Thursday, January 11, 2007 12:04 AM CST
Tarble undergoes transformation
Artist Anna Kunz transforms art gallery into a 3-D painting
By the JG/T-C
editorial@jg-tc.com
CHARLESTON -- Chicago artist Anna Kunz is transforming the Tarble Arts Center’s Brainard Gallery into a three-dimensional painting.
Titled Forestcanopy, the installation will be on view Saturday through March 4.
Kunz will be at the Tarble to talk about her art at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday. Kunz’ installation, specifically designed for the Brainard Gallery, stems from the her idea of thinking about “painting as a process, a material investigation, a system, an imaginary space, a place, an object.”
Kunz has equated the process of painting to an ecosystem, as in a forest canopy where every incident (mark made or destroyed, color used) contributes to the creation of the final structure.
The Tarble installation is made primarily of paper, and a short piece of fiction was created for it by writer Mark Swartz. Swartz’s second novel, “H2O”, was recently published by Soft Skull Press.
In Forestcanopy Kunz combines her two areas of artistic activity, painting and installations. Her most recent installations include the piece Dayfield, created for the Illinois State Museum in Springfield, and Takeover, designed for the reopening of the Hyde Park Art Center.
Her colorful abstract paintings have been shown at the Thomas McCormick Gallery, in Chicago; the Evanston Art Center; Betty Rymer Gallery/School of the Art Institute of Chicago; the Modern Art Gallery, in Los Angeles; the San Francisco International Art Fair; the Wilson Stevens Gallery, in London; and Mixture Contemporary, in Houston.
Kunz lives in Chicago and teaches at Northwestern University and at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She holds an master’s degree in fine arts from Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree of fine arts from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
As part of the Tarble’s Contemporary Currents series, this project is funded in part by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and is co-sponsored with the EIU Art Department. Admission is free, and the public is invited.
The Tarble Arts Center is located on Ninth Street at Cleveland Avenue on the EIU campus in Charleston. Open hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, and 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday. It is closed on Mondays and holidays.
A division of the College of Arts & Humanities, the Tarble is accredited by the American Association of Museums.? The Tarble is funded in part by Tarble Arts Center membership contributions and the Tarble Arts Center Endowment/EIU Foundation.? For more information contact the Tarble at 217-581-ARTS (-2787), at mwatts@eiu.edu, or look on the web at www.eiu.edu/~tarble.
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