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Coming this Week

Meg — January 17, 2010

New Work by Nick Black will open this week.

Check back for more information.

$1,184 by Tanner Woodford (now at the Chicago Design Museum!)

May 23, 2017 — July 31, 2017 Clutch Gallery is pleased to present "$1,184" by Tanner Woodford of the Chicago Design Museum. The exhibition ends July 31st, 2017. To schedule a viewing, call (312)894-6263. Tanner Woodford is founder, chairman, and executive director of the Chicago Design Museum, maker of Iterative Work and lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The Chicago Design Museum strengthens design culture and builds community by facilitating the exchange of knowledge through dynamic experiences.

Pickle

Clutch Gallery is pleased to present Pickle by Nick Black. Nick Black is a maker, a tinkerer, a mad scientist whose materials are animatronic plastic novelties cobbled together to create a sublime clusterfu**K. Pickle is a work that on the surface has all the elements of a bawdy practical joke, but when activated the grinding rotation of miniature dill pickle and the raising up of a mechanized crocheted flower reveals a layer of self-effacing wit. Nick Black was born in Chicago in 1958. He has attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago , DePaul University , the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the Massachusetts College of Art . His recent exhibitions include Byron Cohen Gallery in Kansas City , Uncle Freddy's Gallery in Highland , IN , Joymore Gallery in Chicago , the Chicago Cultural Center and he recently created an installation for Pop-up Art in the Chicago Loop .

Unstuck Time: A Small Stage for Wandering Minds by Leslie Baum

January 16 - February 15, 2015 In 2003 I visited Angkor Wat in Cambodia. The temples and stone sculptures possessed a staggering beauty and scale, but it was the small arrangements of stone rubble at every site that really struck me. I speculated. Perhaps these still-life-like groupings and stone stacks were the work of bored tourists, of wandering minds and wandering hands? A few years later, I encountered something similar in New Mexico: arrangements of pottery shards on the dry earth of Pueblo archeological sites. Time unsticks in these moments. The ancient slips into the now. The piles, cairns, and mosaic-like images pulsate with intimacy and evidence a deep urge to play and to delight in touch, shape, form, pattern and texture. Nothing lasts, nothing is finished, nothing is perfect. This expression, associated with the Japanese aesthetic Wabi Sabi, has a far reach. I believe it encompasses these ever-so-casual tableaus placed by anonymous hands. The arra...

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