Reflecting... At this midpoint in our inaugural year of programing, we will be presenting a curated series of installations highlighting our first six exhibitions: Hilma's Ghost: Spectral VisionsCosmic Geometries: The Prairie's EdgeStephen Eichhorn: VOIDGROUNDMaking TimeAnne Lindberg: Of all colorsMANIFEST Revealing...Each Friday in December, we will be announcing exciting new projects, commissions and new connections with artists + curators to look forward to in 2025.

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&nbsp;“Of all colors, blue and green have the greatest emotional range…. Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life. Whether slick light sharp high bright thin quick sour new and cool or low deep sweet dark soft slow smooth heavy old and warm: blue moves easily among them all, and all profoundly qualify our states of feeling.”&nbsp;- William Gass&nbsp;We are pleased to announce&nbsp;Anne Lindberg: Of all colors&nbsp;taking place at SECRIST | BEACH this fall.&nbsp;Of all colors&nbsp;marks New York-based artist Anne Lindberg’s fourth solo show with SECRIST | BEACH and will be presented concurrently with&nbsp;MANIFEST, a survey of artworks and inspired studies/drawings by artists and architects exploring themes of light, color and space.

Anne Lindberg

After&nbsp;two&nbsp;years&nbsp;of interruption, transition and reevaluation within all art communities, we are thrilled to announce Secrist | Beach. Located at the corner of Wood and Hubbard Streets, this double bow-truss, sky lit space is a 10,000 sq ft arena featuring an expanded approach to contemporary exhibition experiences. Our reinvigorated programming will present solo artist’s exhibitions alongside curated surveys by like-minded creators that will elaborate the dialogue around related topics. Additional programming includes panel discussions, lectures, curatorial invitationals and other events. As we dive into our 3rd decade we offer a revitalized mission as a gift to engage our art community locally and at large.&nbsp;&nbsp;Image: Installation view: Hilma's Ghost. Photo by Nathan Keay.&nbsp;

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Book Signing with Anne Lindberg at Light the Way: DMoC's 2024 BenefitArtist Anne Lindberg&nbsp;will be present for the Design Museum benefit, signing copies of her monograph released by Dürer Editions in 2022.The book is available for <a href=https://checkout.square.site/buy/HEWRQNIXCJ5LXU3K67A2DJY6>purchase online</a> or in person at the benefit (<a href=https://www.designchicago.org/events-calendar/design-together-galavant-2024>ticket required</a>).&nbsp;

Book Signing with Anne Lindberg (ticketed event)

SECRIST | BEACH is pleased to participate in CXW 2024Extended&nbsp;Hours: Friday, October&nbsp;4: 10 - 7&nbsp;pm Saturday, October 5: 11 - 5 pmVisit us at: 1801 W Hubbard Street, Chicago, IL 60622

Extended Hours: CXW 2024

There will be an artists talk Saturday, September 21 at 3PM&nbsp;with&nbsp;participating&nbsp;artists&nbsp;Anne Lindberg&nbsp;and&nbsp;Luftwerk. This discussion will be moderated by&nbsp;Michael Rossi. Rossi&nbsp;is a University of Chicago&nbsp;Associate Professor of the History of Medicine, Chair, Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, and the author of The Republic of Color: Science, Perception, and the Making of Modern America.<a href=https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/anne-lindberg-of-all-colors>Exhibition Details</a>&nbsp;

