In 2014 I was one of three artists selected for a six-month Studio Fellowship at Spudnik Press in Chicago, IL. The focus of my project was to make three new artist book editions. DOUBLE//CROSSED, the opening reception for our work will be Saturday, January 17th, 6-9 pm at Spudnik Press.
Another print exhibition, Chasing Posada! A Macabre Populist in the City will be opening the same night. It's sure to be a visual feast. Hope to see you there!
Curator:
Kim Morski
Featured Artist:
Tate Foley
Dates:
10/18/2014 – 11/20/2014
Location:
The Printshop @ Spudnik Press
1821 W. Hubbard Street, Suite 302
Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Reception:
Saturday, October 18, 2014
6:00 – 9:00 pm
Press Release:
Tate Foley’s new body of work, Horrifically Obvious, elaborates on the theme of duality and doubling, a focal point of his studio practice. The series consists of individual prints and drawings hung side by side in pairs—a reference to the spread or gutter in a book. Foley utilizes the spread as a device to force previous unrelated pieces into relationship and dialogue. Each element, informed by its counterpart forms a more complete whole. Yet even as we set out to discover and understand the connections between them, Foley’s use of office supply hanging mechanisms (metallic tape and binder clips) and varied techniques (drawing, risograph, screen printing, and digital printing) remind us the current status and the meaning of the work is in flux, playfully subject to influence and change.
Tate Foley is an Assistant Professor of Art in the Department of Art, Design, and Visual Culture at Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri. His work has been recently exhibited in New York City, Washington D.C., Portland, Saint Louis, Cleveland, and purchased by Toledo Museum of Art, and the UCLA Fine Arts, Yale University, and Reed College libraries. Foley earned a BA in Studio Art from Lycoming College in Williamsport, Pennsylvania in 2007 and an MFA in Printmaking from Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia in 2010.
In July, I will be teaching a screenprinting workshop for high school students with CultureWorks Institute in Holland, MI. To coincide with the workshop, CultureWorks will be exhibiting the 2012 print portfolio, A Collective Declaration: St. Louis (organized to benefit the Northside Workshop in St. Louis, MO) and my 2012 project, Banner for St. Louis.
Showing for the month of June.
On View November 2013 - April 2014
White Cloud Lament
Birchwood Kitchen
2211 West North Ave
Chicago, IL 60647
