Consuming War curated by Barbara Koenen at the Hyde Park Art Center
Friday November 2, 2007
Price War! (preview image), dimensions variable, Polyurethane and filament line, 2007
Consuming War
November 4 – Janury 20, 2008, Gallery 1
Works by Lynda Barry, Wafaa Bilal, Mary Brogger, Adam Brooks, Burtonwood & Holmes, Michael Hernandez de Luna, Fred Holland, Harold Mendez, Michael Rakowitz, Ellen Rothenberg, Edra Soto, Paula White and Dolores Wilber.
Curated by Barbara Koenen
Focusing on the U.S. conflict in the Middle East over the past 10 years, Consuming War addresses the ways the American media and consumer culture have manipulated and influenced our perceptions of war, often turning it into a spectacle for American consumption. While war is an underlying theme in all the works, each addresses the concept of war, and our relationship to it, from a variety of angles, creating pieces that range from political cartoons to sculptures that recreate the archeological artifacts looted from the National Museum of Iraq and large suspended papier mâché bombs made from sale advertisements. Timely in its subject matter, Consuming War offers an innovative platform in which the complex and multifarious connections between war, capitalism, American consumer culture, and our everyday live can be re-situated and critically examined.
The Art Center thanks those who gave individual contributions to the exhibition, including Craig Ahmer, Jane Fulton Alt, Sidney Barton, Kim Freiders, Connie Gillock, John Himmelfarb and Molly Day, Esther Grimm, Justine Jentes and Daniel Kuruna Laurel Lipkin, Jackie Kazarian and Peter Cunningham, Paul Klein, Barbara Koenen and Tim Samuelson, Harold Olin, Karen Paluzzi Steele, Laura Samson, Eva Silverman, Paula White, and Roberta Zabel.
Consuming War is supported by
Newcity Chicago
The American Adademic Research Institute in Iraq
Experimental Station
p.s. a big THANK YOU to Connie Gillock and Paul Klein who support made this piece possible.
Divergent Emergence, group show Evanston IL
Tuesday October 2, 2007
Test Market, site specific installation, paper cut, approx 48 × 72 inches, Open Studio, Evanston, IL
Group show at Open Studio, Evanston, IL. September 29th – October 12th, 2007. Open Studio, 903 Sherman Ave, Evanston, IL. Featuring work by Scott Aquino, Emily Asboe, Dan Cochrane, Ginger Conroy, Edgar Cuarezma, Burtonwood % Holmes, Tao Jaure, Scott Johnson, Lisa Kuppinger, Doug Leinen, Marilyn Madden, Heath Marks, Tom Pedersen, Ryan Scheidt, Eugene Smith, Barb Wieland.
Flickr set of the show
Flickr set of installation
ART WALKerville
Saturday August 11, 2007
ART WALKerville, Winsor, ON
FRIDAY JULY 20th, 2007
1623 Wyandotte St. East
Refine Fitness Studio (formerly ICON For the Home)
Group Show of Artists: David Lohman (Seattle), Chika Ito and Massimilliano Arena (Netherlands), Andrew Rigsby, Burtonwood & Holmes, and Lisa Kuppinger (Chicago), Natalie Mayville (Windsor), Marcia Wiley (Brantford), 7teen (Ferndale), Matthew Shlian (Ann Arbour), Vaughnda Johnson (New York), Lisa Sharp (St. Louis), David Constable (Virginia), Frohawk Two-Feathers (L.A.) Documented on Natalie Mayville’s flickr
J-Walking
Saturday August 11, 2007
J-Walking
The Polish Museum of America, Chicago, IL
Curated by Scott Ashley and Jenny Crissey
June 16th –August 31st 2007
Artists: Scott Ashley, Burtonwood and Holmes, Jeff Forsythe, Regin Igloria, Tom Lauerman, Alain Park, Renee Una
J-Walking focuses on the relationship between personal identity and community. Boundaries make a neighborhood while people make a community. By drawing similarities between old and new, ptraditional and modern, the exhibit will demonstrate that we are as different as we are alike, and that both our similarities and differences should be equally celebrated. For more info = Polish Museum of America
