October 2024: Faculty and Staff Accomplishments

Associate Professor Aimée Beaubien’s exhibition Hold Tight is on view at NON STNDRD in Sauget, Illinois. Hold Tight uses lightweight suspension lines—often associated with survival situations and friendship bracelets—to create woven and knotted structures.

Associate Professor Lee Blalock is part of the group show Fictions of Presence at Slash gallery in San Francisco through December 14.

Lecturer Eleana Daniels and Associate Professor, Adj. Emily Schroeder Willis’s show Double Ground opens at Oliva Gallery on October 11.

Assistant Director of the Sullivan Fabrication Studio Kazuki Guzman is included in the group exhibition The Spaces We Call Home, featuring six artists and designers based in or with strong ties to Chicago, organized by the DePaul Art Museum.

Lecturer Jenny Halpern, Associate Professor, Adj. John Neff, Professor, Adj. Eia Radosavljevic, and Lecturer Bun Stout are part of the group exhibition Maisons Fragiles at the Chicago gallery RUSCHWOMAN, on view through November 17.

Associate Professor Salvador Jimenez was the summer 2024 Artist-in-Residence at the Joan Mitchell Art Center in New Orleans. The Joan Mitchell Foundation released a video detailing his work and approach.

Professor Eduardo Kac has multiple pieces on view at the Tate Modern’s exhibit, Electric Dreams. His minitel artwork Tesão will be exhibited at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum as part of the exhibition Electric Op. His work The Silent Circle will begin its three-year orbit of Earth. In September, he accepted an honorary doctorate from the Royal College of Art in recognition of his accomplishments and varied innovations in contemporary art.

Associate Professor Mark Addison Smith’s solo exhibition, You Look Like The Right Type: 15 Years, is on view at Valade Family Gallery at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan. The show features over 400 drawings of verbatim, overheard conversation fragments as a celebration of his 15-year, daily practice.

Lecturer Sebastian Thomas’s exhibition, Ballad Over the Ocean, will be on view with Nashira Gallery in Milan, Italy, through November 15. The show features original work as well as a curated collection of medieval helmets and armor from Czerny's International Auction House in Sarzana.

Professor Mechtild Widrich’s book, Monumental Cares: Sites of History and Contemporary Art, is a finalist for the prestigious ASAP Book Prize.