Reversible Eye is located at 1103 N. California Ave.
(between Division and Augusta)
(773) 862-1232

Gallery Hours: by appointment only

EXHIBITIONS

October 24 8 pm - Nicholas Schutzenhofer - works on paper.

My drawings imply tableaux narratives hinting towards disoriented psychosocial allusions of power, identity and violence. Heavy gestural brushwork battles with ornately rendered facades. Manifestations overlap repeatedly entangling figure-figure and figure-ground relationships creating a tension that at once suggests and denies perspective. Oil drawings on paper loosely and playfully combine imaginative landscapes crawling with figurations all rendered in an agitated and hallucinatory pallet. Although, impervious to interpretation, my characters each elicit empathy. The masks and headdress adorning each character are drawn assemblages appropriating imagery, textures and forms. My bricolage includes bits of religious icons of Asia, 18th century English women s hair styles, early middle eastern military costumes, the dress of indigenous Americans, and European traditional folk fashions. The ambiguous drama of characters adorned in pastiche masks, displaying confused gestures while enacting theatrical scenes caught somewhere between a carnival-esque procession, a dance competition and a melee, ultimately offer no conclusions. Reference points include James Ensor, Odilon Redon, Goya, early generation Chicago artists including the Monster Roster, Hairy Who, Imagists and contemporary artists including Laylah Ali and Peter Doig and Daniel Richter.

with performances by Abiku and Fluid

Past Exhibitions:

DIRECTORY OF SILENCE
Exhibition: April 25 to May 30, 2008

christopher ilth exhibit image

Opening Reception: Friday, April 25th - 7 to Midnight  $8 admission
feat. performers: Curtains, TV Ghost and Dead Luke

Closing Reception: Friday May 30th  7 to Midnight feat. Performers: Lovely Little Girls, Demonologists and TBA

DIRECTORY OF SILENCE  COLLAGE WORKS BY CHRISTOPHER ILTH AT REVERSIBLE EYE

DIRECTORY OF SILENCE at Reversible Eye is a show introducing Christopher Ilth s visionary and dreamscape collages. With a heavy influence in the Dada and French Surrealists, this self-taught artist has taken print and created new textures and fields balancing between the stark, scientific and obtuse, and hallucinations of nature burgeoning with steel. Ilth s collages are twisting impressions of spiritual revelation through Victorian imagery, the industrial revolution, and into Science Fiction  causing the viewer to delve into the laboriously sculpted worlds for the symbolism layered in the tiny pieces of paper.

View the work at http://www.flickr.com/photos/ilth/

Interview by Pendu Gallery

Additional information is available from info[at]reversibleeye.com

  • Sept. 21- Oct. 14
    Behind the Shadow
    The Art and Puppetry of the Incurable Theater