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Obstacles and Intimacies: exhibition of new sculptures by Stephanie Brooks

Obstacles and Intimacies: exhibition of new sculptures by Stephanie Brooks

New works created by Stephanie Brooks will be exhibited at the Riverside Art Center Freeark Gallery. Opening reception on Friday, 3 December from 6 to 9 PM. The exhibition, titled "Obstacles and Intimacies", will continue until 8 January.

With the works in this exhibition, she interrogates ways in which intimacy and barriers intersect. Using barricades both literally and metaphorically, she asks viewers to think on what is a barricade and what is intimate in their lives...how do we navigate and negotiate public and private spaces?

Stephanie Brooks is a conceptual artist, writer, and curator living in Chicago. She earned her BFA degree from Ohio University and MFA degree from University of Illinois Chicago. She exhibits her work nationally and internationally including exhibits in Atlanta, Chicago, Denmark, Indianapolis, London, Los Angeles, Louisville, San Francisco, New York, Vienna, Phoenix, and Hawaii.
She is an Adjunct Professor teaching in the Sculpture Department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Her publications include Love Is A Certain Kind Of Flower, Green Lantern Press; Poem and Poem Forms, Illinois State University Press; The Virginia Quarterly Review, and Critical Inquiry. Her art is included in the permanent collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Microsoft Corporation, and Philip Morris Corporation, as well as many private collections.
Curatorial projects include Humor Us, and Oli Watt, What? At The Riverside Arts Center. stephaniebrooks.com riversideartscenter.com

Also exhibiting will be the executive director of Riverside Art Center, Liz Chilsen, a Chicago-area artist, educator and arts administrator. Her work explores connections between human spirit and physical place.
She has been exhibited throughout the US and internationally, and her work is held at Detroit Institute of Arts, Wisconsin Historical Society, Nicaragua Cultural Center, the University of Illinois’ Comer Archive, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography.
She is recipient of numerous awards and honors, including an Individual Artist Fellowship from IL Arts Council, an IL Humanities Bicentennial Action Grant, residencies at Ragdale Foundation, Chicago Artists’ Coalition, and The Center program at Hyde Park Art Center.
Chilsen holds an MFA in Photography from Columbia College and a Bachelor of Science in Art from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is Director of “Lessons of Place”, a photographic study of endangered places funded by Illinois Humanities, and a Teaching Artist with Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE) in Chicago Public Schools.

Free
06:00 PM - 09:00 PM on Fri, 3 Dec 2021