February 25th - March 27th, 2010

Luis Romero

Nameless and Reverberating

Fleisher/Ollman is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new drawings, collages and constructions by Chicago artist, Luis Romero.

Romero's flat works, mostly graphite and pen on paper, betray an interest in visual contradiction. Empty surfaces give way to false depth and concentrated lines appear to form tangible shapes. While demonstrating Romero's awareness to Op Art and modernist formalism, these drawings are equally grounded in a personal mark-making practice.

On view as a complement to Romero's work will be a selection of small collages by Ray Yoshida, a central figure in the visual arts of Chicago, a mentor and friend to the Chicago Imagists, and, of particular relevance, Romero's teacher at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

March 3rd - March 7th, 2010

Armory Modern-Booth 132

March 31st - May 1st, 2010

Annabeth Rosen

Contingency

Meiling Hom: Yun Nan = Southern Clouds and Paul Swenbeck: Shaker Legend-trip

Fleisher/Ollman presents work by three artists for whom clay plays a central role in their artistic practices. Annabeth Rosen builds complex organic works out of thousands of individual hand-crafted ceramic pieces of varying size, shape, color and pattern. Mei-Ling Hom’s new ceramic work, made in North Carolina with self-taught potter Dan Johnston, continues her ongoing contemplation of cloud imagery and metaphor. Paul Swenbeck's work reinterprets traditional ceramics—in this case Neolithic Jomon pottery—through a Twenty-first century lens, using contemporary materials and vibrant colors.

May 6th - June 5th, 2010

Anthony Campuzano

All Right-Still!

A simple punctuation change makes the title of Lily Allen's debut record into a command rather than merely an account of status. The works in Anthony Campuzano's exhibition, All Right-Still!, will explore the act of looking, in particular the use of existing frameworks present in the practices of artists such as George Braque and David Smith to reveal more about the self.  Other works in the show deal with pure material, for example a disassembled, but completed coloring book that is in pursuit of pure abstraction.

Jennifer Levonian

Her Creative Slip is Showing

Jennifer Levonian continues to create cut-paper animations that explore the ambivalence of everyday life. Through her work, she brings into focus unnoticed events and transforms them into something bizarre and uncanny. The artist will debut new animations for her first solo show at Fleisher/Ollman.

Buffalo Milk Yogurt (working title), features a thirty-ish man who has a nervous breakdown in a gourmet supermarket.  This piece will be accompanied by original music by Corey Fogel.