Ausstellung
13.09. bis 28.09.2014
BEVERLY FRESH (Detroit/Chicago, USA)
Vernissage: Freitag, 12.09.2014 um 19 Uhr
“Mr. Midwest”
Live Performance
Freitag, 19.09.2014 um 19 Uhr
BEVERLY FRESH (Detroit/Chicago, USA)
© Zack Ostrowski
“Take the Back Roads and Collect Myself,” is a multi-media solo exhibition consisting of drawings, paintings, signage, posters, video, sculpture, installation and live performance.
The works included in this exhibition are taken from phase one of Beverly Fresh’s “Outskirts” series, which took place in eleven towns in rural Illinois and Michigan. “Outskirts” utilizes performance as a means of inquiry, combining documentation, intervention and fabrication to examine how collective meaning is produced, consumed and shared throughout the rural Midwest.
© Zack Ostrowski
Emphasizing the significance that oral tradition has in shaping and sharing cultural meaning, the performances combine song, dramatic narrative, and jokes. The work in this exhibition draws from a stylized autobiographical viewpoint that ranges from innocence to irreverence and builds upon the tradition of the trickster navigating a journey that could be read as a postmodern tale of the picaresque. Spanning a variety of media, the work critically inquires into the extracurricular activities and places that define the physical and psychological landscape of the peripheral Midwest.
© Zack Ostrowski
On September 19 th Beverly Fresh will perform “MR. MDW$T (Revisited)” a thirty-five minute performance which deviates from a traditional fixed point of view and draws from first hand experiences on the road gathering everything from regional slang to hog calling as source materiel. Building on the tradition of the “one man show,” this live performance aims to both entertain and challenge the audience.
© Zack Ostrowski
BEVERLY FRE$H (Zack Ostrowski) is a contemporary artist and musician based in Detroit and Chicago. He has broken several Guinness Book World Records; including breaking the most eggs on his head and compiling the tallest stack of rap tapes. He is an Assistant Professor of Art, Media and Design at DePaul University’s college of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences in Chicago Illinois. He was the recipient of the 2009 Daimler AG Emerging Artist Award and has exhibited within the U.S. and abroad. He is the co-founder of sUPERIORbelly, a multi-media art and design collective and record label based in Detroit and cofounder of the WILD AMERICAN DOGS an interdisciplinary art collective. Ostrowski has a BFA in Graphic and Interactive Design from the College for Creative Studies and an MFA in 2D Design from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. Beverly Fresh will have a solo exhibition in January 2015 at the Cranbrook
Museum of Art.
This project is supported by the University Research Council of DePaul University and partially supported by an Individual Artist Program Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events, as well as a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency through federal funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.
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