Environments: Artist Talk and Closing Reception August 28, 2010

Open Tues-Sat 11-5 through August 28, closing reception 2-5 on Sat 8/28

Cain Schulte will hold a closing reception for "Environments," featuring work by four artists: Jason Dunda, Claire Jackel, Cecilia Ramirez-Corzo, and Ross Racine. The closing reception is Sat, Aug 28 from 2-5. Claire Jackel speaks at 3:00.

The four artists present their unconventional perspective on 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.

San Francisco-based artist Claire Jackel received her BFA from the University of Colorado in 2004, and her M.F.A. from San Francisco Art Institute. Her canvases speak of the force of nature colliding with the constructs of society. Her aerial installations visually explore issues related to the human manipulation of the environment and to the fragility and sustainability of the world we create.

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.

Ross Racine, based in New York, has shown his artificial landscapes nationally and internationally for the past 10 years.

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