Audible at ESS is a public space and gallery for exhibitions, meetings, workshops, performances, and artists projects. A simple 400-square-foot space at street level, the space is not only used for ESS programs and events, but is also open to proposals by artists, organizations, and community members.
Current exhibition
Fred Holland: Golden Splinters
May 15 – July 19, 2009
Throughout his career as an artist, Fred Holland has been unflinching in his confrontation of political and social themes. Yet, as strong as the polemics that he engages may be, it’s his commitment to material and form that makes his work stand out from practitioners of so-called “political art.” When one encounters the immediate topical ironies in his work, the reaction is not “I get it,” but rather “Now where’s he taking me?” The result is that although his initial message may be clear, it’s the viewer’s physical encounter with the work that drives the iconoclastic subject matter even deeper both into one’s consciousness and into the less dialectical recesses of the psyche.
Golden Splinters is an attempt to illuminate the artist’s perceptions of a broken healthcare system. The ineffectual crutch stands as a metaphor for the larger failings of a country that views health care as privilege instead of a basic human right, and where a medical event can led to bankruptcy and ruin.
Opening reception: Friday, May 15, 6 – 9pm
with musical guest Guillermo Gregorio at 7pm.
Fred Holland: Golden Splinters is curated by Lou Mallozzi for Audible Gallery at ESS.
Past projects
Linda Kramer: Stray Flowers (Feb-April 2009)
Hal Rammel: Regional Light: Both Near and Far (Nov-Dec 2008)
Karen Lebergott: Magic Mountain (Sept-Nov 2008)
Kristin M. Frieman: Thread Tracings: a Dressmaker’s Still Life (May-June 2008) & Return Relief (June-Aug 2008)
McArthur Binion: Simplicism II: Gouache Work (Mar-Apr 2008)
Jeff Abell: Clarity & Confusion (Feb-Mar 2008)
Rebecca Kressley: Five Girls (It Held Her Very Close, Their Terrible Cries, There, at the Bottom, They Knew if They Stayed Very Still) (Nov-Dec 2007)
Various: Signals Across Borders (Sept-Oct 2007)
Jesse Seay: Mechanical Tide (July-Sept 2007)
Terri Zupanc: listening - drawings and photos (May-June 2007)
Michael J. Schumacher: Room Piece Chicago (March-April 2007)
Stephen Lapthisophon: The Sound of Music (February 2007)
Peter Brötzmann and Tom Raworth: Visual Works (November-December 2006)
