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
Kristin M. Frieman
Thread Tracings: A Dressmaker’s Still Life
Audible at ESS
May 2 – June 15, 2008
Gallery Hours: Saturday and Sunday, 1 PM – 5 PM, or by appointment
Opening reception, with musical guest Hal Rammel:
Friday, May 2, 6 PM – 9 PM
An evening of performance with Lynn Book and Michael Zerang:
Friday, May 30th 8PM
Thread Tracings is a series of over 100 embroidered drawings created from a dressmaker’s raw materials: needle, thread, and muslin. The compositions are created in sequence; threads pulled from the structure of the cloth hold a memory of linear form. This form, sometimes tangled, sometimes open, is captured in the process of tracing, and then recreated with an embroidered backstitch. The newly stitched lines, all the same length, seem to float on the surface of the cloth but on closer inspection are embedded within it. The work is an exploration of repetitive action over time, creating a vocabulary of memory from the filamentary remnants found within the dressmaker’s studio.
Pooling is an act of reflection and accumulation that takes place after the exhibit’s opening reception. Returning to the work after it has been installed, the artist will be stitching lines of color to a number of the black on white compositions.
Bio: Kristin Frieman is a Chicago based dressmaker, designer and artist. In the year 2000 she founded Red Shift, a licensed trademark for a line of one-of-a-kind garments for women. She is a graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she received numerous awards for her innovative designs. She has five years of professional experience as a clothing and textile designer in Milan and New York. As an independent designer she collaborates with artists from other disciplines, creating garments for dance, performance, and installation. Her teaching experience spans five years with The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Museum of Contemporary Art. She lives and works in Evanston, Illinois.
Upcoming exhibitions
Karen Lebergott (September 2008)
Creative Audio Archive Retrospective (October 2008)
Outer Ear Festival of Sound (November 2008)
Past projects
McArthur Binion: Simplicism II: Gouache Work (Mar-Apr 2007)
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)
