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CORKGUN 33
BEARING WITNESS: ART AS SOCIAL ACTION
Elaine Longtemps, 04/23/09
CORKGUN 33
CORKGUN, along with another piece "We Are But One World", has been included in Bearing Witness: Art as Social Action, hosted by ARC Gallery in Chicago, IL. Described as "a beautiful transition from white - innocent boy - to gray - police interference - to red - the boy's blood", CORKGUN tells the story of a boy in the projects playing cops and robbers with his friends and a toy corkgun, who is mistaken by the security police for a gunman, and is shot dead. This unusual exhibition, curated and juried by Barbara Fish, artist, art therapist and psychologist, who is a professor in the Dept of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Graduate Art Therapy Program at the School of the Art Insitute of Chicago, seeks to explore why artists act as social witnesses? What purpose do we serve, and what is the cost? Artists were required to submit the history of each image, how it was inspired, what happened to and because of the image, and where it was now. These stories will be exhibited with the works.
Exhibition Dates: May 27-June 20, 2009
Opening Reception: May 29th
ARC Gallery & Educational Foundation
832 W. Superior St., #204
Chicago, IL 60622
Wed-Sat, 12-6, Sun, 12-4
info@arcgallery.org
(312)733-2787
www.arcgallery.org
Exhibition Dates: May 27-June 20, 2009
Opening Reception: May 29th
ARC Gallery & Educational Foundation
832 W. Superior St., #204
Chicago, IL 60622
Wed-Sat, 12-6, Sun, 12-4
info@arcgallery.org
(312)733-2787
www.arcgallery.org
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