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Passion for Process
© Tom Fruin
Born 1974, Los Angeles, California
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York
Discard, 2003
300 found playing cards with aluminum mounting brackets
66 x 51 x 6 inches
courtesy Mike Weiss Gallery, New York
As the digitized image on the plasma screen becomes the common means of communication and the keyboard replaces the hand, a number of artists are turning to traditional hobbies and craft expressions as foundations for their art. Informed by process art of the 1970s in which the making of art was as important as the finished product, the artists in this exhibition use manual skills- including meticulous hand-beading, sewing, quilting, silhouette cutting, collaging-and ordinary materials to achieve extraordinary results.
Their two- and three-dimensional contemporary works negotiate a path between organic and geometric form and between the pixelated and the painterly.
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Practitioners of extreme craft, these artists focus on obsession from homemaking to hobbies to addictions.
Artists included are: Chakaia Booker, Juliann Cydylo, Tom Friedman, Tom Fruin, Victoria Haven, Lisa Hoke, Nina Katchadourian, Liza Lou, Jennifer Maestre, Elizabeth Simonson, Devorah Sperber, Fred Tomaselli, and Rachel Perry Welty.
This exhibition was organized by the Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The exhibition was sponsored in part by Donald and Alice Dodds, Fox Development Corporation, Krannert Art Museum Council, Illinois Arts Council, and Hampton Inn.
The Addison 's presentation of OVER+ OVER: PASSION FOR PROCESS is supported by the Winton Family Exhibition Fund.
© Victoria Haven
Born 1964, Seattle, Washington
Lives and works in Seattle, Washington
Wonderland, 2004
cut shelf-paper and YUPO, pinned to wall with insect pins
102 x 256 x 1 inches
courtesy the artist and Howard House, Seattle
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