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Bidding available on Artsy.netFriday, November 11, 2022 6:30pm&nbsp;SAIC GalleriesSchool of the Art Institute of Chicago33 E. Washington St.&nbsp;&nbsp;More information, bidding, and tickets <a href="https://sites.saic.edu/artauction/?utm_source=cgn&amp;utm_medium=listing&amp;utm_campaign=artauction2022">HERE</a>Join us this November as the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) hosts a virtual art auction of groundbreaking work from the School’s faculty and alums. Browse and buy artwork by Nick Cave, Sanford Biggers, Candida Alvarez, Roger Brown, Karl Wirsum, Angel Otero, Richard Hunt, Michelle Grabner, Jeffrey Gibson, Diane Simpson, and Richard Rezac and more on Artsy.net November 1-14.&nbsp;Join us in person on November 11 for A Happening Auction Party, a benefit celebrating the SAIC community and world-renowned artists and designers who generously donated works for our virtual art auction. Inspired by Allan Kaprow’s interactive and riotous Happenings of the 1950s and 1960s, this incomparable evening will include a live auction of exclusive pieces from alums and faculty.A celebration of SAIC’s artists, designers, and scholars, A Happening Auction Party and SAIC Art Auction 2022 will raise critical funds for student scholarships.&nbsp;

SAIC Art Auction and A Happening Auction Party

This fall, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) will present the <a href="https://sites.saic.edu/facultysabbatical/">SAIC Faculty Sabbatical Triennial exhibition</a>, featuring a wide range of work across multiple disciplines created by nearly 40 faculty who have completed a sabbatical or other paid leave over the past three academic years. Gallery-based presentations, lectures and events, and a dedicated website represent the research and practices of these SAIC faculty members.“Sabbaticals are often a time for inquiry, experimentation, and production to help faculty sustain their instructional and professional practices,” said Staci Boris, director of exhibitions and curator of the exhibition. “Many of the sabbaticals were impacted by the pandemic, yet the work produced during this time is exceptionally inspiring as faculty embraced the uncertainty, looked to the familiar, and explored new ways of making.”The Triennial, which opens August 31 at <a href="https://www.saic.edu/exhibitions/saic-galleries">SAIC Galleries</a>, and related programs celebrate the unrelenting creativity and resilience of SAIC’s renowned faculty. The exhibition includes several new works that have never been on view, including a painting from Candida Alvarez that will be making its Chicago debut. Participating faculty include Candida Alvarez, Aimée Beaubien, jonCates, Nic Collins, Romi Crawford, Kate Dumbleton, Stephen Farrell, Elizabeth Freeland, Pablo Garcia, Maria Gaspar, Diana Guerrero-Maciá, Anne Harris, Claudia Hart, Myungah Hyon, Mark Jeffery, Bruce Jenkins, Linda Keane, Lora Lode, Anke Loh, Lou Mallozzi, Ruth Margraff, William J. O’Brien, Mary Patten, Claire Pentecost, Dushko Petrovich, Frank Piatek, Dan Price, Eia Radosavljevic, Melissa Raman Molitor, David Raskin, Scott Reeder, Katrin Schnabl, Jim Trainor, Lan Tuazon, Oli Watt, Bess Williamson, Beth Wright, and Andrew S. Yang.This 2022 edition of the Triennial marks the first in a newly conceived series dedicated to faculty work, which will occur every three years at SAIC Galleries as the featured exhibition of the fall semester. The 2022 SAIC Faculty Sabbatical Triennial is organized by Staci Boris, director of exhibitions, and Graduate Curatorial Assistants Clayton Kennedy (Dual MA 2023) and Christine Magill (Dual MA 2023).&nbsp;Free and open to the public | Exhibition Web Page: <a href="https://sites.saic.edu/facultysabbatical/">https://sites.saic.edu/facultysabbatical/</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;

