HATCH Projects
TIME ZONE
A two-person exhibition featuring
HATCH Project artists
Barbara Blacharczyk & Renee Prisble
Curated by Thea Liberty Nichols
Opening Reception: June 8, 6-9pm
Exhibition Dates: June 8-28

Renee Prisble, Thunder Cells (5), 2010

Barbara Blacharczyk, Morphology, 2012

Time Zone, featuring HATCH Projects’ artists Barbara Blacharczyk and Renee Prisble, investigates the process and materiality of organic forms in numerous stages of movement and development.

Both Blacharczyk and Prisble share an earthy color palette and mine the natural world for source material, but their respective engagement with time differentiates them. While Blacharczyk’s large-scale works on paper move through time to portray winged birds or insects in Muybridge-esque intervals of motion, Prisble’s series of sculptural installations travel across time.

Their work will be presented in concert with each other within CAC’s main gallery space, as well as separately, in respective micro-exhibitions curated by each artist and featuring their own work.

Time Zone is curated by Thea Liberty Nichols.

Barbara Blacharczyk received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has exhibited in numerous galleries throughout the Chicago area and the United States.  Her work was featured in the Spring 2011 issue of Visual Overture magazine and her drawings have been published in Manifest’s International Drawing Annual, a juried international publication of contemporary drawing.  Most recently she has been selected to participate in the competitive juried Hatch Projects gallery at the Chicago Artists’ Coalition.  Blacharczyk’s drawings and multi-layered compositions on mylar are based on elemental forms from nature.  With her skillful mastery of materials, she creates complex explorations of how these forms and concepts intersect and build on one another, tracing a sequence of changes in time and space.  Her transparent layering process develops these diverse natural elements, reveals their larger commonality, and demonstrates how, when juxtaposed, they create a unique visual harmony.

Renee Prisble is an artist working in Chicago. She earned her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1998, and her MFA from Alfred University in 2002. She has shown in the U.S., including at The International Museum of Surgical Science, The Polish Museum of America, The Freedom Museum, Perimeter Gallery, Northeastern Illinois University, Loyola University and The California Institute of Integral Studies. Like a scientist, her work develops from a series of processes, but the rules and precision of scientific discovery are replaced by a playful and chaotic approach. Her work explores our observed world through scientific and spiritual avenues. Her process-based approach to making stems from a love of experimentation with materials. As a result, her work typically expresses itself in series and multiples.

Thea Liberty Nichols is an arts administrator, independent curator and freelance writer. Formerly, she served as Director of 65GRAND gallery and Study Center Manager at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art. Presently, she works for The School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Visiting Artists Program which selects, hosts and facilitates opportunities to engage with dozens of international contemporary artists via lectures and symposia.

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