THE MISSION

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German born and Los Angeles-based artist Anna Elise Johnson’s “Structural Adjustment” is a complex study in formal contrasts. Featuring eight pieces that emphasize the luminous and transparent qualities of color, resin and acrylic block, their material effervescence is belied by significant physical weight and impressive dimensions. Thoroughly sculptural, these works are nonetheless deeply rooted in two-dimensionality and the photographic imagery Johnson appropriates.

In “Red Regalia,” twin monoliths… [more]

Galería

In the early twentieth century, Abstraction in Europe had become the alternative tradition in painting and sculpture as a response to the expansion of Realism. Wanting to represent the world in a mimetic manner was no longer a fundamental search in art and it was believed, rather, that art should build an autonomous visual language highlighting chromatic, formal and structural aspects.

By the middle of the… [more]

In a dimly lit gallery space of THE MISSION, Austen Brown’s MUDROOM (2016) features three television screens hoisted on black poles with looping videos. The videos review the process of shale procurement, an extraction of the mud-based sedimentary rock, and the industry’s aftermath in North Dakota’s Bakken region. The Bakken shale formation stretches from Montana through North Dakota to the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The exhibition traces this… [more]

THE SUB-MISSION is delighted to announce that the call for 2017 exhibition proposals is now open. Applications will be accepted through August 20, 2016. All proposals should conform to the rules and guidelines found on THE SUB-MISSION page.

Proposals should be emailed to submission@themissionprojects.com. For further information, please reference THE SUB-MISSION webpage or send questions to info@themissionprojects.com.

THE MISSION is pleased to announce THE SUB-MISSION 2017 Selection Committee. The Selection Committee represents a wide range of Chicago-based curators, artists, writers, critics and collectors who are invited by THE MISSION to lend their expertise in selecting the most thought-provoking, innovative proposals for THE SUB-MISSION.

Located below the main gallery, THE SUB-MISSION is an alternative installation project space dedicated to the development of artists living and working… [more]

Históricamente, la Antártida ha funcionado como un laboratorio para casi todas las disciplinas científicas. Sin embargo, de manera más reciente, esto mismo ha comenzado a ocurrir con diferentes disciplinas artísticas. Desde una perspectiva estética, la Antártida es el lugar ideal para el replanteo y la resignificación de nociones como el tiempo, el espacio y el sonido, en sus dimensiones física, ambiental y espiritual; y también, por qué no, para el… [more]

THE SUB-MISSION will host a closing reception from 3pm-5pm for Jordan Martins' "How Easy is a Bush a Bear". After the reception, guests are invited to The Nightingale Cinema for "Destroying the Form", an evening of programming curated by Jordan Martins and Nightingale Director Christy LeMaster, beginning at 5:30pm. The Nightingale will present a short screening of work complementing the themes of "How Easy is a Bush a Bear", including… [more]

Marcelo Grosman en la galería Nora Fisch
La humana máquina
por Delfina Helguera

Sobre la avenida Córdoba en el nuevo circuito de galerías de Villa Crespo, la vidriera de la galería Nora Fisch está clausurada. Es necesario entrar para ver la nueva exhibición de Marcelo Grosman, un artista que no escatima recursos para la presentación de sus muestras: en este casoLa humana máquina, en la que explora las iamgenes… [more]

GROSMAN Y PIERRI SE LUCEN EN NORA FISCH
LAURA ISOLA

Una buena noticia: Marcelo Grosman y Tizziana Pierri exponen en Nora Fisch.

Además de lo tan humano del lenguaje, ese distintivo que nos diferencia de los animales, las emociones, sobre todo las posibilidades de expresión de ellas, hacen a nuestra experiencia homínida un caso particular entre los seres vivos. Si admitimos que la paleta para dar cuenta del… [more]

La densa trama de lo visible
POR ANA MARIA BATTISTOZZI

Nada se fotografía tanto como aquello que se presume en riesgo de desaparecer, escribía Regis Debray en un ensayo de 1992. No hace tanto tiempo. ¿O si? ¿Podríamos hoy seguir afirmando que la imagen constituye un reaseguro frente a la desaparición de las cosas cuando ella misma se encuentra afectada por esta lógica de los tiempos en que vivimos?… [more]

