Gallery Archive
ATC GALLERY PRESENTS
Caroline Picard: Bygone(s)
Opening Reception: January 12, 6-10pm
Continues through March 1, 2008

Re:action Reading Series
January 12, 7:30pm

WPBGA Second Saturday Gallery Walk
January 12, 6-10pm
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Art Forum Critics' Pick
TimeOut Review (pdf)

"Bygone(s)" is the culmination of a body of work that Chicago-based artist Caroline Picard began in 2002. A hand-bound novel representing most of that early work will be on display and available for sale. The novel, about 100,000 words is divided into three sections and deals with the aftermath of September 11th (as obliquely as possible) and the death of the father/husband. The text provides the linear landscape for the visual art, which exhumes the ghosts in the text by approaching them visually.





Many of the themes in the exhibition begin in Asia. In one video series, cutouts blow around in a series of public installations in Tokyo, Manila and Hong Kong. In another video series, "Fortuna: The Greatest Super Hero in the World" posts a sign on Lama Island announcing her own greatness (part of a public performance in 2005/2006). Fortuna reappears in another piece watching home videos of Tokyo as they are projected on a pillow made in the same shape as the paper cut outs. A haunting audio track from a Hong Kong underpass will be set to repeat, and finally, to provide a visual resting point, six gouache, collage-on-paper paintings are positioned at various points around the gallery. These paintings reference moods of the text, serving as intuitive landscapes of the various characters' states of mind/being. Throughout the exhibition, fictional, personal and historical weave in and out.



Born in Tokyo, Japan Caroline Picard has been showcased in exhibitions worldwide from Germany and Romania in Europe to Japan, Philippines and Hong Kong in Asia as well as in an array of cities in the United States. Of her significant achievements, Caroline’s exhibit and performance The Burnt of Aurelia, collaborated with 15 Refugee Children in an original work that integrated past experience with American culture and waking up in a new world, can be considered a forerunner. The Green Lantern Gallery & Press, Caroline’s year old gallery has received much acclaim since it integrates different mediums and voices, and facilitates the relationship between visual art, music, intellectual pursuits and literature. Caroline Picard is a graduate student at the School of the Art Institute and Director of Publications at ThreeWalls.

Re:action Reading Series
January 12, 7:30pm. Free.
Curated by Margot Bordelon (Lookinglass Theatre) and J. Adams Oaks (Serendipity Theatre Collective). Four emerging writers read works based on artwork on exhibit at the Around the Coyote Gallery. This month's readers include Margot Bordelon, J. Adams Oaks, David Blatt and Molly Each.

Location:
ATC Gallery...1935 ½ W. North Ave. Chicago, IL 60622