Artist Talk with Anne Lindberg and Luftwerk

We are pleased to announce Anne Lindberg: Of all colors taking place at SECRIST | BEACH this fall. Of all colors marks New York-based artist Anne Lindberg’s fourth solo show with SECRIST | BEACH and will be presented concurrently with MANIFEST, a survey of artworks and inspired studies/drawings by artists and architects exploring themes of light, color and space.For&nbsp;Of all colors, Anne Lindberg will create a sweeping horizontal sculpture made with thousands of lengths of fine cotton thread pulled taut from wall to wall under the gallery’s bow truss skylights. With a gap at the artist’s eye level, the form will deepen in dark blue hues and gradually fade to white or almost white. Flashes of hot color will appear to float within the gradient of blue. In addition, 13 new drawings made with graphite and colored pencil on mat board will pick up elements compositionally and chromatically from within the thread installation. Ranging in scale and number of panels, Lindberg’s drawings explore the luminous possibilities of hue. Intermittent bold bands of contrasting color shift imply a layered space while referencing changes in light that come with time of day, viewpoint and atmosphere.Lindberg has long activated architecture with her site-responsive thread installations. Her work is first experienced by the body, with intellect and analysis coming later. For Lindberg, space is a vital material, and just as important and rich with possibilities as thread, paper and pencils. Creating her architecturally scaled sculptures with thread is akin to working in the air, with the air and of the air to build a constantly changing experience. As she “stitches” the architecture, the airborne mass of delicate threads become filters for chromatic light, striking a voluminous pose with visceral results.Blue, and the concept of blue, has a beguiling history, cultural significance, phenomenological radiance and scientific profundity. From artists to philosophers, scientists and astronauts, blue is by unequal measures intangible, mysterious and indeterminate. Scarce in nature, blue eludes perception emotionally and physically but is also everywhere - making it a symbol for the ideal - verging on the utopian. Whatever this color evokes in an individual, one of the most powerful elements is its ability to create meaning-making which, by definition, designates the way in which people interpret the world around them.Anne Lindberg has been exploring the color blue for much of her artistic career. As a young artist, she traveled to Kyoto several times to work with traditional indigo dyers where she became fascinated with indigo’s unique ability to generate beautiful slow gradations from deep blues to hints of the lightest blues. It was Lindberg’s early experience watching cloth being lifted out of an indigo dye pot and its exposure to oxygen changing the yellow-ish green color of the fermented liquid dye into deeper and deeper shades of blue with each successive dip that formed the underpinnings of her lifelong interest in color. In recent years, Lindberg has been considering the semiotics of color, or how color can be used as a signifier for meanings associated with socio-emotional, cultural, environmental and political significance.Searching for ways to visualize the mysteries of visual and spatial experience is a compelling way of working especially in times of social, environmental, and economic change. Color, particularly blue, has an inherent intrigue in human vision; it exists beyond our grasp as it holds constant conversation with adjacent colors in both time and space. Imagining a world without color, and particularly blue, underlines its significance in the whole of human experience.Image: Anne Lindberg, Two Moons, 2024Graphite and colored pencil on mat board40.5 x 36 inches (two panels) &nbsp;

