KRIS SCHMOLZE, CHRISTY STEINBERG, CHARLES CHICK
JULY 9 - AUGUST 30, 2019
OAK PARK LIBRARY – KRIS SCHMOLZE is interested in space colonization. Exploration and transportation have origins in his upbringing during the days of regular space shuttle launches. The great celestial massiveness of the universe, our world and the cosmos is the basis of many ritual and spiritual practices of every human culture on earth. The materials he uses have been appropriated from publications throughout history. Major inspirations in the work include The World’s Fairs of the 30s, which promised a vision of a better future through democracy and capitalism, interpretations of anthropology through Western perceptions of civil and savage, and the space race of exploring new worlds while destroying the one we live on. All of these images generate a narrative of a postmodern world both excited and distracted by possibilities.
OAK PARK LIBRARY – CHRISTY STEINBERG
BLUE VALLEY LIBRARY – CHARLES CHICK refers to himself as a serial artist inventor selling his inventions to fortune 500 companies for 40 years. At 75, he wanted to invent new ways of abstract expression on canvas rather than inventing machines to make things more efficient. Chick invented a new art media using recycled plastic called Granite and applied it as sculpture on canvas. After visiting the Orient, he wanted to develop art that conveyed the ancient and spiritual side of the Orient.
