Color Memory
(left wall) mdf shelf with edition of black and white ‘zines comprised of studio and painting research for viewers to take away; (floor) 7 ft x 7 ft grey gradient painted on floor with 40 works oil on gessoed paper, each 11 in x 15 in with (6) black and white photographs, 4 in x 6 in; (wall right) 3 framed works oil on gessoed paper, 16 in x 12 in, 2017. Image credit: Robert Chase Heishman.
Color Memory (detail shot)
40 works oil on gessoed paper, each 11 in x 15 in with 6 black and white photographs, 4 in x 6 in each, 2017
Superficial Paradise
HATCH Project Exhibitions
Curated by Seridan Tucker Anderson
Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL
March - April 2018
The Light Drips Down, 2015-16, 2 min loop MP4 video installation
The Light Drips Down is a video installation that is site-reflexive and presented as single or multi-channel. This video joins static and moving images where reflection, transparency and opaque surfaces converge and degrade. Static images are a combination of snapshots of the Crystal Palace in Madrid, Spain juxtaposed with collage materials from the studio. Moving images of burning canvases were shot with assistance from Robert Chase Heishman. This work is influenced by attending a screening of Joseph Cornell’s films where the projector malfunctioned resulting in black and white celluloid film melting in vivid color in front of a live audience. Permutations of the video installation have been presented at Filter Space (Chicago, IL), Notre Dame Center for Art & Culture (South Bend, IN), SUB-MISSION (Chicago, IL), High Concept Labs (Chicago, IL), Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago, IL), and Lucciche Symposium of Video Art, Ponte di Ferro in Carrarra, Italy.
Found Color Fields, Part I (Rough Cut), 2019, 1min 36 sec MP4 video
Video loop projected through a slide that reads: “1918-, India, oil, Ryerson Library of the Art Institute of Chicago.” Glass slide is faded to a purple color. Edited digital video includes Mauser’s paintings on paper floating paper in Lake Michigan projected through a glass slide, a collaboration of sorts between Mauser and Ito’s work.
BREAK HERE
Colleen Keihm & Nicole Mauser
December 2018 – January 2019
Filter Space, Chicago, IL
Image credit: Collen Keihm