Anne Lindberg: Of all colors

We are pleased to announce our salon invitational exhibition MANIFEST taking place at SECRIST | BEACH this fall.&nbsp;MANIFEST is a survey of artworks and inspired studies/drawings by artists and architects exploring themes of light, color and space. This exhibition includes an international roster of artists and was guest curated with the assistance of Anne Lindberg. MANIFEST is presented in conjunction with the solo exhibition Of all colors by Lindberg at 1801 W. Hubbard St. from September 20 - November 16, 2024.The manifestation of an idea is a universal experience that can occur at both micro and macro levels, consciously and subconsciously and oscillate between different levels of publicness and privacy. To manifest, or to evidence an idea, implies that the idea has completed its journey and come to fruition. Ultimately, the how, if and why of that idea often leads to more ideas. For artists and architects, this self-perpetuating processes of ideation represent a creative venture unto its own. Often the remnants, or evidence, of some of these ideas manifests itself in a physical form, from which presentation takes the form of an object.MANIFEST builds a framework for understanding the life of ideas through a rubric that includes the intertwined elements of light, color and space. Each artist and architect on view utilizes one or more of these components to develop a conceptual framework to develop their ideas in a variety of physical formats. The conceptual components of each of these aspects find common ground in nature, the original inspiration spot: light (luminosity &amp; illumination), color (emotion &amp; symbolism) and space (motion &amp; volume). Cumulatively, the representation of ideas on their respective journeys make up the building blocks of the world around us and offer an opportunity for examination.&nbsp;In our west gallery, Anne Lindberg’s concurrent exhibition Of all colors encapsulates many of these ideas. In addition to 14 new abstract drawings made with graphite and colored pencil on mat board, on view will be a 54-foot-long thread sculpture made on site. The color blue will be the binding tie here, which she abstractly approaches with cultural, historical and phenomenological curiosity. Ultimately, the dialogue between&nbsp;these connected installations taking place in our renovated&nbsp;double-bow trussed skylit&nbsp;warehouse building promises to create a synergistic dynamic that we hope will be memorable and inspiring.&nbsp;Artists and architects featured in MANIFEST include:<ul><li>Marshall Brown</li><li>Teddy Cruz</li><li>Rachel Duckhouse</li><li>Jeanne Gang</li><li>Jason Lazarus</li><li>Luftwerk</li><li>Amanda Martínez</li><li>Dean Smith</li><li>Ana Tiscornia</li></ul>&nbsp;Marshall Brown (New Jersey) utilizes speculative architectural fiction to reimagine the future of cities (Berlin) by invoking the past. Brown’s collages, culled from monographs on significant figures from the history of architectural photography, create new narratives within architectural constructs without function.&nbsp;Teddy Cruz’s (San Diego) collages investigates what he calls the “wasted landscape”. These works elaborate on the social, cultural, political, and economic forces of landscape by highlighting the critical issues surrounding borders, density and urban sprawl in the territory between the U.S. and Mexico.&nbsp;Rachel Duckhouse’s (Glasgow) artwork explores structures, patterns and flows within landscapes and the dynamic relationships between things - particularly architecture, water, light and memory. Her drawings and prints utilize abstract forms to express the dynamic relationships between inner and outer worlds through imagined geometries, patterns and places.Jeanne Gang’s (Chicago) architectural practice draws insight from ecological systems, creating striking places that connect people with each other, their communities, and the environment. Gang’s maquettes, sculptural drawings and installations are emblematic of a practice she calls “actionable idealism”: pushing design’s ability to create public awareness and give rise to change.Jason Lazarus’ (Tampa) photographs from his 2004-Present series and eclipse viewers from 2017 &amp; 2024 made by both the general public and the artist represent his democratic approach to seeing, exploring and being in the world around us. By expanding photography’s capability to bear witness through discrete conceptual gestures, light, color and space are lauded.&nbsp;Luftwerk’s (Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero) (Chicago) reimagines the realities of physical space by developing spatial experiences mined from the creative possibilities of nature, data, and the built environment. The installation of paint and light in the gallery’s salon room play with physiological senses by interrupting what our brain sees and in turn create a visceral moment that will have one questioning what color is.Amanda Martínez’s (New York) sculptural wall relief is an interpretive reference to adobe constructions in New Mexico referencing structure, design and color while also embracing ancestry, memory, and emotional inheritance.&nbsp;Dean Smith's (Oakland, CA) drawings and collages reflect upon the measure of time, the peculiarities of space, and the ceaseless human impulse to render the invisible visible. Works from Smith’s labyrinthseries depict ahistorical geometric forms drawn precisely, on found vintage paper—time presented both as rumination and physical fact.&nbsp;His environment collages, sourced from 19th century engraving illustrations, are arranged to abstract rather than reveal their figural nature.Ana Tiscornia’s (Rhinebeck, NY) wall works and assemblages of fragments of furniture and common tools reflect a tension between order and disorder, wherein the later is salvaged by an uncanny order. Working from the trauma of a military dictatorship in her native Uruguay, the manipulations - or rearranging - allow for a type of recovery that refers to simultaneously exposing and scattered fragments of a failed utopia.&nbsp;Image: Rachel Duckhouse Through to the Citz (C), 2024 Etching (Copperplate hardground and aquatint etching on Arches Blanc paper) 20 x 20 inches, framed

Manifest

<html><head></head><body>We hope you will join in celebrating site-specific projects&nbsp; by MAKING TIME artistsStephen Eichhorn, Juan Chavez, and Jacqueline Surdell,along&nbsp;withKristoffer McAfee's five-panel work, Universal Identity, adapted for the&nbsp;DNC commission,&nbsp;Ether And.&nbsp; It is featured as part of a moving mural Track(ed) Changes a&nbsp;project curated by Bob Faust. In The&nbsp;New York Times:&nbsp;<a href="http://artlocalapp.com/sendy/l/yWnpdkv763mAW2IQW93UM763Aw/fgkcpmLObQuycrNK7vOTbw/aUmYiSrqfmbFNGqoTqZgGg">New Public Art Rides the Rails in Chicago, Timed to the Convention</a>Luke Batten,&nbsp;an artist and Associate Professor of Photography at the University of Illinois,&nbsp;will lead a&nbsp;panel discussion.&nbsp;<figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1731092749/oznw7xuyr4onlven3ssm.jpg"><figcaption>Jacqueline Surdell</figcaption></figure></body></html>

