Timely Sanctification, was a duo exhibition featuring new works by current HATCH 2021-22 artists-in-residence Jade Williams and Gabriel Chalfin-Piney.
Curated by Cristobal Alday at Chicago Artists Coalition in 2012. The exhibition featured accompanying sound pieces by Devin Shaffer.
The exhibition will be on view from February 25-April 7, 2022, with an opening reception on Friday, February 25, 5-8pm.
Timely Sanctification encompasses the ways in which the artists find themselves investigating histories and how they make sense of their spiritual and familial influences.
Jade Williams jumps timelines in order to create an ideal world for her younger and future selves. She does so by using blueprints and collaging old family photos as well as implementing sound bites of family members’ voices responding to questions she is pondering: What happens when we don’t get the answers we are searching for? How can we be okay with not getting the closure we’ve sought so hard for?
Gabriel Chalfin-Piney reflects on the impermanence of spirituality and how it can be contained and made “pocketable.” Through the use of found, foraged, and purchased materials and loosely adapted oral histories of the life of Saint Seraphim of Sarov, the historical accuracy of saintly people and places is highlighted. Can a sacred space fit into a sock? What makes a holy place deserving of a souvenir shop?
Williams and Chalfin-Piney both use material manipulation that embed us into individual spaces such as the outer space, gift shops, grandma’s living room, the forest, and inner space all while we simultaneously watch their worlds collide.
Exhibition activation facilitated by Zachary Nicol and Courtney Mackedanz, accompanied by a live performance by Devin Shaffer which took place on March 26 at 5pm.
i like your earring is a collaborative installation by Kayla Taylor and Gabriel Chalfin-Piney. The work explores how objects come into contact with bodies, through ingestion, decoration and occasionally violence. Tattooed grapefruits include collected oral histories surrounding early relationships to fruit and jewelry. Clay objects take on the dual form of a fishing hook and the curved loop of an earring.
Installation for Open sheds used for what? organized by Marina and Cecília Resende Santos, August 5th-12th 2020
Oral History Nesting Box is my contribution for ART-IN-PLACE, a collaboration between CNL Projects and Terrain Exhibitions/ Terrain Biennial that invites artists to exhibit an original work of art outside their home or from a window visible to the public between May 20- June 20, 2020. Proceeds of the sales of the work benefit the Arts for Illinois Relief Fund to support local Illinois artists and arts organizations.
39”x17”, dehydrated tattooed grapefruits (preserved 10/28/18 and 5/19/20), crocheted yarn, wooden frames and vise grip, and dried chrysanthemums
