1:1, new work by OLIVIA VALENTINE

May 12 - May 27, 2012

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 12, 6-10PM

Open Hours: by appointment

Happy Collaborationists Exhibition Space

1254 N Noble St

ACRE and HAPPY COLLABORATIONISTS are pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Olivia Valentine, 1:1.

Artist Olivia Valentine creates relationships between textile and architectural structures. Often working in site-specific installation using methods such as photography, drawing and textile construction, her work addresses the threshold spaces in both buildings and textiles. Recently these have taken the form of 1:1 scale lace windows. 

This exhibition will feature a new site specific installation, 1254 N Noble (Constructed Orthographic Drawing in Blue), as well as a series of recent small scale works entitled Field Edgings, that emerged from a series of photographs taken at the ACRE Residency in 2011.

OLIVIA VALENTINE is a Chicago based artist. Her architectural scale textile installations have been shown both nationally and internationally. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. She will be traveling to Turkey this fall as a Fulbright Fellow.
More info: www.oliviavalentine.net

HAPPY COLLABORATIONISTS is the curatorial collective of Anna Trier, Hadley Vogel, and Meredith Weber. “Happy C” provides exhibition opportunities for performance, installation and media works. More info: http:// happycollaborationists.com/

ACRE (Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibition) was founded in 2010 with the ambition to provide the arts community with an affordable, cooperative, and dialogue-oriented residency program. The residency itself takes place each summer in rural southwest Wisconsin and brings together artists from across disciplines and levels of experience to create a regenerative community of cultural producers. Over the course of the following year ACRE endeavors to further support its residents by providing venues for exhibitions, idea exchange, interdisciplinary collaboration, and experimental projects.
More info: http://www.acreresidency.org/