october
1-31
christine tarkowski
proposals for
indestructible living
in conjunction with
Chicago Artist's Month
panel discussion
"plan
b"
saturday, october 16
beginning at 4pm
open
saturdays and sundays
12-5 pm
or by appointment
mn
celebrates halloween!
closing
reception
mark
jackson
drawings
craig perry
pumpkin carvings
of famous paintings
richard curtis
vocal sound performance
saturday, october 30
6-10pm
By
Fred Camper
Special to the Tribune
October 15, 2004
From the title of Christine Tarkowski's exhibit
at mn gallery, "Proposals for Indestructible Living," as well as
from the titles of its three cast-iron sculptures ("Iron Roof," for
example), one would assume that Tarkowski is offering items that might be useful
for the home.
Instead she offers partly humorous evidences of disaster. "Enameled Iron
Siding Sample" consists of four sections of siding, each of which has
an area that seems to have been grotesquely melted, its straight lines distorted
and sometimes fused. A similar pattern can be found on "Iron Siding Sample," which
retains its original iron color. And "Iron Roof" looks partly like
the side of a log cabin--cast-iron logs are visible--and partly like the result
of some unspecified construction mistake, because there are also bands of what
seems like random decay alongside two by fours and what Tarkowski describes
as "expansion foam that's kind of exploding, pretty out of control."
