Environments: A Summer Group Show July 9, 2010

Show runs Tues-Sat, 11-5, July 9 through August 28; opening reception Friday, July 9, 6-8pm

The new show Environments features work by four artists: Jason Dunda, Claire Jackel, Cecilia Ramirez-Corzo, and Ross Racine.

The four artists present their unconventional perspective on architecture, design, urban landscape, and the environment. Working mostly with paper, they all explore and expose a sense of discomfort and awkwardness about the environment, here portrayed as something substantial and yet precarious; a place that simultaneously protects us and endangers us. Dunda's tottering stacks of furniture, while seemingly constructed in a contemporary fashion of sustainable materials, are monumental but frail structures, destined to collapse if ever put to use. Jackel's train wrecks and warped buildings remind us of the impermanence of the infrastructure we take for granted. Ramirez-Corzo's drawings on rectilinear graph paper twist our perceptions. Racine's ironic and paradoxical suburban communities present a utopian but preposterous world, from which escape is impossible.

Jason Dunda received a BFA from York University in Toronto, and his MA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He now teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Cecilia Ramirez-Corzo has studied Fine Arts, Cinematography, and Architecture in London, UK. She currently lives and works in her native Mexico City and has been shown internationally in Asia, Europe, and North America.

Claire Jackel received her BFA from the University of, and her M.A. from San Francisco Art Institute. She now works and lives in San Francisco.

Ross Racine, based in New York, has shown his artificial landscapes nationally and internationally for the past 10 years. Drawn freehand and printed with an inkjet printer, his aerial views of fictional suburbs are a unique commentary on society's transformation of the landscape.

There will be an opening reception Friday, July 9 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM.

Official Website: http://www.cainschulte.com/exhibits.html