SAIC Faculty Sabbatical Triennial 

Artadia and the Department of Exhibitions and Exhibition Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago have invited Adrienne Edwards, Engell Speyer Family Curator and Curator of Performance, The Whitney Museum in New York City to be in conversation with Huey Copeland, Arthur Andersen Teaching and Research Professor at Northwestern University for a free online public program.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://artadia.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=473154334dd94da93b5b760bb&amp;id=4c990f28b0&amp;e=46cd983d87">Please click here to RSVP</a>&nbsp;Adrienne Edwards is a curator, scholar and writer. She is the Engell Speyer Family Curator and Curator of Performance at The Whitney Museum and a PhD candidate in performance studies at New York University. Prior to her appointment at The Whitney, Edwards was the Curator at Performa since 2010, and Curator at Large for the Walker Art Center since 2016. Edwards’ curatorial and scholarly work focuses on artists of the African Diaspora and the Global South. In addition to her curatorial practice, Edwards’ is a contributor to numerous exhibition catalogues and art publications including, Art in America, Aperture, and Parkett, among other publications. Huey Copeland is Interim Director of the Black Arts Initiative, Arthur Andersen Teaching and Research Professor, and Associate Professor of Art History at Northwestern University, where he also enjoys affiliations with African American Studies, Art Theory &amp; Practice, Critical Theory, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Performance Studies. His research focuses on modern and contemporary art with an emphasis on articulations of blackness in the Western visual field. An editor of OCTOBER and a contributing editor of Artforum, Copeland has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals as well as in numerous international exhibition catalogues and essay collections. At present, he is at work on two complementary volumes: “In the Shadow of the Negress: Modern Art in the Transatlantic World,” which explores the constitutive role played by fictions of black womanhood in Western art from the late 18th century to the present, and “Touched by the Mother: On Black Men, Artistic Practice, and Other Feminist Horizons, 1966–2016,” which brings together a selection of his critical essays <a href="https://artadia.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=473154334dd94da93b5b760bb&amp;id=af322e181b&amp;e=46cd983d87">The Department of Exhibitions and Exhibition Studies</a>&nbsp;brings to Chicago audiences the work of acclaimed and emerging artists, while providing the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and the public opportunities for direct involvement and exchange with the discourses of art today. With shows and projects often led by faculty or student curators, the School's exhibition spaces are teaching galleries that engage process as a pedagogical model and mode of research. <a href="https://artadia.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=473154334dd94da93b5b760bb&amp;id=70f5d3a061&amp;e=46cd983d87">Artadia</a> is a national non-profit arts organization supporting visual artists with unrestricted grants and connections to opportunities for creative and professional growth; Over the past 21 years, they have provided almost 350 Artadia Awards to artists in 6 cities across the United States: Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Houston and Atlanta. Our&nbsp;mission is to provide visual artists with the support they need to sustain a thriving practice and continue to contribute to their city’s arts community. <a href="https://artadia.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=473154334dd94da93b5b760bb&amp;id=7ca2e7bc92&amp;e=46cd983d87">Art &amp; Dialogue</a> invites curators from across the United States, who are experts in their field, to deeply engage with each Award city through a series of virtual studio visits with local Awardees and public programs&nbsp;co-hosted with local partner organizations.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Artadia Art and Dialogue: Adrienne Edwards and Huey Copeland

<a href="https://sites.saic.edu/gradshow2020/">The Future of our Plans&nbsp;</a>&nbsp;The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is proud to have&nbsp;launched The Future of our Plans, an online showcase of work from our graduate class of 2020. This website features current projects, thesis work, and creative reflections on our current moment from more than 150 artists, designers, and scholars. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

The Future of our Plans

<a href="https://sites.saic.edu/bfa2020/">Spring Undergraduate Exhibtion Website</a>&nbsp;The Spring Undergraduate&nbsp;website showcases the innovative work of more than 300 talented SAIC students completing their undergraduate degrees that was on view at the Sullivan Galleries earlier this Spring. SAIC promotes crossing disciplines and challenging received assumptions, and the results of this approach are showcased in this exhibition.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Spring Undergraduate Exhibition

What do we mean when we ask for and envision justice? Envisioning Justice shares the work of Chicago artists and communities as they visualize, actualize, and reimagine strategies, policies, and approaches in the service of a society that is just for all. Featuring artwork, ephemera, and documentation from seven Chicago communities impacted by incarceration and works by artists whose practices respond to such themes, this exhibition interrogates the failures of our criminal justice system while presenting plans toward self-empowerment and communal liberation.&nbsp;This exhibition is presented in partnership with Illinois Humanities as part of their ongoing initiative by the same name.&nbsp;For more information, please visit <a href="https://envisioningjustice.org/exhibition/">https://envisioningjustice.org/exhibition/</a>&nbsp;Mural Dancer (2018). Photo by Arnold April. Courtesy of #LetUsBreathe Collective&nbsp;&nbsp;

