Preview of the art work available at this link: http://makemag.com/patrick-mcgee-a-few-paintings/
MAKE Literary Productions presents
MAKE DO: exformation, an art opening, April 20-May 11
When: Opening, Friday, April 20, 6:30 p.m. / Where: Gentner Showroom, 228 W. Kinzie (Upstairs from Gilt Bar) / Cost: FREE, complimentary beer and snacks
What:Visual artist Patrick McGee debuts his a collection of watercolor paintings, exformation. Inspired by John James Audubon’s Birds of America and Tor Nørretranders’s concept of exformation—the explicit discarding of information (The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size), each work straddles the line between a concrete study of the natural world and the consciousness required to see it.
Writers Thomas Mundt and Michael Zapata open the event with short fiction. Reid Coker of the poesy-rock group The Judy Green, closes out the night with songs in the key of exformation.
LINKS: http://www.makemag.com / http://www.gentnerdesign.com / http://www.thejudygreen.com / http://www.adequatearts.com (Patrick McGee) / http://www.dontdissthewizard.blogspot.com (Thomas Mundt)
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Patrick McGee is a painter, sculptor and installation artist who has worked and lived in Chicago since 1986. An alumnus of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a 1985 graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute, he has exhibited his artwork in the US and in Europe. McGee has recently created important Public Art Projects, including, in 2005, the only permanent Public Art Work in Millennium Park by an artist who resides in Chicago, in the Millennium Park Welcome Center at the Exelon Pavilion. Other highlights include one-person exhibitions in Berlin, Germany, in 1996 and 2002, and a one-person exhibition at the Hyde Park Art Center in 2003, for which a catalog was produced.
McGee consistently produces smaller, sculptural works and has also created a series of water colors based on map symbols, which were first presented at the Artist Project at Art Chicago. A selection from the Bureau of Standards” series of small sculptures was included in the exhibition “Mapping the Self” at the MCA, Chicago. Fascinated by the nature of perception, McGee, in early 2011 began a on going series of watercolor paintings based on the Birds of America, by John James Audubon. This work is being presented publicly for the first time at the Gentner Showroom.
Thomas Mundt is an Associate Fiction Editor for MAKE: A Chicago Literary Magazine and the author of the short story collection You Have Until Noon to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe (Lady Lazarus Press, 2011). He lives in Chicago, as do others.
Michael Zapata is a writer and educator living in Chicago. He is a founding editor of MAKE: A Chicago Literary Magazine. Currently, he is an editor at ANTIBOOKCLUB.
Reid Coker is a Chicago-based musician and songwriter, best known for his band The Judy Green.
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to publish and promote contemporary literary writing and visual art. MAKE is a biannual publication not only showcasing established and emerging talent, but also creating a lasting document of the current writing and visual arts landscape. It is a literary, artistic object in pursuit of a thematic vision. MAKE DO is a new roving series of literary-centric events.
