New works created by STEPHANIE BROOKS WILL BE EXHIBITED AT THE
RIVERSIDE ART CENTER FREEARK GALLERY. Opening reception on Friday, 3
December from 6 to 9 PM. The EXHIBITION, titled "OBSTACLES AND
INTIMACIES", will continue until 8 January.
With the works in this EXHIBITION, she interrogates ways in which
intimacy and barriers intersect. Using barricades both literally and
metaphorically, she asks viewers to think on what is a barricade and
what is intimate in their lives...how do we navigate and negotiate
public and private spaces?
STEPHANIE BROOKS IS A CONCEPTUAL ARTIST, writer, and curator living in
Chicago. She earned her BFA degree from Ohio University and MFA degree
from University of Illinois Chicago. She exhibits her work nationally
and internationally including exhibits in Atlanta, Chicago, Denmark,
Indianapolis, London, Los Angeles, Louisville, San Francisco, New
York, Vienna, Phoenix, and Hawaii. She is an Adjunct Professor
teaching in the Sculpture Department at The School of the Art
Institute of Chicago. Her publications include Love Is A Certain Kind
Of Flower, Green Lantern Press; Poem and Poem Forms, Illinois State
University Press; The Virginia Quarterly Review, and Critical Inquiry.
Her art is included in the permanent collections of The Whitney Museum
of American Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Microsoft
Corporation, and Philip Morris Corporation, as well as many private
collections. Curatorial projects include Humor Us, and Oli Watt, What?
At The Riverside Arts Center.
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Also exhibiting will be the executive director of Riverside Art
Center, Liz Chilsen, a Chicago-area artist, educator and arts
administrator. Her work explores connections between human spirit and
physical place. She has been exhibited throughout the US and
internationally, and her work is held at Detroit Institute of Arts,
Wisconsin Historical Society, Nicaragua Cultural Center, the
University of Illinois’ Comer Archive, and the Museum of
Contemporary Photography. She is recipient of numerous awards and
honors, including an Individual Artist Fellowship from IL Arts
Council, an IL Humanities Bicentennial Action Grant, residencies at
Ragdale Foundation, Chicago Artists’ Coalition, and The Center
program at Hyde Park Art Center. Chilsen holds an MFA in Photography
from Columbia College and a Bachelor of Science in Art from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is Director of “Lessons of
Place”, a photographic study of endangered places funded by Illinois
Humanities, and a Teaching Artist with Chicago Arts Partnerships in
Education (CAPE) in Chicago Public Schools.
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