5/21: INGREDIENTS FOR HUMBLE MAGIC // new works by BRANDON ANSCHULTZ & ADAM FARCUS
INGREDIENTS FOR HUMBLE MAGIC
new works by BRANDON ANSCHULTZ & ADAM FARCUS
May 21 – June 3, 2011
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 21, 7-11pm
Reading/Performance by Adam Farcus: Sunday, May 22, 1pm
Open hours by appointment, contact thehillsestheticcenter@gmail.com
The Hills Esthetic Center
128 N Campbell Ave
INGREDIENTS FOR HUMBLE MAGIC:
Brandon Anschultz’ work is generally founded in the fundamental tenets of formal painting – chromatics, substrate, composition, dimensionality, and presentation. He use these as a starting points to create paintings, objects and installations with various references to art-history, poetic ideas and loosely themed narratives. His practice is heavily based in material improvisation.
In his work, Adam Farcus uses existing cultural systems to construct experiences that question ideas of spirituality, joy, death, poetry, and the construction of self. His pieces in this exhibition utilize the languages of spiritual belief and poetics to transform the everyday into the fantastic. These pieces simultaneously elevate the banal to unexpected heights and place the magical in an accessible, even common, realm. In all of his work, Adam’s goal is to always do the most obvious thing in the most surprising way.
BRANDON ANSCHULTZ was born in Judsonia, Arkansas and currently lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri. His most recent solo exhibitions were Stick Around for Joy at Laumeier Sculpture Park (St. Louis) and Longue Vue House and Gardens (New Orleans), and a self-titled exhibition at Carrie Secrist Gallery (Chicago). He has additionally had recent exhibitions at Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Philadelphia), Front Desk Apparatus (New York), White Flag Projects and Boots Contemporary Artspace (St. Louis), and Monte Vista Projects (Los Angeles). Anschultz received his BFA from Louisiana Tech University and his MFA from Washington University in St. Louis.
More information on Brandon Anschultz can be found at anschultz.com.
ADAM FARCUS currently lives in East Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago and has held an adjunct professor position at the University of St. Francis since 2009. His work has been exhibited at the Gallery 400, Chicago; University Galleries, Normal, IL; Hyde Part Arts Center, Chicago; Second Bedroom Project Space, Chicago; The Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids; and the Miami Bridge Art Fair, Miami. He has also lectured on his work at numerous venues, including The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Performance Studies International 16 conference. Adam received his M.F.A. from the University of Illinois at Chicago, B.F.A. from Illinois State University, and A.A. from Joliet Junior College.
More information on Adam Farcus can be found at adamfarcus.com.