INFO
This web site marks the occasion of Christine Tarkowski's solo exhibition
Last Things Will Be First And First Things Will Be Last
at the Chicago Cultural Center
January 29 - May 2nd, 2010
CONTACT
ctarko@artic.edu
BIO
Christine Tarkowski is a Chicago based artist who works in a variety of mediums including sculpture, printed matter, photography and song. Her works range in scale from the ordinary to the monumental. Equally variable is her scope of production which incorporates the making of permanent architectural structures, cast models, textile yardage and temporary printed ephemera. Many of her recent works point toward the flotsam of western culture relative to systems of democracy, religion and capitalism. Those systems often intersect with or concern themes of conversion, salvation, and belief and are malleable systems relative to a believer’s desires.
Her solo exhibitions include Whale Oil, Slave Ships & Burning Martyrs at Priska Juschka Fine Art in New York, Imitatio Dei at the Museum of Contemporary in Chicago and Last Things Will Be First And First Things Will Be Last at the Chicago Cultural Center. She has been included in exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Socrates Sculpture Park, Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design, RISD Museum, and The Renaissance Society in Chicago. She has created commissioned projects for the Manilow Sculpture Park at Governor’s State University, Mass MoCA, Public Art/City of Chicago, and Franconia Sculpture Park. She currently is an Associate Professor in the Fiber and Material Studies Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has been the recipient of grants from the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, the Creative Capital Foundation, the Illinois Arts Council and the Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media and been awarded residencies at the Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris and the J.M. Kohler Arts in Industry.
EXHIBITION CREDITS
Nathan Mason, curator
Jon Langford, music collaboration
Ben Nicholson, exhibition essay
Jason Pickleman / the JNL, exhibition graphics
Melinda Fries, web design and video documentation
Michelle Litvin, exhibition photography
Jason Creps, concert photography
and thanks to Greg Knight and Lee Kelly
Fabrication/Installation Assistance:
Nat Ward
Steve Badgett
Aicha Menendez
Bobbi Meier
Erin Minckley-Chlaghmo
Andrea Loest
Manuel Sanchez
Alex Miller
Jongock Kim
Exhibition Supported by:
The Richard H. Dreihaus Foundation
Illinois Arts Council, a state agency
