"PROWLERS: A Collaboration between Colby Bird and Jesse Butcher" will be available at Colby Bird's Solo Exhibition at Fitzroy Gallery. Fitzroy Gallery's hours for the show are March 16 through May 5, 2012 with an opening reception on Friday, March 16 from 6 - 8 pm. Fitzroy Gallery is open to the public Tuesday through Saturday from 11 am - 6 pm and by appointment.
PHILADELPHIA: Please come out on Friday, October 21st for the opening of Inspiration Information, and exhibition co-curated by Sam Belkowitz and Alex Gartelmann. The show features work by Isaac Lin, Jason Musson, Sam Belkowitz, Matt Pruden, Kim Walker, Jonas Sebura, Corkey Sinks, Jesse Butcher, David Harper, Barbara Jenkins, Joel Parsons, Jamie Diamond, Lee Arnold, and Alex Gartelmann.
Inspiration Information is at The Maas Building at 1325 Randolph Street, Philadelphia from 6-10 PM
Additionally a screening of HOMELAND curated by Jesse Pires featuring short films from James MacSwain, Peter Bundy & Bryan Elsom, Sobhi al-Zobaidi, Maria Dumlao, and Shona Illingworth will be on Saturday, October 29th at 8pm.
Beach Party IV: Forbidden Pair of Dice (The Final Chapter)
CHICAGO: On September 10th from 5PM to 1AM, The Hills Esthetic Center hosts its fourth annual Beach Party group show, with performances from I Love You, John Bellows, and DJ Jean Shorts. A limited addition mixtape by Lauren Walsh will be available at the opening. The Title of this years show is “Beach Party IV: Forbidden Pair of Dice (The Final Chapter)” The exhibition closes on October 9th.
Featuring the work of: Brandon Alvendia, Jesse Butcher, Alex Chitty, Chelsea Culp, Carson Fisk-Vittori, Ben Foch, Katy Cowan, Josh Reames, Alec Regan, Dustin Ruegger, Kate Ruggeri, Will Sieruta, Winslow Smith, and Amber Thomas.
The work in this exhibition broadly addresses the vernacular, aesthetic, and sentiment of summer and "the beach", as well as the ritual of seasonal theme parties. Look out for sharks, tiki-bar concoctions, Jello, keg beer and a number of other summer clichés, just in time for fall.
Open hours are Sunday’s 1 – 5PM, and by appointment.
NEXT Fair at Art Chicago
Swimming Pool Project Space presents: Group Show
CHICAGO: Swimming Pool Project Space is proud to announce “Group Show”. Come visit our booth in the Goffo section of the NEXT Fair at Art Chicago. (Booth 600 on the 12th floor) The Exhibition runs April 29th through May 2nd, 2011
On view will be “Group Show” with works in video, photography, sculpture, painting, and interactive web-art, unified by irreverent attitudes and motifs that challenge the aesthetic line between craft, kitsch, and impeccably manufactured objects.
Artists participating in the Swimming Pool exhibit include:
Daniel G. Baird, Jesse Butcher, Caleb Charland, Carly Fischer, Steven Frost, Shannon Goff, Lauren Gregory, David Harper, Brent Houston, Erin LaRocque, Jessie Mott, Liz Nielsen, Rafael Rozendaal
April 29th - May 2nd, 2011
“The world is not a calm place.”
MFA Thesis Exhibition
Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
April 29–May 20
Jesse Butcher
Steven Frost
David R Harper
Ivan Lozano
Soo Shin
Hours: Tuesday–Saturday 11am–6pm
Reception: Friday, April 29, 8:00–10:00 p.m.
The exhibition will also be open on Monday, May 2, 11 a.m.–6 p.m
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WET AFFAIRS
New work by Jesse Butcher
Swimming Pool Project Space
2858 W. Montrose, Chicago, IL 60618
December 11, 2010 - January 9, 2011
CHICAGO: Swimming Pool Project Space is proud to present WET AFFAIRS: New Work by Jesse Butcher.
