Art & Art History
POST Chicago: April 2003 – April 2004
Artists: Pedro Velez, Andy Hall, Rena Leinberger, Michael Wolf, John Neff, Vincent Dermody, Artists of the Little City Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, Philip von Zweck, Kristen VanDeventer, Ben Gill, Siebren Versteeg, and Deva Maitland
POST Chicago: April 2003–April 2004 is an exhibition of posters commissioned during the first year of the Chicago-based project POST, an initiative headed by Keri Butler and Lisa Williamson, which invites Chicago artists to create posters for the public space to be posted monthly throughout various neighborhoods. POST increases the artists ’ audiences and generates new forms of intervention, discussion, and communication. Employing the billboard, poster, leaflet, flyer, and other means of inexpensive mass-produced communicative media, POST provides another mode of distribution for a vast range of ideas and considerations.
The POST Chicago exhibition features a year of the monthly posters by artists such as Pedro Velez, Andy Hall, Rena Leinberger, Michael Wolf, John Neff, Vincent Dermody, Artists of the Little City Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, Philip von Zweck, Kristen VanDeventer, Ben Gill, Siebren Versteeg, and Deva Maitland. Each poster is accompanied by documentation of its display in public spaces. Limited supplies of posters are available at the show.
POST Chicago: April 2003–April 2004 is presented concurrently with Alert: Please Proceed to a Shelter Nearest You
and The Paper Sculpture Show.
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EXHIBITION SUPPORT
POST Chicago: April 2003–April 2004 is supported by the College of Architecture and the Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago.
EXHIBITION CHECKLIST
Artists of the Little City Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center
Evacuation Plan, 2003
Poster
Vincent Dermody
Love Chicago/Hate the Circle, 2003
Poster
Ben Gill
I don ’t think I ever said that, 2004
Poster
Andy Hall
Encyclopedia Sustainable, 2003
Poster
Rena Leinberger
Socks, 2003
Poster
Deva Maitland
My Biggest Mistake Is Waiting For Perfect Communication, 2004
Poster
John Neff
We Are All Sinners, 2003
Poster
Kristen VanDeventer
Look at this mountain, I am trying to tell you, 2004
Poster
Pedro Velez
A Glorious Ending, 2003
Poster
Siebren Versteeg
Independence Day, 2004
Poster
Michael Wolf
Avian Invaders, 2003
Poster
Philip von Zweck
Give the gift of free parking, 2003
Poster