Envisioning Justice

What does work look like now?&nbsp;What might it look like in the future? How do we make visible work that’s been disregarded or ignored? How can these new representations leverage social change?In response curators Daniel Eisenberg and Ellen Rothenberg, inaugural fellows in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Institute for Curatorial Research and Practice, have brought together&nbsp;over eighty participating artists in twelve projects that produce new representations of labor in an increasingly technologized global economy.RE:WORKING LABORaims to produce not one conversation, but overlapping conversations—perspectives that touch one another—with representations of contemporary labor that shift in scale and scope, yet speak to each other in fundamental ways.An integrated program of lectures, workshops, presentations, performances, and film screenings (see links below), has been scheduled to accompany the exhibition throughout fall 2019.&nbsp;PROGRAMS:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://sites.saic.edu/reworkinglabor/programs/">http://sites.saic.edu/reworkinglabor/programs/</a>&nbsp;Participating artists include:Yuri Ancarani,&nbsp;Stephanie Comilang,&nbsp;Antje Ehmann,&nbsp;Kevin Jerome Everson,&nbsp;Harun Farocki,&nbsp;Cao Fei,Fabien Giraud,&nbsp;David Hall, Deanna Ledezma, Carole Frances Lung, Nneka Kai, Ibrahim Mahama, Julia Pello, John Preus,&nbsp;Riar Rizaldi,&nbsp;Josh Rios, Anthony Romero, Stephanie Rothenberg, Gregory Sholette,Raphaël Siboni,&nbsp;Eva Stotz,&nbsp;Pilvi Takala, Ryan Trecartin,&nbsp;Mierle Laderman Ukeles,&nbsp;Leilah Weinraub,Caroline Woolard, and&nbsp;Li Ziqi.This exhibition&nbsp;is generously supported by the Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation; SAIC’s Department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation; SAIC’s Department of Instructional Resources and Facilities Management; the Earl and Brenda Shapiro Center for Research + Collaboration SAIC; Goethe-Institut Chicago; the International Research Centre “Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History” at Humboldt University, Berlin; SAIC’s Visiting Artists Program; and by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.&nbsp;RE:WORKING LABOR&nbsp;is part of the Year of German-American Friendship initiated by the German Federal Foreign Office and the Goethe-Institut and is supported by the Federation of German Industries (BDI).&nbsp;Curated by Ellen Rothenberg and Daniel EisenbergConversations on contemporary labor, from global perspectives of waged labor to the critical issue of anthropogenic climate change in a world driven by accumulation, expansion, and acceleration.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Re:Working Labor

We encounter constellations as pre-determined. But, if we look again they can be reinscribed with infinite variability. Just as we can redraw the lines between stars, we do not have to perceive personal narratives composed of memories, spaces, and times as fixed. The work of the seven artists gathered in A Constellation of Instances invite us to reroute our narrations of reality. The work on view challenges static modes of storytelling that value long dominant perspectives, moving us instead towards a position of dynamic storytelling which emphasizes the need for a multiplicity of perspectives. From this frame of reference, the works acknowledge that circumstances change how we talk about ourselves and the world around us at specific times in our lives.The works in a Constellation of Instances encourage us to conceive personal narration as a subjective construct that can be altered just as it was created. Challenging the qualities that originally made narrative connections meaningful these works ask: How can we assemble stories from the remains of singular viewpoints that reflect our more nuanced reality? And, if our collective reality is the result of the stories we tell ourselves and others, how is it shaped by the events we decide to include or exclude?&nbsp;Featuring work by artists selected through portfolio reviews by the SAIC Exhibitions Committee:&nbsp;Alina Orlov (MFA 2020), Bun Stout (MFA 2020), E. Saffronia Downing (MFA 2020), Jennifer Traina-Dorge (MFA 2020), Matan Golan (MFA 2020), Olivia Alonso Gough (MFA 2020), and Yunhee Min (BFA 2019).&nbsp;Curated by Graduate Curatorial Assistants: Constanza Mendoza-Guerra (MA 2020) and Shannon Hebert Waldman (Dual MA 2020).&nbsp;&nbsp;

A Constellation of Instances

Faculty Projects is an annual exhibition that presents work by SAIC Faculty who have recently completed sabbatical and other leave projects, or who are retiring. By sharing their current work with the School community, faculty can communicate how their research and practices relate to the local, national, and international art and design communities. Featuring work by Christopher Baker, Susanna Coffey, Shawn Decker, Richard Deutsch, Andy Hall, Michiko Itatani, Ginger Krebs, Shaurya Kumar, Kirsten Leenaars, Joan Livingstone, Adelheid Mers, Mary Patten, Kerry Richardson, and Shawn Michelle Smith.Organized by Graduate Curatorial Assistants Tess Haratonik (Dual MA 2020) and Nura Husseini (MFA Viscom 2020).&nbsp;&nbsp;

Faculty Projects

A leading figure in contemporary film and art, Apichatpong Weerasethakul (SAIC MFA 1997) has developed a singular realist-surrealist style in which the portrayal of the everyday alongside supernatural elements suggests a distortion between fact and folklore, the subconscious and the exposed, and various disparities of power. This new solo exhibition uniquely presents a selected survey of rarely-seen experimental short films and video installations by Weerasethakul.

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