ThreeWalls Announces Two New Exhibitions October 19, 2007

Gallery 2A, SOLO: Ann Toebbe: Stained Glass
Gallery 2D, Resident Curators:
Grace Chicago Curatorial Project: Making Peace

Opening Reception: Friday, October 19, 2007, 6:00 – 9:00 PM
On View: Stained Glass, until November 24, 2007; Making Peace, until November 17, 2007.

CHICAGO: ThreeWalls announces two new exhibitions, opening Friday, October 19, 2007. On view in Gallery 2D: resident curators, Grace Chicago Curatorial Project, Making Peace and in Gallery 2A (SOLO): Ann Toebbe, Stained Glass (Chicago).

The Grace Chicago Curatorial Project brings together eight artists to address the subject of Making Peace, an exhibition grounded by the concept of forgiving one’s enemies. Initially inspired by Miroslav Volf: "To Triumph fully, evil needs two victories, not one. The first victory happens when an evil deed is perpetrated; the second victory, when evil is returned. After the first victory, evil would die if the second victory did not infuse it with new life;" Grace Chicago Curatorial Project has organized work that addresses themes of Palestinian exile, economic disparity and disadvantage, democracy, and meditation among others.

Making Peace features work by: Mel Davis (Berkley, CA), Juan Garcia(Grand Rapids, MI), Diana Guerrero-Macia (Chicago, IL), Emily Jacir (Ramallah, Palestine and New York, NY), Jesikah Reuhle (Chicago, IL), Mika Rottenberg (New York, NY), Christine Tarkowski (Chicago, IL) and James Westwater (Beacon, NY).

SOLO artist Ann Toebbe paints portraits of interior spaces that she reconstructs from memory. Combining multiple viewpoints, pictorial abstraction and symbolic reference, Toebbe’s technique demotes nostalgia and focuses instead on the rooms and the objects that contain mundane memories of banal activities, turning them into jewel-like objects whose detailed splendor evokes Russian icon and medieval painting, Cubism and folk art.

For her SOLO exhibition, Toebbe has painted the Catholic church interiors she remembers from childhood, and her parents' living room at Christmas, hoping to translate her experience as an adult atheist artist into pictures that explore the mysticism of painting and the pop culture undertones of contemporary religion.

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