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Driftless zone by tanya aguiñiga. Volume gallery.

Mar 6, 2013

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Volume Gallery opens a show of new work by Tanya Aguiñiga titled Driftless Zone, with a reception on Friday 15 March from 6 > 8p at 845 W Washington Chicago.

To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part – Aldo Leopold

The works in Driftless Zone are inspired by Aguiñiga’s two-thousand mile voyage from Los Angeles, CA to Madison, WI, where she is spending the next four months as the Windgate Artist in Residence at UW-Madison Wood/Furniture Department. Initially struck by the subtleness of the Midwest topography, Aguiñiga is exploring the paradigm shifts that are related to her new topographical surroundings through weavings via mounds, depressions, gravity, texture and material.

Working predominantly in fiber arts, Aguiñiga’s works manage to find a space between art and design. Having grown up on the US/Mexico border where culture and tradition are often fluid, she is drawn to wanderlust and immersion in regions beyond her own as a way to understand visual identity and expand her design language.

The weavings created for Driftless Zone will explore the traditional use of rugs and wall-hangings in domestic environments, while drawing inspiration from the geological features found in the Driftless Area or Paleozoic Plateau, the region in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa noted by its deeply carved river valleys which escaped glaciation during the last glacial period.

[ tanya aguiñiga ]
Tanya Aguiñiga (b. 1978) is a Los Angeles based furniture designer and artist who was raised in Tijuana, Mexico. She holds an MFA in furniture design from Rhode Island School of Design, and is a current faculty member at Otis College of Art and Design. She created various collaborative installations with the Border Arts Workshop, an artists’ group that engages the languages of activism and community-based public art. She recently founded the group, Artists Helping Artisans, through which she helps spread knowledge of craft by collaborating with traditional artisans. Her work has been exhibited from Mexico City to Milan and she was named a United States Artists Target Fellow in the field of Crafts and Traditional Arts.

[ volume gallery ]
Volume Gallery is an event-based gallery with a specific focus on American design, particularly emerging contemporary designers. Founded by design specialist, Claire Warner and Sam Vinz, formerly of Wright Auction, Volume Gallery releases editions, publications and exhibits that showcase the work of American designers to regional, national and international audiences. Visit [ volume gallery ] for information and upcoming events.

exhibition: [ driftless zone ] | volume gallery
reception date: 15 march 2013 | 6 > 8p | rsvp sam@wvvolumes.com 312 224 8683
installation dates: 15 march > 7 june 2013
venue: 845 west washington, ground floor | chicago
for additional inquires: Sam Vinz, T 312 224 8683 | sam@wvvolumes.com

Jonathan muecke: open objects. Graham foundation.

May 10, 2011

Please join Volume Gallery and the Graham Foundation May 14 | 4 – 6pm for a talk: jonathan muecke: open objects

The talk by Jonathan Muecke is in conjunction with Open Objects, his first solo exhibition.
click on exhibition photo image to enlarge
Rather than a collection, Muecke considers each of the objects in the exhibition to be its own project, the result being that every one is consistent to its counterparts only in its potential – “a quality that is itself immeasurable”.

Muecke’s projects reflect  common forms of design and a continual pursuit of the meta-object. It is within this confrontation, between viewer and object, that development of new thought on functionality and materiality lives. Utilizing materials such as coal slag, glass sand, carbon fiber and gold foil, each piece works to remove our limitations of understanding and encourages the viewer to engage and interact.

Open Objects will be on view at Volume Gallery April 30 thru May 15, 2011. [ questions? ]

Volume Gallery & Graham Foundation Presents
Jonathan Muecke: Open Objects
Lecture date: May 14 | 4 – 6 PM
Lecture location: Graham Foundation 4 W Burton Place Chicago
Exhibition dates: April 30 thru May 15
Exhibition Location: Volume Gallery 328 S Jefferson Street Chicago

Jonathan muecke at volume gallery. Chicago.

Apr 26, 2011

open objects debuts april 30 – thru may 15 2011.

above: divider (2011) jonathan muecke

Volume Gallery launches its fourth series with a collection of new works from Jonathan Muecke, titled Open Objects. Opening reception on April 30th from 6-8PM, Chicago, IL.
 
Open Objects represents Jonathan Muecke’s first solo exhibition, comprised of eight objects. The individual objects designed for Volume Gallery, were developed independent of each other. Rather than a collection, Muecke considers each object its own project, the result being that each object is consistent to its counterparts only in its potential – “a quality that is itself immeasurable”.
 
Leaving all to interpretation, Open Objects is a comprehensive study of each object’s unique qualities, and dissection of their definition. Muecke’s projects are a reflection of the common forms of design and continue to study the meta-object. His projects demand examination. It is within this confrontation, between viewer and object, that development of new thought on functionality and materiality lives. Utilizing materials such as coal slag, glass sand, carbon fiber and gold foil, each piece removes our limitations of understanding and encourages the viewer to engage and interact, rather than react to the object.



above: frame (2011) jonathan muecke

 
“Principally, objects present limits– figured in function/process/material/form/idea and so on. In this case objects are measured to each variable and equally fixed in the variables. In this normal and productive way objects are figured backwards. My interest is going forward – remaining inconclusive to the terms of measurement. In this way potential remains in an object.”
 
Jonathan Muecke operates around the edge of design; he emphasizes each object’s conceptual purpose and universal meaning. Open Objects is his continual practice to un-define objects while defining something larger. Each object is restrained and composed in design, raw and visionary in intent. Each project in Open Objects is firmly tied together with the strong visual language that is inimitable, unique and undeniable.
 
Jonathan Muecke
Jonathan Muecke was born in 1983 in Cody, Wyoming. He works from his studio in Minneapolis, Minnesota since his graduation from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2010 where from 2009-10 he was the Florence Knoll scholar. In 2006 he received a Bachelors of Architecture from Iowa State University followed in 2007 by an internship at the architectural office of Herzog & de Meuron in Basel, Switzerland. In July of 2010 the jury of the Design Parade 5 (Hyéres, France) assigned him the Veuve Clicquot Award. His field of work circulates around the periphery of design.

Volume Gallery
Volume Gallery is an event-based gallery with a specific focus on American design, particularly emerging contemporary designers. Founded by Claire Warner and Sam Vinz, formerly of Wright Auction, Volume Gallery releases editions, publications and exhibits that showcase the work of American designers to regional, national and international audiences.

For additional information and picture inquires: Sam Vinz 414 841 3003 | sam at wvvolumes dot com

Volume Gallery Presents
Jonathan Muecke: Open Objects
Exhibition date: April 30 – May 15 | 11 AM – 6 PM daily
Reception: Saturday April 30 | 6-8 PM
Exhibition Location: 328 S Jefferson Street Chicago IL

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