3/14: DRESSING THE FUTURE IN MY HUMILITY // new work by JOSHUA MCGARVEY

2015 March 9

by theacreproject

DRESSING THE FUTURE IN MY HUMILITY
new work by JOSHUA MCGARVEY

Saturday, March 14, 7PM

DEFIBRILLATOR GALLERY
1463 W Chicago Ave.

ACRE and DEFIBRILLATOR GALLERY present a performance event on Saturday, March 14th at 7 PM at 1463 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL. ACRE has partnered with DEFIBRILLATOR GALLERY to host DRESSING THE FUTURE IN MY HUMILITY a performance by JOSHUA MCGARVEY, the next installment in ACRE’s year-long series of exhibitions by 2013 ACRE summer residents. The one night exhibition will include interactive performance, video installation, sculpture, and a publication. A $10 donation will be requested at the door.

Dressing The Future in my Humility

Embracing nostalgia and a stripped down aesthetic, McGarvey uses this anecdote to describe his newest work, “I wet my pants during Kindergarten play rehearsal of The Three Little Pigs. I was the pig with the stick house.” And a similarly poetic biography snapshot, “My mother was a painter and drawer when she was younger but during my lifetime she didn’t draw much other than during my father’s sermons at church. We would doodle on the offering envelopes. She taught me to tear open the sides to provide a larger blank sheet when the inside was turned out.”

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Committed to presenting a vast range of styles and forms of performance art, Defibrillator Gallery (a.k.a. DFBRL8R) is a non-profit 501c3 arts organization dedicated to fostering local talent while invigorating Chicago with artists of exceptional calibre from around the globe. Contextualizing performance within visual art, DEFIBRILLATOR presents work by artists who look to the body, objects, space, and time for inspiration, research and practice. Dynamic programming, decidedly fearless and unique, aims to provoke thought and stimulate discourse surrounding performance art. One of only a handful of galleries worldwide who focus specifically on performance art, DFBRL8Ractively contributes to a global dialog surrounding the exhibition of conceptual, ephemeral, or enigmatic forms of time-based expression. Defibrillator is partially supported by grants from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation and The Illinois Arts Council Agency.

More information about Defibrillator Gallery can be found at dfbrl8r.org.