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Selections from the permanent collection
Sit back and enjoy our
UIMA GALLERY SLIDE SHOW
which takes you through the art work 15 seconds at a time. The 12 slides take a few moments to load,
so if you didn't have enough time to view the images repeat the slide show. The second time around
should load faster. You will be returned to this screen at the end of the show.
To the gallery slide show (12 artists)
Konstantin Milonadis, a former student of George Rickey's, twists and bends
stainless steel into visual melodies that both engage and confound. His
virtuosity is evident in the lyrical flow of steel wire, the kinetic
elements providing a rhythm that at times is whimsical, and at others,
somber. At a time where contemporary art production risks irrelevance when
not engaged with socio-economic commentary, this work provides the viewer
with a potent reminder of the nature of beauty and the value to be found in
quiet moments of poetry.
Painting and sculpture by Nick Black, Mark Ottens, David Reninger, and John Sant.
Photography Exhibit Documents Social Ills in Ukraine
Holiday Exhibit Features Student Competition Winners
The Last of the Primaries explores the color yellow and is the third exhibition in a series, which has already showed Red and Blue. Works include painting, printmaking, photography, assemblage and digital images.
Exploring Space, Light, Structure and Material showcases the award-winning Lviv-based artists Vasyl Bazhay (abstract painting) and Volodymyra Hankevych (artistic tapestries). This exhibition marks the premier showing of both artists to Chicago audiences. It is complemented by several events that celebrate modern Ukrainian art and offers several opportunities to meet with the artists.
Hysterical Pastoral is a group show of contemporary landscape images curated by Bay Area artist, John Neff.
The show focuses on landscape images which are filtered through a kind of "writing". In some cases, the "writing" is literal, sometimes the "writing" is presented more loosely.
Curated by Chicago artists Julia Hechtman and Scott Wolniak the show features eight artists and a musical trio who bring together diverse styles, processes and visions.
The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art introduces
a new generation of Ukrainian artists in a photo and
video-based exhibition opening April 11. These young artists
illustrate the cultural and social issues that arose after the
fall of Communism and the rapid infusion of Western culture,
particularly consumerism, into their lives. The intellectual
adventurism of the artists is echoed through shifting accents
of mobile contemporary art.
A dazzling array of contemporary tapestry is on view at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art beginning March 2. Organized by the American Tapestry Alliance, a nonprofit organization that shares and preserves the knowledge and practice of tapestry art, the exhibit includes the works of artists from Europe, Canada and the U.S., selected by an international jury from 140 submissions.
A retrospective of the contributions made by Peter Blake, Patrick Caulfield, Bernard Cohen, Robyn Denny, Mary Fedden, Elisabeth Frink, john Hoyland, Alien jones, William Scott and Richard Smith to abstract and pop art and the renaissance of British printmaking. From the bequest of Dr. P. Cabrera.
Presented with the generous support of Her Majesty's Consul General Robert Culshaw, Chicago
BAD TOUCH is a drawing show curated by Bill Thelen, with local coordination/ curatorial contribution from Suitable Gallery. With over 60 artists from around the nation and world, this show brings together an abundance of styles, processes and viewpoints. In each case the presence of the artist's hand is evident, providing the work with a physicality and humanity that reveals much more than simple content and form.
This exhibition combines the work of Chicago based artists Rebecca Reeves, Molly Carter and Rebecca Rothfus. The three bodies of work address the ideas of control and manipulation, both intentional and unintentional. Reeves's work focuses primarily on physical manipulation of a space, symbolic of mental control over an individual engaged in the space. Carter highlights the contradiction in the simultaneous beauty and discomfort of objects of adornment. In her work, Rothfus points out how actions can inadvertently teach or reinforce negative behavior.
Ornament is Not a Crime, the title chosen for the present exhibition, is a reference to the radical dictum proclaimed at the dawn of
the 20th century by the great Austrian architect Adolf Loos. In the Ornament und Verbrechen and his other theoretical works, the
renowned master of avant-garde architecture argued for the complete removal of ornamentation from architectural designs, as he
considered the phenomenon of ornament to be akin to crime. The thrust of Loos' radical criticism was, in the first instance, aimed
at the Art Nouveau style, immensely popular around the 1900s and nevertheless condemned as an anachronism by the end of the
first decade of the 20th century. Since then, the artistic heritage of Art Nouveau has undergone a thorough reassessment. Its significance in the history of art and
architecture has been universally acknowledged. This reappraisal of the style, known variously as Art Nouveau, Jugendstil,
Secession, and under a number of other names, is reflected in the title of the project: Ornament is NOT a Crime.
Amy Baur (Okemos, MI), Ana Lois-Borzi (Minneapolis, MN), and Lynn Tomaszewski (Milwaukee, WI) will contribute work to this exhibition focusing on light and its effects on how we read the visual world.
Art Committee member Jack Sloss will organize this examination of acoustic isolation within a public sphere. This exhibition will attempt to construct simultaneous fractures and to interlace narratives thus creating an audio-visual lost and found, complete with waiting/multiple stations of service engagement. Participating artists include Cooper Battersby, Sarah Conaway, Emily Duke, Derek Fansler, Julia Hechtman, Jeff Maccubbin, Jennifer Reeder, Steve Reinke, Sterling Ruby, Siebren Versteeg, and Scott Wolniak.
