Juan Angel Chavez
Artist Talk
Friday 12th June 6pm
Enjoy Public Art Gallery
Enjoy is pleased to announce that Chicago-based Mexican artist Juan Angel Chavez will be giving an artist talk about his practice and current research in New Zealand this Friday. Chavez started his career doing non-permissioned sculptural interventions in the urban environment. His recent work includes large sculptural installations in the gallery context made of found materials scavenged from the industrial wastelands of Chicago. His work also often involves light, sound, performance and visitor interaction.
Chavez has shown extensively in Chicago including recent exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The National Museum of Mexican Art and the Hyde Park Art Center. Chavez has also exhibited throughout the U.S and internationally including Los Angeles, Boston, Vermont, Ohio and Copenhagen. He has also recently been awarded with the prestigious Richard H. Driehaus Individual Artist Award and the Louis Comfort Tiffany award in New York City. For more information please visit: www.juanangelchavez.com
Chavez is in New Zealand on a research visit in conjunction with the Close Encounters project initiated by the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago. Close Encounters is an evolving project that will result in a series of artists projects in 2010 involving nine artists from New Zealand and across the United States including: Daniel du Bern (NZ), Tania Bruguera (Cuba /U.S.), Juan Angel Chávez (Mexico /U.S.), Walter Hood (U.S.), Truman Lowe (Ho Chunk/U.S.), Maddie Leach (NZ), Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle (U.S.), Lisa Reihana (NZ), Wayne Youle (NZ). Close Encounters is co-curated by Chuck Thurow (Executive Director of the Hyde Park Art Center) and Bruce E. Phillips (independent curator from New Zealand) and is supported by Creative New Zealand, Illinois Arts Council and the Boeing Charitable Trust.
For more information please visit: http://www.hydeparkart.org/
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