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Get unlimited admission to over 25 attractions with the GoChicago Card. More info!The Hyde Park Art Center’s mission is to stimulate and sustain the visual arts in Chicago. It is the oldest alternative exhibition space in the City and boasts a long record of education outreach in the community.
- Celebrating 70 years of success, the Hyde Park Art Center (HPAC) has been serving the Hyde Park-Kenwood community and surrounding neighborhoods as well as the metropolitan Chicago area with outstanding visual art exhibitions and education programs. Since its inception in 1939, the Center’s mission has been to stimulate and sustain the vitality of the visual arts in Chicago. To fulfill this mission, the Center actively pursues arts mentorship within the community it serves, fostering a collective spirit among artists, teachers and students, children and families, collectors, and the general public.
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Current Exhibitions
Pushing Boundaries October 3, 2010– January 23, 2011, Gallery 5
Pushing Boundaries features a selection of abstract large format paintings made by Lisa Brunke, Astrid Fuller, Diane Jurado, Nate Kalichman, Jan Lindell, Barbette Loevy, Judy Petacque, Diane Ponder, Susan Redeker. The artists are all currently enrolled in the Large Scale Painting class at HPAC instructed by Chicago painter Darrell Roberts.
Kim Piotrowski: Beds and Guns October 17 - January 30, 2011, Gallery 4
Beds and guns are highly charged cultural symbols the artist Kim Piotrowski dissects in her most recent mixed media paintings featured in Gallery 4. The solo exhibition debuts the largest acrylic paintings on paper by the artist to date. As analogies for life, the two separate series of new paintings - one series of beds and one series of guns - exhibited together transform the simple three-letter words into a image that represents having and losing control.
Philippe Durand: Rust and FlowersOctober 24, 2010 - March 20, 2011, Foyer Project Space
See Chicago through the lens of French photographer, Philippe Durand with Rust and Flowers. This large photographic mural was produced as part of Durand’s summer residency at the Art Center and with the support of The Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States and Black Point Editions, Ltd.
Immergence by Patrick Killoran October 29, 2010 - June 26, 2011 Gallery 2
A vending machine mysteriously conceals the main entrance to the Hyde Park Art Center’s School and Studio. The repurposed vending machine will be fitted into an existing doorway. Inquisitive visitors to the School and Studios will be surprised when they pass through an innocuous utility door only to emerge from inside the non-functional vending machine.
Máximo González: Material Poems November 7, 2010 – March 5, 2011, Cleve Carney Gallery
The exhibition Material Poems premiers the artworks by Argentinean artist Máximo González, produced during a summer residency at the Hyde Park Art Center. During this time, González produced nearly 20 sculptures, paintings, installations, and digital works incorporating found or borrowed objects from Chicago. The work shown from November 7th until March 5th are excerpts from the Material Poems series and features five artworks that concentrate on the relationship between contemporary art and the common decorative art displayed in American households.
Not Just Another Pretty Face Part IV November 21, 2010 - February 20, 2011, Gallery 1 & 2
The fourth installment of an ongoing successful Art Center program intended to encourage a new and diverse public to think of themselves as patrons or leaders of contemporary art. Potential patrons and Chicago artists are brought together through a series of presentations and social events to build a relationship and commission new work that re-contextualizes the age-old trope of portraiture. The exhibition will present these 80-100 completed new works that result from the year-long program.
The PrecessionDecember 21, 2010 – March 20, 2011, The Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery
The multi-media collaborating artists Mark Jeffery and Judd Morrissey have created the first artwork featuring five intercommunicating websites into one large-scale projected digital public art work, The Precession. Inspired by history, astronomy and new media sources, The Precession combines digital images, text and performance art into a monumental exploration of labor and the night sky.
Relative Exposure: Photographs of FamilyDecember 16 - January 29, 2011
Relative Exposure: Photographs of Family is an exhibition of recent photographs that looks at the American family. Each of the photographers in the exhibition provides a look at the meaning of family and the various ways in which this most intimate of relationships can be visualized and experienced. Avoiding the maudlin or the overly sentimental, the photographers in this exhibition reveal family as a complicated social and personal construct.
Pushing Boundaries features a selection of abstract large format paintings made by Lisa Brunke, Astrid Fuller, Diane Jurado, Nate Kalichman, Jan Lindell, Barbette Loevy, Judy Petacque, Diane Ponder, Susan Redeker. The artists are all currently enrolled in the Large Scale Painting class at HPAC instructed by Chicago painter Darrell Roberts.
Beds and guns are highly charged cultural symbols the artist Kim Piotrowski dissects in her most recent mixed media paintings featured in Gallery 4. The solo exhibition debuts the largest acrylic paintings on paper by the artist to date. As analogies for life, the two separate series of new paintings - one series of beds and one series of guns - exhibited together transform the simple three-letter words into a image that represents having and losing control.
See Chicago through the lens of French photographer, Philippe Durand with Rust and Flowers. This large photographic mural was produced as part of Durand’s summer residency at the Art Center and with the support of The Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States and Black Point Editions, Ltd.
