B. Ingrid Olson Book Launch

Wednesday, July 8, 6:00pm. FREE & PUBLIC

Join us to celebrate the release of B. Ingrid Olson's book Cast of Mind, very recently published by Dancing Foxes Press.

As part of a yearlong exhibition at i8 Grandi in Reykjavik, Olson continuously reconfigured her artworks within the space in order to test the reciprocity between photography, sculpture and architecture. This became a guiding structure for the book, which models artistic practice as an evolving form. As Olson writes in her introduction: "More closely related to a spiral than a line, the permutations of Cast of Mind do not reach a culmination and instead tangle into a networked maze, composing an abstraction of both exhibition-making and studio processes.

Olson will be joined in conversation with the book's designer, Chad Kloepfer as well as three of the publication's contributing writers, Mariana Fernández, Kate Nesin and Leslie Wilson.

MARIANA FERNÁNDEZ is a writer and independent curator who focuses on performance and visual art. Her writings have appeared in Artforum, ArtReview, BOMB, e-flux Criticism, frieze, Momus, and X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, and in various exhibition catalogues. She is based in New York and Mexico City.

CHAD KLOEPFER is the art director of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. From 2010 to 2014, he was the art director of Artforum Magazine. He has also worked as a senior designer for the Walker Art Center and Wired Magazine. In addition, he has worked with a wide range of clients including the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Guggenheim, MoMA, Whitney Museum of American Art, Schaulager, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo, Canadian Center for Architecture, Carnegie Museum of Art, and many more. He currently lives in Oak Park, Illinois.

KATE NESIN is a curator-at-large at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she has organized exhibitions of the work of Helena Almeida, Lucy McKenzie, Frances Stark, and Kemang Wa Lehulere, among others. She often writes about sculpture, recently in essays on Lutz Bacher, Nairy Baghramian, and Eva Hesse.

B. INGRID OLSON is an artist based in Chicago. Solo exhibitions of her work have been held at venues including Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany; fluent, Santander, Spain; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Secession, Vienna, Austria; and Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, New York.

LESLIE MEREDITH WILSON is a writer on photography and the academic curator and director of research programs at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she collaborated on David Goldblatt: No Ulterior Motive in 2023. For Aperture, she organized the exhibition The True America: Photographs by Ernest Cole, currently touring.