10/29: Real Space // new work by Zak Arctander, Dan Bradica, Bryan Lear and Alyse Ronayne
REAL SPACE
new work by
Zak Arctander, Dan Bradica, Bryan Lear, Alyse Ronayne
October 29 – November 27
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 29, 6-10
Open Hours: Sundays, 1-4
LVL3
1542 N Milwaukee Ave, 3rd floor
In REAL SPACE these four artists create work using recognizable forms and materials, re-contextualizing, de-contextualizing and transforming the familiar into the unfamiliar. Alyse Ronayne’s paper sculptures hover in liminal space, intermixing senses of luminosity and weightlessness with density and heft. Bryan Lear illuminates the interconnectedness between the ordinary and the rare with the use of simple transformations. Dan Bradica manipulates and intervenes with images of the natural, exploring relationships with perception, space and environment. Zak Arctander uses the image as surrogate to portray his light and dark subjects in a balanced scheme. These four artists will exhibit together in the generative spirit of the residency to support and institute their ongoing ideas.
ZAK ARCTANDER is a Chicago-based artist who makes sculptures, videos, and photographs. He received his BFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2010. He works as an Artist Guide at the Museum of Contemporary Art and is an assistant at Iceberg Projects in Rogers Park. Currently, he is looking at the formal language and convoluted gestures of intimacy that can arise when someone passes out at a party.
More information about Zak Arctander can be found at playpast.tumblr.com
DAN BRADICA (b. 1988, Joliet IL) received his BFA from Columbia College in 2011. He has participated in group exhibitions at the Catherine Edelman Gallery, the Union League Club, the Robert Wayner Gallery in Chicago, and the Walker Point Center for the Arts in Milwaukee. He is the recipient of the Albert P. Weisman Grant, Civic and Arts Foundation Award, Columbia College Commencement Photo, and the John Mulvany Scholarship.
More information about Dan Bradica can be found at danbradica.com
BRYAN LEAR lives and works in Chicago. He received his BA in photography from Columbia College Chicago, and his MFA in Photography, Video & Related Media from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. His work has been exhibited in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. He is currently teaching photography at McHenry County College in Crystal Lake, Illinois.
More information about Bryan Lear can be found at www.bryanlear.com
ALYSE RONAYNE was born in Detroit, MI and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She holds a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD. Her work has been exhibited at Open Space in Baltimore, MD; Craighead Green Gallery in Dallas, TX; extra extra and Bodega spaces in Philadelphia, PA; and most recently in a solo show with AD Projects in New York, NY. Her writing was published in Possible Press’ Third Issue, which was released at Miami Art Basel in 2010.
More information about Alyse Ronayne can be found at alyseronayne.com