Thursday, April 7
6:30 - 8pm
THE MISSION

Performance
Text Divinations #2

Text Divinations is a performative reading project begun in 2015, based on live simultaneous readings of appropriated texts that have been scrambled or de-contextualized in some way by the artist. In conjunction with How Easy is a Bush a Bear, at THE SUB-MISSION through April 23, Text Divinations #2 is comprised of first hand accounts… [more]

Marcelo Grosman's "The Human Machine" at Nora Fisch, Buenos Aires
March 18 - May 7, 2016

La Human Máquina

CONFUSIÓN

Es imposible mirar las imágenes de Marcelo Grosman sin adjudicarles un lugar exacto (pero precario) en el pasado. Y si bien esas imágenes están hechas de ruinas, de excavaciones en el archivo recóndito, de descubrimiento en las cavernas oscuras del pensamiento al que se le echó… [more]

Layers permeate each aspect of Jordan’s practice, collages produced in resin, flatbed scans, and on video. Currently producing work created on flatbed scanners, Jordan prints, cuts, and layers back in elements that include photographs, paint, and imagery from books. Moving these pieces around on the scanner, he attempts to finds the perfect composition, often reworking original source material until the audience is unable to tell which elements are scanned, photographed… [more]

Thursday, March 10, 6:30pm, THE MISSION

Please join us at 6:30pm on Thursday, March 10 for a preview and artist talk with Chicago-based artist and writer Zachary Cahill and THE MISSION's Anna Elise Johnson about her exhibition of recent acrylic block collages, Structural Adjustment.

Johnson collects official photographs taken during meetings between the leaders of the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, the U.S. State Department and… [more]

Interview with Jordan Martins
How Easy is a Bush a Bear
March 11 – April 23, 2016

By Makenzi Fricker


MF: Although your work isn’t process-oriented, the creation of your videos is nonetheless very involved. Can you describe that process?

JM: My work with video the past few years has mostly been experimental, in the sense that I’ve been trying out different ideas without necessarily having… [more]

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The first thing you see when descending the staircase to the Sub-Mission is a two-column list of holidays and occasions. Birthday, Christmas and wedding are three of the twenty-five listed on the gallery wall. One can imagine all the gifts and cards purchased each year to commemorate these events. This overwhelming laundry list of occasions society celebrates or acknowledges sets the tone of Kelly Lloyd’s installation, titled “Gift Baskets… [more]

Saturday, February 27 at 4pm, THE MISSION

Please join us at 4pm on Saturday, February 27 for an artist talk with Chicago-based artist Jessica Campbell and THE MISSION's Curtis Gannon for a discussion about the influence of comics on artistic practice.

Gannon omits storylines and signifiers from the sourced content and preserves the distinctive, iconic qualities of the comic book page -- grids, thought and voice… [more]

Saturday, February 20 at 12pm at THE SUB-MISSION

THE SUB-MISSION presents a Hair Salon by HAIR CLUB, in conjunction with our current exhibition, "Gift Baskets by Occasion" by Kelly Lloyd, which runs through February 27. Hair Salons are casual conversation events; previous topics of discussion include Hair Myths + Cautionary Tales, Hair + Death, Hair as Material in Art, Hair as Form, and Hair + Fashion.

HAIR… [more]

What is the Message
The Brilliant Influence of Deborah Boardman: a Collective Survey
Curated by Jessica Cochran
January 29 - March 13, 2016

Works by: Deborah Boardman, Howard Fonda, Jackie Kazarian, Sabina Ott, Diane Christiansen, Ryan Richey, Jin Lee, Jeroen Nelemens, Ellen Rothenberg, Dianna Frid, Laurie Palmer, Paola Cabal, Jackie Kazarian, Wendy Mason, Edra Soto, and Dan Sullivan

Year-by-year, Boardman (1958 - 2015) recorded her experiences in drawings… [more]

Please join us for a discussion between Kelly Lloyd and SUB-MISSION juror, Matt Morris. Morris is an artist, writer, and sometimes curator based in Chicago. He has presented artwork in Chicago, IL; Philadelphia, PA; Memphis, TN; Reims, France; Greencastle, IN; Lincoln, NE; Cincinnati, OH; and Baton Rouge, LA.He is a contributor to Artforum.com, Art Papers, ARTnews, Flash Art, Newcity, and Sculpture; and his writing appears in numerous exhibition catalogues and… [more]