ThreeWallsSALONS June 16, 2005

ThreeWalls announces:

ThreeWallsSALONS
THURSDAYS: June 16 and 23, 2005
7:30 p.m. ? 9:00 p.m.
Doors open at 7:00 p.m.

CHICAGO, IL - ThreeWallsSALONS returns this summer with two discussions in the month of June. ThreeWallsSALONS offers an open forum to discuss ideas suggested by recent ThreeWalls programs, our current resident artist and the current social and political climate in which we live. The first salon, on June 16th, wonders if people and art can be ?good? and ?bad.? The second, a week later on June 23rd, will showcase the work of Virginia Poundstone, the current ThreeWalls resident artist, as she leads a slide lecture and discussion on her artwork. Poundstone's residency will culminate with an exhibition opening on July 1st. Each ThreeWallsSALONS is on a Thursday night. Doors open at 7:00 p.m. The conversation begins at 7:30 p.m. and lasts until approximately 9:00 p.m. ThreeWallsSALONS are free and open to the public.

DETAILS:
ThreeWallsSALONS: Thursday, June 16
Only Good People Wonder if They are Bad?: Limits on Taste and Context in Art and War

It?s often bemoaned that criticism is a dead art, and it is certainly a truism that art can be just about anything. Does this suggest that, at some level, art just is? How ungoverned by context and unbound by pronouncements of ?good? and ?bad? should art be allowed to be? Is it useful to apply a similar logic to people as well? Perhaps the purpose of being a person is to just be. Is this mindset useful when considering human activities such war, terror and genocide? Can we be good people?

Invited respondants will include Kathryn Hixson, critic, editor and art history Ph.D. candidate; Eric Husketh, Doctor of Laws; and Valerie Newman, artist and art therapist.

ThreeWallsSALONS: Thursday, June 23
Resident Artist: Virginia Poundstone

This salon will be a slide lecture and discussion by our current resident artist, Virginia Poundstone, about her prior work and the project she is currently developing. While at ThreeWalls, Poundstone will be continuing on-going research and work on a public project slated for proposal to Chicago's Department of the Environment. Citing her Naturalist heritage as influential on her practice, Poundstone's work addresses the points of friction between industrialized civilization and the natural landscape. Her past work has been exhibited in New York and Brooklyn as well as recent inclusion in "High Desert Test Sites III," an exhibition curated by Andrea Zittel.