Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago:
"Fool's Paradise" (exhibition on view August 15 - September 22)
Reception: Thursday, September 7, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

A nation, a home, the pastoral, urban, a city, a forest, suburban, rural. How do we define these places? Where does one start and another begin? In this exhibition, each artist explores the elusive geographic and metaphoric meaning of a particular place. What emerges are new landscapes that seek to fictionalize, rather than represent the environment, by using imagination to fashion a fantasy. Whether romantic or mythical, bleak or idyllic, the artwork questions the future of landscape art while investigating the evolving boundaries of place in today's society.

Artists include Stephen Eichhorn, Brock Enright, Ivan Hürzeler, Rashid Johnson, Jessica Labatte, Rich Mansfield, Thomas Rapai, and jon.satrom.


This exhibition is curated by Murphy Dunn and Madeline Nusser and is supported, in part, by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state
agency.

Betty Rymer Gallery
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
280 S. Columbus Drive
Chicago, IL 60603
312.443.3703
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http://www.artic.edu/saic/bettyrymer
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10 am - 5 pm