September 21, 2022 | 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm

Join ArtTable in Chicago for an evening at Goldfinch Gallery with owner and director, Claudine Isé. Claudine will speak to us about her career trajectory from various roles within the museum, not-for-profit, and university sectors to making the leap into commercial enterprise by establishing her own gallery. During the evening, she will also provide curatorial insights into three solo exhibitions by artists Yanique Norman, James Kao and Minami Kobayashi.
Admission:
- ArtTable Members – $10
- Member Guests/Non-Members – $15
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Health & Safety
Masks are encouraged but not required. Extra masks will not be available so please remember to bring and wear one if you prefer to be masked.
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Accessibility
The gallery is located on the first floor, and is wheelchair accessible.
If you would like information about accessibility or need particular accommodations for this program, please email Haley at [email protected].
Getting There
Goldfinch Gallery is located at 319 N. Albany Avenue in a large, brick warehouse building in East Garfield Park. Additional entrance instructions will be relayed to all registered guests.
About Claudine Isé
Claudine Isé (she/her) is the owner and director of Goldfinch, a contemporary art gallery that opened in 2016. Goldfinch’s program focuses on emerging and mid-career artists with a strong focus on painting and sculpture. She is also a Lecturer in the Painting and Drawing department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Prior to moving to Chicago in 2008, Isé was the Associate Curator of Exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts, and before that, was an Assistant Curator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Over the course of her professional career, she has written extensively about contemporary art in Chicago (and before that, Los Angeles) for publications including Artforum, Art21 Blog (where she also served as Editor), Bad at Sports, Art Papers, the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Magazine, and the Los Angeles Times, among others. She holds a Ph.D. in Film, Literature and Culture from the University of Southern California and a B.A. in English from Pomona College.
Images: Yanique Norman, Monticello: Plot 2, 2022, Found and reconstructed image tinted black and transferred onto watercolor papers with hand-cut and sculptural elements, colored xerox, collage, graphite and iridescent medium; Included in Yanique Norman: Blue to Green on view at Goldfinch; James Kao, Smokeset, 2021, Oil on linen over board; Included in James Kao: “something about grinding down, something about glittering”; Taylor Augustine, painting included in the exhibition “Kiss my petals”

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Dr. Marika Kuźmicz is an art historian, curator, researcher, and publicist. She is the dean of students and lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts (Department of Visual Culture and the Artistic Research) in Warsaw and Warsaw University. She is also a lecturer at Collegium Civitas in Warsaw. For many years she conducted research on Polish art of the 1970s, particularly advocating performance and video art. In 2010 she established the non-profit organization Arton Foundation. Its main activity is the elaboration of private archives of artists. Kuźmicz is the author and editor of many books, such as “The Workshop of The Film Form” (2016, co-edited with Łukasz Ronduda, published by Sternberg Press) and “History of Performance in Poland” and many monographs of Polish artists (like Zdzisław Jurkiewicz, Ludmiła Popiel and many others) based on her research in private archives. She has curated many exhibitions in Poland and abroad, most recently: “Her Own Way – Female Artists and the Moving Image in Art in Poland”, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum and the monographic exhibition of Barbara Kozłowska “You Can See It All Anywhere” (2020, Muzeum of Contemporary Art, Wrocław). She is also the curator of the film festival “Arton Review”, devoted to the forgotten forerunners of Polish avant-garde film and video. The 2017 edition took place in Whitechapel Gallery in London and in 2020, the film festival was part of the Oberhausen Shortfilm Festival. Kuźmicz was the coordinator of an international art project “Forgotten Heritage – European Avant-Garde Art Online” dedicated to the re-discovering marginalized avant-garde artists from Poland, Croatia, Belgium and Estonia. In 2017 she also established Edward Hartwig Foundation, the organization devoted to the developing and dissemination of legacy and art on Edward Hartwig, the key Polish photographer. Currently she is the main coordinator and the curator of the project “Not Yet Written Stories: Women Artists Archives On-line”, supported by Creative Europe, in collaboration with the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Arts in Riga and the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Ljubljana.
