. The works in Indulgences (the title a reference to the act of paying, whether in confession or currency, for salvation) each examine religious iconography’s long presence in art history and everyday life, oftentimes emerging from the most banal situations.
Check the Children
New Work by Corkey Sinks
Modified Arts
April 16th - May 15th
Opening Reception with the artist, Friday, April 16th 6-9pm
PHOENIX: Through drawing, soft sculpture, installation, video, and GIF animation, Sinks quietly tracks the contemporary chronology of ancient myths and legends as they become tropes in new and classic horror movies or delightful diversions at innocent slumber parties, serving as haunting, didactic, punishing, and entertaining escapes from teenage boredom and adolescent angst. As we experience the amusing yet unsettling connections between the darkest of ancient tales and the fondest of childhood memories, Sinks compels us to reconsider the history and meaning of symbolism and narrative as a transfer of fluid information across culture, time, and space.
Surrender Dorothy
Jesse Butcher & Corkey Sinks
March 13th – March 28th, 2010
CHICAGO: Concertina Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Surrender Dorothy, the first large-scale collaboration between artists Jesse Butcher and Corkey Sinks. Mining the tropes of adolescent identity, both artists share nostalgia—even obsession—for the stylized rebellion of teenage subcultures. While struggling to find their own place in society, teens often dabble in fringe elements of the mainstream as a form of escapism. Surrender Dorothy will transform three of Concertina’s rooms into disquieting retreats of familiar adolescent experiences.
The title of the exhibition is taken from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, referencing the scene in which the Wicked Witch of the West skywrites a threatening message, “Surrender Dorothy”, over the Emerald City. Foundational to many happy childhood memories over the past seventy years, this movie may also serve as a reminder that the rosiest of childhood memories are tinged with fear. References to books, films and music consumed in wood-paneled basements across America run throughout the exhibition–many evolving from myths that teenagers have appropriated for generations as a shelter from the storm of adolescence.
In the liminal space of adolescence, vestiges of childhood meet the teen scene. Throughout the exhibition, these transitional phases converge. A quilt made from band t-shirts contrasts a handmade racecar bed. Oversized “God’s Eyes” hang from the ceiling—unnerving in scale and sheer number—evoking happy episodes from summer camp. Along with video installations and makeshift tie-dye walls, each form in the installation recalls the irreverent contradictions of teenage years, and the residual effects they have in adulthood.
mardröm
New work by Corkey Sinks
MASS Gallery
June 6th - June 27th, 2009
AUSTIN: mardröm investigates the mythological creature, mara, and the popular horror series, Nightmare on Elm Street. Centuries ago, the mara slowly permeated Europe, taking on new forms in different regions as culture after culture adapted the story. Modern media innovations for entertainment and communication have compounded the spread of information, forcing parts of mara to be lost and expanded upon, spawning countless monsters, urban legends, and nightmares.