ART
IN THE PARKS
Four
panel mural in front of the Austin Town Hall, 5601 W. Lake St., Chicago, in
conjunction with the Chicago Park District.
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ART
IN THE PARKS
Four
panel mural in front of the Austin Town Hall, 5601 W. Lake St., Chicago, in
conjunction with the Chicago Park District.
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Download the clip here (this is 11.6 megs. Mac users will have to get Windows Media Player)
Mike Leonard, who does spots for the Today Show, hung out with me for a few days. We checked out some of my work here in Chicago including the Museum of Contemporary Art show running through Aug. 31. Interviews with people who appear in my work explaining the process and how they feel about being a part of it. Plus, I imagine, me talking (ad nauseum) about working as an artist for the past 6 years. Mike is a real talent. This should be good and is tentatively schedualed to air on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 1. at 8:50 a.m. NBC. Matt and Katie, you've seen it...
WBEZ
http://wbez.org/audio_library/848_raaug03.asp
Interview with Victoria Lautmen for 848, Chicago Public Radio 91.5. Listen for this between 10 - 11 a.m.
the week of Aug. 25 - 29. It's an audio tour of Dark Matter at the MCA. You need RealPlayer.
Chicago Journal Article by Laura Putre
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, CHICAGO - 08.01.03 thru 08.31.03 --- New Installation:
DARK MATTER - 72' X 8' acrylic painting
220 E. Chicago Ave., McCormick Tribune Gallery, main floor
Opening August 1, 2003, 6 - 10pm ( 21 and over ). Show runs through 08.31.03
Gallery tour of the installation led by JZ, August 19th, Noon (pictures of the lecture)
Since he graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Jeff
Zimmermann has worked primarily as a muralist. While he has completed important
community-based murals in Pilsen (including one at 19th Street and Ashland),
one of Chicago’s most vital neighborhoods and the home to many Mexican
Americans, he also has created what he calls ‘private murals.’ His
method is to locate suitable walls on which to create his dynamic paintings
which are inspired by the built environment as well as the life of the community.
The owners of these walls agree to leave the design and content of the murals
entirely up to Zimmermann. One such mural can be found on Damen Avenue just
north of Lake Street.
For his MCA project, Zimmermann has followed a similar working method: he has observed and responded to the area in and around the MCA. After getting to know this complex retail and residential neighborhood, he became acquainted with specific individuals, such as the policeman depicted on the west wall, as well as with what he calls "urban tumbleweeds," the snack bags and crushed soda cans that travel across sidewalks, streets, and plazas. He then juxtaposed these elements with his personal interests, including the Chicago Board of Trade’s derivatives market, mathematics, and politics to create the wall painting Dark Matter. This term, which is used by cosmologists to describe a yet-undetected matter or energy that is theorized to make up the majority of the universe, gives one important key to the work. Dark Matter interweaves the private and the public, the mental life of the individual with the complex interworkings of the society in which the individual exists.
- Lynne Warren, Curator MCA, copyright 2003 The Museum of Contemporary Art
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