Lilli Carré's Blog, page 11

MCA Chicago Works show opening reception tonight 6-8pm

My BMO Harris Bank Chicago Works: Lilli Carré solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago opens today! Opening reception is tonight, Dec. 17th, from 6-8 pm, free for IL residents! Please come say hi!

Chicago Works solo show at the MCA

For the past handful of months I've been secretly working away nonstop on a solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, opening on December 17th and up through April 15th. It is part of the MCA's Chicago Works series, focusing on new work being made by emerging and established Chicago artists.

I'm creating all new work for the show, and will have projected animation, works on paper, and a series of ceramic pieces. I've been so lucky to work with the incredible Michelle Puetz, who curated the show and has been working on it with me over the past months. So, mark your calendars for December 17th if you want to see a whole range of new work and experimentation created through much blood, sweat, and tears!

Heat Spell

My friends made this wonderful interactive animated story called Heat Spell! It's a collaborative project, spearheaded and envisioned by the talented Jo Dery and created with her animation students, designed for the web as if by magic by Nate Beaty.

It connects the experiences of ten neighbors suffering through a Chicago heat wave, and allows you to choose the order in which you tie the stories together. The project is super charming and well worth exploring!

Ten x Ten release event this Saturday

I'm stoked to be a part of the Ten x Ten project this year! Full scoop on the series is below:

Ten x Ten 2013 investigates the relationship between color and sound. Through exploring the underlying concepts of synesthesia, both academically and intuitively, artists and composers have worked together to produce artwork that takes the form of both a fine art print and an original score.

10 Chicago artists were paired with 10 Chicago contemporary (classical) music composers to each produce a work. Using a joint statement of intent as a focus, each visual artist has created one 10 inch by 10 inch scale print, published by Spudnik Press Cooperative. And each composer wrote a piece performed and recorded by Palomar Ensemble that is being pressed onto 12” vinyl.

The final package that will be released on Saturday, November 16, 2013 will be a suite of 10 prints and a record with 10 corresponding compositions issued on record. The entire package will be sold for $35 and includes admission to the debut concert and exhibition at Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art. This project is presented by Access Contemporary Music, Homeroom, and Spudnik Press. Tickets are available here, get 'em while they're hot.

embers

My sister Claire Carré and her husband Charles Spano are fundraising to create their first feature film together! It's a sci-fi film called Embers. I am making a limited edition screenprint based on their film as one of the possible rewards for their contributors. You can read all about the film on their campaign site here. I can't wait to see this film!

thanks!

Thanks to everyone who came out to the Eyeworks 2013 screenings in Chicago! Next stop: Richmond VA, then Brooklyn NY!

Eyeworks in Chicago this Saturday Nov. 9, in Brooklyn Nov. 15 & 16

Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation 2013 Preview Trailer from Eyeworks Festival on Vimeo.

Eyeworks Festival 2013 is almost here! It's happening in Chicago this Saturday November 9th at the Nightingale (full lineups, times, and tickets for Chicago here), then a screening for students at VCU next weekend, and all three programs at Pioneer Works in Red Hook, Brooklyn on Nov. 15 and 16th (full lineups, times, and tickets for NY here). If you want to make sure you get a seat, it is highly recommended you purchase tickets online in advance!


We are very excited about what we are showing this year, and also our printed goods! 2013 poster by Sonnenzimmer right here.

Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation 2013!

Film still from Harry Smith's animated feature Heaven and Earth Magic (1962)


The 4th annual Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation is almost here! For those in or near Chicago, please mark your Calendars for Saturday November 9th at the Nightingale Cinema
(1084 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL)

Screenings at 2:30, 5:00 and 7:30 PM

$10 admission for each program
The 2013 Eyeworks Festival is sponsored by the Canyon Cinema Foundation & the Video Data Bank.

The 2013 Eyeworks Festival lineup includes:

Matt Abbiss, Collection of short works, including Orbit and Forming.
Luigi Allemano, Improvisation no. 1: Cumulative Loops,
Lisa Barcy & Jim Trainor, The Ordovicians
Brandon Blommaert, aaa[A]aaa
Robert Breer, Man and His Dog Out For Air
Paul Bush, Furniture Poetry
Barry Doupé, Whaty
David Lebrun, Tanka
Alexandre Louvenaz, Minotaure
Oskar Fischinger, Allegretto
Michael Frei, Not About Us
Jake Fried, Down Into Nothing
Paul Glabicki, Object Conversation
Stefan Gruber, Lightweight
Lawrence Jordan, Solar Sight II
Sawako Kabuki, Here, There, and Everywhere
Manfred Mohr, Cubic Limits
Sarina Nihei, The Play of Independent Heads
Africanus Okokon, New Everyday
Eduardo Paolozzi with Emma Calder & Susan Young, 1984 (Music for Modern Americans)
Michaela Pavlátová, Words, Words, Words
Jenni Rope, Tiikerimuuri
Edwin Rostron, Of Unknown Origin
André Ruvio, O Dilúvio
Georges Schwizgebel, Rapture of Frank N. Stein
Anu-Laura Tuttelberg, The Fly Mill
Michael Whitney, Binary Bit Patterns
Karen Yasinsky, No Place Like Home
& many more

The 7:30 program will be a screening of Harry Smith’s legendary feature-length collage animation Heaven & Earth Magic.

More info, posters (a new Sonnenzimmer beauty!) and fest trailer to come soon! 

AAIEEE! at the Kohler Arts Center

Opening this weekend at the Kohler Arts Center is AAIEEE! , an exhibition focusing on the fusion of comics and fine art and the influence of artist Ray Yoshida. AAIEEE! is part of The Open Eye , a collection of shows around Yoshida's work, collections, and influence. I'm very happy to have my work shown there alongside friends and inspirations. I am definitely going to head up to Sheboygan to check out Yoshida's home collection of amazing objects while it is on display at the Kohler as part of The Open Eye!
Ray Yoshida in his Chicago residence. Photo: c. 1974, Courtesy of Mary Baber.

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