Details from Hatch projects artists Dan Giordan (left) and Carole Hennessy (right)

HATCH Projects Presents: HITS CLOSE TO HOME
A two-person exhibition featuring HATCH Project artists
Daniel Giordan and Carole Hennessy
Curated by Teresa Silva
Opening Reception: February 17, 6-9pm, Show runs February 17-March 6, 2012

Nearly four years after the 2008 financial crisis, we continue to experience the upheaval and setbacks that it has imposed, namely on the housing industry. Shuttered and overturned properties have destabilized our fixed meaning of the home’s sense of security and intimacy. HITS CLOSE TO HOME investigates the notions of house and home and their shifting cultural significance in our contemporary moment. Dan Giordan and Carole Hennessy re-present these concepts with image and text and through various materials and processes, to reconsider both the social unit’s fragility and persistence to embody our intimate lives.

Daniel Giordan
Daniel Giordan has shown his work in galleries, museums, and universities throughout the United States.
Through a combination of painting, digital imaging, and mixed media montage, His evocative images
resonate on a personal level, while exploring the nature of photography, figuration, and digital image
making. Dan lives in the Chicago area, and has a studio in Bartlett, IL.

Carole Hennessy
Carole Hennessy has been involved with watercolor and the arts for over 30 years as an artist and
educator. From Quincy University, where she received her BFA, she went on to teach art in both Missouri
and Illinois. She owned and operated a frame shop and gallery in Quincy and later in Downers
Grove. Hennessy is a signature member of the Illinois Watercolor Society, the Missouri Watercolor
Society, the Taos National Society of Watercolorists, the Watercolor Honor Society, the National
Watercolor Society. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Illinois Watercolor Society and the
Watercolor Honor Society. Hennessy has had solo exhibits at the Oesterle Gallery at North Central
College and at the Union League Club of Chicago and exhibits regularly in both regional and national
juried exhibitions. Currently, she has her studio in Chicago where she lives with her husband.

Teresa Silva
Teresa Silva is curator of the Campus Art Collection at the College of Architecture & the Arts, University
of Illinois at Chicago. Her writings have appeared in Museums & Social Issues, by Left Coast Press, Inc.
and PROOF, an experimental UIC MFA thesis exhibition catalogue. She was the curatorial associate at
the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum from 2009 to 2011, where she organized Unfinished Business:
Juvenile Justice together with community activists and artists. Currently, she is collaborating to create an
exhibition about the history of black incarceration in the United States, which will be presented in October
2012.

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