Artist Reception for In Situ Projects and Panel Discussion

<a href="https://website-artlogicwebsite0914.artlogic.net/exhibitions/33-making-time/">MAKING TIME</a>14 JUNE - 17 AUGUST 2024&nbsp;Featuring: Sarah Bedford, Juan Angel Chavez, Isabella Cuglievan, Michael Dumontier &amp; Neil Farber, Robert Heinecken, Paul Heyer, Ben Houtkamp, Kysa Johnson, Sung Jang, Tony Matelli, Kristoffer McAfee, Alessandra Norman, Carolyn Ottmers, Sterling Ruby, A.V. Ryan, Claudia Peña Salinas&nbsp;and Jacqueline Surdell.Secrist | Beach is pleased to present Making Time, a salon presentation curated by artist Stephen Eichhorn. The title of the exhibition is taken from a concept called "The Archeology of Time". This states that if we want to understand what time is, then we need to accept that things, or objects, do not just exist in time, they make time. Featuring seventeen artists working in a variety of mediums, on view will be works of art that represent a variety of philosophical and metaphysical ideas about how objects exist within and interact with the framework of time. Making Time is presented in conjunction with the solo exhibition VOIDGROUND by Stephen Eichhorn at 1801 W. Hubbard St. from June 14 - August 17, 2024.The artworks in Making Time use elements of organica as a way of exploring the dichotomy between objects and time. With materials made from - or representing - flowers, wood, fiber, rock, light, seeds, clay and the human figure, each artwork/object offers profound insights into the human experience. The bridge between objects and time is a concept that delves into the relationship between material entities and the temporal dimension. How those objects merge and exist within the framework of time oscillates between the existence of the natural world and how we interpret, utilize, ingest and embrace/reject it. If these interlocking elements of the physical world around us and the objects it produces accumulate what we know as the macrocosm, its excavation leaves us with wonder.&nbsp;Through metaphor and symbolism, the themes in Making Time revolve around ideas of ownership, transcendence, entropy and perception. By using the earth as a starting point for understanding an object's place within the structure of time, the positive and negative elements of human interference in our complex ecosystem are revealed. In elevating these objects with their alchemic approaches, the artists here individually decipher the macrocosm through the act of slowing time and illuminating the microcosms that surround us.Image:&nbsp;JUAN ANGEL CHAVEZGIFT DETAIL, 2024Burnt plywood, bison fur, ash, mourning dove feather36 x 36 x 6 inches

Making Time

Secrist | Beach is pleased to announce Chicago-based artist Stephen Eichhorn's exhibition <a href="https://website-artlogicwebsite0914.artlogic.net/exhibitions/32-stephen-eichhorn-voidground/">Voidground</a>, his third solo show with Secrist | Beach.&nbsp;Stephen Eichhorn's art practice revolves around the deceptively simple plant by exploring a range of dichotomies located within its physical and spiritual properties. Intricately cut out images of grasses, cacti, succulents and blooming flowers are placed, piled and arranged on colorful paper, board, and aluminum creating new forms that offer meditations on consciousness and time. Using design elements and materials sourced from botany textbooks and other publications, these works on paper and panel heighten our connection to the natural and man-made climates that surround us.&nbsp;Voidground introduces another element in the figure-ground principle, a compositional device that guides dimensional understanding in images. In addition to the foreground, middle ground or background on a two-dimensional plane - which triggers the viewers focus on the composition by alluding to a third dimension - "voidground" which puts the void front and center (or behind) as a perceptual device that metaphorically alludes to liminal space. These&nbsp;voids, or portals, share the surface with flora to create focal points that simultaneously herald absence and presence. This complicated dimensionality can create a visceral response while also encouraging a closer look and, perhaps, self-exploration.&nbsp;With Voidground, the binding visual element is color, which as a descriptive tool, represents a variety of emotional complexities that can be shared by many but felt individually. As an origin story, it could be argued that the color wheel itself can be traced back to the organization of nature: flora. And it is from this point of view, that Eichhorn's exploration of temporality, or the state of existing within our earthly life, evolves. From dark, light, familiar and warming to the bright, reflective, strange and visceral, color's role in these artworks reflects the world around us, just as it exists in the pigments of plants.&nbsp;Voidground invites the viewer on a journey of self-awareness with the void as transition, color as guide and flora as bond. This artwork encourages long, slow looks from the individual in order to discover their own path through the multi-dimensional complexities that parallels our own moment in time. Where else but situated in the wonders of nature can we find a level of transparency that can only be truly revealed with patience and understanding.Image: THE DRAPE (GONE IN A DAY), 2024Collage and vinyl on archival matboard40 x 30 inches 41.25 x 31.25 inches, framed

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