An exhibition of recent paintings by
This exhibition celebrates the talent and vision of a highly respected Ukrainian painter. Makarenko's canvases present a unique synthesis of surrealism and abstraction informed by his memories of Ukraine. The work on view spans several periods in his illustrious career, including figurative work and metaphysical abstractions. A resident of Paris, France, since 1979, he has had one person exhibitions in England, Germany, France, Estonia, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States.
Jill Odegaard (Allentown, PA), Ann Marie Kennedy (Penland, NC) and Mary Hark (St Paul, MN) investigate issues of personal
identity and their relationship to the world around them. Working both two and three dimensionally, these three artists move in the
territory where abstract feeling, specific experience and physical form intersect. This exhibit acknowledges the incidental mark and
celebrates the impact that specific places have on our sense of self.
This exhibition will introduce the work of three artists recently emigrated from Ukraine: Anatoly Khmara and Yevhen Prokopov, both from Kyiv, now in Chicago, and Vladimir Zabeida, formerly of Lviv, now in Montreal. The work on view will show the technical mastery and dedication to modernism prevalent in contemporary art practice in Ukraine. Khmara's paintings, Prokopov's sculpture and Zabeida's graphic works all pay homage to the 20th century tradition of process and material wedded to form.
The objective of this multi-space installation project by Chicago based artist Glenn Wexler is to show how a work of art can find dialog within a gallery space without obstructing, consuming or dominating it. Participating institutions include the Arts Club of Chicago, the Hyde Park Art Center and the Chicago Cultural Center, as well as local private and not for profit galleries.
The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, in cooperation with the National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum, will present images by Vietnam Veterans Michael Brostowitz, Laszlo Kondor, Jerry Kykisz and Peter Wysocki. This exhibit Shows the terrible toll all armed conflict and acts of violence exact. These paintings, photographic collages, texts and poems are unflinching in their depiction of these veterans' memories of a war that may be distant to anyone under 40, but was seminal in the formation of an entire generation's psyche.
This exhibition of contemporary photography will present images of Ukraine by Tania D'Avignon, Guatemala by Myrosha Dziuk and Egypt by Jaroslaw Kobylecky. These three photographers share a commitment to the history of photojournalism evident in the compassion and respect for the indigenous shown in their images.
The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art is proud to present an exhibit of miniature graphic artwork featuring seven world renowned artists. Etchings and other graphic techniques will be included. Each of these artists has won an impressive amount of awards throughout the world, including Ukraine, Korea, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Russia, Poland, Norway, Turkey, Japan, Yugoslavia, Italy, Australia, Slovakia, France, and the United States.
All proceeds will help fund the UIMA publication of the permanent collection.
Paired artists who share relationships, couples, friends, roommates, or significant others.
An exhibition of new work by sculptor Roxanne Legenstein.
Resurrection, a group show about the life of death, curated by Olga Stefan,
focuses on the creative process and honors the special power that artists have.
David Cook, Eric David Hamilton, Maire Kennedy, Joe McIlhany, Marci Rubin, and
Rick Smith use the detritus in our world to make wondrous works of art. All six
bring life to what was once dead. By combining dead and otherwise useless objects
with other materials, changing their context and manipulating their form, the
artists resurrect these objects and create life in the form of art.
A group show presenting work by Christine Basick, Guy Benson and Jessica Gondek of Chicago as well as Vladimir Zabeida of Montreal.
This celebration of
displacement in the context of popular culture featured work by New York artists
Doug Anson, Adam Cvijanovic, Yram Retrac, Kristine Robinson, Bill Scanga, Sally Van
Gorder, and Tamara Zahaykevich. Curated by New York based
artist Marye Carter.
Participating artists include: Carolyn Ard (Indianapolis, IN), Marilyn Collins (Austintown, OH), Myrosha Dziuk (Newton, MA), Susan Gofstein (Chicago, IL), Paul Krainak (Morgantown, WV), Darlene Kryza (Chicago, IL), Lorraine Peltz (Chicago, IL), Wrik Repasky (Chicago, IL), Stan Strembicki (St Louis, MO), and Barbara Toczydlowska (Chicago, IL).
Toned photographs by Jeffery Byrd, mixed media
assemblages by Lynn Tomaszewski, and mixed media constructions by Toby Zallman.
Mark Alcazar Diaz, Lori Daniels, Matt Davis, Justin Michell, Kirsten Stoltmann, Jack Sloss, Aaron Wexler, Marissa Woloszczuk.
An exhibition of digital and electronic media art curated by Paul Hertz of Northwestern University. A catalog will be available with an essay by Chuck Kleinhans, co-editor of Jump Cut, a journal of contemporary media.
An invitational exhibition celebrating new work in fiber.
A group show of paintings, photographs, sculpture and works on paper by Herbert George and his former students Don Asher, Christine Boos, Elizabeth Carson Manley, Marc Fischer, Yvette Kaiser-Smith, Matthew Kolodziej, Jennifer Krauss, Darlene Kryza, Robert Mitchell, John Santoro, Deb Vandenbroucke and Duncan Webb.
