Tall Grass Arts 2017
A special place for Chicago arts in Park Forest, Illinois
URBAN SPACES
The exhibit - "Urban
Spaces" - focuses on the works of a select group of artists who
portray buildings, facades, bridges, landmarks, etc., as well as
rooms and abandoned spaces inside a variety of offices, apartments, theaters,
concert halls, churches, train stations, waiting rooms, and other places that
might once have seen a lot of human traffic and activity, but now are quiet,
empty or past their prime.
Viewers would be reminded of the
wonderful architectural design and attention to detail that can be found in
historic and modern structures, as well as the abstract qualities images of
them convey, and the personal, even spiritual meanings some suggest. Many would
no doubt stir memories of important moments of our lives spent near or
within those spaces.
Cities, in
general, and Chicago, in particular, have always inspired writers, poets,
journalists and playwrights.
"Eventually,
I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the
world."
Frank Lloyd Wright
"She
is novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the
last time.”
Mark Twain
“Chicago
is an October sort of city even in spring.”
Nelson Algren
Visual
artists, too, have been inspired by the city, expressing some of the same
feelings as the writers: the city beautiful, the city of contradictions,
the city of excellent architecture, the city of terrible buildings.
In this
exhibit, ten artists – painters, photographers and printmakers – interpret the
city and reveal their feelings about it.
