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Upcoming Exhibitions
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10th Annual Art and Faith of the Crèche: The Collection of
James and Emilia Govan
November 14, 2017 – January 7, 2018
This perennial favorite returns. The story of Mary, Joseph, and the Christ Child has great appeal
throughout the world. See how artists across the globe depict the nativity with clothes, architecture,
and figures from their native lands.
Susan Aurinko: Searching for Jehanne – the St Joan of Arc Project
July 1, 2017 – October 21, 2017
In the summer of 2011, on a photographic expedition to France, Chicago-based artist Susan Aurinko
visited the 12th century Chateau of Chinon in the Loire Valley. She discovered that it was in this
chateau that Joan (Jehanne) of Arc had lived for months, convincing the king-to-be, the Dauphin
Charles, to grant her an army to raise the siege of Orleans and drive the English from France.
Fascinated by this story, Aurinko began to research, traveling to France repeatedly and visiting all
the sites where Joan of Arc had lived, prayed, fought, stayed, or passed through in her short life. This
exhibition explores the iconographic nature of this well-loved saint through popular culture, literature,
feminism and theology.
JeffreyWolin: Pigeon Hill: Then and Now
July 1, 2017 – October 21, 2017
From 1987-1991, Jeffrey Wolin made hundreds of portraits of residents of his city’s housing
projects, known as “Pigeon Hill”. At the time there was much discussion about the problems of
the welfare state, crime and drug abuse, and enduring poverty. Over the past five years he re-
photographed over 100 individuals. The economic condition of many remains poor, while others
now live solidly middle-class lives. Wolin’s focus is on the faces themselves paired with the earlier
portraits. One can see the effects of the passing of time and the ways in which life’s experiences
(good and bad) are written into these open and expressive faces.
Michelle Murphy: Responsive Beauty
July 1, 2017 – October 21, 2017
Responsive Beauty
, a photography exhibition by Michelle Murphy, explores the complexities of
creating abstract work that is social-political in content. Murphy’s series features beauty products
as art materials and considers the triangular relationship between consumer culture, the beauty
industry, and the wage disparity between genders. The resulting images reveal the capacity of
cosmetics to function as both a metaphor and a consumable object. Murphy is a Chicago-based
artist who has studied at the Art Institute and worked as a photographer for NASA for more than
a decade.
Images top to bottom, left to right:
Angel and Devil
, 2000, Peter Gelker, wood, metal, paint, mixed media, collection of the artist;
Shadow Puppet,
20th Century, Java, Indonesia, May Weber Collection, Loyola University
Chicago, Photo by Julie Calcagno (www.juliecalcagno.photography);
Misericordia Boys
, 2015, Steve Schapiro, collection of the artist; Susan Aurinko, The St. Joan of Arc Project,
When I was Thirteen, I heard a voice from
God to help me govern myself
, digital inkjet print, collection of the artist;
Wendi Pemberton, Pigeon Hill,
1990, Jeffrey Wolin, courtesy of Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago;
At the Edge of Focus,
2016, Michelle Murphy,
collection of the artist;
Thailand
, 2003, Khunying Tongkorn Chandavimol, wood, fabric, paper and metal, The James and Emilia Govan Crèche Collection, 2013-06-85.