An exhibition of recently arrived Ukrainian artists working in various media including painting, ceramics, photography and fiber. This will be a juried exhibition looking to establish links between the ethnographic roots of the artists with current developments in contemporary art practices.
A wide range of work with an emphasis on contemporary crafts including graphics, sculpture, paintings, ceramics, metalwork and fiber by local artists and artisans, including those represented in the permanent collection.
Three artists whose commonality lies in their intuitive approach to mark-making. Kimberly Piotrowski and William Staples of Chicago will join Terry Schupbach-Gordon of North Carolina in a group show of paintings and works on paper exploring the unconscious. While developing three distinctly different narratives, these three artists manipulate their media with a shared physical relish.
A group show of new paintings by Chicago artists Ralph Arnold, Morris Barazani, Ghita Hardimon, Leopold Segedin and Joan Taxay-Weinger.
View the same series here (sans slides)
Images from Past & Current Exhibitions
Sep 5 2004
thru
Oct 24 2004
Konstantin Milonadis - Material in Motion:
a survey of work in collections
Jul 9 2004
thru
Aug 29 2004
Disrupting the Image
Mar 12 2004
thru
May 2 2004
Don't Look Away
Street children, adults with HIV, hospitals with meager resources and children suffering from the effects of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster are compelling social issues that drew the attention of three photographers: Joseph Sywenkyj, Alexander Glyadyelov and Adrienne Kovalsky.
Dec 19 2003
thru
Jan 18 2004
Juventus 2003
Juventus 2003 was a competition designed to highlight the diverse ideas currently engaging students and recent graduates of studio art programs.
Nov 9 2003
thru
Dec 15 2003
The Last of the Primaries
Aug 29 2003
thru
Oct 26 2003
Exploring Space, Light, Structure and Material
Jul 11 2003
thru
Aug 17 2003
Hysterical Pastoral: Landscapes and Text
May 30 2003
thru
Jun 28 2003
Nature Delivers: Urban Gardening and beyond
Apr 11 2003
thru
May 17 2003
FOUND STUFF: THE NEWEST ART OF UKRAINE
Mar 2 2003
thru
Mar 29 2003
ATA BIENNIAL 4 INTERNATIONAL TAPESTRY EXHIBIT
Jan 10 - Feb 15
2003
British Prints from the Permanent Collection 1960 - 1980
Dec 12 2002
thru
Jan 5 2003
Bad Touch
Nov 3-30
2002
In Its Place
Sep 27-Oct 27
2002
Anton Solomoukha
"Myth, Fantasy and Figure"
Aug 25-Sep 27
2002
Ornament Is Not a Crime: Art Nouveau in Lviv's Architecture
Jun 2-Jun 30
2002
GLOW
Apr 21-May 19
2002
Video With Headphones
Mar 10-Apr 7
2002
Volodymyr Makarenko
"The Figure and Poetry"
(Ukraine - France)
Jan 20-Feb 24
2002
Circumstantial Evidence
Nov 30, 2001 -
Jan 10, 2002
AN EXHIBITION OF UKRAINIAN MODERN ART
PAINTING
ANATOLIY KHMARA
SCULPTURE
YEVHEN PROKOPOV
GRAPHICS
VOLODYMYR ZABEIDA
Nov 1-Dec 31
2001
HAVEN
Oct 21-Nov 18
2001
Remembering Conflict
Sep 9-Oct 13
2001
3 VIEWS
3 CONTINENTS
Jul 22-Aug 26
2001
G r a p h i c a
Good Things in Small Packages
Mar 4 - Apr 17
2001
Significant/Signifiers
Jan 14 - Feb 17
2001
EAST – EAST – WEST
LOYAL TO THE LINE
LVIW – KYIW – CHICAGO
May 5-Jun 25
2000
RESURRECTION
a show about the life of death
Mar 12-Apr 23
2000
Surface Impressions
Jan 16-Feb 27
2000
Shitter, Get Off the Pot! Dislocation in Contemporary Art
Nov 14-Dec 31
1999
Downshifting
Sep 19-Oct 30
1999
Devotions
Jul 9-Aug 8
1999
Serious Play
May 9-Jun 27
1999
Second Nature
linked to the Chicago Millenium Project
Apr 8-Apr 24
1999
Friends of Fiber Arts International
Feb 28-Apr 4
1999
But Yet the Body is His Book
Jan 17-Feb 21
1999
Nexus
Mikola Pagan - Oleksiy Kovalenko
Nina Lapchyk - Volodymyr Melnik
Yuriy Olishkevich - Volodymyr Podlevsky
Yevgen Prokopov - Valentina Sanina
Alex Tkachenko - Youlia Tkatchouk
Yuriy Viktiuk
linked to the Chicago Millenium Project
Dec 20-Jan 9
1998/9/b>
Winter Kaleidoscope
Nov 1-Dec 6
1998
Traces
Sep 13-Oct 18
1998
The Five
Chicago:
The 3rd
Dimension
2nd
Generation
15 May to 28 June 1998