Visual T-Shirts
Saturday August 11, 2007
Visual T-shirts
ietsmooisaandemuur gallery, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
Curated by Massimo Arena and Chika Ito
June 2nd – June 30th 2007
Artists: ANYMALFUNCTION, BurtonwoodandHolmes, Chika Ito, Gerard van Selst, Kees van den Boogaart, Marrie Hoedelmans, Massimo Arena, Matteo Bertelli, Michael Ronaldo Cabreza, Wim Habraken
“Visual T shirt” represents a wide selection of artists working internationally. Each artists created inspiring images for this exhibition. Original images are exclusively handprinted(limited edition) at kurtface silkscreening studio with Printmaster Wim Habraken. In addition to this unique collaboration, all the images are printed on Eco T shirts which is fair traded and organically grown by Bo Weevil. Inthang
Subtle Combat two person show with Robert Burnier
Saturday August 11, 2007
Subtle Combat
Two person show with Robert Burnier
Around the Coyote Gallery, Chicago, IL
April 16 – May 5, 2007
Around the Coyote, one of Chicago’s most diverse non-profit emerging arts organizations, is pleased to announce Subtle Combat, a dual exhibition featuring work by collaborative artists Burtonwood and Holmes, and self-taught artist Robert Burnier. This exhibition seeks to illustrate ways in which artists today are choosing to confront the subtleties and complexities of living in a time of war. Favoring a holistic look at our decision to go to war — rather than an oversimplification of the social, political and economic times used in so much protest art — these artists have found ways to question our present course while still working with an aesthetic beauty. Burtonwood and Holmes’ site-specific installation of large and small scale military tanks along with various paintings will be accompanied by Burnier’s large and small scale grid paintings. Around the Coyote
We'll Meet Again
Saturday August 11, 2007
We’ll Meet Again
GARDENfresh, Chicago, IL
March 2nd thru April 7th, 2007
Group show of gallery artists, inaugurating new space at 119 N. Peoria in Chicago. Artists in show Burtonwood and Holmes, Michael J. Hofer, Jeremiah Ketner, Alain Douglas Park, Andrew Rigsby. GARDENfresh
Influenc-za
Saturday August 11, 2007
Influenz-ca
All Rise Gallery, Chicago, IL
January 5 thru February, 2007
Artists: Burtonwood & Holmes, Greg Stimac, Jon Gitelson, R. Scott Whipkey. Performances by Anni Holm and Anni Rossi. All Rise Gallery
My Apocalyptic Playground
Saturday August 11, 2007
My Apocalyptic Palyground
South Union Arts, Chicago, IL
Curated by Elise Blue
October 13th – November, 2006
Artists: Burtonwood & Holmes, Andrea Jablonski, Jeff Phillips, Elise Blue, Michael Pajon, Hans Gullickson, Betsy Yagunic, Mary Ellen Croteau. Music by Dame Satan, Brett Gand Is Dead. South Union Arts
Something to do with Failure
Saturday August 11, 2007
Something To Do With Failure
Moser Performing Arts Gallery, University of St. Francis, Joliet, IL
Curated by Chester Costello
September 29th – December 3rd, 2006
Artists: Granite Amit, Gideon Barnett, Benjamin Bellas, Ned Broderick, Dawn Brennan, Michael Bulka, Burtonwood & Holmes, Jno Cook, Jonathan Gitelson, Justin Goh, Theresa Jarka, Garrett Jensen, Andrew Krzak, Phil Lam, Jason Lazarus, Aimee Lee, LeisureArts, Lucinda Luvaas, Sara Loosen Otto, Tom Palazzolo, Christopher Patch, Mark Porter, Robert Putnam, Andrei Rabodzeenko, Rashelle Roos, Joel Ross, Shira Soskel, Robert Stanley, Brian A. Stuparyk, and Patrick Welch. Website