Current Events at Chicago Printmakers Collaborative Gallery
Tongue In Cheek: Irreverence in Print
September 18 - November 6, 2021
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 18, 5pm-8pm
Featured Artists: Eric Wilson, Beauvais Lyons, Kyle Peets, Daniel Luedtke, Lya Finston, Emily Harter, Chris Williford, Oli Watt, Morgan Price, Jolynn Reigeluth , Rosabel Rosalind, Breanne Trammell, Tyler Krasowski, Brandon Oswalt, Emilien Maricot, Jack Spector-Bishop, Carl Voss, Ian Ruppenthal
About the Show
The Chicago Printmakers Collaborative is pleased to present an exhibition dedicated to work which revels in irreverence, featuring printed matter which indulges in crass humor, vulgarity, and all things lowbrow. Due to its penchant for mass production, affordability, and wide dissemination, printmaking presents artists an opportunity to engage the masses in a unique way. Historically, this has given printmakers tremendous freedom to depict subject matters outside the stuffy confines of “high art”, employing humor, lewdness, profanity, and shock-value to entice viewers and illustrate issues unpalatable to polite society. This exhibition explores the ways contemporary printmakers continue this tradition-- rejecting the “serious” in favor of the bawdy, the flippant, the obscene, and the absurd. Through resolutely refusing to respect that which is generally taken seriously, irreverence holds an untapped potential for critique, reclamation of power, and celebration of self and community. Curated by Jack Spector-Bishop, Ian Ruppenthal, and Carl Voss
Eric Wilson Beauvais Lyons
Kyle Peets Lya Finston
Emily Harter
Oli Watt
Chris Williford Jolynn Reigeluth
Morgan Price
Rosabel Rosalind
Brandon Oswalt Emilien Maricot
Breanne Trammell
Tyler Krasowski
Daniel Luedtke
