5020 S. Cornell
Chicago, IL 60615
Part of the Wheel of Life group exhibition programming.
Curator Scott Wolniak is leading an in-person tour of the exhibition and a discussion with participating artists Leslie Baum and Georgina Valverde, on curating the show, their artistic practice, and creating moving images for a zoetrope.
Register for the Curatorial Tour & Artist Talk here.
Scott Wolniak is a multidisciplinary artist, teacher and curator based in Chicago, and an Instructional Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago. Working in a variety of media including drawing, sculpture and animation, his work uses humor and phenomenology to present everyday life within a cosmic context. Wolniak has exhibited throughout the U.S., and was the founder and director of an alternative exhibition space Suitable Gallery between 1999 and 2005. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Lynden Sculpture Garden in Milwaukee. Wolniak received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1995, and an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2002.
Leslie Baum, six frames from zoetrope sequence, 2022