FRESH TAKES
Re-visiting Early Work of Some Familiar Faces
Exhibition Dates: July 13 – August 31, 2007
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David Sharpe Universe 1968 Oil on canvas 80 x 266 inches DS 40
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Kahn/Selesnick Shamanic healing in Vernal Lakes 1998 mixed media on archival photograph 68.5 x 8 inches KS 44
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Kahn/Selesnick Kite wings aloft 1996 mixed media on archival photograph 72 ¼ x 7.5 inches KS 48
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Kahn/Selesnick The snake from the other side of the world 1998 mixed media on archival photograph 81 x 7 inches KS 36
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Kahn/Selesnick Adam and Eve in Banyan Tree 1999 mixed media on archival photograph 82 ¼ x 8 ¾ inches KS 42
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Kahn/Selesnick Goggles Ireland windsweepers 1997 mixed media on archival photograph 72 x 7 ¼ inches KS 46
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Kahn/Selesnick Little Peter Doll with Shaman 1998 mixed media on archival photograph 72 x 7 ¼ inches KS 43
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Miyoko Ito Jan. into Feb. 47 x 39 inches Oil on canvas JJ 3
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Joseph Seigenthaler Switch Man 1996 Ceramic, steel, epoxy, acrylic 35 x 34 x 38 inches JSE 2
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Henry Darger At Wickey Sansinia, Vivian Girls Learn… c. 1940 - 1950 Watercolor, Pencil, Carbon Transfer and Collage on Paper 19 x 43 inches (Framed) NL 77
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Henry Darger Showing Attackers Configured… c. 1940 - 1950 Watercolor, Pencil, Carbon Transfer and Collage on Paper 18 x 47 inches (Framed) NL 121
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Mary Lou Zelazny Little Balls of Air 1994 66.5 x 43 inches Oil, collage on canvas
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Aimée Beaubien Orb 1999 Collage with silver gelatin prints AB 50
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Aimée Beaubien Diaphragm 1999 Collage with silver gelatin prints AB 51
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Phyllis Bramson In Between 23 1989 47 x 72 inches chalk and pastel on paper PB 66
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Joseph Yoakum Coachello Valley near San Bernardino California 8/4/69 Pen, colored pencil on paper 12 x 19 inches JY 97
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Joseph Yoakum Estero Bay in Pacific Ocean near Mt. Buchon California Oct 25, 1969 Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on paper 12 x 18 inches JY 116
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Joseph Yoakum The Valley of the Moon in Big Horn Mtn Rang Sheridan Wyoming c. 1968 -70 Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on paper 12 x 18 inches JY 125
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Karl Wirsum Take Me Out of Mothballs 1978 Wood, Paint and Plastic 18 x 9 x 3 ½ inches JJ 1
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Lee Godie Women in red with red eyelashes Paint and ballpoint pen on canvas LGBS 6
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Lee Godie Untitled (Lady in hat with long hair) LGBS 25
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Lee Godie Perfume Bottle Green bottle against red painted canvas LGBS 3
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Lee Godie Woman with Orange Leaves Dress design on other side LGBS 26
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Untitled (Horse) BT159 |
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Bill Traylor Blue Spotted Dog 2 |
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Don Baum DB 66 |
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For Immediate Release
FRESH TAKES II
EARLY WORKS / FAMILIAR FACES
Exhibition Dates: July 13 – August 31, 2007 Opening Reception: Friday, July 13, 5:30 – 8:00 P.M.
Carl Hammer Gallery is pleased to close its annual exhibition season showcasing the artists who have had significant exposure and a large following of collectors and admirers within the Chicago art scene for so many years. It is a refreshing look back at, not on that which they are currently creating, but of the early work which placed each of them indelibly into an international art community’s consciousness. It has been a most rewarding experience delving into the archives of each artist, musing over work of earlier periods, often achieved before ever coming to this gallery. I believe the public will appreciate this reunion, of sorts, and find the work equally compelling, still viably pertinent to these times, and filled with invention that’s not, even now, out of date. From Phyllis Bramson’s early pastel drawings, to the collage and paint underwater masterpieces of Mary Lou Zelazny, from David Sharpe’s Herculean vision of “The Universe” to the diminutive, visionary landscapes of Joseph Yoakum, the exhibition is expansive, insightful, and memorable. We are pleased to re-visit the work of artists not exhibited for some time, Lee Godie, Miyoko Ito, Joseph Siegenthaler, and Hollis Sigler. We are excited to have on board, one of our newest artists at this gallery with a longtime Chicago presence, Michael Hernandez de Luna. And though we do not represent him, we are honored to present, on the heels of his brilliant retrospective with the Chicago Cultural Center, early painting and sculpture by Karl Wirsum. Rounding out the list of artists included, Don Baum, Aimée Beaubien, Henry Darger, Kahn & Selesnick, Martin Mull, Elizabeth Shreve, and Bill Traylor all make significant contribution to this exhibition’s re-examination of their work, of their collective visions of our real and unreal worlds and of our humanity.
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