A vending machine mysteriously conceals the main entrance to the Hyde Park Art Center’s School and Studio. The repurposed vending machine will be fitted into an existing doorway. Inquisitive visitors to the School and Studios will be surprised when they pass through an innocuous utility door only to emerge from inside the non-functional vending machine.
The exhibition Material Poems premiers the artworks by Argentinean artist Máximo González, produced during a summer residency at the Hyde Park Art Center. During this time, González produced nearly 20 sculptures, paintings, installations, and digital works incorporating found or borrowed objects from Chicago. The work shown from November 7th until March 5th are excerpts from the Material Poems series and features five artworks that concentrate on the relationship between contemporary art and the common decorative art displayed in American households.
The fourth installment of an ongoing successful Art Center program intended to encourage a new and diverse public to think of themselves as patrons or leaders of contemporary art. Potential patrons and Chicago artists are brought together through a series of presentations and social events to build a relationship and commission new work that re-contextualizes the age-old trope of portraiture. The exhibition will present these 80-100 completed new works that result from the year-long program.
The multi-media collaborating artists Mark Jeffery and Judd Morrissey have created the first artwork featuring five intercommunicating websites into one large-scale projected digital public art work, The Precession. Inspired by history, astronomy and new media sources, The Precession combines digital images, text and performance art into a monumental exploration of labor and the night sky.
Relative Exposure: Photographs of Family is an exhibition of recent photographs that looks at the American family. Each of the photographers in the exhibition provides a look at the meaning of family and the various ways in which this most intimate of relationships can be visualized and experienced. Avoiding the maudlin or the overly sentimental, the photographers in this exhibition reveal family as a complicated social and personal construct.
Upcoming Exhibitions
Stephen Lapthisophon: The Construction of a National Identityr January 30 – May 22, 2011, Gallery 5
A new installation by Stephen Lapthisophon includes a wall drawing, found objects, audio and photographs to refer to various ways we establish our niche in the world.
Police and Thieves February 13 – May 29, 2011, Gallery 4
Work by Gusmano Cesaretti, Megan Cranston, LAPD collective, Amitis Motevalli, Ben Stone, Arnoldo Vargas and others, curated by Karla Davis and Mario Ybarra Jr.
The Havana Project March 6 - June 12, 2011 Gallery 2
Hyde Park Art Center ceramic students will send tiles to Cuba to be incorporated into the public artwork by Cuban artist Jose Fuster. Fuster’s ambitious ceramic murals and sculptures embedded throughout the neighborhood of Jaimanitas in Havana have been likened to the fantasy installations of Gaudi and Picasso.
Betsy Odom: Sis Boom Bah March 13 - June 12, 2011, The Cleve Carney Gallery
Odom’s sculptures and drawings explore the possibility of extreme-gendered sports.
Conrad Freiburg: It Is What It Isn'tMarch 20 - June 26, 2011, Gallery 1
What does Nothing look like? Conrad Freiburg attempts to show us in his upcoming project at the Hyde Park Art Center, It Is What It Isn’t.
ScreenologyMarch 19 – May 15, 2011, The Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery
Experimental work by artists in the UIC New Media Arts program.
Barlow Nelson: silkscreen printsJune 19 – September 24, 2011, Gallery 2
An exhibition featuring the trials and successes of Barlow Nelson’s experiments in print.
No Place Like HomeSeptember 25, 2011 - January 8, 2012, Gallery 4
Work by Lisa Lindvay, Jason Reblando, Jessica Rodrique, David Schalliol and Leilani Wertens, curated by photographer, Dawoud Bey.
Christine MitchellOctober 16, 2011 – February 5, 2012, Gallery 4
Paintings by HPAC student artist that explore her development from figure to abstraction.
A new installation by Stephen Lapthisophon includes a wall drawing, found objects, audio and photographs to refer to various ways we establish our niche in the world.
Work by Gusmano Cesaretti, Megan Cranston, LAPD collective, Amitis Motevalli, Ben Stone, Arnoldo Vargas and others, curated by Karla Davis and Mario Ybarra Jr.
Hyde Park Art Center ceramic students will send tiles to Cuba to be incorporated into the public artwork by Cuban artist Jose Fuster. Fuster’s ambitious ceramic murals and sculptures embedded throughout the neighborhood of Jaimanitas in Havana have been likened to the fantasy installations of Gaudi and Picasso.
Odom’s sculptures and drawings explore the possibility of extreme-gendered sports.
What does Nothing look like? Conrad Freiburg attempts to show us in his upcoming project at the Hyde Park Art Center, It Is What It Isn’t.
Experimental work by artists in the UIC New Media Arts program.
An exhibition featuring the trials and successes of Barlow Nelson’s experiments in print.
Work by Lisa Lindvay, Jason Reblando, Jessica Rodrique, David Schalliol and Leilani Wertens, curated by photographer, Dawoud Bey.
Paintings by HPAC student artist that explore her development from figure to abstraction.
Hours
Mon – Thurs: 9am – 8pm
Fri – Sat: 9am – 5pm
Sun: 12pm – 5pm
Admission
Varies on a different exhibit.