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As Stars At Daybreak
The Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present As Stars At Daybreak, featuring work by HATCH Projects artists Stephanie Graham, Casey Smallwood, and Danny Volk.
Have you ever wanted to be famous? Like, Oprah famous? Maybe your aspirations are less stratospheric. Perhaps you鈥檇 like to be recognized as the best pick to host the talent show in your hometown. Maybe you have delusions of making a group of thirtysomething men into the next hot boy band. Or, it鈥檚 conceivable that you want to be in a position to grant social acceptance on behalf of your entire race. These are examples of the particular dreams pursued by the artists exhibiting in As Stars At Daybreak this fall at the Chicago Artists Coalition.
Casey Smallwood presents videos that meditate on Edwards Place, a historic house museum in Springfield, Illinois. By merging actual accounts from the site with a contemporary missing persons case, Smallwood employs local aspiring actors to perform the experimental narrative. Danny Volk shows photographic and video documentation from his experiences as the manager for "Still Boys," a Toronto-based boy band, and the psychosexual intimacies that complicate their relationship. Stephanie Graham exhibits ephemera resulting from the nomination process of the 鈥淪elect Black Experience Council,鈥� an organization established by the artist and aimed at nominating, acknowledging, and legitimizing non-Black allies who should receive a 鈥淏lack pass.鈥�
The exhibition鈥檚 title, As Stars At Daybreak, comes from Murakami鈥檚 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and refers to a paradoxical situation: The slow vanishing of something much in the same way that the mystical cosmos appears entirely present, until the moment it recedes inexorably into the light of day. The title also plays on a sense of stardom, but precisely at the moment when that illustriousness slips from one鈥檚 grasp. Graham, Smallwood, and Volk all play with the desires and trappings surrounding that fame.
As Stars At Daybreak is curated by Jaxon Pallas.
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The Chicago Artists Coalition is pleased to present As Stars At Daybreak, featuring work by HATCH Projects artists Stephanie Graham, Casey Smallwood, and Danny Volk.
Have you ever wanted to be famous? Like, Oprah famous? Maybe your aspirations are less stratospheric. Perhaps you鈥檇 like to be recognized as the best pick to host the talent show in your hometown. Maybe you have delusions of making a group of thirtysomething men into the next hot boy band. Or, it鈥檚 conceivable that you want to be in a position to grant social acceptance on behalf of your entire race. These are examples of the particular dreams pursued by the artists exhibiting in As Stars At Daybreak this fall at the Chicago Artists Coalition.
Casey Smallwood presents videos that meditate on Edwards Place, a historic house museum in Springfield, Illinois. By merging actual accounts from the site with a contemporary missing persons case, Smallwood employs local aspiring actors to perform the experimental narrative. Danny Volk shows photographic and video documentation from his experiences as the manager for "Still Boys," a Toronto-based boy band, and the psychosexual intimacies that complicate their relationship. Stephanie Graham exhibits ephemera resulting from the nomination process of the 鈥淪elect Black Experience Council,鈥� an organization established by the artist and aimed at nominating, acknowledging, and legitimizing non-Black allies who should receive a 鈥淏lack pass.鈥�
The exhibition鈥檚 title, As Stars At Daybreak, comes from Murakami鈥檚 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and refers to a paradoxical situation: The slow vanishing of something much in the same way that the mystical cosmos appears entirely present, until the moment it recedes inexorably into the light of day. The title also plays on a sense of stardom, but precisely at the moment when that illustriousness slips from one鈥檚 grasp. Graham, Smallwood, and Volk all play with the desires and trappings surrounding that fame.
As Stars At Daybreak is curated by Jaxon Pallas.
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