Butcher uses text-based iconography as an analysis of complex American ideas about good and evil. He presents the land's love for antagonists within his own personal mythology. He references the psychological hinterland at the core of an ultimately fear-based culture and reflects about a mean spirited society where America becomes either/or, a potential Promised Land on Earth. These Big Symbols exemplify a mentality of every man for himself in blockbuster rhetoric where grey does not exist. This results in an anarchy of Libertarianism proving that one is either black or white/damned or saved.
Exhibition continues through January 9th.
Gallery Hours: Tuesdays and Sundays from 1-5pm
www.swimmingpoolprojectspace.com
Don’t Quit. Suffer Now.
Jesse Butcher and Steven Frost
School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)
Sullivan Center, 18 South Wabash Avenue
August 30—November 5
On view from the street on Wabash Avenue, north of Monroe Street and south of Madison, this exhibition showcases the work of Jesse Butcher (MFA 2011) and Steven Frost (MFA 2011), two students pursuing SAIC graduate degrees in Photography and Fiber & Material Studies, respectively.
Organized by Allison Glenn, Project Manager in the Office of Exhibition Practices (Dual MA 2012), Don’t Quit. Suffer Now. is an examination of the historical deification of masculinity. The artists will explore the idea of a champion by creating a space of aggression devoid of violence, yet littered with the remains of physical contact.
This exhibition is developed with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as part of the Chicago Loop Alliance’s Pop-Up Art Loop initiative.
I N D U L G E N C E S
Jesse Butcher, Jill Frank, Jaime Lynn Henderson, Tibi Tibi Neuspiel, Corkey Sinks, Casey Jex Smith
Goffo at NEXT Invitational Exhibition of Emerging Art
The Merchandise Mart, 7th Floor, Booth 9052
April 30 – May 3, 2010
Opening Preview: Thursday, April 29
Fair Hours: 11am – 7pm Friday, Saturday; 11am – 6pm Sunday; 11am – 4pm Monday
CHICAGO: Concertina Gallery is thrilled to participate in Goffo at NEXT Invitational Exhibition of Emerging Art. In Concertina’s curated booth, Indulgences, the historical forces of the art market are revealed through an original patron of the arts in the Western world—the Christian Church. The works in Indulgences (the title a reference to the act of paying, whether in confession or currency, for salvation) each examine religious iconography’s long presence in art history and everyday life, oftentimes emerging from the most banal situations.
Surrender Dorothy
Jesse Butcher & Corkey Sinks
March 13 – March 28, 2010
CHICAGO: Concertina Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Surrender Dorothy, the first large-scale collaboration between artists Jesse Butcher and Corkey Sinks. Mining the tropes of adolescent identity, both artists share nostalgia—even obsession—for the stylized rebellion of teenage subcultures. While struggling to find their own place in society, teens often dabble in fringe elements of the mainstream as a form of escapism. Surrender Dorothy will transform three of Concertina’s rooms into disquieting retreats of familiar adolescent experiences.
The title of the exhibition is taken from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, referencing the scene in which the Wicked Witch of the West skywrites a threatening message, “Surrender Dorothy”, over the Emerald City. Foundational to many happy childhood memories over the past seventy years, this movie may also serve as a reminder that the rosiest of childhood memories are tinged with fear. References to books, films and music consumed in wood-paneled basements across America run throughout the exhibition–many evolving from myths that teenagers have appropriated for generations as a shelter from the storm of adolescence.
In the liminal space of adolescence, vestiges of childhood meet the teen scene. Throughout the exhibition, these transitional phases converge. A quilt made from band t-shirts contrasts a handmade racecar bed. Oversized “God’s Eyes” hang from the ceiling—unnerving in scale and sheer number—evoking happy episodes from summer camp. Along with video installations and makeshift tie-dye walls, each form in the installation recalls the irreverent contradictions of teenage years, and the residual effects they have in adulthood.
USEFULNESS. Construction, De-construction, Reconstruction
Exhibition curated by Cecilia Vargas
January 28 - February 26, 2010
SAIC
MacLean Center, 112 South Michigan Avenue
Sharp Building, 37 South Wabash Avenue
Jesse Butcher: We're All In Love With Dying And We're Doing It In Texas
Mass Gallery Austin, TX
2008
Jesse Butcher: Girls Bones Found
Bolm Studios, Austin TX
2007