Corbett vs. Dempsey

Ox-Bow Centennial
Historic
June 26 - August 21, 2010
Opening reception Saturday, June 26, 2010, 5 - 9 p.m.

For its summer show this year, Corbett vs. Dempsey is pleased to participate in the Centennial festivities for the Ox-Bow Summer School of Art. Founded in 1910 in the woods on a special stretch of water branching off the Kalamazoo River (the Ox-Bow bend) in Saugatuck, Michigan, Ox-Bow has served for a century as one of the most important resources for Chicago artists. Affiliated with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, it has been a summertime seed-bed, fertilizing artists of many stripes, in the process providing a retreat-like, think-tank atmosphere for its teachers.

This exhibition surveys some of the most significant figures associated with Ox-Bow, stretching back into the first half of the 20th century with painters Frederick Fursman (one of Ox-Bow's founders), Albert Krebiel, Edgar Rupprecht, and Isobel Steele MacKinnon, through the mid-century modernists Francis Chapin, Eleanor Coen, Max Kahn, Ellen Lanyon, Miyoko Ito, Seymour Rosofsky, and Margo Hoff, up into more recent decades with key artists who emerged in the '60s, including Philip Hanson, Christina Ramberg, and Jimmy Wright. A small, very early lithograph by Claes Oldenburg, made at Ox-Bow in the early '50s when he was a student there, and a recent watercolor by German artist Peter Brötzmann, who was a visiting artist at the school in 2005, shows the international scope of the alumni and associates.

The exhibition is part of a summer-long celebration on a grand scale. Opening the same night at Roots & Culture, 1034 N. Milwaukee Ave., will be a show featuring contemporary Ox-Bow artists, including Betsy Rupprecht (whose parents are both represented in the CvsD exhibit), Mike Andrews, Jonah Groeneboer, Shara Hughes, George Liebert, Anna Mayer, Aspen Mays, Carmen Price, Melanie Schiff, Andrew Winship, and Nate Wolf. Another exhibition covering historical and contemporary artists from Ox-Bow runs from June 4-August 22 at the Grand Rapids Art Museum; John Corbett of CvsD will present a lecture titled "Ox-Bow: Now & Then" on July 23 at 1:30pm at the museum.

Please join us for the gala opening reception and check Ox-Bow's website for more information on Centennial events.

More works from the CvsD show.

In the East Wing:

Gabrielle Garland
Paintings & Drawings

In the East Wing, CvsD spotlights new work by Chicago artist Gabrielle Garland. Garland's intimate paintings focus on interior spaces - brilliantly colored, delightfully warped unpopulated domestic scenes. Her larger, slightly Hockneyesque graphite drawings feature landscape and architecture, with a dazzling range of marks from wild and expressionistic to fastidious and precise.

More works by Gabrielle Garland.

Events