u-n-f-o-l-d Exhitbition Opening Reception March 16, 2011

u-n-f-o-l-d: A Cultural Response to Climate Change, an exhibition that features the work of twenty-five artists who participated in Cape Farewell expeditions to the Andes and the High Arctic from 2007 to 2009. Each artist witnessed firsthand the dramatic and fragile environmental tipping points of climate change and presented their innovative, independent and collective responses in this collection.
The Museum of Contemporary Photography will host the opening reception featuring artists who participated in the Cape Farewell expeditions, including a performance by singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock whose work also is part of the exhibit. Their bodies of work address a new process of thinking where artists play an informed and significant role through creating a cultural shift, a challenge to evolve and inspire a symbiotic contract with our spiritual and physical world.

The title u-n-f-o-l-d reflects the continuously unfolding debates that often exist in artists, between raising awareness and creating influence, at the same time as preserving and maintain a cultural practice that is grounded in a myriad of personal values, and emotions.

Because of the number of Works involved, u-n-f-o-l-d (www.colum.edu/unfold) will be on view at two Columbia College South Loop venues: The Museum of Contemporary Photography and the College’s premier gallery venue, the Glass Curtain Gallery.

Opening reception from 5–8 p.m.

WHO:
Robyn Hitchcock, English singer-songwriter and artist
David Buckland, British-born photographer
Adriane Colburn, artist based in San Francisco, Calif.
Michele Noach, London based pop-artist
Andrew Whatley, director of academic initiatives, Columbia College Chicago

Official Website: http://www.colum.edu/Administrative_offices/Academic_Affairs/unfold/