ThreeWalls Announces: Dani Leventhal, JUSTOS SOBRE LA TIERRA - JUST ABOVE GROUND September 9, 2005

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - September 1, 2005
ThreeWalls announces:

JUSTOS SOBRE LA TIERRA - JUST ABOVE GROUND
by Resident Artist: Dani Leventhal
   

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, September 9, 6:00 ? 9:00 PM
ON VIEW: September 9 - October 1, 2005

ThreeWallsSALON: Thursday, September 29, 7:30 ? 9:00 PM
ARTIST TALK & CLOSING RECEPTION: Friday, September 30, 4:00 PM

CHICAGO, IL ? Tackling the reality of white privilege, Dani Leventhal leads the viewer through a personal course of realization and acknowledgment, as she works to eradicate her own racism. Undoubtedly one of our culture?s most uncomfortable topics and hotly disputed realities, Leventhal steers the course in a personal journey that is as beautiful and poignant as it is political. Through sculpture, video and painting, Leventhal responds to the difficult subject of race, class and immigration and the question of survival in a Westernized world that favors the success of the economically advantaged, over the broad base of low income earners who work to support our consumption.

In addition to exhibiting video recorded on her recent trip to Ecuador, Leventhal has built a continuous walkway that circles the gallery, inviting the audience to travel between the economic positions of poverty and wealth, while considering their own class privileges.

Dani Leventhal earned her M.F.A. at The University of Illinois, Chicago in 2003. Her practice frequently addresses social and cultural concerns through considerate works in performance, video, sculpture and drawing. She has exhibited her work inexhibitions and screenings at in Chicago, New York, Amsterdam andEquador including Gallery 400, Chicago; Women in the Director'sChair, Chicago; and El Container, Quito, Ecuador.

Dani Leventhal will give an artist?s talk on her work and this project on Friday, September 30th at 4:00 p.m. followed by a closing reception and light refreshments from 5:00 ? 6:00 p.m.

Join us for a special JUSTOS SOBRE LA TIERRA - JUST ABOVE GROUND ThreeWallsSALON on Thursday, September 29th from 7:30 - 9:00 p.m. Doors open at 7:00 p.m.