Residual Marks / Artist Tour Series

2130 West Fulton Street,Chicago IL 60612

24 July, 2021

Description

Residual Marks / Artist Tour Series What remains and what endures? Residual Marks presents a series of in-person tours featuring HATCH 2019-2020 artists in residence Joshi Radin, Naomi Elson and Julia Klein. Prompted by the works presented in the context of Residual Marks, a duo-exhibition curated by Fabiola Tosi and Stephanie Koch, each artist will engage in a one-to-one conversation about the use and re-use of materials as part of their artistic practice. What does it mean to reclaim and reuse materials? What emerges and endures from their past? How do artists relate to questions of sustainability? Tours schedule: Joshi Radin, Saturday, July 17th at 4:00pm Naomi Elson, Saturday, July 24th at 4:00pm Julia Klein, Saturday, July 31st at 4:00pm Bios Joshi Radin investigates questions concerning nature, cosmology and expanded landscape. Drawing on childhood experiences living within a utopian back to the land community, she traces historical and genealogical roots of utopianism and nature through imagery and processes as spaces of knowledge production. She has published essays and presented work in the US and internationally and received her MFA (2016) and MA (2018) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as a merit scholar. Her 2020–21 curatorial project, Chemical (Re)Actions: On Environmental Struggles in Chicago, for the Goethe-Institut Chicago, partners with grassroots environmental justice organizations to further artistic response to questions of ecology, equity and industry. Naomi Elson was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. She received her MFA from Northern Illinois University in Dekalb, Illinois. Following graduation, Naomi moved to Chicago, where she has shown at several galleries, including GIFC at Western Exhibitions, Nightlight Gallery and Studios, ARC Gallery, Rubberneck Gallery, Bucktown Gallery, and Zhou B Art Center. Julia Klein is a sculptor who has been exhibiting her work nationally and internationally since 2000. She has participated in a number of fellowships and residencies—most recently, the 2018-19 Chicago Jewish Artists Residency—and is part of several ongoing performance and publishing collaborations with other artists and writers. Klein received a BFA from the University of Michigan and an MFA from Bard College. Since 2009, she has run Soberscove Press, a small art book press based in Chicago.