September 12 – November 2, 2008
Opening reception:
Friday, September 12, 6 PM – 9 PM,with musical guest Fred Lonberg-Holm at 7PM
In her new installation Magic Mountain, Chicago artist Karen Lebergott interweaves the everyday and the dramatic and explores their inextricability through storytelling, repetition, and nostalgic reference. An old German diary, in which an anonymous writer recounts her journey through the Dolomite Mountains and her wishes for a son’s hopeful future, forms the basis of an installation that combines videotaped readings from the diary with carbon-paper drawings of romantic alpine mountain peaks. These images and stories, as well as the content and associations they reveal, are ephemeral, delicate, and even banal at the surface, but profound at their core.
Karen Lebergott, a Chicago-based artist and Associate Professor at Lake Forest College, frequently spends summers in Berlin, Germany making and exhibiting artwork. She has been exhibiting for over 20 years and works in paint, photography and mixed media as well as drawing and installation. Maps, landscape, and the intermingling of the quotidian and the poetic inform her work. In addition to her exhibition at Audible, she will be presenting work in Berlin at the Kunstsalon October 31 – November 3, and her next solo exhibition will be at Rowland Contemporary in Chicago, opening November 7. She is also represented by Galerie artMbassy in Mitte, Berlin, Germany.
Karen Lebergott’s Magic Mountain is curated by Sandra Binion for Experimental Sound Studio.
